{"id":59984,"date":"2020-07-18T01:30:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T01:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59984"},"modified":"2020-07-18T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T01:30:08","slug":"but-ive-always-just-had-the-confidence-and-believed-in-who-i-am-and-ive-known-that-im-black-and-im-proud-to-be-black-and-im-proud-to-have-a-white-mom-too-im-just-proud-of-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59984","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBut I&#8217;ve always just had the confidence and believed in who I am. And I&#8217;ve known that I&#8217;m Black. And I&#8217;m proud to be Black. And I&#8217;m proud to have a white mom too. I&#8217;m just proud of who I am. And I&#8217;ve always had that confidence in myself.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In recognizing and expressing gratitude for the many opportunities he&#8217;s had, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Mahomes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Patrick] Mahomes<\/a> also tells me he&#8217;s proud of his Black heritage\u2014a subject he notices is sometimes talked about online. \u201cI&#8217;ve seen how people, on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, have tweeted and said, \u2018Oh, you&#8217;re not full Black,\u2019 \u201d he said. \u201cBut I&#8217;ve always just had the confidence and believed in who I am. And I&#8217;ve known that I&#8217;m Black. And I&#8217;m proud to be Black. And I&#8217;m proud to have a white mom too. I&#8217;m just proud of who I am. And I&#8217;ve always had that confidence in myself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clay Skipper, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Patrick Mahomes Became the Superstar the NFL Needs Right Now<\/a>,\u201d <em>GQ<\/em>, July 14, 2020 (August 2020 issue). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/patrick-mahomes-cover-profile-august-2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognizing and expressing gratitude for the many opportunities he&#8217;s had, [Patrick] Mahomes also tells me he&#8217;s proud of his Black heritage\u2014a subject he notices is sometimes talked about online. \u201cI&#8217;ve seen how people, on Twitter, have tweeted and said, \u2018Oh, you&#8217;re not full Black,\u2019 \u201d he said. \u201cBut I&#8217;ve always just had the confidence [&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":[31037,27626,30709],"class_list":["post-59984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-clay-skipper","tag-gq","tag-patrick-mahomes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59984","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=59984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59985,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59984\/revisions\/59985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}