{"id":45305,"date":"2016-01-23T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T16:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45305"},"modified":"2016-01-23T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T16:32:48","slug":"mixed-race-children-are-not-ambassadors-for-anti-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45305","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-race children are not ambassadors for anti-racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed-race children are not ambassadors for anti-racism<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Parent24<\/a> (News24)
\nSouth Africa
\n2016-01-21<\/p>\n

Aneshree Naidoo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why it’s unfair to lay the responsibility to prove that “love conquers all” on their little shoulders.<\/em><\/p>\n

The events of the past few weeks have spurred a shift in South Africa<\/a>, from tight smiles and blank faces at work and dinner tables, to voices now being raised very loudly against racism, and \u2013 as is inevitable and still somehow shocking \u2013 for<\/em> it.<\/p>\n

One particular act of anti-racism has me quite concerned though.<\/p>\n

I have in the past few weeks seen pictures of interracial couples and their mixed-race children, or white families and adopted black children, circulated as ‘proof’ that love conquers all.<\/strong> That some sort of interracial utopia exists when we love and have sex across the colour line and birth biracial children.<\/p>\n

It’s a dangerously naive sentiment, and places responsibility on tiny shoulders that do not ask for such, nor need it thrust it upon them…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mixed-race children are not ambassadors for anti-racism Parent24 (News24) South Africa 2016-01-21 Aneshree Naidoo Why it’s unfair to lay the responsibility to prove that “love conquers all” on their little shoulders. The events of the past few weeks have spurred a shift in South Africa, from tight smiles and blank faces at work and dinner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,414,8,520],"tags":[22763,22764,22762],"class_list":["post-45305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-south-africa","tag-aneshree-naidoo","tag-news24","tag-parent24"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45305","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=45305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45306,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45305\/revisions\/45306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}