{"id":35051,"date":"2013-12-16T13:51:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35051"},"modified":"2013-12-16T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:51:15","slug":"obama-im-not-interested-in-talking-about-race-in-the-abstract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35051","title":{"rendered":"Obama: I&#8217;m Not Interested in Talking About Race in the Abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2007\/11\/obama-im-not-interested-in-talking-about-race-in-the-abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Obama: I&#8217;m Not Interested in Talking About Race in the Abstract<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Observer<\/a><br \/>\nNew York, New York<br \/>\n2007-11-26<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jason Horowitz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a question-and-answer session in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berlin,_New_Hampshire\" target=\"_blank\">Berlin, New Hampshire<\/a> last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> received a multi-part question about how he identified himself racially, race relations and his commitment to civil rights from an elderly liberal in a green ball cap&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;As for how he identified himself, Obama was clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an African American,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I am somebody, like many African Americans, who has all kinds of stuff in him.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2007\/11\/obama-im-not-interested-in-talking-about-race-in-the-abstract\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama: I&#8217;m Not Interested in Talking About Race in the Abstract The New York Observer New York, New York 2007-11-26 Jason Horowitz During a question-and-answer session in Berlin, New Hampshire last night, Barack Obama received a multi-part question about how he identified himself racially, race relations and his commitment to civil rights from an elderly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[16556,16555,16554],"class_list":["post-35051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-jason-horowitz","tag-new-york-observer","tag-the-new-york-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35051","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=35051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}