{"id":16254,"date":"2011-09-14T03:10:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T03:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16254"},"modified":"2011-10-27T19:35:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:35:48","slug":"he%e2%80%99s-all-and-none%e2%80%94but-let%e2%80%99s-give-it-a-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16254","title":{"rendered":"He\u2019s All and None\u2014But Let\u2019s Give It a Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I say let him [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>] do his best to run the country, like any President, and the rest of us can do him a favor by not constantly debating how black he is or isn\u2019t. Enough already. He\u2019s the President, for Christ\u2019s sake. Let him do his job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>David A. Hollinger, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=16231\" target=\"_blank\">Chats: Is Obama Black, Bi-racial, or Post-racial?<\/a>\u201d <em>Z\u00f3calo Public Square<\/em>, September 7, 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/zocalopublicsquare.org\/thepublicsquare\/2011\/09\/07\/is-obama-black-bi-racial-or-post-racial\/read\/chats\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/zocalopublicsquare.org\/thepublicsquare\/2011\/09\/07\/is-obama-black-bi-racial-or-post-racial\/read\/chats\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I say let him [Barack Obama] do his best to run the country, like any President, and the rest of us can do him a favor by not constantly debating how black he is or isn\u2019t. Enough already. He\u2019s the President, for Christ\u2019s sake. Let him do his job. David A. Hollinger, \u201cChats: Is Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,3],"tags":[112,166],"class_list":["post-16254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-excerpts","tag-david-a-hollinger","tag-david-hollinger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16254","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=16254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}