{"id":26691,"date":"2012-11-26T01:41:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T01:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26691"},"modified":"2012-11-26T01:41:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T01:41:17","slug":"but-in-this-racialized-society-he-is-seen-as-a-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26691","title":{"rendered":"but in this racialized society he is seen as a black man."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Everyone seems to be negating <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> own story. The man himself has said publicly in print that, yes, his mother is white; yes, he is technically bi-racial, mixed race, whatever the language is people choose to use, but in this racialized society he is seen as a black man. And for that reason he identifies as black.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/yabablay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yaba Blay<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Patrice Peck, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26553\" target=\"_blank\">Biracial versus black: Thought leaders weigh in on the meaning of President Obama\u2019s biracial heritage<\/a>,\u201d <em>TheGrio<\/em>, November 19, 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2012\/11\/19\/bi-racial-versus-black-thought-leaders-weigh-in-on-the-meaning-of-president-obamas-bi-racial-heritage\/#s:president-obama-4\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2012\/11\/19\/bi-racial-versus-black-thought-leaders-weigh-in-on-the-meaning-of-president-obamas-bi-racial-heritage\/#s:president-obama-4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to be negating President Barack Obama\u2019s own story. The man himself has said publicly in print that, yes, his mother is white; yes, he is technically bi-racial, mixed race, whatever the language is people choose to use, but in this racialized society he is seen as a black man. And for that reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,3],"tags":[12770,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-26691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-excerpts","tag-patrice-peck","tag-yaba-a-blay","tag-yaba-amgborale-blay","tag-yaba-blay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26691","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=26691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}