{"id":28690,"date":"2013-02-11T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28690"},"modified":"2013-02-11T05:40:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T05:40:15","slug":"could-harlem-desir-frances-first-black-socialist-party-chief-become-the-next-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28690","title":{"rendered":"Could Harlem D\u00e9sir, France&#8217;s First Black Socialist Party Chief, Become The Next Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/could-harlem-desir-frances-first-black-socialist-party-chief-become-next-obama-854993\" target=\"_blank\">Could Harlem D\u00e9sir, France&#8217;s First Black Socialist Party Chief, Become The Next Obama?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Business Times<\/a><br \/>\n2012-10-26<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/reporters\/jacey-fortin\" target=\"_blank\">Jacey Fortin<\/a><\/strong>, World Politics Reporter<\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, a black politician will take the reins of a major political party in France. If all goes well for him, 2022 in France could look a lot like 2008 in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_D%C3%A9sir\" target=\"_blank\">Harlem D\u00e9sir<\/a>, 52, has been serving as the interim Socialist Party head since last year. So it was no surprise he was voted in as the official chief of the bloc that currently controls the parliament and the presidency under Francois Hollande during a party congress in the city of Toulouse on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts immediately began comparing the French politician to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. President Barack Obama<\/a>, who broke down racial barriers to win an election for the most powerful political position in the U.S. in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>But D\u00e9sir is a long way from the presidential post. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fran%C3%A7ois_Hollande\" target=\"_blank\">Hollande<\/a> is likely to run on the Socialist ticket in 2017 &#8212; and even the next Socialist presidential candidate, in 2022, won\u2019t necessarily be D\u00e9sir.<\/p>\n<p>But he certainly has a fair shot, and that in itself is reason to keep a close eye on this ambitious politician.<\/p>\n<p>Like Obama, D\u00e9sir has a white mother and a black father. He has a bookish demeanor, although he once campaigned vocally against racial prejudices in France&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/could-harlem-desir-frances-first-black-socialist-party-chief-become-next-obama-854993\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could Harlem D\u00e9sir, France&#8217;s First Black Socialist Party Chief, Become The Next Obama? International Business Times 2012-10-26 Jacey Fortin, World Politics Reporter For the first time ever, a black politician will take the reins of a major political party in France. If all goes well for him, 2022 in France could look a lot like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,28,8,26],"tags":[96,12218,12664,13609],"class_list":["post-28690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-france","tag-harlem-desir","tag-international-business-times","tag-jacey-fortin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28690","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=28690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}