{"id":20635,"date":"2012-02-14T04:54:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T04:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20635"},"modified":"2016-06-08T23:08:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T23:08:16","slug":"the-connection-between-barack-obama-and-peggy-loving-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20635","title":{"rendered":"The Connection Between Barack Obama and Peggy Loving Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I find it quite ironic\u2014and perhaps a bit amusing\u2014that after all of the debate surrounding multiracial identity\u00a0and the United States\u00a0Census, the most famous son of an interracial couple and the daughter of the most famous interracial couple, checked <em>only one<\/em> racial identity on their census form. \u00a0It would appear that the heralding of an era of <em>multiraciality<\/em> via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\">Loving v. Virginia<\/a><\/em> and an\u00a0era of <em>post-raciality<\/em> via the election of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> leaves much to ponder.\u00a0 The truth is that our rose-colored view of a landmark court case and a landmark election tends to obscure the fact that America has been multiracial since its inception.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:steven@stevenriley.com\" target=\"_blank\">Steven F. Riley<\/a>. Commenting (02\/13\/2012)\u00a0on the singular racial census choice of President Barack Obama and Peggy Loving Fortune (daughter of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mildred_and_Richard_Loving\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Mildred Loving<\/a>) in Carol Morello\u2019s article \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=20580\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia\u2019s Caroline County, \u2018Symbolic of Main Street USA\u2019<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, February 10, 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginias-caroline-county-symbolic-of-main-street-usa\/2012\/01\/26\/gIQAKH0z2Q_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginias-caroline-county-symbolic-of-main-street-usa\/2012\/01\/26\/gIQAKH0z2Q_story.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it quite ironic\u2014and perhaps a bit amusing\u2014that after all of the debate surrounding multiracial identity\u00a0and the United States\u00a0Census, the most famous son of an interracial couple and the daughter of the most famous interracial couple, checked only one racial identity on their census form. \u00a0It would appear that the heralding of an era [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9139],"tags":[9613,70,9544],"class_list":["post-20635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","category-pov","tag-carol-morello","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-peggy-loving-fortune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20635","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=20635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47446,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20635\/revisions\/47446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}