{"id":59859,"date":"2020-07-05T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59859"},"modified":"2020-07-05T19:20:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T19:20:15","slug":"my-message-to-biracial-people-questioning-their-role-in-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59859","title":{"rendered":"My message to biracial people questioning their role in Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/tmrw\/biracial-people-questioning-their-role-black-lives-matter-t185441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>My message to biracial people questioning their role in Black Lives Matter<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TODAY<\/a><br \/>\n2020-06-30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psychandneuro.duke.edu\/people\/sarah-elizabeth-gaither\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Dr. Sarah E. Gaither<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience<br \/>\n<em>Duke University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/tmrw\/biracial-people-questioning-their-role-black-lives-matter-t185441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2020_27\/1585989\/biracial-supporting-blm-te-main2-200630_18a3cd458e767399bb04fa348a0796b3.fit-2000w.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a biracial Black and white woman with white skin and brown wavy hair, does my anger in response to the countless racist murders taking place across our country even matter? Because of how I look, I find myself questioning whether the pain I feel right now should even be acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, I have received countless emails and Twitter messages from other biracial people \u2014 some friends, others complete strangers \u2014 asking for guidance in thinking about their own identities. One said, \u201cI have always identified as Black, but these past few weeks have made me feel so white that now I\u2019m questioning if I ever should have identified as Black because maybe I am too white-looking to claim that part of me.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/tmrw\/biracial-people-questioning-their-role-black-lives-matter-t185441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My message to biracial people questioning their role in Black Lives Matter TODAY 2020-06-30 Dr. Sarah E. Gaither, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Duke University As a biracial Black and white woman with white skin and brown wavy hair, does my anger in response to the countless racist murders taking place across our country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,26,23674,20],"tags":[18738,11816,28038,9692,16862],"class_list":["post-59859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-sarah-e-gaither","tag-sarah-elizabeth-gaither","tag-sarah-gaither","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59859","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=59859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59861,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59859\/revisions\/59861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}