{"id":49823,"date":"2016-11-07T00:36:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T00:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49823"},"modified":"2016-11-07T00:36:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T00:36:25","slug":"when-will-rachel-dolezal-stop-trying-to-get-in-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49823","title":{"rendered":"When will Rachel\u00a0Dolezal\u00a0stop trying to get in formation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gal-dem.com\/will-rachel-dolezal-stop-trying-get-formation\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>When will Rachel\u00a0Dolezal\u00a0stop trying to get in formation?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gal-dem.com\" target=\"_blank\">gal-dem<\/a><br \/>\n2016-06-23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulaakpan\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Paula Akpan<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ellawilksharper\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ella Wilks-Harper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the\u00a0story of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a>\u00a0first broke\u00a0\u2013 the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People\" target=\"_blank\">NAACP<\/a> president\u00a0who has been misrepresenting herself as black \u2013 I snorted derisively.<\/p>\n<p>When she was interviewed by\u00a0VICE\u2019s <em>Broadly\u00a0<\/em>and mused over\u00a0how \u201cit\u2019s so hard to explain\u00a0this to people: I don\u2019t feel white,\u201d I rolled my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0upon discovering that\u00a0Dolezal\u00a0had joined the Twittersphere, I had a\u00a0cursory stalk and came across the following tweet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gal-dem.com\/will-rachel-dolezal-stop-trying-get-formation\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When will Rachel\u00a0Dolezal\u00a0stop trying to get in formation? gal-dem 2016-06-23 Paula Akpan and Ella Wilks-Harper When the\u00a0story of Rachel Dolezal\u00a0first broke\u00a0\u2013 the\u00a0NAACP president\u00a0who has been misrepresenting herself as black \u2013 I snorted derisively. When she was interviewed by\u00a0VICE\u2019s Broadly\u00a0and mused over\u00a0how \u201cit\u2019s so hard to explain\u00a0this to people: I don\u2019t feel white,\u201d I rolled my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,6462,23674,20],"tags":[25376,24052,25375,20241],"class_list":["post-49823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-ella-wilks-harper","tag-gal-dem","tag-paula-akpan","tag-rachel-dolezal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49823","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=49823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49824,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49823\/revisions\/49824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}