{"id":58405,"date":"2019-06-25T01:29:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T01:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58405"},"modified":"2019-06-25T01:29:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T01:29:36","slug":"youre-not-white-enough-youre-not-black-enough-youre-kind-of-that-gray-area-kid-and-i-think-thats-one-of-the-hardest-spots-to-be-in-cloud-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58405","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou\u2019re not white enough; you\u2019re not black enough. You\u2019re kind of that gray-area kid, and I think that\u2019s one of the hardest spots to be in,\u201d Cloud said. \u201cKids are brutal, and if you don\u2019t fit in, where do you go?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natasha_Cloud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Natasha] Cloud<\/a> was just \u201cTash\u201d at home, but she couldn\u2019t find her place at school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not white enough; you\u2019re not black enough. You\u2019re kind of that gray-area kid, and I think that\u2019s one of the hardest spots to be in,\u201d Cloud said. \u201cKids are brutal, and if you don\u2019t fit in, where do you go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Basketball helped. Cloud eventually started thinking of herself as a black woman, helped along by the realization that when the outside world looks at her, they don\u2019t see a woman raised by two white parents or even a biracial person.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ava Wallace, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Why am I different?\u2019 Behind this WNBA player\u2019s activism was a search for the answer.<\/a>\u201d <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, June 22, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2019\/06\/19\/wnba-player-natasha-cloud-speaks-out-gun-violence-after-finding-her-voice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2019\/06\/19\/wnba-player-natasha-cloud-speaks-out-gun-violence-after-finding-her-voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Natasha] Cloud was just \u201cTash\u201d at home, but she couldn\u2019t find her place at school. \u201cYou\u2019re not white enough; you\u2019re not black enough. You\u2019re kind of that gray-area kid, and I think that\u2019s one of the hardest spots to be in,\u201d Cloud said. \u201cKids are brutal, and if you don\u2019t fit in, where do you [&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":[29958,29959,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-58405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ava-wallace","tag-natasha-cloud","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58405","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=58405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58406,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58405\/revisions\/58406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}