{"id":57759,"date":"2019-03-07T19:52:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T19:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57759"},"modified":"2019-03-07T19:52:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T19:52:54","slug":"its-2019-why-are-we-still-policing-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57759","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s 2019, Why Are We Still Policing Blackness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myamericanmeltingpot.com\/2019\/02\/27\/policing-blackness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>It\u2019s 2019, Why Are We Still Policing Blackness?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myamericanmeltingpot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My American Melting Pot<\/a><br \/>\n2019-03-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myamericanmeltingpot.com\/about\/about-lori-l-tharps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Lori L. Tharps<\/strong><\/a>, Host, Head Chef and Chief Content Creator; Associate Professor of journalism<br \/>\n<em>Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myamericanmeltingpot.com\/2019\/02\/27\/policing-blackness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-theblogger_image_size_1 size-theblogger_image_size_1 wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/myamericanmeltingpot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/beautiful-black-people.jpeg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myamericanmeltingpot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/beautiful-black-people.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/myamericanmeltingpot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/beautiful-black-people-300x173.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/myamericanmeltingpot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/beautiful-black-people-550x317.jpeg 550w\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hello Meltingpot Readers,<\/p>\n<p>As we wind down the Blackest month of the year, I wanted to write something positive and inspirational about Black people in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America<\/a>. Instead, I\u2019m using this penultimate <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_History_Month#United_States:_Black_History_Month_(1970)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black History Month<\/a> blog post to lament the continuous policing of Blackness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/myamericanmeltingpot.com\/2019\/02\/27\/policing-blackness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we wind down the Blackest month of the year, I wanted to write something positive and inspirational about Black people in America. Instead, I\u2019m using this penultimate Black History Month blog post to lament the continuous policing of Blackness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,26,20],"tags":[19040,28247,19041,17955,17956,29309],"class_list":["post-57759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-kamala-d-harris","tag-kamala-devi-harris","tag-kamala-harris","tag-lori-l-tharps","tag-lori-tharps","tag-my-american-melting-pot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57759","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=57759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57760,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57759\/revisions\/57760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}