{"id":60952,"date":"2021-06-21T01:17:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T01:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60952"},"modified":"2021-06-21T01:33:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T01:33:54","slug":"loving-a-black-person-isnt-the-same-as-fighting-for-black-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60952","title":{"rendered":"Loving a Black person isn\u2019t the same as fighting for Black lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Loving a Black person isn\u2019t the same as fighting for Black lives<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Mic<\/a>
\n2020-06-12<\/p>\n

Kim Kelly<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

My boyfriend and I have a game we play whenever we\u2019re out in public. Whenever one of us spots another interracial couple passing by, we\u2019ll give the other a little nudge and whisper, \u201cLook, an us<\/em>!\u201d Sometimes it\u2019s an older us; sometimes it\u2019s a more stylish version, or a queer version, or a rebellious teen version. Every time, though, we share a smile, because it\u2019s nice to be reminded that we aren\u2019t alone. While interracial couples now make up more than 10 percent<\/a> of all new marriages in the U.S.<\/a>, partnerships like ours are still uncommon enough \u2014 or taboo enough \u2014 to garner stares when we\u2019re out in public. I\u2019ve noticed that police tend to stare the hardest, and whenever I catch them looking, my stomach drops.<\/p>\n

As a white cisgender<\/a> woman from a rural community, my early interactions with police barely left an impression. My boyfriend, on the other hand, vividly remembers each time he was stopped and frisked on his way home from his South Brooklyn<\/a> high school, and all the times he\u2019s been arrested just because he happened to be Black in public. They see him as a threat<\/a>, and me as a potential victim. I may be safe around them, but he isn\u2019t, and even my whiteness can only offer so much protection…<\/p>\n

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

There is this prevailing notion among some white people that having a close relationship with a Black person means that you cannot possibly be racist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,23674,20],"tags":[31523],"class_list":["post-60952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-kim-kelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60952","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=60952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60958,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60952\/revisions\/60958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}