{"id":59904,"date":"2020-07-06T20:07:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T20:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59904"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T20:10:05","slug":"my-kids-are-getting-the-message-loud-and-clear-being-black-is-a-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59904","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy Kids Are Getting The Message Loud And Clear: Being Black Is A Burden\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMy Kids Are Getting The Message Loud And Clear: Being Black Is A Burden\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Vogue UK<\/a>
\n2020-07-05<\/p>\n

Christabel Nsiah-Buadi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u00a9<\/sup>Misan Harriman<\/small><\/p>\n

Unable to shield her children from the global conversation on anti-Black racism, Christabel Nsiah-Buadi is leaning in to celebrating her kids\u2019 #BlackBoyJoy<\/a> and #BlackGirlMagic<\/a>. But, she writes, real change takes time.<\/em><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, my daughter handed me one of her final pieces of first-grade homework. It was a memory book. On the front page, she had coloured all of the kids with brown skin. Inside, she drew a picture of herself hugging her teacher, who is Asian American. She coloured both of them with pink skin.<\/p>\n

I found that strange, because it was the first time my kid had done that in her nearly eight years. As a child with a white father and a black mother, she is used to seeing people of different skin colours in her life. Indeed, my husband and I have made a conscious effort to make sure she could see the power in being a brown-skinned girl, because we knew that by being a Black kid living in the US<\/a> or the UK<\/a>, it was only a matter of time before she\u2019d be told \u2013 by someone in her life, or something she heard, saw or watched \u2013 that she was less valued than her white friends…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unable to shield her children from the global conversation on anti-Black racism, Christabel Nsiah-Buadi is leaning in to celebrating her kids\u2019 #BlackBoyJoy and #BlackGirlMagic. But, she writes, real change takes time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,23674,10,20],"tags":[30977,30978,25252,30976],"class_list":["post-59904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-uk","category-usa","tag-british-vogue","tag-christabel-nsiah-buadi","tag-vogue","tag-vogue-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59904","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=59904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59906,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59904\/revisions\/59906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}