{"id":53533,"date":"2017-04-17T00:31:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T00:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53533"},"modified":"2017-04-17T00:31:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T00:31:04","slug":"a-conflict-of-race-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53533","title":{"rendered":"A Conflict of Race and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com\/of-race-and-religion\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>A Conflict of Race and Religion<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Jewish Times<\/a><br \/>\n2017-04-13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/patrice-worthy-02137620\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Patrice Worthy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>As a Jew of color, your identity and loyalty are constantly questioned.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I remember it like it was yesterday. I was laid off from my job for poor work performance. Weeks before, I went to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_resources\" target=\"_blank\">HR<\/a> regarding a co-worker who attacked my Jewish identity by asking another co-worker, \u201cWhat does she want to be Jewish?\u201d followed by \u201cShe thinks she so cute\u201d because I asked for the first day of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passover\" target=\"_blank\">Pesach<\/a> off.<\/p>\n<p>Her sister, who worked in the same department, questioned my Judaism in front of the entire office, and when the daily harassment was too much for my body to handle, I was hospitalized and forced to tell my diagnosis to my supervisor, who encouraged the discrimination, and the HR rep&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Being black and Jewish, at least from my experiences in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">South<\/a>, is a precarious position. Especially in a socially segregated city like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlanta\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta<\/a>, where you are forced to choose between being Jewish and being black, whatever that means&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com\/of-race-and-religion\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Jew of color, your identity and loyalty are constantly questioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,125,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[7488,26862,3192,26863],"class_list":["post-53533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-jewish-times","tag-georgia","tag-patrice-worthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53533","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=53533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53534,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53533\/revisions\/53534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}