{"id":56433,"date":"2018-05-19T21:53:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T21:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56433"},"modified":"2018-05-19T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T21:53:21","slug":"talking-about-race-with-your-own-mom-can-be-hard-heres-why-its-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56433","title":{"rendered":"Talking about race with your own mom can be hard. Here\u2019s why it\u2019s worth it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/talking-about-race-with-your-own-mom-can-be-hard-heres-why-its-worth-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Talking about race with your own mom can be hard. Here\u2019s why it\u2019s worth it<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PBS NewsHour<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PBS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Broadcasting Service<\/a><br \/>\n2018-05-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/about\/judy-woodruff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Judy Woodruff<\/strong><\/a>, Host<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/talking-about-race-with-your-own-mom-can-be-hard-heres-why-its-worth-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net\/static\/2018\/05\/Race-1024x576.jpg\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijeomaoluo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ijeoma Oluo<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijeomaoluo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ijeoma Oluo<\/a> got a voicemail from her mom saying that she had had an epiphany about race, Oluo didn&#8217;t want to call her back. But, she says, as awful and awkward as the conversation was, she is glad it happened. Oluo shares her humble opinion on why that talk can be so fraught and why it\u2019s so important.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video and read the transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/talking-about-race-with-your-own-mom-can-be-hard-heres-why-its-worth-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Ijeoma Oluo got a voicemail from her mom saying that she had had an epiphany about race, Oluo didn&#8217;t want to call her back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,23674,20,842],"tags":[20411,20909,6107,19266,6108],"class_list":["post-56433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","category-videos","tag-ijeoma-oluo","tag-judy-woodruff","tag-pbs","tag-pbs-newshour","tag-public-broadcasting-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56433","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=56433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56434,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56433\/revisions\/56434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}