{"id":63105,"date":"2022-02-15T21:53:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63105"},"modified":"2022-02-15T21:53:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:53:38","slug":"no-matter-how-white-i-look-on-the-inside-i-feel-black-there-are-many-whites-who-are-mixed-blood-but-still-go-by-white-why-such-a-big-deal-if-i-go-as-negro-because-people-cant-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63105","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNo matter how white I look, on the inside I feel black. There are many whites who are mixed blood, but still go by white, why such a big deal if I go as Negro, because people can\u2019t believe that I am proud to be a Negro and not white.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI am an American citizen and by God, we all have inalienable rights and wherever those rights are tampered with, there is nothing left to do but fight\u2026and I fight. How many people do you think there are in this country who do not have mixed blood, there\u2019s very few if any, what makes us who we are, are our culture and experience. No matter how white I look, on the inside I feel black. There are many whites who are mixed blood, but still go by white, why such a big deal if I go as Negro, because people can\u2019t believe that I am proud to be a Negro and not white. To prove I don\u2019t buy white superiority I chose to be a Negro.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fredi_Washington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fredi Washington<\/a>, (1945)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am an American citizen and by God, we all have inalienable rights and wherever those rights are tampered with, there is nothing left to do but fight\u2026and I fight. How many people do you think there are in this country who do not have mixed blood, there\u2019s very few if any, what makes us [&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":[27925,9754],"class_list":["post-63105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-fredericka-carolyn-washington","tag-fredi-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63105","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=63105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63106,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63105\/revisions\/63106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}