{"id":54787,"date":"2017-08-10T02:30:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T02:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54787"},"modified":"2017-08-10T02:36:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T02:36:57","slug":"living-a-white-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54787","title":{"rendered":"Living a white lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Living a white lie<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Silver Chips Online: Montgomery Blair High School’s Online Student Newspaper<\/a>
\nSilver Spring, Maryland
\n2009-02-23<\/p>\n

Lily Alexander<\/strong>, Managing Features Editor, Print-Online Coordinator<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nJim Queen, 70, now lives in San Francisco<\/a> with his wife of 40 years. From 1954 to 1957, he attended Montgomery Blair High School<\/a>, where he was forced to pass as a white<\/a> student by hiding his far more complex and multiracial heritage.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In 1954, Jim Queen arrived at Montgomery Blair High School<\/a>. The school was all white. He was not.<\/em><\/p>\n

The janitors would come to watch him run. They knew – or at least sensed – he wasn\u2019t who he said he was. As he raced around the quarter-mile track at old Blair High School<\/a>, they would silently agree about what was never said aloud. And at a time when race relations in the United States<\/a> were defined by divisions, from water fountains to hospitals, Jim Queen was an anomaly. The janitors suspected it. His parents knew it. And so did he.<\/p>\n

The school system did not.<\/p>\n

Three years before MCPS<\/a> [(Montgomery County Public Schools)] officially opened its doors to integration, Jim Queen was a student with a mixed heritage – part white, part black, part Native American – studying at a school comprised entirely of white students. For over two years, Queen maintained this fa\u00e7ade, keeping his racial background a secret<\/a> from friends, teachers and classmates.<\/p>\n

Now 70, Queen is far-removed from his time at Blair, but the experiences of his upbringing and childhood clouded by questions of racial identity and self-discovery have played a large role in small farm in shaping the man he has become…<\/p>\n

…More recently, Queen launched the “One Race Movement.” This movement promotes the idea that we all belong to one race – the human race – and that the concept of multiple races is “a false social construct used historically to divide and exploit people,” rather than a scientifically-based idea. He developed this idea after rediscovering his own Wesort<\/a> roots and learning about the Genome Project<\/a> conducted by Craig Venter<\/a>, which aimed to prove that all humans originally come from Africa<\/a>. To convey his movement\u2019s core message, Queen designed a symbol that now adorns clothing and posters, depicting the silhouettes of many different colored faces and the word “ONE” beneath it…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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