{"id":30836,"date":"2013-05-06T15:28:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T15:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30836"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:04:23","slug":"so-why-are-we-so-loyal-to-a-president-who-is-not-loyal-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30836","title":{"rendered":"So, why are we so loyal to a president who is not loyal to us?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, why are we so loyal to a president who is not loyal to us?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2013-05-05<\/p>\n

Gary Younge<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Feature Writer and Columnist<\/p>\n

Kevin Johnson was pilloried for suggesting Obama has not been good for African Americans. But his question was a good one<\/em><\/p>\n

Back when affirmative action was white, educational institutions were created for African Americans<\/a> who were barred from admission elsewhere. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) became the breeding grounds for the “talented tenth<\/a>” \u2013 the elite class groomed to lead black America. Towards the end of the last century HBCUs had produced 75% of black PhDs, 85% of black doctors and 80% of black federal judges. Among the most prestigious was Morehouse, in Atlanta<\/a>, which counts Martin Luther King, Samuel Jackson and Spike Lee among its alumni.<\/p>\n

Later this month, Barack Obama<\/a> will deliver the keynote address at Morehouse’s graduation ceremony. Another invited speaker was Morehouse alumnus Kevin Johnson, a prominent Philadelphia pastor. Then Johnson, an ardent Obama supporter during both presidential runs, wrote an article criticising the president for failing to appoint enough black cabinet members<\/a> and to address the needs of African Americans in general. “Obama has not moved African-American leadership forward but backwards,” he wrote. “We are not in the driver’s seat \u2013 or even in the car \u2026 Why are we so loyal to a president who is not loyal to us?”<\/p>\n

Shortly afterwards his speaker’s slot was removed<\/a>. Instead of addressing the students alone, the day before Obama, he will now be one of a three-person panel curated “to reflect a broader and more inclusive range of viewpoints”…<\/p>\n

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

So, why are we so loyal to a president who is not loyal to us? The Guardian 2013-05-05 Gary Younge, Feature Writer and Columnist Kevin Johnson was pilloried for suggesting Obama has not been good for African Americans. But his question was a good one Back when affirmative action was white, educational institutions were created […]<\/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":[3155,7873,2103],"class_list":["post-30836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-gary-younge","tag-kevin-johnson","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30836","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=30836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51669,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30836\/revisions\/51669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}