{"id":25925,"date":"2012-10-11T01:34:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T01:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25925"},"modified":"2012-10-11T01:34:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T01:34:18","slug":"don%e2%80%99t-be-too-black-mr-president-the-racial-effect-of-president-obama%e2%80%99s-performance-in-the-2012-presidential-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25925","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Be Too Black, Mr. President: The Racial Effect of President Obama\u2019s Performance in the 2012 Presidential Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darronsmith.com\/2012\/10\/dont-be-too-black-mr-president-the-racial-effect-of-president-obamas-performance-in-the-2012-presidential-debates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Don\u2019t Be Too Black, Mr. President: The Racial Effect of President Obama\u2019s Performance in the 2012 Presidential Debates<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darronsmith.com\" target=\"_blank\">Darron Smith<\/a><br \/>\n2012-10-05<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darronsmith.com\" target=\"_blank\">Darron T. Smith<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Physician Assistant<br \/>\n<em>Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be Black in America? Many Americans caught a glimpse of it on national television during the first of three presidential debates. The President looked disinterested, annoyed, preoccupied, not on his \u201cA\u201d game as some analyst remarked. Other pundits suggested that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">POTUS<\/a> appeared tired looking and too nice. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a> supporters and those tough independent voters wanted more.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, it\u2019s been four years since the man has had a debate-he\u2019s rusty. But amidst the fight of his political career, few have considered the enormous psychological cost of being black that the President must feel each and every time he\u2019s on the stage. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> is not just another president in the long history of white presidents we\u2019ve had in this country. <strong>He\u2019s the first black president, and with that comes additionally burdens that only blacks and other stigmatized minority groups can truly appreciate.<\/strong> His overall likeability ratings are indicative of his daily performance of hyper-politeness, which is what black folk must do when working in predominately white settings. It\u2019s in black Americans\u2019 best interest to keep white folks happy and content as to not upset the racial applecart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darronsmith.com\/2012\/10\/dont-be-too-black-mr-president-the-racial-effect-of-president-obamas-performance-in-the-2012-presidential-debates\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t Be Too Black, Mr. President: The Racial Effect of President Obama\u2019s Performance in the 2012 Presidential Debates Darron Smith 2012-10-05 Darron T. Smith, Assistant Professor, Physician Assistant Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas What does it mean to be Black in America? Many Americans caught a glimpse of it on national television during the first [&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":[12404,12405,12406],"class_list":["post-25925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-darron-smith","tag-darron-t-smith","tag-mitt-r"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25925","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=25925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}