{"id":53581,"date":"2017-04-20T03:16:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T03:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53581"},"modified":"2017-04-20T03:16:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T03:16:53","slug":"i-couldnt-escape-rachel-dolezal-because-i-cant-escape-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53581","title":{"rendered":"I couldn&#8217;t escape Rachel Dolezal because I can&#8217;t escape white supremacy."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I couldn&#8217;t escape <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a> because I can&#8217;t escape white supremacy. And it is white supremacy that told an unhappy and outcast white woman that black identity was hers for the taking. It is white supremacy that told her that any black people who questioned her were obviously uneducated and unmotivated to rise to her level of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woke\" target=\"_blank\">wokeness<\/a>. It is white supremacy that then elevated this display of privilege into the dominating conversation on black female identity in America. It is white supremacy that decided that it was worth a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49691\" target=\"_blank\">book deal<\/a>, national news coverage, and yes\u2014even this interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ijeoma Oluo, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53568\" target=\"_blank\">The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Stranger<\/em>, April 19, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/features\/2017\/04\/19\/25082450\/the-heart-of-whiteness-ijeoma-oluo-interviews-rachel-dolezal-the-white-woman-who-identifies-as-black\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/features\/2017\/04\/19\/25082450\/the-heart-of-whiteness-ijeoma-oluo-interviews-rachel-dolezal-the-white-woman-who-identifies-as-black<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t escape Rachel Dolezal because I can&#8217;t escape white supremacy. And it is white supremacy that told an unhappy and outcast white woman that black identity was hers for the taking.<\/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":[20411,20241,24290],"class_list":["post-53581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ijeoma-oluo","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-the-stranger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53581","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=53581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53582,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53581\/revisions\/53582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}