{"id":59897,"date":"2020-07-06T16:49:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T16:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59897"},"modified":"2020-07-06T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T16:49:49","slug":"there-is-only-1-driver-from-an-african-american-background-at-the-top-level-of-our-sport-i-am-the-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59897","title":{"rendered":"There is only 1 driver from an African American background at the top level of our sport..I am the 1."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There is only 1 driver from an African American background at the top level of our sport..I am the 1. You&#8217;re not gonna stop hearing about &#8220;the black driver&#8221; for years. Embrace it, accept it and enjoy the journey..<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bubba Wallace (@BubbaWallace) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BubbaWallace\/status\/928382162063249408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is only 1 driver from an African American background at the top level of our sport..I am the 1. You&#8217;re not gonna stop hearing about &#8220;the black driver&#8221; for years. Embrace it, accept it and enjoy the journey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bubba_Wallace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darrell &#8220;Bubba&#8221; Wallace Jr.<\/a>, <em>Twitter<\/em>, November 8, 2017, 17:02. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BubbaWallace\/status\/928382162063249408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/BubbaWallace\/status\/928382162063249408<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is only 1 driver from an African American background at the top level of our sport..I am the 1. You&#8217;re not gonna stop hearing about &#8220;the black driver&#8221; for years. Embrace it, accept it and enjoy the journey.. \u2014 Bubba Wallace (@BubbaWallace) November 8, 2017 There is only 1 driver from an African American [&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":[30863,30865,20101],"class_list":["post-59897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-bubba-wallace","tag-darrell-bubba-wallace-jr","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59897","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=59897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59900,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59897\/revisions\/59900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}