{"id":26003,"date":"2012-10-15T20:13:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26003"},"modified":"2012-10-15T20:13:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:13:12","slug":"black-pride-democratic-politics-can-they-be-separated-in-blacks-support-of-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26003","title":{"rendered":"Black Pride, Democratic Politics: Can They Be Separated in Blacks&#8217; Support of Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Pride, Democratic Politics: Can They Be Separated in Blacks&#8217; Support of Obama?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<br \/>\n2012-10-13<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessewashington.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Washington<\/a><\/strong>, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity<\/p>\n<p>Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Are black people supporting Obama mainly because he&#8217;s black? If race is just one factor in blacks&#8217; support of Obama, does that make them racist? Can blacks&#8217; support for Obama be compared with white voters who may favor his Republican challenger, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitt_Romney\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a>, because he&#8217;s white?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessewashington.com\/because-hes-black-part-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Pride, Democratic Politics: Can They Be Separated in Blacks&#8217; Support of Obama? The Associated Press 2012-10-13 Jesse Washington, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to President Barack [&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":[2822,2823,8569],"class_list":["post-26003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-associated-press","tag-jesse-washington","tag-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26003","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=26003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}