{"id":63885,"date":"2022-05-20T15:53:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63885"},"modified":"2022-05-20T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:54:09","slug":"the-privilege-of-racial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63885","title":{"rendered":"The Privilege of Racial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectatornews.com\/opinion\/2022\/04\/the-privilege-of-racial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Privilege of Racial Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectatornews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Spectator: The University of Wisconsin-Eau-Claire&#8217;s Student Newspaper Since 1923<\/a><br \/>\n2022-04-28<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Jacksonk5351@uwec.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kiara Jackson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectatornews.com\/opinion\/2022\/04\/the-privilege-of-racial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 75%; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spectatornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/photo-1556484687-30636164638b.webp\" \/><\/a><figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small; width: 75%; display: block;\">I can\u2019t, nor will I ever speak for all mixed-race people, because every story is different. Every story has its own challenges. But, I can try to speak for myself.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Mixed people do not owe anyone an explanation for their Blackness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No one gets to decide their race. But most people get the privilege to say \u201cI\u2019m Black,\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Native_Hawaiians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Native Hawaiian<\/a>.\u201d They get the privilege of knowing exactly where they come from, exactly what to tell people when asked and exactly what bubble to fill in on standardized tests.<\/p>\n<p>They get the privilege of racial identity.<\/p>\n<p>Being mixed, you don\u2019t get this same privilege. I can\u2019t, nor will I ever speak for all mixed-race people, because every story is different. Every story has its own challenges. But, I can try to speak for myself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectatornews.com\/opinion\/2022\/04\/the-privilege-of-racial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed people do not owe anyone an explanation for their Blackness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,20],"tags":[33546,33545,33544,4720],"class_list":["post-63885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-kiara-jackson","tag-the-spectator-2","tag-the-spectator-the-university-of-wisconsin-eau-claires-student-newspaper-since-1923","tag-university-of-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63885","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=63885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63887,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63885\/revisions\/63887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}