{"id":59131,"date":"2019-10-26T20:13:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59131"},"modified":"2019-10-26T20:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T20:13:19","slug":"that-fascinates-me-that-there-was-a-black-person-who-had-white-privilege-and-was-cognizant-of-his-ethnicity-he-said-when-you-really-think-about-it-he-kinda-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59131","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThat fascinates me that there was a black person who had white privilege and was cognizant of his ethnicity,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you really think about it, he kinda wasn\u2019t a black person when he was there. That\u2019s such a juxtaposition for me.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThat fascinates me that there was a black person [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_C._Watson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samuel Codes Watson<\/a>] who had white privilege and was cognizant of his ethnicity,<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> he said. \u201cWhen you really think about it, he kinda wasn<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;\">\u2019<\/span>t a black person when he was there. That<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;\">\u2019<\/span>s such a juxtaposition for me.<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> \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylonn-j-sawyer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tylonn J. Sawyer<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Micah Walker, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He passed as a white student at U-M \u2014 but was actually college\u2019s first black enrollee<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Detroit Free Press<\/em>, October 19, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/entertainment\/2019\/10\/19\/samuel-codes-watson-unviersity-michigan-tylonn-j-sawyer\/3992118002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/entertainment\/2019\/10\/19\/samuel-codes-watson-unviersity-michigan-tylonn-j-sawyer\/3992118002\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThat fascinates me that there was a black person [Samuel Codes Watson] who had white privilege and was cognizant of his ethnicity,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you really think about it, he kinda wasn\u2019t a black person when he was there. That\u2019s such a juxtaposition for me.\u201d \u2014Tylonn J. Sawyer Micah Walker, \u201cHe passed as a [&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":[19705,30448,30416,30415,30417,19704,30419,3804],"class_list":["post-59131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-detroit-free-press","tag-micah-walker","tag-samuel-c-watson","tag-samuel-codes-watson","tag-samuel-watson","tag-the-detroit-free-press","tag-tylonn-j-sawyer","tag-university-of-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59131","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=59131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59132,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59131\/revisions\/59132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}