{"id":50467,"date":"2016-12-07T02:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T02:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50467"},"modified":"2016-12-07T02:30:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T02:30:25","slug":"im-very-light-so-some-people-dont-really-know-that-im-black-ive-been-in-situations-where-people-will-say-something-kind-of-racist-and-ill-step-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50467","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m very light, so some people don\u2019t really know that I\u2019m black. I\u2019ve been in situations where people will say something kind of racist and I\u2019ll step in and they\u2019ll be like, \u2018Oh, well, you\u2019re light\u2019&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m very light, so some people don\u2019t really know that I\u2019m black. I\u2019ve been in situations where people will say something kind of racist and I\u2019ll step in and they\u2019ll be like, \u2018Oh, well, you\u2019re light,\u2019\u201d she says, her eyes flashing. \u201cThat still doesn\u2019t cut it, buddy. It\u2019s 2016\u2014you better get your shit together before you get slapped out here.\u201d \u2014Sofia Ritchie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rebecca Haithcoat, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50463\" target=\"_blank\">Family Business<\/a>,\u201d <em>Complex<\/em>, December 2016\/January 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/pop-culture\/sofia-richie-interview-2016-cover-story\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.complex.com\/pop-culture\/sofia-richie-interview-2016-cover-story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m very light, so some people don\u2019t really know that I\u2019m black. I\u2019ve been in situations where people will say something kind of racist and I\u2019ll step in and they\u2019ll be like, \u2018Oh, well, you\u2019re light,\u2019\u201d she says, her eyes flashing. \u201cThat still doesn\u2019t cut it, buddy. It\u2019s 2016\u2014you better get your shit together before [&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":[24145,25651,25653],"class_list":["post-50467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-complex","tag-rebecca-haithcoat","tag-sofia-ritchie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50467","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=50467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50468,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50467\/revisions\/50468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}