{"id":32689,"date":"2013-08-03T17:35:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T17:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32689"},"modified":"2013-08-03T17:36:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T17:36:19","slug":"obama-as-wounded-healer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32689","title":{"rendered":"Obama as Wounded Healer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/ideals-in-question\/201308\/obama-wounded-healer\" target=\"_blank\">Obama as Wounded Healer<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\" target=\"_blank\">Psychology Today<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/ideals-in-question\" target=\"_blank\">Ideals in Question: Exploring values in psychotherapeutic culture<\/a><br \/>\n2013-08-02<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/experts\/stephen-l-salter-psyd\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Salter, Psy.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Validating the context of racial trauma<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On July 19th, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> honored the life of Trayvon Martin by giving voice to the history of racial trauma in the African American community.\u00a0 \u201cIt could have been me,\u201d Obama states in reference to Trayvon.\u00a0 The remark reminds me of the old proverb, \u201cThere but for the grace of God go I.\u201d\u00a0 Obama\u2019s kinship with Trayvon relates of course to their identities as African Americans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=32454\" target=\"_blank\">He delivered a 17 minute off the cuff speech with unprecedented candor<\/a>, provoking powerful reactions that diverged along racial, political, and personal lines.<\/p>\n<p>For Barack Obama, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin\" target=\"_blank\">Trayvon Martin\u2019s death<\/a> was a trauma.\u00a0 It set off a chain of recollections that were outside of the flow of day to day experience, revealing additional dimension of his character.\u00a0 His recollections pointed toward his personal past, his identity as a black man, and his connectedness to the history of African American trauma&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/ideals-in-question\/201308\/obama-wounded-healer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama as Wounded Healer Psychology Today Ideals in Question: Exploring values in psychotherapeutic culture 2013-08-02 Stephen Salter, Psy.D. Validating the context of racial trauma On July 19th, Barack Obama honored the life of Trayvon Martin by giving voice to the history of racial trauma in the African American community.\u00a0 \u201cIt could have been me,\u201d Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,125,8,20],"tags":[3532,15336,10143],"class_list":["post-32689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-psychology-today","tag-stephen-salter","tag-trayvon-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32689","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=32689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}