{"id":54911,"date":"2017-09-06T04:04:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T04:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54911"},"modified":"2017-09-06T04:04:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T04:04:04","slug":"the-day-my-daughter-rejected-my-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54911","title":{"rendered":"The Day My Daughter Rejected My Blackness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/the-day-my-daughter-rejected-my-blackness_us_590b748fe4b0f7118072425a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Day My Daughter Rejected My Blackness<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Huffington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2017-05-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reese22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Theresa Sutton<\/strong><\/a>, Contributor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/the-day-my-daughter-rejected-my-blackness_us_590b748fe4b0f7118072425a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/590b759a1700002500dd698a.png?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>To be a black woman in 2017 is a lot of things. And none of them are easy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMommy, I don\u2019t want to be black like you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It came so unexpectedly, in the bath and beauty department of Target, while I was precariously perched on one foot attempting to get the last Shea Moisture Curl Enhancing Smoothie from the shelf overhead.<\/p>\n<p>Almost instantly, I could feel the eyes of strangers upon me. It was as though a spotlight had suddenly appeared overhead, and dozens of shoppers spontaneously generated behind me, all eager to see how I would screw up this moment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read then entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/the-day-my-daughter-rejected-my-blackness_us_590b748fe4b0f7118072425a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be a black woman in 2017 is a lot of things. And none of them are easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,20],"tags":[10108,2425,27495],"class_list":["post-54911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-huffington-post","tag-the-huffington-post","tag-theresa-sutton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54911","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=54911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54912,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54911\/revisions\/54912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}