{"id":52510,"date":"2017-03-15T19:59:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T19:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52510"},"modified":"2017-03-15T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T20:00:16","slug":"be-aware-that-your-words-have-power-australian-comedians-talk-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52510","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Be aware that your words have power&#8221;: Australian comedians talk about race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/thefeed\/article\/2017\/02\/28\/be-aware-your-words-have-power-australian-comedians-talk-about-race\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>&#8220;Be aware that your words have power&#8221;: Australian comedians talk about race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)<\/a><br \/>\n2017-02-28<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maria Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/thefeed\/article\/2017\/02\/28\/be-aware-your-words-have-power-australian-comedians-talk-about-race\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/sites\/sbs.com.au.news\/files\/styles\/full\/public\/comedian_ensemble.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A who&#8217;s who of Australian comedians get together to talk about one of comedy&#8217;s most taboo topics: racism&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faustina_Agolley\" target=\"_blank\">Faustina Agolley<\/a> (TV presenter)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/thefeed\/article\/2017\/02\/28\/be-aware-your-words-have-power-australian-comedians-talk-about-race\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/sites\/sbs.com.au.news\/files\/styles\/body_image\/public\/fuzzy.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;Growing up mixed-race in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a>, being half-Chinese half-Ghanaian means that you\u2019re just constantly blowing peoples minds. Ever since I was a little kid I\u2019d be like \u2018that\u2019s my mum, that\u2019s my grandparents\u2019 and people would be like \u2018what?\u2019 Mind explosion.\u00a0When you\u2019re making fun of your own racial group it\u2019s steeped in truth and a common understanding. When other people make fun of other races it can be laced with a lot of judgment and assumptions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/thefeed\/article\/2017\/02\/28\/be-aware-your-words-have-power-australian-comedians-talk-about-race\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A who&#8217;s who of Australian comedians get together to talk about one of comedy&#8217;s most taboo topics: racism&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,842],"tags":[26491,986,26494,26488,26492,26490,26495,26489,18453,18452,26493],"class_list":["post-52510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-videos","tag-aaron-faaoso","tag-australia","tag-dilruk-jayasinha","tag-faustina-agolley","tag-fiona-choi","tag-jordan-raskopoulos","tag-khaled-khalafalla","tag-maria-lewis","tag-sbs","tag-special-broadcasting-service","tag-tom-ballard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52510","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=52510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52513,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52510\/revisions\/52513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}