{"id":46741,"date":"2016-04-27T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46741"},"modified":"2016-04-27T17:57:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:57:49","slug":"dolezals-poor-facsimile-co-opts-a-struggle-foreign-to-her-own-for-personal-gain-this-is-the-pinnacle-of-white-privilege-being-white-pretending-to-be-black-and-profiting-from-this-masquera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46741","title":{"rendered":"This is the pinnacle of white privilege: being white, pretending to be Black, and profiting from this masquerade while countless actual Black people continue to suffer social, economic, and political deprivations by mere virtue of their actual-Black existence."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Yes, we get that race doesn\u2019t exist, but that doesn\u2019t mitigate the concept\u2019s very real impact on the everyday racism and anti-blackness that saturates our culture. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\">[Rachel] Dolezal\u2019s<\/a> poor facsimile co-opts a struggle foreign to her own for personal gain. This is the pinnacle of white privilege: being white, pretending to be Black, and profiting from this masquerade while countless actual Black people continue to suffer social, economic, and political deprivations by mere virtue of their actual-Black existence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SinKirabo\" target=\"_blank\">Sincere Kirabo<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46670\" target=\"_blank\">The Myth of Transracial Identity<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Humanist<\/em> (April 18, 2016), <a href=\"http:\/\/thehumanist.com\/commentary\/myth-transracial-identity\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thehumanist.com\/commentary\/myth-transracial-identity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we get that race doesn\u2019t exist, but that doesn\u2019t mitigate the concept\u2019s very real impact on the everyday racism and anti-blackness that saturates our culture. [Rachel] Dolezal\u2019s poor facsimile co-opts a struggle foreign to her own for personal gain. This is the pinnacle of white privilege: being white, pretending to be Black, and profiting [&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":[20257,20241,23604,10233],"class_list":["post-46741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-rachel-a-dolezal","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-sincere-kirabo","tag-the-humanist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46741","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=46741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46744,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46741\/revisions\/46744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}