{"id":48940,"date":"2016-09-01T00:53:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T00:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48940"},"modified":"2016-09-01T00:53:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T00:53:02","slug":"african-americans-are-a-hybrid-people-he-is-nowhere-near-the-first-black-man-of-mixed-ancestry-to-protest-against-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48940","title":{"rendered":"African Americans are a hybrid people, he is nowhere near the first black man of mixed ancestry to protest against racism."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is nothing unusual in this. There is no tension, no hypocrisy, no contradiction, between <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\">[Colin] Kaepernick<\/a> being a black person of unusual status, fame, and financial success and his demand that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a> treat black people equally. African Americans are a hybrid people, he is nowhere near the first black man of mixed ancestry to protest against racism. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._E._B._Du_Bois\" target=\"_blank\">Du Bois<\/a> had white ancestors, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_Douglass\" target=\"_blank\">Frederick Douglass<\/a> believed that his father was the white man who owned his body, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malcolm_X\" target=\"_blank\">Malcolm X<\/a>, with his red hair and light skin, was asked by a student why he identified as black upon his visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghana\" target=\"_blank\">Ghana<\/a>. There is also the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">current president of the United States<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Adam Serwer, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48934\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Kaepernick\u2019s True Sin<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, August 30, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/08\/kaepernicks-true-sin\/498122\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/08\/kaepernicks-true-sin\/498122\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing unusual in this. There is no tension, no hypocrisy, no contradiction, between [Colin] Kaepernick being a black person of unusual status, fame, and financial success and his demand that the United States treat black people equally. African Americans are a hybrid people, he is nowhere near the first black man of mixed [&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":[5207,24878,6001],"class_list":["post-48940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-adam-serwer","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-the-atlantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48940","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=48940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48941,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48940\/revisions\/48941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}