{"id":45873,"date":"2016-03-02T23:28:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T23:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45873"},"modified":"2016-03-02T23:31:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T23:31:32","slug":"i-had-to-come-out-of-the-closet-twice-once-as-gay-and-once-as-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45873","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI had to come out of the closet twice\u2014once as gay, and once as black.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For Artur Santoro, 21, identifying as black is about being honest with himself\u2014a process similar to coming out as gay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to come out of the closet twice\u2014once as gay, and once as black,\u201d Artur tells me. He says growing up with a white dad and a \u201clight-skinned black\u201d mom made it difficult to recognize his own blackness for most of his youth. But once Artur got involved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LGBT\" target=\"_blank\">LGBT<\/a> community, it helped him identify other forms of discrimination in his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was suffering from situations of racism and didn\u2019t realize it before,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you\u2019re black, you suffer racism\u2014it\u2019s not a choice; black is a consequence of what I live.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tim Rogers, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45849\" target=\"_blank\">That moment you look in the mirror and realize you\u2019re black<\/a>,\u201d <em>Fusion<\/em>, February 28, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/274184\/that-moment-you-look-in-the-mirror-and-realize-youre-black\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/274184\/that-moment-you-look-in-the-mirror-and-realize-youre-black\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Artur Santoro, 21, identifying as black is about being honest with himself\u2014a process similar to coming out as gay. \u201cI had to come out of the closet twice\u2014once as gay, and once as black,\u201d Artur tells me. He says growing up with a white dad and a \u201clight-skinned black\u201d mom made it difficult to [&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":[23121,19052,23106],"class_list":["post-45873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-artur-santoro","tag-fusion","tag-tim-rogers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45873","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=45873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45875,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45873\/revisions\/45875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}