{"id":20715,"date":"2012-02-17T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20715"},"modified":"2012-02-17T02:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T02:00:27","slug":"obama-has-shattered-americas-racial-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20715","title":{"rendered":"Obama Has Shattered America&#8217;s Racial Ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2012\/feb\/12\/tp-obama-has-shattered-americas-racial-ceiling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Has Shattered America&#8217;s Racial Ceiling<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><br \/>\n2012-02-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdccd.edu\/public\/administration\/carroll.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Constance M. Carroll<\/a><\/strong>, Chancellor<br \/>\n<em>San Diego Community College District<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If he could visit 21st-century America, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\" target=\"_blank\">Alexis de Tocqueville<\/a> would be amazed to find <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>, an African-American, as president of the United States. However, he would not be surprised to find that, despite this powerful symbolism of progress, race is still a divisive force in the country.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollowing his tour of this young nation in the 19th century, Tocqueville, a French historian and political activist, published \u201cDemocracy in America\u201d in 1835. In this book, he described slavery as \u201cthe most formidable evil threatening the future of the United States.\u201d Aware of the growing impetus to abolish this practice, Tocqueville noted, \u201cI see that slavery is in retreat, but the prejudice from which it arose is immovable.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n173 years later, Americans elected an African American to hold the highest office in the nation. During election eve on Nov. 4, 2008, many wept, shared their enthusiasm with friends and family across the country, and actually believed that this was it: the end of racial strife in America. Given the nation\u2019s difficult journey from slavery and its abolition, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow laws<\/a> and their dissolution, from segregation and its demise, to the continuing civil rights struggle to eliminate the vestiges of this dark history, Barack Obama\u2019s election was heralded by many as the start of a new era of equality and racial peace&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2012\/feb\/12\/tp-obama-has-shattered-americas-racial-ceiling\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Has Shattered America&#8217;s Racial Ceiling San Diego Union-Tribune 2012-02-12 Constance M. Carroll, Chancellor San Diego Community College District If he could visit 21st-century America, Alexis de Tocqueville would be amazed to find Barack Obama, an African-American, as president of the United States. However, he would not be surprised to find that, despite this powerful [&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":[9701,9700,8986],"class_list":["post-20715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-constance-carroll","tag-constance-m-carroll","tag-san-diego-union-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20715","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=20715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}