{"id":2107,"date":"2014-11-01T14:20:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T14:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoboctn.com\/2014\/11\/01\/i-asked-her-if-i-was-black-or-white-she-replied\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:09:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:09:02","slug":"i-asked-her-if-i-was-black-or-white-she-replied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/?p=2107","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I asked her if I was black or white. She replied &ldquo;You are a human being. Educate yourself or you&rsquo;ll be a nobody!<br \/>\n\u0e1c\u0e21\u0e16\u0e32\u0e21\u0e40\u0e18\u0e2d\u0e27\u0e48\u0e32 \u0e16\u0e49\u0e32\u0e1c\u0e21\u0e02\u0e32\u0e27\u0e2b\u0e23\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e1c\u0e34\u0e27\u0e2a\u0e35\u0e2b\u0e25\u0e48\u0e30 \u0e40\u0e18\u0e2d\u0e15\u0e2d\u0e1a\u0e27\u0e48\u0e32 &quot;\u0e40\u0e18\u0e2d\u0e21\u0e31\u0e19\u0e01\u0e47\u0e21\u0e19\u0e38\u0e29\u0e22\u0e4c\u0e04\u0e19\u0e2b\u0e19\u0e36\u0e48\u0e07 \u0e08\u0e07\u0e40\u0e23\u0e37\u0e22\u0e19\u0e23\u0e39\u0e49\u0e21\u0e34\u0e40\u0e0a\u0e48\u0e19\u0e19\u0e31\u0e49\u0e19\u0e01\u0e47\u0e08\u0e30\u0e44\u0e21\u0e48\u0e21\u0e35\u0e15\u0e31\u0e27\u0e15\u0e19&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man&rsquo;s Tribute to His White Mother<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked her if I was black or white. She replied &ldquo;You are a human being. Educate yourself or you&rsquo;ll be a nobody! \u0e1c\u0e21\u0e16\u0e32\u0e21\u0e40\u0e18\u0e2d\u0e27\u0e48\u0e32 \u0e16\u0e49\u0e32\u0e1c\u0e21\u0e02\u0e32\u0e27\u0e2b\u0e23\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e1c\u0e34\u0e27\u0e2a\u0e35\u0e2b\u0e25\u0e48\u0e30 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9493,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/9493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}