{"id":59964,"date":"2020-07-17T15:39:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59964"},"modified":"2020-07-17T15:39:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:39:12","slug":"its-not-your-mixed-race-friends-responsibility-to-coach-you-through-the-black-lives-matter-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59964","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not your mixed race friends\u2019 responsibility to coach you through the Black Lives Matter movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2020\/06\/15\/not-mixed-race-friends-responsibility-coach-current-movement-12847525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>It\u2019s not your mixed race friends\u2019 responsibility to coach you through the Black Lives Matter movement<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MetroUK<\/a><br \/>\n2020-06-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mirandalarbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Miranda Larbi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2020\/06\/15\/not-mixed-race-friends-responsibility-coach-current-movement-12847525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Its-not-your-mixed-race-friends-responsibility-to-coach-you-through-the-current-movement-de28.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;zoom=1&amp;resize=644%2C483&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>It\u2019s not our job to help you through this awakening <em>(Picture: Ella Byworth for Metro.co.uk)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>These past few weeks have been hard for everyone linked to the black community.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On top of the collective trauma that comes from the murder of yet another black man, it\u2019s as if the whole world has suddenly woken up to the realities of racism.<\/p>\n<p>This white awakening has had a real emotional impact on many ethnic minorities. After all, imagine having to deal with racism on a near-daily basis for generations only for you to be believed now. But the unexpected result of all this \u2013 for me at least \u2013 has been the almighty load put on me by my white friends.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who are black and white (and no doubt, other mixes too) seem to have become tools to enlighten, comfort and placate white angst&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2020\/06\/15\/not-mixed-race-friends-responsibility-coach-current-movement-12847525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who are black and white (and no doubt, other mixes too) seem to have become tools to enlighten, comfort and placate white angst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,23674,10,20],"tags":[28161,28160],"class_list":["post-59964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-uk","category-usa","tag-metrouk","tag-miranda-larbi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59964","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=59964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59966,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59964\/revisions\/59966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}