{"id":51103,"date":"2017-01-09T01:46:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T01:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51103"},"modified":"2017-03-06T01:16:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T01:16:11","slug":"i-learned-through-being-aware-enough-of-my-experiences-that-i-am-not-white-nor-will-i-ever-be-white-supremacy-white-people-will-make-sure-to-let-me-know-that-i-am-not-white-so-i-claim-my-black-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51103","title":{"rendered":"I learned, through being aware enough of my experiences, that I am not white, nor will I ever be; white supremacy, white people will make sure to let me know that I am not white. So I claim my black identity with pride…"},"content":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s the thing; I was never fully accepted as white, even though I\u2019m white passing<\/a>, which caused a lot of confusion growing up. I didn\u2019t know how I was \u2013 was I black or white? Some ungodly mixed between the two, forever existing between the ether, never knowing when white people would decide I could pass for white or when they would want me to be Black. That is part of the diversity of the Black American experience. This isn\u2019t about the \u201cone drop\u201d rule<\/a>; it\u2019s about how deep white supremacy goes that someone like me can still feel and experience it. That I can be in a group of white people that is in the middle of an encounter with cops, and the officers somehow are more aggressive towards me than the white people around me. I learned, through being aware enough of my experiences, that I am not white, nor will I ever be; white supremacy, white people will make sure to let me know that I am not white. So I claim my black identity with pride, as I want nothing to do with the legacy of white supremacy and want to help this nation break free of that. But more importantly I know there is nothing wrong with being black, that black is beautiful, that that is part of my history, it\u2019s in my blood; my grandfather\u2019s cousin A. Leon Higginbotham<\/a> helped write the South African constitution, I mean, c\u2019mon. And even more important I love my dashes of melanin and will glow in my blackness; I love my blackness and yours. \u2014Matthew Braunginn<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Henry Sanders, \u201cBEST OF 2016: 12 on Tuesday with Matthew Braunginn<\/a>,\u201d Madison365<\/em>, December 21 2016. http:\/\/madison365.com\/best-2016-12-tuesday-matthew-braunginn\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s the thing; I was never fully accepted as white, even though I\u2019m white passing, which caused a lot of confusion growing up. I didn\u2019t know how I was \u2013 was I black or white? Some ungodly mixed between the two, forever existing between the ether, never knowing when white people would decide I could pass for white or when they would want me to be Black.<\/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":[25937,22539,22540],"class_list":["post-51103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-henry-sanders","tag-madison365","tag-matthew-braunginn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51103","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=51103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52074,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51103\/revisions\/52074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}