{"id":52039,"date":"2017-03-03T19:18:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52039"},"modified":"2017-03-03T19:18:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:18:20","slug":"nearly-all-african-americans-carry-within-them-white-blood-usually-the-result-of-white-rape-white-slaveholders-routinely-sold-mixed-race-children-their-own-children-into-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52039","title":{"rendered":"Nearly all African-Americans carry within them white blood, usually the result of white rape. White slaveholders routinely sold mixed-race children\u2014their own children\u2014into slavery."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Nearly all African-Americans carry within them white blood, usually the result of white rape. White slaveholders routinely sold mixed-race children\u2014their own children\u2014into slavery. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Baldwin\" target=\"_blank\">[James] Baldwin<\/a> knew the failure to acknowledge the melding of the black and white races that can be seen in nearly every African-American face, a melding that makes African-Americans literally the brothers and sisters of whites. African-Americans, Baldwin wrote, are the \u201cbastard\u201d children of white America. They constitute a peculiarly and uniquely American race.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chris Hedges, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51831\" target=\"_blank\">James Baldwin and the Meaning of Whiteness<\/a>,\u201d <em>Common Dreams: Breaking News &amp; Views for the Progressive Community<\/em>, February 20, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2017\/02\/20\/james-baldwin-and-meaning-whiteness\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2017\/02\/20\/james-baldwin-and-meaning-whiteness<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly all African-Americans carry within them white blood, usually the result of white rape. White slaveholders routinely sold mixed-race children\u2014their own children\u2014into slavery. [James] Baldwin knew the failure to acknowledge the melding of the black and white races that can be seen in nearly every African-American face, a melding that makes African-Americans literally the brothers and sisters of whites.<\/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":[26261,20668,26259,1239],"class_list":["post-52039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-chris-hedges","tag-common-dreams","tag-common-dreams-breaking-news-views-for-the-progressive-community","tag-james-baldwin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52039","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=52039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52040,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52039\/revisions\/52040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}