{"id":32616,"date":"2013-07-29T02:46:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T02:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32616"},"modified":"2013-07-29T02:46:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T02:46:18","slug":"trayvon-martin-could-have-been-me-a-watershed-moment-for-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32616","title":{"rendered":"Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me: A Watershed Moment for the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/21\/trayvon-martin-could-have-been-me-a-watershed-moment-for-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me: A Watershed Moment for the U.S.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Racism Review<\/a><br \/>\n2013-07-21<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociweb.tamu.edu\/faculty\/feagin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Feagin<\/a><\/strong>, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Texas A &amp; M University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/07\/19\/president-obama-trayvon-martin-could-have-been-me\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama\u2019s poignant comments <\/a>on the white-racist discrimination that Black men regularly face were pathbreaking for this country. First, in the history of the U.S. never has such a high government official so forthrightly called out key elements of white racism and condemned persisting patterns of racial harassment and profiling of Black boys and men.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u2019s<\/a> commentary, together with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=88478467\" target=\"_blank\">speech during the 2008 election<\/a>, mark the first time that whites and many other nonblack Americans have heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/White-Racial-Frame-Centuries-Counter-Framing\/dp\/0415635225\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1374436196&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=white+racial+frame\" target=\"_blank\">important elements of the Black counter-frame <\/a>to the centuries-old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/20\/the-white-racial-frame-a-reprise\" target=\"_blank\">white racial framing <\/a>of this society\u2014at least not from such a \u201cbully pulpit,\u201d as Teddy Roosevelt put it.<\/p>\n<p>One cannot imagine any white president saying, or being able to say, what Obama has said in his two explicit commentaries on U.S. racism. He certainly did not say enough about this racism, but his commentaries so far have been pathbreaking, especially for a white population much of which is in terminal denial of that racism.<\/p>\n<p>Obama assessed the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin\" target=\"_blank\">killing of Trayvon Martin<\/a> from a Black perspective, one rarely taken seriously by most white Americans. Now, for a time, it has to be taken seriously and provides the basis to expand on his analysis later on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/21\/trayvon-martin-could-have-been-me-a-watershed-moment-for-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me: A Watershed Moment for the U.S. Racism Review 2013-07-21 Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Sociology Texas A &amp; M University President Obama\u2019s poignant comments on the white-racist discrimination that Black men regularly face were pathbreaking for this country. First, in the history of the U.S. never has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,394,20],"tags":[2340,2669,10143],"class_list":["post-32616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-joe-feagin","tag-racism-review","tag-trayvon-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32616","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=32616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}