{"id":48723,"date":"2016-08-17T17:49:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T17:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48723"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:53:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T00:53:32","slug":"white-people-stop-saying-youre-black-on-the-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48723","title":{"rendered":"White People, Stop Saying You\u2019re \u2018Black On The Inside\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/2016\/08\/15\/white-people-stop-saying-youre-black-on-the-inside\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>White People, Stop Saying You\u2019re \u2018Black On The Inside\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\" target=\"_blank\">The Establishment<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/author\/natasha-diaz\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Natasha Diaz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>White and Wrong<\/em><\/p>\n<p>White people are consistent; I\u2019ll give them that. They take Black culture as the blueprint for their fashion, entertainment, music, and new hip terms to enhance their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Dictionary<\/a> posts. They colonize neighborhoods, forcing out people who have lived there for generations, stripping the area of culture, and filling it with ridiculous storefronts that specialize in multiple varieties of a single condiment that could easily be made at home. Just when you thought they couldn\u2019t take any more, they\u2019ll figure out a way to snatch even the intangible away. Take <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Lives_Matter\" target=\"_blank\">#BlackLivesMatter<\/a>, a slogan built to anchor a human rights movement, stolen to protect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=smurf\" target=\"_blank\">Smurfs<\/a>. (Presumably that\u2019s what \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Lives_Matter\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Lives Matter<\/a>\u201d is about, since otherwise it makes <em>no goddamn sense.<\/em>) Usually, white people want everything Black, except to actually be Black. That is, until Friday, June 12th, 2015, when <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a> and her circus full of weave and spray tan came marching out into the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone I knew emailed to tell me about Dolezal. As a woman of mixed race that inadvertently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passes as white<\/a>, I clearly needed to be in the know. A few idiots even reached out to say that they \u201cfinally understood now\u201d where I was coming from in explaining my racial background. Let\u2019s have a moment of silence for those poor unfortunate souls, now eternally \u201cunfriended\u201d in all senses of the term\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RIP\" target=\"_blank\">R.I.P.<\/a> But none of my friends\u2019 and ex-friends\u2019 responses were as offensive as Dolezal\u2019s spurious claim to be Black&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/2016\/08\/15\/white-people-stop-saying-youre-black-on-the-inside\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White People, Stop Saying You\u2019re \u2018Black On The Inside\u2019 The Establishment 2016-08-15 Natasha Diaz White and Wrong White people are consistent; I\u2019ll give them that. They take Black culture as the blueprint for their fashion, entertainment, music, and new hip terms to enhance their Urban Dictionary posts. They colonize neighborhoods, forcing out people who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,395,8,6462,20],"tags":[24792,20257,20241,22055,24793],"class_list":["post-48723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-natasha-diaz","tag-rachel-a-dolezal","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-the-establishment","tag-vanessa-beecroft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48723","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=48723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48724,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48723\/revisions\/48724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}