{"id":26391,"date":"2012-11-09T03:41:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T03:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26391"},"modified":"2012-11-09T03:41:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T03:41:49","slug":"for-many-blacks-obama%e2%80%99s-reelection-cements-his-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26391","title":{"rendered":"For many blacks, Obama\u2019s reelection cements his legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many blacks, Obama\u2019s reelection cements his legacy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2012-11-07<\/p>\n

Wil Haygood<\/strong> and DeNeen Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Obama\u2019s<\/a> reelection \u2014 in a ferocious campaign dotted by charges of racial anger and minority-voter suppression \u2014 has provided what many blacks say will surely deepen his legacy: irrefutable evidence that his presidency is hardly a historical fluke as he has now won two national campaigns with overwhelming white support.<\/p>\n

Obama, the nation\u2019s first black president, was already soaked in history, a figure seen in the aftermath of his 2008 victory as the culmination of a decades-long civil rights crusade that suffered the assassination of beloved figures who fought and marched for the right to vote and freely pursue the American dream.<\/p>\n

But Obama\u2019s first term as president also saw him pelted with racially charged denunciations \u2014 some from politicians \u2014 that reopened festering wounds and even fears in the African American community for his safety. At times it felt as if the W.E.B. Du Bois<\/a> prophecy \u2014 the problem of the 20th century would be the color line, he famously opined \u2014 had leapt right into the 21st century…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many blacks, Obama\u2019s reelection cements his legacy The Washington Post 2012-11-07 Wil Haygood and DeNeen Brown President Obama\u2019s reelection \u2014 in a ferocious campaign dotted by charges of racial anger and minority-voter suppression \u2014 has provided what many blacks say will surely deepen his legacy: irrefutable evidence that his presidency is hardly a historical […]<\/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":[4203,2875,2581,12672],"class_list":["post-26391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-deneen-brown","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post","tag-wil-haygood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26391","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=26391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}