{"id":44937,"date":"2016-01-02T21:23:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T21:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44937"},"modified":"2016-01-02T22:21:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T22:21:35","slug":"not-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44937","title":{"rendered":"Not Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemian.com\/northbay\/notready\/Content?oid=2931093&amp;showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\">Not Ready<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemian.com\" target=\"_blank\">North Bay Bohemian<\/a><br \/>\nSanta Rosa, California<br \/>\n2015-12-31<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gofishingreport\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tom Gogola<\/strong><\/a>, News Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemian.com\/northbay\/notready\/Content?oid=2931093&amp;showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media1.fdncms.com\/bohemian\/imager\/u\/mobilestory\/2931088\/feature-1-6783465d5749d7cc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>2015 was an ugly year in America<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the question is asked near the beginning\u2014&#8221;Is America ready for its first black president?&#8221;\u2014 it needs to be answered near the end. And as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> comes into the homestretch of his term in 2016 the answer, sadly, is no.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, 2015 offered a rolling reminder of the first year of Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency with its numerous parallel events and template-setting episodes that have now come to a full head of hateful steam in the emergent American Serbia of the mind, if not deed. The embodiment is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>, presidential candidate, notorious <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories\" target=\"_blank\">birther<\/a>, resident American fascist and bomb-thrower.<\/p>\n<p>If hope and change were the Obama buzzwords in 2009, the lesson of 2015 is that a bunch of overstimulated, hopelessly right-wing pseudo statesmen haven&#8217;t changed, grown up, dropped the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sub_rosa\" target=\"_blank\">sub rosa<\/a> race-bait narrative\u2014even as Obama delivered on his fair share of what he promised way back when&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemian.com\/northbay\/notready\/Content?oid=2931093&amp;showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Ready North Bay Bohemian Santa Rosa, California 2015-12-31 Tom Gogola, News Editor 2015 was an ugly year in America When the question is asked near the beginning\u2014&#8221;Is America ready for its first black president?&#8221;\u2014 it needs to be answered near the end. And as Barack Obama comes into the homestretch of his term 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":[22518,22517,22519],"class_list":["post-44937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-bohemian-com","tag-north-bay-bohemian","tag-tom-gogola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44937","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=44937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44946,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44937\/revisions\/44946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}