{"id":37253,"date":"2014-09-05T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37253"},"modified":"2014-11-11T13:13:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T13:13:32","slug":"faces-of-the-democratic-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37253","title":{"rendered":"Faces of the Democratic Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faces of the Democratic Future<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The American Prospect<\/a>
\n2014-09-04<\/p>\n

Gabriel Arana<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Editor<\/p>\n

Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Elaine Teng<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant to the Editor
\nThe New Republic<\/em><\/p>\n

Young leaders on the future of their party<\/em><\/p>\n

Demographers and political prognosticators like to talk about the rising “Obama electorate.” Majority-minority, more liberal on social and financial issues alike than their forebears, this young cohort stands poised to radically transform the country’s politics in the decades to come. For the July\/August issue of The American Prospect magazine, we asked rising progressive leaders what they think about the future of the Democratic Party\u2014and how it needs to change.<\/p>\n

Svante Myrick<\/strong><\/a>, age 26
\nMayor of Ithaca, New York
\nIthaca, New York<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to see the party elect a woman president. When Barack Obama<\/a> was elected, I was a young mixed-race kid with a strange name, being raised by a white mother.<\/strong> It changed what I thought was possible for my life. After I was elected mayor here at 24, I remember a mother telling me the following story. She and her adopted son, who is black and around 15 years old, were coming to city hall. In the elevator, an elderly white woman looked at him and said, \u201cAre you the mayor?\u201d When the mother told me this story, I said, \u201cWell, come on, I don\u2019t look 15 years old.\u201d She said, \u201cYou don\u2019t understand. He\u2019s gotten on elevators before and had older women jump off\u2014he\u2019s had people cross the street when they see him coming because he\u2019s black. He\u2019s been confused for a lot of things, but this is the first time he\u2019s been confused for a figure of authority.\u201d That\u2019s powerful. Obama has changed the life outcomes, through his example, for millions of black men. His family has done the same for black families. He\u2019s changed the way we think about a black family in this country.<\/strong> I think that our first female president is going to do the same thing for young women…<\/p>\n

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Faces of the Democratic Future The American Prospect 2014-09-04 Gabriel Arana, Senior Editor Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux Elaine Teng, Assistant to the Editor The New Republic Young leaders on the future of their party Demographers and political prognosticators like to talk about the rising “Obama electorate.” Majority-minority, more liberal on social and financial issues alike than their […]<\/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":[17842,17840,17843,17841,15346,5208],"class_list":["post-37253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-amelia-thomson-deveaux","tag-american-prospect","tag-elaine-teng","tag-gabriel-arana","tag-svante-myrick","tag-the-american-prospect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37253","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=37253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}