{"id":57145,"date":"2018-12-26T18:12:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57145"},"modified":"2018-12-26T18:47:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:47:11","slug":"i-want-to-move-people-away-from-thinking-of-racism-as-a-feeling-of-hatred-because-its-rare-to-find-someone-who-blatantly-hates-people-of-color-but-the-impact-of-racial-bias-isn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57145","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI want to move people away from thinking of racism as a feeling of hatred, because it\u2019s rare to find someone who blatantly hates people of color. But the impact of racial bias isn\u2019t lessened because it\u2019s not blatant.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI want to move people away from thinking of racism as a feeling of hatred, because it\u2019s rare to find someone who blatantly hates people of color. But the impact of racial bias isn\u2019t lessened because it\u2019s not blatant. If someone denies me a job because I\u2019m \u201cnot the right fit,\u201d without realizing that their idea of the right fit is almost always a white person, it doesn\u2019t hurt me any less than if I\u2019m told, \u201cI won\u2019t hire you because you\u2019re black.\u201d Racism is not necessarily an intention or a feeling. It is a system that produces predictable results.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijeomaoluo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ijeoma Oluo<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mark Leviton, <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White Lies: Ijeoma Oluo On Privilege, Power, And Race<\/a>,<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201d<\/span> <em>The Sun<\/em>, December 2018.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesunmagazine.org\/issues\/516\/white-lies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.thesunmagazine.org\/issues\/516\/white-lies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI want to move people away from thinking of racism as a feeling of hatred, because it\u2019s rare to find someone who blatantly hates people of color. But the impact of racial bias isn\u2019t lessened because it\u2019s not blatant. If someone denies me a job because I\u2019m \u201cnot the right fit,\u201d without realizing that their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20411,29153,29154,29156,29155],"class_list":["post-57145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ijeoma-oluo","tag-mark-leviton","tag-the-sun","tag-the-sun-interview","tag-the-sun-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57145","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=57145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57147,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57145\/revisions\/57147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}