{"id":62102,"date":"2021-11-04T20:32:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T20:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62102"},"modified":"2021-11-05T16:09:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T16:09:42","slug":"the-ghost-of-hendrix-and-fans-who-think-im-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62102","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost of Hendrix, and Fans Who Think I’m White"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ghost of Hendrix, and Fans Who Think I’m White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2021-11-03<\/p>\n

Tom Morello<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Mr. Morello has spent over three decades melding music and political activism as a power guitarist<\/a> with Rage Against the Machine<\/a>, Audioslave<\/a> and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band<\/a>, with the acoustic chords of the Nightwatchman<\/a> and in protests around the country.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1965, I literally integrated the town of Libertyville, Ill.<\/a>, at least according to the real estate agent who helped my mom and me find our first apartment.<\/p>\n

My Irish-Italian mom had excellent teaching credentials, but the school boards in Northern Illinois<\/a> made clear that while as a single mother she was welcome to teach in their town, we would have to live elsewhere because we were an interracial family.<\/p>\n

I was the interracial part, as my dad is from Kenya<\/a>. Libertyville, however, was willing to give my mom a shot, with the caveat that the residents of the apartment complex across the street from the school approved. Our helpful real estate agent assured the neighbors that this was no ordinary 1-year-old \u201cNegro\u201d child entering their building, but rather an exotic East African princeling. This false tale haunted me throughout my youth, but it gave my mom and me a toehold among the locals…<\/p>\n

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

Mr. Morello has spent over three decades melding music and political activism as a power guitarist with Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, with the acoustic chords of the Nightwatchman and in protests around the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,395,8,6462,20],"tags":[5488,20803,32291,1392,2640,2327,32290],"class_list":["post-62102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-illinois","tag-jimi-hendrix","tag-libertyville","tag-music","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-tom-morello"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62102","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=62102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62105,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62102\/revisions\/62105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}