{"id":48623,"date":"2016-08-15T01:20:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T01:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48623"},"modified":"2016-08-15T01:20:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T01:20:14","slug":"why-i-cut-my-racist-in-laws-out-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48623","title":{"rendered":"Why I Cut My Racist In-Laws Out Of My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/2016\/08\/02\/why-i-cut-my-racist-in-laws-out-of-my-life\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Why I Cut My Racist In-Laws Out Of My Life<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\" target=\"_blank\">The Establishment<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-02<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaLynnKel\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TaLynn Kel<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t lie and say that I never had issues with the demographics of my mixed-race marriage. I definitely did. I worried about what my mom would think, and what my dad would say were he alive. I worried about what his parents thought. I worried about how the world would treat us.<\/p>\n<p>I still worry.<\/p>\n<p>After all, 2016 has all the hallmarks of an impending racial schism, and interracial couples are straddling a fence that may not be tenable.<\/p>\n<p>When I entered my own relationship, I told myself that my significant other (S.O.) was different. That he wasn\u2019t with me because of some fetish. That he loved me, all of me. That my brown skin didn\u2019t matter to him. Over time came the revelations of his racism. I shouldn\u2019t actually call them revelations, as they were more a matter of me acknowledging the truth. I repeatedly pulled the veil over my eyes and told myself that love was enough. Over and over again, I\u2019d feel this buildup of dread as time would reveal some other facet of his racism. Then we\u2019d talk. Then we\u2019d fight. Then we\u2019d talk some more. It is painful and confusing to have someone love you, cherish you, support you, and then wound you with their inability to accept the whole of you. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48308\" target=\"_blank\">how our love and communication about racism evolved<\/a> is another story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/2016\/08\/02\/why-i-cut-my-racist-in-laws-out-of-my-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I Cut My Racist In-Laws Out Of My Life The Establishment 2016-08-02 TaLynn Kel I won\u2019t lie and say that I never had issues with the demographics of my mixed-race marriage. I definitely did. I worried about what my mom would think, and what my dad would say were he alive. I worried about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,20],"tags":[24511,22055],"class_list":["post-48623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-talynn-kel","tag-the-establishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48623","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=48623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48624,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48623\/revisions\/48624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}