Maria P. P. Root, PhD<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nI HAVE THE RIGHT\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
Not to justify my existence in this world.
\nNot to keep the races separate within me.
\nNot to justify my ethnic legitimacy.
\nNot to be responsible for people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s discomfort with my physical or ethnic ambiguity.<\/p>\n
I HAVE THE RIGHT\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
To identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify.
\nTo identify myself differently than how my parents identify me.
\nTo identify myself differently than my brothers and sisters.
\nTo identify myself differently in different situations.<\/p>\n
I HAVE THE RIGHT\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
To create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial or multiethnic.
\nTo change my identity over my lifetime\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand more than once.
\nTo have loyalties and identification with more than one group of people.
\nTo freely choose whom I befriend and love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This rings very true. by\u00c2\u00a0Maria P. P. Root, PhD I HAVE THE RIGHT\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Not to justify my existence in this world. Not to keep the races separate within me. Not to justify my ethnic legitimacy. Not to be responsible for people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s discomfort with my physical or ethnic ambiguity. I HAVE THE RIGHT\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 To identify myself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[205],"tags":[2787,2788,1930,2789,2785,3097,2786,367,2607],"class_list":["post-7815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism","tag-ambiguity","tag-bill-of-rights","tag-ethnicity","tag-heritage","tag-maria-p-p-root","tag-mixed-race","tag-multiethnic","tag-multiracial","tag-posted-2013"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-223","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}