{"id":32006,"date":"2013-07-01T02:34:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T02:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32006"},"modified":"2013-07-01T02:34:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T02:34:45","slug":"%e2%80%98white-house-down%e2%80%99-and-black-presidents-on-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32006","title":{"rendered":"\u2018White House Down\u2019 and Black Presidents on Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/30\/movies\/white-house-down-and-black-presidents-on-screen.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018White House Down\u2019 and Black Presidents on Screen<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2013-06-26<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mekado Murphy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At one point in the action thriller \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House_Down\" target=\"_blank\">White House Down<\/a>,\u201d which opens June 28, the president of the United States, played by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamie_Foxx\" target=\"_self\">Jamie Foxx<\/a>, is trying to thwart a paramilitary group that has overtaken the White House. After swapping his more presidential footwear for basketball shoes, he kicks a bad guy in the face and yells, \u201cGet your hands off my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_Jordan\" target=\"_blank\">Jordans<\/a>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a line many <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinema_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood<\/a> versions of the leader of the free world would utter: he (it\u2019s usually a he) is often stuffier, a little bland maybe, and most often white. \u201cWhite House Down,\u201d directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roland_Emmerich\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Emmerich<\/a>, doesn\u2019t wear the race of its president on its sleeve, but it doesn\u2019t shy away from the fact either. Before <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama\u2019s<\/a> election, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Haysbert\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Haysbert<\/a> set the standard for television presidents with his portrayal of David Palmer on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/24_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">24<\/a>.\u201d But memorable black commanders in chief have been harder to come by on the big screen. And as with their real-life counterparts, they get their way only some of the time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/30\/movies\/white-house-down-and-black-presidents-on-screen.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018White House Down\u2019 and Black Presidents on Screen The New York Times 2013-06-26 Mekado Murphy At one point in the action thriller \u201cWhite House Down,\u201d which opens June 28, the president of the United States, played by Jamie Foxx, is trying to thwart a paramilitary group that has overtaken the White House. After swapping his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,1196,8,20],"tags":[15070,15074,11892,15072,15073,11192,2640,2327,15071],"class_list":["post-32006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-chris-rock","tag-dennis-haysbert","tag-james-earl-jones","tag-jamie-foxx","tag-mekado-murphy","tag-morgan-freeman","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-tommy-lister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32006","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=32006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}