{"id":44991,"date":"2016-01-08T03:12:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T03:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44991"},"modified":"2016-01-08T03:12:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T03:12:02","slug":"al-sharpton-says-some-criticism-of-de-blasio-is-related-to-his-mixed-race-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44991","title":{"rendered":"Al Sharpton says some criticism of de Blasio is related to his mixed race family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/sharpton-de-blasio-backlash-stems-race-family-article-1.2486577\" target=\"_blank\">Al Sharpton says some criticism of de Blasio is related to his mixed race family<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Daily News<\/a><br \/>\n2016-01-05<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jfermino\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Fermino<\/a><\/strong>, City Hall Bureau Chief<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Sharpton\" target=\"_blank\">Rev. Al Sharpton<\/a> thinks that some of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_de_Blasio\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor de Blasio\u2019s<\/a> woes stem from his mixed race family.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking Tuesday morning at an interfaith breakfast, Sharpton said that de Blasio, whose wife is black and has two mixed-race kids, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> have upset the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We elected a President of a different race, and a different bent. And not long after this city elected a mayor, after years of developers and others setting the tone in this city, that set a different tone in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>,\u201d said Sharpton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when many looked up and saw an African-American family in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a>, and a biracial family in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gracie_Mansion\" target=\"_blank\">Gracie Mansion<\/a> at the same time, they tried to trump them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comment \u2014 and veiled barb at White House contender <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> \u2014 drew laughter from the crowd, which included many faith leaders as well as de Blasio and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chirlane_McCray\" target=\"_blank\">First Lady Chirlane McCray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod always has the prophets for the time in which they live,\u201d said Sharpton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re in the age of Obama. You\u2019re in the age of de Blasio. Put away your sermons from the age of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Nixon\" target=\"_blank\">Nixon<\/a>.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/sharpton-de-blasio-backlash-stems-race-family-article-1.2486577\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Sharpton says some criticism of de Blasio is related to his mixed race family The New York Daily News 2016-01-05 Jennifer Fermino, City Hall Bureau Chief The Rev. Al Sharpton thinks that some of Mayor de Blasio\u2019s woes stem from his mixed race family. Speaking Tuesday morning at an interfaith breakfast, Sharpton said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20],"tags":[16407,15381,16390,21272,2711,596,1463,18849],"class_list":["post-44991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-al-sharpton","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-chirlane-mccray","tag-jennifer-fermino","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-the-new-york-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44991","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=44991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44992,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44991\/revisions\/44992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}