{"id":41626,"date":"2015-07-02T01:26:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T01:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41626"},"modified":"2015-07-02T01:26:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T01:26:49","slug":"obama-sharpens-his-message-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41626","title":{"rendered":"Obama sharpens his message on race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/246611-a-complicated-legacy\" target=\"_blank\">Obama sharpens his message on race<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a><br \/>\nWashington, D.C.<br \/>\n2015-07-01<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/author\/mike-lillis\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Lillis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> is taking a more aggressive approach to the issue of race, repeatedly offering sharp commentary as he confronts America\u2019s oldest, deepest divide.<\/p>\n<p>Black lawmakers, Obama\u2019s strongest allies on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Congress\" target=\"_blank\">Capitol Hill<\/a>, have cheered the president\u2019s newfound willingness to address race head-on.<\/p>\n<p>But they also see a nation that\u2019s still plagued by inequality, discrimination and, in some cases, overt racism \u2014 first black president or none&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/246611-a-complicated-legacy\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama sharpens his message on race The Hill Washington, D.C. 2015-07-01 Mike Lillis President Obama is taking a more aggressive approach to the issue of race, repeatedly offering sharp commentary as he confronts America\u2019s oldest, deepest divide. Black lawmakers, Obama\u2019s strongest allies on Capitol Hill, have cheered the president\u2019s newfound willingness to address race head-on. [&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":[20355,20356,20354],"class_list":["post-41626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-congressional-black-caucus","tag-mike-lillis","tag-the-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41626","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=41626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}