{"id":59706,"date":"2020-06-13T22:34:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T22:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59706"},"modified":"2020-06-13T22:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T22:35:57","slug":"my-dad-was-in-prison-throughout-my-childhood-i-navigated-a-white-world-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59706","title":{"rendered":"My dad was in prison throughout my childhood. I navigated a white world alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jun\/10\/race-black-white-americans-biracial-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>My dad was in prison throughout my childhood. I navigated a white world alone<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2020-06-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/whitneybradshaw\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Whitney Bradshaw<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Portland, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jun\/10\/race-black-white-americans-biracial-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a7fecb45846f926a2d5323256cd4543311e3b372\/0_0_4032_3024\/master\/4032.jpg?width=620&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=0192ef27160726caf8b9a6df0e922932\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small> Collage of family photos from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/whitneybradshaw\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whitney Bradshaw<\/a>. <em>Photograph: Courtesy Whitney Bradshaw<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Three days after my third birthday, my father was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 25 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Starting around age five, whenever I saw a shooting star, I\u2019d make a wish that my dad could come home. Eventually, that wish became \u201cI wish he could be released for just one day\u201d. As I grew, I stopped wishing.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to last week. More than 20 years later, for the first time in my life, I was happy my dad is in prison. Because he\u2019s safer as an inmate than as a free black body walking the streets&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jun\/10\/race-black-white-americans-biracial-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast-forward to last week. More than 20 years later, for the first time in my life, I was happy my dad is in prison. Because he\u2019s safer as an inmate than as a free black body walking the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,23674,20],"tags":[2103,30872],"class_list":["post-59706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-the-guardian","tag-whitney-bradshaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59706","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=59706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59708,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59706\/revisions\/59708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}