{"id":55082,"date":"2017-11-07T23:02:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T23:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55082"},"modified":"2017-11-07T23:02:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T23:02:25","slug":"white-supremacy-has-a-deep-impact-on-interracial-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55082","title":{"rendered":"White Supremacy Has a Deep Impact on Interracial Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wearyourvoicemag.com\/identities\/race\/impact-interracial-families\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>White Supremacy Has a Deep Impact on Interracial Families<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wearyourvoicemag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wear Your Voice: Intersectional Feminist Media<\/a><br \/>\n2017-11-04<\/p>\n<p><strong>Savannah Lee-Thomas<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Toronto, Ontario, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For interracial Black and white families, honest discussions about racism need to be had in a white supremacist world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While I recognize that we are all the same species, due to pigmentation and a white supremacist culture, some of us are treated differently than others, and some of us are treated unfairly. In the ninth grade, our class read \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To Kill A Mockingbird<\/a>\u2019 and I remember reading that the children of a mixed couple were considered nothings. Non existent.<\/p>\n<p>As a mixed child, I had to stomach that that situation would have been a reality for me during that time. With a West Indian mother and a White father, I grew up knowing that I was mixed but never understanding.I didn\u2019t understand why I was bullied for no reason or not liked by my teachers. I didn\u2019t understand why dolls didn\u2019t look like me or why I didn\u2019t see myself on television.<\/p>\n<p>And then, there was my family. I was brought up under the impression that we are all the same. I was never taught about Trinidadian culture or tradition and lived with a father who had spent his entire life in a small suburban town outside of the city. There was no access to my culture and I was never taught about it in school. Because of this, I had an extremely difficult time connecting with others and getting to know myself as an individual&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/wearyourvoicemag.com\/identities\/race\/impact-interracial-families\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For interracial Black and white families, honest discussions about racism need to be had in a white supremacist world.<\/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],"tags":[27588,24550,24549],"class_list":["post-55082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","tag-savannah-lee-thomas","tag-wear-your-voice","tag-wear-your-voice-intersectional-feminist-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55082","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=55082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55083,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55082\/revisions\/55083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}