{"id":58913,"date":"2019-09-19T22:41:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T22:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58913"},"modified":"2019-09-19T22:41:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T22:41:56","slug":"when-people-challenge-her-blackness-i-always-say-if-she-went-to-howard-it-means-shes-one-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58913","title":{"rendered":"When people challenge her blackness, I always say, \u2018If she went to Howard, it means she\u2019s one of us.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen people challenge her [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamala_Harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamala Harris\u2019<\/a>] blackness, I always say, \u2018If she went to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_University\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Howard [University]<\/a>, it means she\u2019s one of us,\u2019 \u201d says Howard grad and <em>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/author\/armstrong_jenice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jenice Armstrong<\/a>. \u201cShe comes from there. No one should challenge her blackness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Robin Givhan, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58877\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamala Harris grew up in a mostly white world. Then she went to a black university in a black city.<\/a>\u201d <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, September 16, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/09\/16\/kamala-harris-grew-up-mostly-white-world-then-she-went-black-university-black-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/09\/16\/kamala-harris-grew-up-mostly-white-world-then-she-went-black-university-black-city\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen people challenge her [Kamala Harris\u2019] blackness, I always say, \u2018If she went to Howard [University], it means she\u2019s one of us,\u2019 \u201d says Howard grad and Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Jenice Armstrong. \u201cShe comes from there. No one should challenge her blackness.\u201d Robin Givhan, \u201cKamala Harris grew up in a mostly white world. Then she [&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":[7408,30280,19040,28247,19041,30263,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-58913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-howard-university","tag-jenice-armstrong","tag-kamala-d-harris","tag-kamala-devi-harris","tag-kamala-harris","tag-robin-givhan","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58913","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=58913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58914,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58913\/revisions\/58914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}