{"id":53072,"date":"2017-03-29T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53072"},"modified":"2017-04-01T01:07:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T01:07:24","slug":"i-eventually-realized-i-could-never-make-everyone-happy-with-how-i-saw-myself-and-my-own-relation-to-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53072","title":{"rendered":"I eventually realized I could never make everyone happy with how I saw myself and my own relation to race&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI eventually realized I could never make everyone happy with how I saw myself and my own relation to race,\u201d Johnson continued. \u201cI focused on making myself happy with how I identified. Ultimately, race is a strategy. Race doesn\u2019t exist. It\u2019s something we use to deal with ethnicity and class. We use it to keep one race or class in power.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matjohnson.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Johnson<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53012\" target=\"_blank\">Creighton hosts two-day event to commemorate <em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em> ruling<\/a>,\u201d <em>Creighton University News Center<\/em>, March 27, 2017. <small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creighton.edu\/publicrelations\/newscenter\/news\/2017\/march2017\/march272017\/lovingeventnr032717\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.creighton.edu\/publicrelations\/newscenter\/news\/2017\/march2017\/march272017\/lovingeventnr032717\/<\/a><\/small>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI eventually realized I could never make everyone happy with how I saw myself and my own relation to race, \u201cJohnson continued. \u201cI focused on making myself happy with how I identified. Ultimately, race is a strategy. Race doesn\u2019t exist. It\u2019s something we use to deal with ethnicity and class. We use it to keep one race or class in power.\u201d<\/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":[10846,26716,26717],"class_list":["post-53072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-creighton-university","tag-creighton-university-news-center","tag-matt-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53072","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=53072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53167,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53072\/revisions\/53167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}