{"id":40301,"date":"2015-03-07T21:22:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T21:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40301"},"modified":"2015-03-07T21:22:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T21:22:53","slug":"urging-persistence-on-racial-gains-obama-recalls-sacrifice-in-selma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40301","title":{"rendered":"Urging Persistence on Racial Gains, Obama Recalls Sacrifice in Selma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/07\/us\/politics\/obama-backs-justice-departments-decision-not-to-indict-ferguson-officer.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Urging Persistence on Racial Gains, Obama Recalls Sacrifice in Selma<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterbakernyt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Peter Baker<\/strong><\/a>, Chief White House Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juliehdavis\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Julie Hirschfeld Davis<\/strong><\/a>, White House Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/bcvideo\/1.0\/iframe\/embed.html?videoId=100000003556859&amp;playerType=embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"373\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbia,_South_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\">COLUMBIA, S.C.<\/a> \u2014 For the nation\u2019s first African-American president, it was a week of two documents that told the story of a country still grappling with its own history.<\/p>\n<p>The first was a draft speech that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> was marking up with his distinctive left-hand scrawl to deliver in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Selma,_Alabama\" target=\"_blank\">Selma, Ala.<\/a>, on Saturday to celebrate a half-century of civil rights gains. The second was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2015\/03\/04\/us\/ferguson-police-racial-discrimination.html\" target=\"_blank\">report he received accusing the police in Ferguson, Mo.<\/a>, of systematically discriminating against African-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>More than once, Mr. Obama has credited the courage of protesters in Selma who were <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches\" target=\"_blank\">confronted by club-wielding state troopers 50 years ago<\/a> for clearing the way for his own barrier-breaking election as president. But the path from Selma to the Oval Office has also led to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2014_Ferguson_unrest\" target=\"_blank\">Ferguson<\/a> and back to Selma, a path littered with hope and progress and disappointment and setback&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/07\/us\/politics\/obama-backs-justice-departments-decision-not-to-indict-ferguson-officer.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urging Persistence on Racial Gains, Obama Recalls Sacrifice in Selma The New York Times 2015-03-06 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Correspondent COLUMBIA, S.C. \u2014 For the nation\u2019s first African-American president, it was a week of two documents that told the story of a country still grappling with its own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,1467,8,26,20,842],"tags":[18593,18655,17764,2640,2703,2327],"class_list":["post-40301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-videos","tag-julie-davis","tag-julie-h-davis","tag-julie-hirschfeld-davis","tag-new-york-times","tag-peter-baker","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40301","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=40301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}