{"id":46873,"date":"2016-05-09T00:12:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T00:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46873"},"modified":"2016-11-16T23:33:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:33:03","slug":"jews-of-color-get-personal-and-political-at-first-ever-national-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46873","title":{"rendered":"Jews of Color Get Personal and Political at First-Ever National Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/340018\/jews-of-color-get-personal-and-political-at-first-ever-national-gathering\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Jews of Color Get Personal and Political at First-Ever National Gathering<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forward<\/a><br \/>\n2016-05-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sigalsamuel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sigal Samuel<\/strong><\/a>, Opinion Editor<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get black Jews, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mizrahi_Jews\" target=\"_blank\">Mizrahi Jews<\/a> and a Palestinian-American Muslim to burst into tears at the same time, invite <a href=\"http:\/\/jwa.org\/people\/mccoy-yavilah\" target=\"_blank\">Yavilah McCoy<\/a> to talk about hair.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the opening plenary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/jocconvening.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jews of Color National Convening<\/a>, which took place May 1\u20133 in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manhattan\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan<\/a>, McCoy gestured at the woman beside her, a fellow black Jewish leader named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urj.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/announcing-hire-april-baskin-urj-vice-president-audacious-hospitality\" target=\"_blank\">April Baskin<\/a> . \u201cI was there one night when she was just a girl and she was crying with joy on the shoulder of another black woman, because that was the first time she\u2019d worn her hair in a full afro in a Jewish space \u2014 the first time she felt like she could show up as her full self.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hearing this memory brought to life, Baskin teared up and diverted her gaze from the 100-plus Jews of color who had piled into the synagogue sanctuary at <a href=\"https:\/\/cbst.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Congregation Beit Simchat Torah<\/a>, which hosted the conference.<\/p>\n<p>But McCoy wasn\u2019t done. She turned to the audience and said, \u201cEveryone here needs to hear this: You are beautiful. You are gorgeous. Anyone who told you otherwise was lying in the name of white supremacy.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/340018\/jews-of-color-get-personal-and-political-at-first-ever-national-gathering\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jews of Color Get Personal and Political at First-Ever National Gathering Forward 2016-05-04 Sigal Samuel, Opinion Editor If you want to get black Jews, Mizrahi Jews and a Palestinian-American Muslim to burst into tears at the same time, invite Yavilah McCoy to talk about hair. Speaking at the opening plenary of the Jews of Color [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3601,8,820,23674,20],"tags":[22120,20566,23730,20712,21998],"class_list":["post-46873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-april-baskin","tag-forward","tag-linda-sarsour","tag-sigal-samuel","tag-yavilah-mccoy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46873","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=46873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46874,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46873\/revisions\/46874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}