{"id":55723,"date":"2018-02-13T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55723"},"modified":"2021-10-11T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T18:02:29","slug":"10-thoughts-on-anna-holmes-new-york-times-op-ed-black-with-some-white-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55723","title":{"rendered":"10 Thoughts on Anna Holmes\u2019 New York Times Op-Ed \u2018Black With (Some) White Privilege\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 Thoughts on Anna Holmes\u2019 New York Times Op-Ed \u2018Black With (Some) White Privilege\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Very Smart Brothas<\/a>
\nThe Root<\/a>
\n2018-02-13<\/p>\n

Panama Jackson<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Editor<\/p>\n

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\nScott Olson\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n

Anna Holmes<\/a>, the founder of Jezebel<\/em><\/a> and editorial director at Topic.com<\/em><\/a>, recently wrote an op-ed for the New York Times<\/em> titled, \u201cBlack With (Some) White Privilege<\/a>.\u201d Full disclosure: I\u2019m part of a currently running, very interesting and insightful documentary series she executive-produced called The Loving Generation<\/em><\/a>, which explores the lives and identities of kids born of one black and one white parent after the Loving v. Virginia<\/em><\/a> Supreme Court decision in 1967 that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage.<\/p>\n

Holmes calls the children of interracial marriage born between 1960 and 1985 \u201cthe Loving Generation,\u201d though where I\u2019m from, we just call us mixed. Or black. Mostly black. Or \u201cYou know you black, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyway, I have quite a few qualms about the piece, especially as a mixed person who identifies as black whose picture is included in the actual op-ed\u2014which, petty or not, makes me feel as if I co-signed the opinions and perspective. I did not. All of us who are pictured in the op-ed are also part of a supplement<\/a> to the documentary series. I can\u2019t speak for anybody else involved, but I took issue with much of the op-ed because our experiences as mixed people are varied in a way that the piece mutes…<\/p>\n

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

I can\u2019t speak for anybody else involved, but I took issue with much of the op-ed because our experiences as mixed people are varied in a way that the piece mutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20],"tags":[20332,27847,3234,27722],"class_list":["post-55723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-anna-holmes","tag-panama-jackson","tag-the-root","tag-very-smart-brothas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55723","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=55723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61812,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55723\/revisions\/61812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}