{"id":43123,"date":"2015-10-08T15:18:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T15:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43123"},"modified":"2017-02-19T21:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:40:54","slug":"rupert-murdoch-implies-obama-is-not-real-black-president-in-tweet-praising-ben-carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43123","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Murdoch implies Obama is not &#8216;real black president&#8217; in tweet praising Ben Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2015\/oct\/08\/rupert-murdoch-obama-not-real-black-president-tweet-ben-carson\" target=\"_blank\">Rupert Murdoch implies Obama is not &#8216;real black president&#8217; in tweet praising Ben Carson<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-07<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bencjacobs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ben Jacobs<\/strong><\/a>, Political Reporter<\/p>\n<p><em>Media mogul says Republican contender could \u2018properly address the racial divide\u2019 in tweets criticising Obama\u2019s record in office<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Media mogul <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rupert_Murdoch\" target=\"_blank\">Rupert Murdoch<\/a> has suggested that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> was not a \u201creal black\u201d president in a tweet praising Republican candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Carson\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Carson<\/a> on Wednesday night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;However, his earlier tweet directly implied that Obama, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ann_Dunham\" target=\"_blank\">mother was a white American<\/a> and whose <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama,_Sr.\" target=\"_blank\">father was a Kenyan<\/a> studying in the United States, did not deserve to be classified as African American. Both of Carson\u2019s parents were black and born in the United States&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2015\/oct\/08\/rupert-murdoch-obama-not-real-black-president-tweet-ben-carson\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rupert Murdoch implies Obama is not &#8216;real black president&#8217; in tweet praising Ben Carson The Guardian 2015-10-07 Ben Jacobs, Political Reporter Media mogul says Republican contender could \u2018properly address the racial divide\u2019 in tweets criticising Obama\u2019s record in office Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has suggested that Barack Obama was not a \u201creal black\u201d president in [&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":[21335,21262,21336,21334,2103],"class_list":["post-43123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-ben-carson","tag-ben-jacobs","tag-candy-carson","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43123","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=43123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51637,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43123\/revisions\/51637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}