{"id":43145,"date":"2015-10-09T15:36:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T15:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43145"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:36:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:36:47","slug":"thats-one-of-the-fundamental-paradoxes-of-obamas-presidency-that-we-have-the-black-lives-matter-movement-under-a-black-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43145","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThat\u2019s one of the fundamental paradoxes of Obama\u2019s presidency \u2014 that we have the Black Lives Matter movement under a black president&#8230;\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThat\u2019s one of the fundamental paradoxes of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u2019s<\/a> presidency \u2014 that we have the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Lives_Matter\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lives Matter<\/a> movement under a black president,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/polisci.columbia.edu\/people\/profile\/83\" target=\"_blank\">Fredrick Harris<\/a>, a political scientist at Columbia University. \u201cYour man is in office, and you have this whole movement around criminal-justice reform asserting black people\u2019s humanity?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenSeniorNY\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Senior<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43125\" target=\"_blank\">The Paradox of the First Black President<\/a>,\u201d <em>New York Magazine<\/em>, October 7, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2015\/10\/paradox-of-the-first-black-president.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2015\/10\/paradox-of-the-first-black-president.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThat\u2019s one of the fundamental paradoxes of Obama\u2019s presidency \u2014 that we have the Black Lives Matter movement under a black president,\u201d says Fredrick Harris, a political scientist at Columbia University. \u201cYour man is in office, and you have this whole movement around criminal-justice reform asserting black people\u2019s humanity?\u201d Jennifer Senior, \u201cThe Paradox of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23674],"tags":[12609,12611,21337,12972],"class_list":["post-43145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","category-social-justice","tag-fredrick-cornelius-harris","tag-fredrick-harris","tag-jennifer-senior","tag-new-york-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43145","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=43145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43146,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43145\/revisions\/43146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}