{"id":45550,"date":"2016-02-06T20:41:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T20:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45550"},"modified":"2017-02-19T21:36:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:36:33","slug":"i-thought-i-was-a-gorgeous-kid-until-i-learned-i-was-just-pretty-for-a-black-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45550","title":{"rendered":"I thought I was a gorgeous kid until I learned I was just &#8216;pretty, for a black girl&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/feb\/04\/i-thought-i-was-a-gorgeous-kid-until-i-learned-i-was-just-pretty-for-a-black-girl\" target=\"_blank\">I thought I was a gorgeous kid until I learned I was just &#8216;pretty, for a black girl&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2016-02-04<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rebel19\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Carroll<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>My white birthmother told me that the idea that I was gorgeous was a fiction inflicted upon me out of a sense of white liberal guilt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I was a little girl, I thought that I was gorgeous. Maybe I kind of was; maybe all little kids think they are, until they don\u2019t. But growing up black in an all-white town, I was also a generally accepted kind of pretty: white adults saw my blackness as an addition to my cuteness; their white children stared at my brown skin and afro with genuine wonder as opposed to judgement and fear. I wasn\u2019t ugly, so it was OK to stare&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/feb\/04\/i-thought-i-was-a-gorgeous-kid-until-i-learned-i-was-just-pretty-for-a-black-girl\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I was a gorgeous kid until I learned I was just &#8216;pretty, for a black girl&#8217; The Guardian 2016-02-04 Rebecca Carroll My white birthmother told me that the idea that I was gorgeous was a fiction inflicted upon me out of a sense of white liberal guilt When I was a little girl, [&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":[22899,2103],"class_list":["post-45550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-rebecca-carroll","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45550","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=45550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51629,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45550\/revisions\/51629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}