{"id":53677,"date":"2017-04-24T03:19:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T03:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53677"},"modified":"2017-04-24T03:19:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T03:19:29","slug":"i-know-my-nose-is-sharp-and-my-skin-is-light-but-my-politics-are-as-black-as-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53677","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI know my nose is sharp and my skin is light, but my politics are as black as night.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat are you trying to do to me? You have caused a lot of problems in my family. I know my nose is sharp and my skin is light, but my politics are as black as night. Today, I don\u2019t identify as mixed. I reject my white privilege in a racist America. There is no way that I or my kids will identify as anything other than black\u201d \u2014Bernard<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anita Foeman, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DNA Tests, and Sometimes Surprising Results<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, April 20, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/23\/us\/dna-ancestry-race-identity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/23\/us\/dna-ancestry-race-identity.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What are you trying to do to me? You have caused a lot of problems in my family. I know my nose is sharp and my skin is light, but my politics are as black as night.&#8221;<\/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":[26883,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-53677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-anita-foeman","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53677","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=53677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53678,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53677\/revisions\/53678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}