{"id":32732,"date":"2013-08-05T03:19:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T03:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32732"},"modified":"2016-11-11T19:59:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T19:59:05","slug":"but-obviously-for-an-african-american-and-an-african-american-president-to-be-able-to-visit-this-site-i-think-gives-me-even-greater-motivation-in-terms-of-the-defense-of-human-rights-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32732","title":{"rendered":"but obviously for an African American, and an African American President to be able to visit this site I think gives me even greater motivation in terms of the defense of human rights around the world."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And so it\u2019s always powerful for me to visit countries outside of the United States generally, but obviously for an African American, and an African American President to be able to visit this site I think gives me even greater motivation in terms of the defense of human rights around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Barack Obama, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/06\/27\/remarks-president-obama-after-tour-maison-des-esclaves\" target=\"_blank\">Remarks by President Obama After Tour of Maison Des Esclaves<\/a>,\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gor%C3%A9e\" target=\"_blank\">Gor\u00e9e Island, Senegal<\/a>)<em>\u00a0The White House: Office of the Press Secretary<\/em>, (Washington, D. C., June 27, 2013). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/06\/27\/remarks-president-obama-after-tour-maison-des-esclaves\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/06\/27\/remarks-president-obama-after-tour-maison-des-esclaves<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so it\u2019s always powerful for me to visit countries outside of the United States generally, but obviously for an African American, and an African American President to be able to visit this site I think gives me even greater motivation in terms of the defense of human rights around the world. Barack Obama, \u201cRemarks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4743],"class_list":["post-32732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-senegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732","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=32732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49886,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732\/revisions\/49886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}