{"id":40564,"date":"2015-03-23T00:36:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T00:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40564"},"modified":"2015-03-23T00:36:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T00:36:24","slug":"exclusive-michelle-obamas-mother-was-worried-about-her-daughter-marrying-a-biracial-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40564","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Obama&#8217;s mother was worried about her daughter marrying a biracial man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/exclusive-michelle-obama-mom-biracial-marriage-worries-article-1.2153243\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Obama&#8217;s mother was worried about her daughter marrying a biracial man<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Daily News<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CelesteKatzNYC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Celeste Katz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long before <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Obama<\/a> became <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Lady_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">First Lady<\/a>, her mother had misgivings about her marrying a young man named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> \u2014 because he was biracial.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a> TV interview that aired during Obama\u2019s 2004 U.S. Senate campaign \u2014 and newly resurrected by Michelle Obama biographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medill.northwestern.edu\/about\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/peter-slevin.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Slevin<\/a> in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/217206\/michelle-obama-by-peter-slevin\" target=\"_blank\">book due out next month<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marian_Shields_Robinson\" target=\"_blank\">Marion [Marian] Robinson<\/a> confessed to being \u201ca little bit\u201d wary about her future son-in-law being the product of a white mom and black dad.<\/p>\n<p>But it could\u2019ve been worse, according to Robinson&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/exclusive-michelle-obama-mom-biracial-marriage-worries-article-1.2153243\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Obama&#8217;s mother was worried about her daughter marrying a biracial man The New York Daily News 2015-03-18 Celeste Katz Long before Michelle Obama became First Lady, her mother had misgivings about her marrying a young man named Barack Obama \u2014 because he was biracial. In a Chicago TV interview that aired during Obama\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,1245,8,20],"tags":[19718,19716,19715,19714,2099,1463,19717,18849],"class_list":["post-40564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-celeste-katz","tag-marian-robinson","tag-marian-s-robinson","tag-marian-shields-robinson","tag-michelle-obama","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-peter-slevin","tag-the-new-york-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40564","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=40564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}