{"id":44843,"date":"2015-12-28T02:06:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T02:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44843"},"modified":"2015-12-28T02:06:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T02:06:15","slug":"how-to-be-a-black-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44843","title":{"rendered":"How To Be A Black Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/carmen-molina\/2014\/12\/how-to-be-a-black-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\">How To Be A Black Girl<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\" target=\"_blank\">Thought Catalog<\/a><br \/>\n2014-12-03<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carmenmolina\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Carmen Molina<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Chicago, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I will always feel a little strange calling myself a black girl.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I am at a party or somewhere where there are new people to meet, the question that every mixed girl gets asked at least once a week, every week, for all of her life comes up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat <em>are<\/em> you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This question doesn\u2019t offend me like it offends others of mixed race. I don\u2019t necessarily see it as ignorant, like others do. The person doing the asking most likely thinks that I am interesting looking and I usually take it as a compliment of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>What is irritating about the question is that I never know quite how to answer it. It always causes anxiety. I stammer my way through what I hope is a passable response, finish with a nervous smile and then immediately ask them where they got their shoes to distract them so that I don\u2019t have to talk about it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>This tactic works almost every time\u2026 but every once in a while someone calls my bluff and asks me to explain.<\/p>\n<p>And how can I? It\u2019s very difficult to explain it to a stranger when no one ever really explained it to me.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/carmen-molina\/2014\/12\/how-to-be-a-black-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Be A Black Girl Thought Catalog 2014-12-03 Carmen Molina Chicago, Illinois I will always feel a little strange calling myself a black girl. Whenever I am at a party or somewhere where there are new people to meet, the question that every mixed girl gets asked at least once a week, every week, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,20],"tags":[22446,18132],"class_list":["post-44843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-carmen-molina","tag-thought-catalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44843","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=44843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44844,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44843\/revisions\/44844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}