{"id":40925,"date":"2015-04-21T01:17:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T01:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40925"},"modified":"2015-04-21T01:17:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T01:17:04","slug":"obama-on-racism-circa-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40925","title":{"rendered":"Obama on Racism circa 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/immasmartypants.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/obama-and-racism-circa-1995.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Obama on Racism circa 1995<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/immasmartypants.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Horizons: Nancy LeTourneau&#8217;s big picture look at politics and life<\/a><br \/>\n2015-04-16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Smartypants60\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nancy LeTourneau<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is always fascinating to find articles and video about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> from the past. Recently a group called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgema.gov\/22cityview.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">22-CityView<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cambridge,_Massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\">Cambridge<\/a> released the video of a reading and book discussion on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=11610\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dreams From My Father<\/em><\/a> by Obama back in 1995. At the time he had graduated from Harvard Law School, moved back to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a>, was working as a civil rights lawyer and had recently married <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reading is from what I remember as the most racially poignant part of the book. It takes place when he was 16 and includes the incident when his maternal grandmother was frightened by a black man at her bus stop as well as an interchange Barack had about that with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Marshall_Davis\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Marshall Davis<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w5JlqDnoqlo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/immasmartypants.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/obama-and-racism-circa-1995.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama on Racism circa 1995 Horizons: Nancy LeTourneau&#8217;s big picture look at politics and life 2015-04-16 Nancy LeTourneau It is always fascinating to find articles and video about Barack Obama from the past. Recently a group called 22-CityView in Cambridge released the video of a reading and book discussion on Dreams From My Father by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,63,8,20,842],"tags":[19942,19941],"class_list":["post-40925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-horizons-nancy-letourneaus-big-picture-look-at-politics-and-life","tag-nancy-letourneau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40925","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=40925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}