{"id":13750,"date":"2011-05-11T21:44:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T21:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13750"},"modified":"2011-10-27T19:35:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:35:53","slug":"birthers%e2%80%99-shameful-racist-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13750","title":{"rendered":"Birthers\u2019 shameful racist roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2011\/05\/02\/birthers_shameful_racist_roots\/?rss_id=Boston+Globe\" target=\"_blank\">Birthers\u2019 shameful racist roots<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Boston Globe<br \/>\n2011-05-02<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Carroll<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was not up to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> to label the birther movement as racist in his extraordinary address on the subject last week, but plenty of commentary has done it for him. There can be no doubt that the lurid contempt shown to the president by antagonists who question his constitutional right to hold office is rooted in white-supremacist hysteria. <strong>The issue has never been the authenticity of documentation related to Barack Obama\u2019s date and place of birth, which is why the production of birth certificates\u2014first short, then long\u2014has not stilled the controversy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The issue has been his character as\u2014well, as the <em>issue<\/em> of a Caucasian mother and an African father. <strong>An inch below the surface of this discussion is the perceived offense not just of blackness, but of <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>miscegenation<\/strong><\/a><strong>, that peculiarly demonic legacy of a slave system which took for granted the white owners\u2019 sexual exploitation of slaves, while outlawing interracial sex.<\/strong> The biological fact of Obama\u2019s existence, not the bureaucratic fact of government records, is what generates the lunatic rage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire editorial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2011\/05\/02\/birthers_shameful_racist_roots\/?rss_id=Boston+Globe\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birthers\u2019 shameful racist roots The Boston Globe 2011-05-02 James Carroll It was not up to President Obama to label the birther movement as racist in his extraordinary address on the subject last week, but plenty of commentary has done it for him. There can be no doubt that the lurid contempt shown to the president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[6302,5579],"class_list":["post-13750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-james-carroll","tag-the-boston-globe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}