{"id":25341,"date":"2012-09-14T04:52:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T04:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25341"},"modified":"2012-09-14T04:53:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T04:53:51","slug":"obama-talks-race-calls-himself-a-%e2%80%98mixed-kid-from-hawaii%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25341","title":{"rendered":"Obama Talks Race, Calls Himself a \u2018Mixed Kid From Hawaii\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\/archives\/2012\/09\/obama_talks_race_calls_himself_a_mixed_kid_from_hawaii.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Talks Race, Calls Himself a \u2018Mixed Kid From Hawaii\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\" target=\"_blank\">ColorLines: News for Action<\/a><br \/>\n2012-09-13<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\/archives\/author\/jorge-rivas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Rivas<\/a><\/strong>, Multimedia Editor \/ Pop Culture Blogger<br \/>\n<em>Los Angeles, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lately it\u2019s been a rare occurrence when <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> talks race but at a campaign stop in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colorado\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado<\/a> Wednesday he mentioned it and even identified himself as mixed-raced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation was a gateway for opportunity for me, let\u2019s face it, as a mixed kid from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawaii\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaii<\/a> born to a single-mom, it\u2019s not likely to become President of the United States,\u201d Obama told supporters at a campaign stop <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden,_Colorado\" target=\"_blank\">Golden, CO<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\/archives\/2012\/09\/obama_talks_race_calls_himself_a_mixed_kid_from_hawaii.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Talks Race, Calls Himself a \u2018Mixed Kid From Hawaii\u2019 ColorLines: News for Action 2012-09-13 Jorge Rivas, Multimedia Editor \/ Pop Culture Blogger Los Angeles, California Lately it\u2019s been a rare occurrence when President Obama talks race but at a campaign stop in Colorado Wednesday he mentioned it and even identified himself as mixed-raced. \u201cEducation [&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":[3922,11801,11841],"class_list":["post-25341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-colorlines","tag-colorlines-news-for-action","tag-jorge-rivas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25341","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=25341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}