{"id":63232,"date":"2022-02-24T16:35:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T16:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63232"},"modified":"2022-02-24T16:35:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T16:35:03","slug":"i-spent-a-couple-of-years-in-chicago-sort-of-running-after-every-black-person-i-could-find-saying-hey-me-too-me-too-and-they-would-look-at-my-perfectly-white-skin-blond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63232","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI spent a couple of years in Chicago sort of running after every Black person I could find saying, \u2018Hey, me too, me too,\u2019 and they would look at my perfectly white skin, blondish hair, and light brown eyes and say, \u2018Yeah right, not in this lifetime.\u2019\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Mike, the revelation left him with a sense of confusion. \u201cI had literally no idea of my own racial background,\u201d he says. \u201cI obviously had some questions. I occasionally met relatives. But a large part of the passing<\/a> meant that we did not see relatives very often. So, I really grew up in a white community acting as white with these kinds of questions. \u2026 I spent a couple of years in Chicago<\/a> sort of running after every Black person I could find saying, \u2018Hey, me too, me too,\u2019 and they would look at my perfectly white skin, blondish hair, and light brown eyes and say, \u2018Yeah right, not in this lifetime.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Harvey Long and Ethelene Whitmire, \u201cRunning from Race<\/a>,\u201d On Wisconsin<\/em>, March 1, 2021. https:\/\/onwisconsin.uwalumni.com\/features\/running-from-race\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Mike, the revelation left him with a sense of confusion. \u201cI had literally no idea of my own racial background,\u201d he says. \u201cI obviously had some questions. I occasionally met relatives. But a large part of the passing meant that we did not see relatives very often. So, I really grew up in a […]<\/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":[33131,14753,33109,33133,33111],"class_list":["post-63232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-cyrus-mike-michael-walker","tag-ethelene-whitmire","tag-harvey-long","tag-mike-walker","tag-on-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63232","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=63232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63233,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63232\/revisions\/63233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}