{"id":57310,"date":"2019-01-19T03:57:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T03:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57310"},"modified":"2019-01-21T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T18:36:13","slug":"why-do-so-many-others-want-to-claim-blackness-if-it-means-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57310","title":{"rendered":"Why do so many others want to claim Blackness if it means oppression?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackyouthproject.com\/why-do-so-many-others-want-to-claim-blackness-if-it-means-oppression\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Why do so many others want to claim Blackness if it means oppression?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackyouthproject.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Black Youth Project<\/a><br \/>\n2018-12-27<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inigo Laguda<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/blackyouthproject.com\/why-do-so-many-others-want-to-claim-blackness-if-it-means-oppression\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/blackyouthproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/anthony-lennon-rachel-dolezal.jpg?zoom=8&amp;fit=1200%2C550\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/anthony-lennon-my-genes-are-white-but-im-black-v7tmnw7xw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Lennon<\/a> via <em>Facebook<\/em> | <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a> via <em>Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>It is the most enthralling and excruciating time to be Black. Recently, it seems, some have managed access to glide through avenues that were previously concealed from us\u2014to break down walls that were once erected to ostracize us. We are in the belly of a Black artistic renaissance and some of these shifting tides are joyous to watch. We are flooding onto magazine covers. The silver screen has a vivid range of our stories being told. The littler screen is forming and fleshing out more of our narratives than ever before. Slowly, we are being more and more seen.<\/p>\n<p>But just as the draping trees and tranquil swamp-waters of the southern <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bayou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayou<\/a> once served as an eerily mesmerizing backdrop for the unrelenting violence that enslaved peoples faced as they toiled tirelessly nearby\u2014the painful reality of being Black is one of a dual existence. Victory is juxtaposed with defeat, and joy is never further than a stones throw from pain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/blackyouthproject.com\/why-do-so-many-others-want-to-claim-blackness-if-it-means-oppression\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of such a dizzying juxtaposition of suffering and celebration, I often find myself questioning how something so widely understood as wondrous is always subjected to such violence? How can something be so loveable and hateable at the same time? Why is the nature of Blackness so globally sought-after if also oppressed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6462,23674,10,20],"tags":[29276,29275,22124,29274,20241,29273],"class_list":["post-57310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-passing-2","category-social-justice","category-uk","category-usa","tag-anthony-ekundayo-lennon","tag-anthony-lennon","tag-black-youth-project","tag-inigo-laguda","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-the-black-youth-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57310","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=57310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57331,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57310\/revisions\/57331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}