{"id":46924,"date":"2016-05-11T17:49:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T17:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46924"},"modified":"2016-05-11T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T19:19:29","slug":"chris-harper-mercers-mixed-race-identity-and-the-umpqua-community-college-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46924","title":{"rendered":"Chris Harper Mercer&#8217;s &#8220;Mixed Race&#8221; Identity and the Umpqua Community College Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/10\/2\/1427146\/-Chris-Harper-Mercer-s-Mixed-Race-Identity-and-the-Umpqua-Community-College-Shooting\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Chris Harper Mercer&#8217;s &#8220;Mixed Race&#8221; Identity and the Umpqua Community College Shooting<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-02<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaunceydevega.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chauncey DeVega<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a new\/old day in America. On Thursday, there was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umpqua_Community_College_shooting\" target=\"_blank\">another mass shooting<\/a>. On Friday, today, and tomorrow, and in the week&#8217;s thereafter America&#8217;s politicians will do nothing to stop the plague of gun violence. This is a choice. It is cowardice. The weakness is caused by the grip exerted on America&#8217;s political elites by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ammosexual#English\" target=\"_blank\">ammosexuals<\/a> and gun money barons in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Rifle_Association\" target=\"_blank\">National Rifle Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umpqua_Community_College_shooting#Perpetrator\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Harper Mercer<\/a> killed 10 people at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umpqua_Community_College\" target=\"_blank\">Umpqua Community [College]<\/a>\u00a0in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oregon\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon<\/a>. Much will be written about what his murder spree reveals\u2014none of it really new\u2014about toxic aggrieved masculinity, gun culture, ammosexuals, the online Right-wing sewers that gave him aid and comfort, and other matters.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to call attention to one detail about Mercer&#8217;s personhood, a detail that may be overlooked or not discussed by the mainstream news media out of fear of being called &#8220;racist&#8221;, or alternatively because they lack the conceptual tools (and will not feature experts who possess them) to talk about race and the color line in a nuanced way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/10\/2\/1427146\/-Chris-Harper-Mercer-s-Mixed-Race-Identity-and-the-Umpqua-Community-College-Shooting\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Harper Mercer&#8217;s &#8220;Mixed Race&#8221; Identity and the Umpqua Community College Shooting Daily Kos 2015-10-02 Chauncey DeVega It is a new\/old day in America. On Thursday, there was another mass shooting. On Friday, today, and tomorrow, and in the week&#8217;s thereafter America&#8217;s politicians will do nothing to stop the plague of gun violence. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,1467,8,20],"tags":[10174,21261,18522],"class_list":["post-46924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-chauncey-devega","tag-chris-harper-mercer","tag-daily-kos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46924","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=46924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46932,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46924\/revisions\/46932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}