{"id":46540,"date":"2016-04-10T02:47:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T02:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46540"},"modified":"2016-04-10T02:47:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T02:47:13","slug":"so-here-i-am-im-still-black-and-im-proud-but-i-will-acknowledge-the-white-blood-that-is-running-through-my-veins-if-pressed-more-about-my-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46540","title":{"rendered":"So here I am. I\u2019m still black and I\u2019m proud, but I will acknowledge the white blood that is running through my veins if pressed more about my heritage."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So here I am. I\u2019m still black and I\u2019m proud, but I will acknowledge the white blood that is running through my veins if pressed more about my heritage. I also love to see the shock on peoples\u2019 faces when I tell them that my ancestors were raped by slave masters and my \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1144\" target=\"_blank\">quadroon<\/a>\u201d ancestors kept mixing with other mulattoes, quadroons, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1146\" target=\"_blank\">octoroons<\/a>. It depends on the audience how deep I want to go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amal Gonzalez, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46536\" target=\"_blank\">How To Identify With Your People When Your People Won\u2019t Let You,<\/a>\u201d <em>Swirl Nation Blog<\/em>, March 30, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swirlnationblog.com\/blog\/2016\/3\/30\/how-to-identify-with-your-people-when-your-people-wont-let-you\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.swirlnationblog.com\/blog\/2016\/3\/30\/how-to-identify-with-your-people-when-your-people-wont-let-you<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here I am. I\u2019m still black and I\u2019m proud, but I will acknowledge the white blood that is running through my veins if pressed more about my heritage. I also love to see the shock on peoples\u2019 faces when I tell them that my ancestors were raped by slave masters and my \u201cmulatto\u201d and [&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":[23472,23471],"class_list":["post-46540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-amal-gonzalez","tag-swirl-nation-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46540","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=46540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46541,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46540\/revisions\/46541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}