{"id":48917,"date":"2016-09-09T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T17:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48917"},"modified":"2016-09-09T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T17:12:08","slug":"my-racial-heritage-is-something-i-want-people-to-be-well-aware-of-i-do-want-to-be-a-representative-of-the-african-community-and-i-want-to-hold-myself-and-dress-myself-in-a-way-that-reflects-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48917","title":{"rendered":"My racial heritage is something I want people to be well aware of. I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress myself in a way that reflects that."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Wrestling with the labels that outsiders put upon him fuelled his interest in style, in clothes, and in labels that come from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paris\" target=\"_blank\">Paris<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milan\" target=\"_blank\">Milan<\/a>. \u201cMy interest in fashion probably would have developed anyway,\u201d he continues. \u201cBut all this stuff made me ask myself in a really focused way: \u2018What do I represent?\u2019\u00a0And you know what? My racial heritage is something I want people to be well aware of. I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress myself in a way that reflects that. I want black kids to see me and think: \u2018OK, he\u2019s carrying himself as a black man, and that\u2019s how a black man should carry himself.\u2019\u201d\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Kaepernick<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Andrew Corsello, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48911\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Colin Kaepernick: The Look<\/a>,\u201d <em>Mr Porter, Journal<\/em>, October 7, 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrporter.com\/journal\/the-look\/mr-colin-kaepernick\/535\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.mrporter.com\/journal\/the-look\/mr-colin-kaepernick\/535<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrestling with the labels that outsiders put upon him fuelled his interest in style, in clothes, and in labels that come from Paris and Milan. \u201cMy interest in fashion probably would have developed anyway,\u201d he continues. \u201cBut all this stuff made me ask myself in a really focused way: \u2018What do I represent?\u2019\u00a0And you know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24904,24878,24903],"class_list":["post-48917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-andrew-corsello","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-mr-porter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48917","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=48917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48919,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48917\/revisions\/48919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}