{"id":44305,"date":"2015-11-28T15:01:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T15:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44305"},"modified":"2015-11-28T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T15:01:13","slug":"michael-eric-dyson-discusses-his-cover-story-on-hillary-clinton%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44305","title":{"rendered":"Michael Eric Dyson Discusses His Cover Story on Hillary Clinton\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/minutes\/124641\/obama-will-probably-go-history-one-greatest-presidents-weve-had-just-dont-think-issue-race-will-earn-kudos\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Eric Dyson Discusses His Cover Story on Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New Republic<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/minutes\" target=\"_blank\">Minutes<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-27<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikafrak\" target=\"_blank\">Mikaela Lefrak<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Editor<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a> will probably go down in history as one of the greatest presidents we\u2019ve had. I just don&#8217;t think that the issue of race will earn him those kudos.&#8221;<\/strong> That\u2019s professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelericdyson.com\/april41968\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Eric Dyson\u2019s<\/a> opinion on the first black president of the United States. Dyson, a <em>New Republic<\/em> contributing editor, wrote \u201cYes She Can,\u201d the cover story of our January\/February issue. It\u2019s an in-depth profile of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillary_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> and how she\u2019s addressing race in America.<\/p>\n<p>We sat down with Dyson to discuss some of the big issues discussed in the article. He talked with us about how Clinton can address race and gender, what President Obama has (and has not) done for black Americans, and which Republican presidential candidate would be the least bad option for the United States.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uIDxnUBYtYM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Eric Dyson Discusses His Cover Story on Hillary Clinton The New Republic Minutes 2015-11-27 Mikaela Lefrak, Associate Editor &#8220;Obama will probably go down in history as one of the greatest presidents we\u2019ve had. I just don&#8217;t think that the issue of race will earn him those kudos.&#8221; That\u2019s professor Michael Eric Dyson\u2019s opinion 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":[8,26,20,842],"tags":[9500,11229,22084,21091,2330],"class_list":["post-44305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-videos","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-michael-eric-dyson","tag-mikaela-lefrak","tag-new-republic","tag-the-new-republic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44305","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=44305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44306,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44305\/revisions\/44306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}