{"id":51963,"date":"2017-03-01T16:17:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51963"},"modified":"2017-03-01T16:17:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:17:48","slug":"angela-rye-i-always-knew-i-was-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51963","title":{"rendered":"Angela Rye: I always knew I was black"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angela Rye: I always knew I was black<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Cable News Network (CNN)<\/a>
\n2017-02-24<\/p>\n

Angela T. Rye<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Angela Rye is a CNN political commentator, NPR political analyst and CEO of IMPACT Strategies<\/a>, a political advocacy firm in Washington. She is also a former Congressional Black Caucus<\/a> executive director and general counsel. You can follow her on Twitter @angela_rye<\/a> and on Instagram @angelarye<\/a>. This is part of the “First time I realized I was black” series<\/a>. The views expressed are her own.<\/em><\/p>\n

(CNN)<\/strong>I never had a moment of realization about my blackness \u2014 I just was. Blackness was a central thread of my experience as a child and as an adolescent, as it is now that I’m an adult.<\/p>\n

It seemed like my father knew everybody in Seattle<\/a>, where I was raised. When he and I would walk down the street I remember people would regularly ask him how he was doing. He would respond without missing a beat: “You know, just out here fighting this racism, man.”<\/p>\n

My mother worked really hard to ensure that I had black dolls (of all hues), black books by black authors, and my personal favorite: a poster from the 1975 Anheuser-Busch Great Kings and Queens of Africa collection<\/a> (of course, she removed the beer logo). She would regularly have me name family members and friends who looked like each of the queens and kings on the poster…<\/p>\n

…Indeed, with every instance of systemic oppression, black people have demonstrated an uncanny ability to succeed and excel \u2014 from Black Wall Street<\/a> (a name given to a economically thriving black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma<\/a>, during the early 1900s, which helped the black dollar circulate 36 to 100 times before leaving the community) to working diligently to elect the first black president.\u00a0…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angela Rye: I always knew I was black Cable News Network (CNN) 2017-02-24 Angela T. Rye Angela Rye is a CNN political commentator, NPR political analyst and CEO of IMPACT Strategies, a political advocacy firm in Washington. She is also a former Congressional Black Caucus executive director and general counsel. You can follow her on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,20,842],"tags":[24465,26306,9447,3142],"class_list":["post-51963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-angela-rye","tag-angela-t-rye","tag-cable-news-network","tag-cnn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51963","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=51963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51964,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51963\/revisions\/51964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}