{"id":44431,"date":"2015-12-03T02:29:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T02:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44431"},"modified":"2015-12-03T02:29:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T02:29:51","slug":"love-in-the-face-of-racism-being-an-interracial-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44431","title":{"rendered":"Love in the face of racism: Being an interracial family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/11\/25\/us\/interracial-families-race-and-reality-irpt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Love in the face of racism: Being an interracial family<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cable News Network<\/a> (CNN)<br \/>\n2015-11-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/jareen-imam-profile\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jareen Imam<\/strong><\/a>, Social Discovery Producer<\/p>\n<p>CNN)\u2014When Karen Garsee picked her 5-year-old daughter up from kindergarten in September, she wasn&#8217;t prepared for what Kaylee had to say.<\/p>\n<p><em>The kids at school wouldn&#8217;t play with me today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Why?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Because I&#8217;m brown.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Those words struck Garsee right in the heart. Being white, she didn&#8217;t know what she could say to make her daughter feel better. At that moment, they simply embraced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think kids at that age really thought about other kids being different,&#8221; Garsee says.<\/p>\n<p>That wouldn&#8217;t be the last time the schoolchildren didn&#8217;t want to play with Kaylee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We live in the South and racism is loud and it&#8217;s still out there,&#8221; Garsee says.<\/p>\n<p>A CNN\/Kaiser Family Foundation Poll on race found that about half (49%) of Americans say racism is a big problem in our society. Compare that to 2011 when 28% said racism was a big problem. And in 1995, shortly after the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/O._J._Simpson_murder_case\" target=\"_blank\">O.J. Simpson trial<\/a> and a couple of years after the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1992_Los_Angeles_riots\" target=\"_blank\">race riots in Los Angeles<\/a>, 41% of people said racism was a big societal problem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/11\/25\/us\/interracial-families-race-and-reality-irpt\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love in the face of racism: Being an interracial family Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-11-25 Jareen Imam, Social Discovery Producer CNN)\u2014When Karen Garsee picked her 5-year-old daughter up from kindergarten in September, she wasn&#8217;t prepared for what Kaylee had to say. The kids at school wouldn&#8217;t play with me today. Why? Because I&#8217;m brown. Those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,414,8,394,20],"tags":[9447,3142,22159,22160,22161],"class_list":["post-44431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-family","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-cable-news-network","tag-cnn","tag-jareen-imam","tag-karen-garsee","tag-kaylee-garsee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44432,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44431\/revisions\/44432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}