{"id":62240,"date":"2021-11-13T21:09:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T21:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62240"},"modified":"2021-11-13T21:09:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T21:09:15","slug":"i-find-it-offensive-its-a-way-for-people-to-separate-themselves-from-african-americans-a-way-of-saying-im-better-than-that-im-black-because-thats-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62240","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI find it offensive. It&#8217;s a way for people to separate themselves from African-Americans&#8230;a way of saying \u2018I\u2019m better than that.\u2019 I\u2019m black because that&#8217;s the way the world sees me.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Paula [Patton] knows what it\u2019s like to be misunderstood. Growing up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A.<\/a>, the daughter of a white teacher and an African-American defense attorney, it wasn\u2019t easy to fit in. \u201cPeople judged me because I was light-skinned. [They\u2019d assume] I didn\u2019t want to be part of the black race,\u201d she says. In fact, Paula, who has been referred to as biracial, says it\u2019s a word she doesn&#8217;t care for. \u201cI find it offensive. It&#8217;s a way for people to separate themselves from African-Americans&#8230;a way of saying \u2018I\u2019m better than that.\u2019 I\u2019m black because that&#8217;s the way the world sees me. People aren\u2019t calling <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a> biracial. Most people think there\u2019s a black president.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rory Evans, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paula Patton\u2019s Precious Moments<\/a>,\u201d <em>Women\u2019s Health<\/em>, January 27, 2010. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenshealthmag.com\/health\/a19985167\/precious-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.womenshealthmag.com\/health\/a19985167\/precious-movie\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula [Patton] knows what it\u2019s like to be misunderstood. Growing up in L.A., the daughter of a white teacher and an African-American defense attorney, it wasn\u2019t easy to fit in. \u201cPeople judged me because I was light-skinned. [They\u2019d assume] I didn\u2019t want to be part of the black race,\u201d she says. In fact, Paula, who [&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":[32301,32300,32375],"class_list":["post-62240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-paula-patton","tag-rory-evans","tag-womens-health-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62240","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=62240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62241,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62240\/revisions\/62241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}