{"id":258,"date":"2023-04-24T17:56:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T17:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/?p=258"},"modified":"2025-02-28T17:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:58:48","slug":"mother-son-convo-race-identity-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/mother-son-convo-race-identity-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother-Son Convo: Race & Identity, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes awkward, sometimes revealing, last November I sat down with my youngest son, Jacob, to talk about what it means to be multi-ethnic in a time when race and identity are topics that have become highly politicized and polarizing.\u00a0 Before we sat down, both of us committed to speaking honestly about our experiences and acknowledging that I consciously raised my children\u00a0 to ensure they understood what it means to be Black in America, while not believing that being Black means that they are limited or that they can’t achieve whatever it is that they want to achieve.\u00a0 <\/em>Episode 24<\/em><\/a> (<\/em>Apple<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Spotify<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Google Play<\/em><\/a>) one of two parts where we discuss these topics, which is not neat nor linear.\u00a0 It’s a behind the scenes conversation that we wanted to share with others in hope that it can prompt additional conversations about identity, racial performance, discrimination, and opportunities.\u00a0 To be honest, even as we wrapped up nearly two hours of taping, we still didn’t feel we had gotten to the full conversation. \u00a0 One conversation can’t answer it all, but it all starts with a conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes awkward, sometimes revealing, last November I sat down with my youngest son, Jacob, to talk about what it means to be multi-ethnic in a time when race and identity are topics that have become highly politicized and polarizing.\u00a0 Before we sat down, both of us committed to speaking honestly about our experiences and acknowledging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}