{"id":62021,"date":"2021-11-02T01:49:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T01:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62021"},"modified":"2021-11-02T01:52:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T01:52:39","slug":"i-look-white-to-many-im-black-this-is-what-white-people-say-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62021","title":{"rendered":"I Look White To Many. I\u2019m Black. This Is What White People Say To Me."},"content":{"rendered":"

I Look White To Many. I\u2019m Black. This Is What White People Say To Me.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Huffington Post<\/a>
\n2021-09-10<\/p>\n

Cheryl Green Rosario<\/strong><\/a>, Guest Writer<\/p>\n

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The author is a fair-skinned Black woman who has been a fly on the wall when white people don’t know anyone of color is looking or listening. COURTESY OF CHERYL GREEN ROSARIO<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019ve been a fly on the wall<\/a> when white people didn\u2019t know anyone of color was looking or listening.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am a Black woman who for most of my life has often been mistaken for white. And I\u2019m here to tell you that for four decades white people have openly, even sometimes proudly, expressed their racism to me, usually with a wink and a smile, all while thinking I\u2019m white too.<\/p>\n

The incidents pile up, year after year \u2014 at a friend\u2019s wedding, when I met a new roommate, at the grocery store, while riding in a taxi, and during innumerable other events from daily life.<\/p>\n

As the nation begins, finally, to focus on the social injustice that takes place across this country \u2014 from the South where I grew up to the North where I\u2019ve lived for the past 22 years \u2015 I feel the collective pain. Even as a very fair-skinned Black woman with green eyes and light brown hair, I, too, have experienced racism. But I\u2019ve also been a fly on the wall when white people didn\u2019t know anyone of color was looking or listening…<\/p>\n

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

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