{"id":37111,"date":"2014-08-19T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T15:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37111"},"modified":"2014-08-19T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T15:23:29","slug":"calling-for-calm-in-ferguson-obama-cites-need-for-improved-race-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37111","title":{"rendered":"Calling for Calm in Ferguson, Obama Cites Need for Improved Race Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/19\/us\/calling-for-calm-in-ferguson-obama-cites-need-for-improved-race-relations.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Calling for Calm in Ferguson, Obama Cites Need for Improved Race Relations<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2014-08-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juliehdavis\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Julie Hirschfeld Davis<\/strong><\/a>, White House Reporter<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> called for calm and healing in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ferguson,_Missouri\" target=\"_blank\">Ferguson, Mo.<\/a>, on Monday even as he acknowledged the deep racial divisions that continue to plague not only that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Louis\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis<\/a> suburb but cities across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn too many communities around the country, a gulf of mistrust exists between local residents and law enforcement,\u201d Mr. Obama said at the White House. \u201cIn too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve made extraordinary progress\u201d in race relations, he said, \u201cbut we have not made enough progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama\u2019s comments were a notable moment for the first African-American president during the most racially fraught crisis of his time in office, set off by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/16\/us\/ferguson-mo-michael-brown-and-darren-wilson-2-paths-to-a-fatal-encounter.html\" target=\"_blank\">fatal shooting of Michael Brown<\/a>, an unarmed black teenager, by the police. Mr. Obama and his administration are working to restore peace in Ferguson and ensure an evenhanded investigation into the shooting all while responding to anger \u2014 in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Missouri\" target=\"_blank\">Missouri<\/a> and elsewhere \u2014 among blacks about what they say is systemic discrimination by law enforcement officials&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/19\/us\/calling-for-calm-in-ferguson-obama-cites-need-for-improved-race-relations.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling for Calm in Ferguson, Obama Cites Need for Improved Race Relations The New York Times 2014-08-18 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Reporter WASHINGTON \u2014 President Obama called for calm and healing in Ferguson, Mo., on Monday even as he acknowledged the deep racial divisions that continue to plague not only that St. Louis suburb [&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":[17765,17764,17766,773,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-37111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-ferguson","tag-julie-hirschfeld-davis","tag-michael-brown","tag-missouri","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37111","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=37111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}