{"id":3021,"date":"2016-02-26T23:26:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T07:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2016-02-26T23:26:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T07:26:28","slug":"why-not-ask-a-black-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/why-not-ask-a-black-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not ask a Black person?"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Rachael Jackson\r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<pre>\r\nThe \u201cAsk a Black Person\u201d panel consisted of 6 black students ready to discuss what it is to be black in today\u2019s society. They discussed a wide array of topics including: experiences on campus, misconceptions of hair, and the Black Lives Matter movement.\r\n\r\nDue to low attendance from those students outside of the club, the panel turned more into a discussion among them and the group. \r\n\r\nOne student that came out, Rachel Danskey, junior and public policy and administration major, saw how important it is to listen and discuss race issues. She appreciated having the chance to listen to the diverse panel.\r\n\r\n\u201c[These events] are a segue for me into different perspectives,\u201d Danskey said. \u201cI see how white people have more of a voice than they do, and I think hearing it rather than just reading about in a book brought it all to reality.\u201d\r\n\r\nThelma Hale, senior and communications major, explained how the possible perceptions of her hairstyle kept her from wearing it short and natural. \r\n\u201cI really didn\u2019t want to come back here [to WOU] with my hair like that, I didn\u2019t think I would feel comfortable. But they love it here; the people here love it. They always have something good to say.\u201d\r\n\r\nContact the author at rjackson13@wou.edu or on Twitter @rachaelyjackson\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cAsk a Black Person\u201d panel consisted of 6 black students ready to discuss what it is to be black in today\u2019s society. They discussed a wide array of topics including: experiences on campus, misconceptions of hair, and the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}