{"id":44835,"date":"2015-12-28T00:37:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T00:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44835"},"modified":"2016-02-08T01:15:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T01:15:17","slug":"i-will-continue-to-talk-about-race-i-think-thats-part-of-my-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44835","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI will continue to talk about race&#8230; I think that\u2019s part of my purpose.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is also a sort of evangelism at work. She is of mixed race, but, as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nelson_George\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. [Nelson] George<\/a> pointed out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43307\" target=\"_blank\">she embraces her blackness<\/a>, grasping every opportunity to speak out as a role model, getting out her message that a person\u2019s so-called flaws, skin color among them, need be no hurdle to success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will continue to talk about race,\u201d she said. \u201cI think that\u2019s part of my purpose.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mistycopeland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Misty Copeland<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/l\/ruth_la_ferla\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ruth La Ferla<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44620\" target=\"_blank\">The Rise and Rise of Misty Copeland<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Year in Style 2015, The New York Times<\/em>, December 18, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/20\/fashion\/the-rise-and-rise-of-misty-copeland.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/20\/fashion\/the-rise-and-rise-of-misty-copeland.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is also a sort of evangelism at work. She is of mixed race, but, as Mr. [Nelson] George pointed out, she embraces her blackness, grasping every opportunity to speak out as a role model, getting out her message that a person\u2019s so-called flaws, skin color among them, need be no hurdle to success. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19922,13665,22279,2327],"class_list":["post-44835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-misty-copeland","tag-nelson-george","tag-ruth-la-ferla","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44835","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=44835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45571,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44835\/revisions\/45571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}