{"id":47600,"date":"2016-06-13T00:10:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T00:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47600"},"modified":"2016-06-13T00:10:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T00:10:20","slug":"race-isnt-biologically-real-that-doesnt-mean-racism-doesnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47600","title":{"rendered":"Race isn\u2019t biologically real. That doesn\u2019t mean racism doesn&#8217;t exist."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/6\/11\/11905396\/franchesca-ramsey-mtv-racism-decoded\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Race isn\u2019t biologically real. That doesn\u2019t mean racism doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vox<\/a><br \/>\n2016-06-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vmmassie\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Victoria M. Massie<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H4LpT9TF_ew?list=PLnvZ3PbKApGM-hHuQ9lNc5oSKsusjn0Z6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging it exists. And in the latest episode of <em>MTV\u2019s Decoded<\/em>, host <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franchesca.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Franchesca Ramsey<\/a> breaks down exactly why being <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Color_blindness_(race)_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">colorblind<\/a> to someone\u2019s race not only doesn\u2019t fix racism but, if anything, she says, actually makes matters worse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have you ever wondered why people say, \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t see color\u2019 as a way to fix racism?&#8221; Ramsey asks. &#8220;Yeah, that doesn\u2019t work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=37699\" target=\"_blank\">race is not biologically real<\/a>. But Ramsey points out that resting on that argument alone is part of the problem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race isn\u2019t biologically real. That doesn\u2019t mean racism doesn&#8217;t exist. Vox 2016-06-11 Victoria M. Massie The first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging it exists. And in the latest episode of MTV\u2019s Decoded, host Franchesca Ramsey breaks down exactly why being colorblind to someone\u2019s race not only doesn\u2019t fix racism but, if anything, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394,20,842],"tags":[21623,24073,18713,4198,18116],"class_list":["post-47600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-franchesca-ramsey","tag-mtvs-decoded","tag-victoria-m-massie","tag-victoria-massie","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47600","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=47600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47601,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47600\/revisions\/47601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}