{"id":60533,"date":"2021-02-09T18:29:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T18:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60533"},"modified":"2021-02-09T18:29:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T18:29:49","slug":"some-fans-wrote-and-said-that-they-did-not-understand-the-fact-of-me-being-interviewed-by-a-publication-directed-toward-blacks-i-repeat-im-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60533","title":{"rendered":"Some fans wrote and said that they did not understand the fact of me being interviewed by a publication directed toward blacks. I repeat: I\u2019m black."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It may be strange, but sometimes I\u2019m embarrassed for not having remarkable stories of racism in my life. As much as I insist on reaffirming my black roots, people always think the opposite. It\u2019s very uncomfortable and it is as terrible as the most pure prejudice. From the moment I became known to the general public, the situation became even more evident. I\u2019m used to being stopped in the streets by people who find it strange the fact that my skin is light, my features are aquiline and my hair straight. They ask why I insist on saying that I am black being \u201cso cute\u201d. It\u2019s absurd. It\u2019s as violent as if I was barred from a restaurant or a hotel because of my color. I am very like my mother, the former model <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0542338\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vera L\u00facia Manh\u00e3es<\/a>, who has my color. My father, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ant%C3%B4nio_Pitanga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ant\u00f4nio Pitanga<\/a>, is black. There were times when I was very saddened by this attitude, but today I face this more naturally. I don\u2019t care, for example, the comments that I heard after being on cover of <em>Ra\u00e7a Brasil<\/em> (magazine). Some fans wrote and said that they did not understand the fact of me being interviewed by a publication directed toward blacks. I repeat: <em>I\u2019m black<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Marques Travae, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camila Pitanga on people questioning her blackness: &#8220;It\u2019s as violent as if I was barred from a restaurant or a hotel because of my color.\u201d<\/a>,\u201d <em>Black Brazil Today<\/em>, February 11, 2012. <a href=\"https:\/\/blackbraziltoday.com\/camila-pitanga-on-people-questioning-her-blackness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/blackbraziltoday.com\/camila-pitanga-on-people-questioning-her-blackness\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be strange, but sometimes I\u2019m embarrassed for not having remarkable stories of racism in my life. As much as I insist on reaffirming my black roots, people always think the opposite. It\u2019s very uncomfortable and it is as terrible as the most pure prejudice. From the moment I became known to the general [&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":[31285,31283,31284,31266,29148],"class_list":["post-60533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-antonio-pitanga","tag-black-brazil-today","tag-camila-manhaes-sampaio","tag-camila-pitanga","tag-marques-travae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60533","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=60533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60534,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60533\/revisions\/60534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}