{"id":50081,"date":"2016-11-20T01:16:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T01:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50081"},"modified":"2016-11-20T01:16:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T01:16:25","slug":"i-feel-what-were-what-were-experiencing-with-trump-and-his-constituents-is-a-lot-of-backlash-anxiety-about-the-loss-of-white-supremacy-but-this-too-is-part-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50081","title":{"rendered":"I feel what we\u2019re what we\u2019re experiencing with Trump and his constituents is a lot of backlash anxiety about the loss of white supremacy, but this too is part of progress."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I feel what we\u2019re what we\u2019re experiencing with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">[Donald] Trump<\/a> and his constituents is a lot of backlash anxiety about the loss of white supremacy, but this too is part of progress. Do you know the comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harikondabolu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hari Kondabolu<\/a>?\u00a0 I bet Z will like his stuff in a couple more years. Here he is on the year 2042 when Census figures indicate that whites will be the minority: \u201cIn 2042 apparently white people will be 49 percent.\u00a0First of all, why do we give a fuck?\u00a0Why do we keep mentioning this?\u00a0Why is this even an issue?\u00a0Are there white people here that are concerned that they\u2019ll be the minority in 2042?\u00a0Don\u2019t worry white people, you were a minority when you came to this country.\u00a0Things seemed to have worked out for you.\u201d And have you heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/loritharps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lori Tharps\u2019<\/a> important new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45912\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America\u2019s Diverse Families<\/em><\/a>. The author, who is in a mixed-race marriage and mother to mixed kids, shares the concerns that have driven your work.\u00a0Of course, Z\u2019s experience is a lot different than mine when I was growing up.\u00a0I was a unicorn.\u00a0He\u2019s of another, more diverse, generation, a different ethnic background, and lives in a cosmopolitan neighborhood. As you\u2019ve pointed out, you can\u2019t throw a rock in your corner of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn <\/a>without hitting a mixed kid.\u00a0Not that anyone should be throwing stones. \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilyraboteau.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Raboteau<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mira Jacob and Emily Raboteau, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50074\" target=\"_blank\">Our Kids, Their Fears, Our President?<\/a>\u201d <em>Literary Hub<\/em>, November 7, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50074\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lithub.com\/our-kids-their-fears-our-president\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel what we\u2019re what we\u2019re experiencing with [Donald] Trump and his constituents is a lot of backlash anxiety about the loss of white supremacy, but this too is part of progress. Do you know the comedian Hari Kondabolu?\u00a0 I bet Z will like his stuff in a couple more years. Here he is on [&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":[2358,23792,17955,17956,25468],"class_list":["post-50081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-emily-raboteau","tag-literary-hub","tag-lori-l-tharps","tag-lori-tharps","tag-mira-jacob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50081","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=50081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50082,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50081\/revisions\/50082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}