{"id":64390,"date":"2024-08-04T20:44:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T20:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64390"},"modified":"2024-08-04T20:45:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T20:45:36","slug":"on-turning-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64390","title":{"rendered":"On Turning Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Turning Black<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2024-08-01<\/p>\n

Esau McCaulley<\/strong><\/a>, Contributing Opinion Writer<\/p>\n

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Illustration by The New York Times<\/em>; Photo: Erin Schaff\/The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During his interview before the National Association of Black Journalists this week, Donald Trump<\/a> was asked if he would call upon his fellow Republicans to refrain from labeling Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a> a \u201cD.E.I. candidate\u201d for the presidency<\/a>. Rather than condemn his party\u2019s increasingly troubling language on the topic, Mr. Trump took the opportunity to question Ms. Harris\u2019s racial identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know she was Black, until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don\u2019t know, is she Indian or is she Black? I respect either one, but she obviously doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is all clearly untrue. Ms. Harris graduated from Howard University<\/a>, a historically Black university, and she is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha<\/a>, a historically Black sorority. Her biographies and self-descriptions<\/a> throughout her career have cited both her Black and Indian identities.<\/p>\n

My wife is white, so we have multiracial children. Depending on the context, they can refer to themselves as Black or multiracial. When my children describe themselves using the latter term, they are acknowledging that their mother is a part of their story as well. Does Mr. Trump really expect interracial people to deny half of their families?…<\/p>\n

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

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