{"id":52811,"date":"2017-03-23T19:25:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T19:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52811"},"modified":"2017-03-23T19:25:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T19:25:38","slug":"blackness-behind-white-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52811","title":{"rendered":"Blackness Behind White Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.com\/blackness-behind-white-skin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Blackness Behind White Skin<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Roots Stories<\/a><br \/>\n2017-03-22<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kenneth Miks<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professor: Now everyone stand up<\/p>\n<p>Class: [shuffling around to stand up]<\/p>\n<p>Professor: Take a look around at all the Black men standing around you.<\/p>\n<p>Class:[Everyone begins looking around awkwardly]<\/p>\n<p>Professor: Now, everyone sit down, but all the black men remain standing\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is in this very moment I begin to panic. My mind starts to race at a 100mph and I begin to nervously look around as I see everyone sitting down, but all the black men standing tall. \u201cDo I keep standing?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.com\/blackness-behind-white-skin\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is in this very moment I begin to panic. My mind starts to race at a 100mph and I begin to nervously look around as I see everyone sitting down, but all the black men standing tall. \u201cDo I keep standing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,23674,20],"tags":[26652,15960],"class_list":["post-52811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-kenneth-miks","tag-mixed-roots-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52811","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=52811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52812,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52811\/revisions\/52812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}