{"id":42366,"date":"2015-08-24T01:16:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T01:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42366"},"modified":"2015-08-24T01:16:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T01:16:59","slug":"on-marthas-vineyard-black-elites-ponder-the-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42366","title":{"rendered":"On Martha’s Vineyard, black elites ponder the past year"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Martha’s Vineyard, black elites ponder the past year<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Politico<\/a>
\n2015-08-22<\/p>\n

Sara Wheaton<\/a><\/strong>, White House Reporter<\/p>\n

As Obama vacations on the island, an upper-class gathering grapples with a year of unrest.<\/em><\/p>\n

EDGARTOWN, Mass.<\/a> \u2013 For America\u2019s black elite, this year\u2019s seasonal sojourn to Martha\u2019s Vineyard<\/a> turned into a soul-searching retreat.<\/p>\n

The shooting of a young, unarmed black man in Ferguson, Mo.<\/a>, last year did little to disrupt the annual idyll of upper-class blacks on this island 1,200 miles away. Photos<\/a> showed President Barack Obama<\/a> dancing at a soiree<\/a> for political power couple Vernon and Ann Jordan<\/a> as Ferguson burned. The next afternoon he delivered an anodyne statement<\/a> urging calm without mentioning race.<\/p>\n

Obama returned this year for his sixth summer<\/a> in office on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, the island off the Massachusetts<\/a> coast that has been a vacation destination for upwardly mobile African Americans for more than a century. But this year, many of the black doctors, lawyers, executives, professors and politicians who gather here to enjoy the sunshine, surf and cultural events are grappling with the realization that there may not be quite as much to celebrate as they once hoped.<\/p>\n

Yes, the country has been led by a black president for nearly seven years. But images from body cameras and smart phones that have splashed police killings of unarmed black men across televisions and the Internet over the past year have forced the black elite to recognize \u2014 along with the rest of America \u2014 that their highest tide has left some boats sinking faster than ever…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Martha’s Vineyard, black elites ponder the past year Politico 2015-08-22 Sara Wheaton, White House Reporter As Obama vacations on the island, an upper-class gathering grapples with a year of unrest. EDGARTOWN, Mass. \u2013 For America\u2019s black elite, this year\u2019s seasonal sojourn to Martha\u2019s Vineyard turned into a soul-searching retreat. The shooting of a young, […]<\/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":[20804,3712,14578,20805],"class_list":["post-42366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-marthas-vineyard","tag-massachusetts","tag-politico","tag-sara-wheaton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42366","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=42366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42367,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42366\/revisions\/42367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}