{"id":52034,"date":"2017-03-03T19:08:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52034"},"modified":"2017-03-03T19:08:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:08:22","slug":"i-cannot-tell-you-how-many-times-in-the-past-few-years-i-have-been-asked-why-are-you-here-you-are-not-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52034","title":{"rendered":"I cannot tell you how many times in the past few years I have been asked, \u201cWhy are you here? You are not Black.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I cannot tell you how many times in the past few years I have been asked, \u201cWhy are you here? You are not Black.\u201d \u201cWhy are you here? You are a non-Black person of color.\u201d What many movement people, leaders, foot soldiers and woke folks fail to understand is that, in America, the binary of Black and white has always excluded \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans#Terminology\" target=\"_blank\">Latinx<\/a>\u201d people. One need only look at the media to see that, even in 2017, Blackness in America means African-American. Never are we as Black Latinx people represented in the media, and you will rarely find Africans and Black Caribbean people in dialogues and discussions about race.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rosa Clemente, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51868\" target=\"_blank\">Rosa Clemente: How I Came to Know and Appreciate My Blackness As An Afro-Latina<\/a>,\u201d <em>Atlanta Black Star<\/em>, February 23, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\/2017\/02\/23\/rosa-clemente-how-came-know-appreciate-blackness-afro-latina\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\/2017\/02\/23\/rosa-clemente-how-came-know-appreciate-blackness-afro-latina<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> cannot tell you how many times in the past few years I have been asked, \u201cWhy are you here? You are not Black.\u201d \u201cWhy are you here? You are a non-Black person of color.\u201d What many movement people, leaders, foot soldiers and woke folks fail to understand is that, in America, the binary of Black and white has always excluded \u201cLatinx\u201d people.<\/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":[17213,16253,9847],"class_list":["post-52034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-atlanta-black-star","tag-rosa-alicia-clemente","tag-rosa-clemente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52034","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=52034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52035,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52034\/revisions\/52035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}