{"id":45125,"date":"2016-01-17T01:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T01:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45125"},"modified":"2016-01-17T01:31:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T01:31:14","slug":"obama-a-nation-divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45125","title":{"rendered":"Obama: A Nation Divided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@delonteharrod\/obama-a-nation-divided-46134b79a56\" target=\"_blank\">Obama: A Nation Divided<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\" target=\"_blank\">Medium<\/a><br \/>\n2016-01-14<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/delonteharrod\" target=\"_blank\">Delonte Harrod<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was at grad school during the time <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> campaigned for and eventually was elected to the highest office in this country. I remember listening to people talk about the potential of him becoming president. Some of my white friends complained, and were genuinely confused, about <em>some<\/em> black people\u2019s fidelity to a biracial man, who is part African, running for president. I remember sitting across a table listening to some of my black friends talk about how some of their relationships with their white friends had become strained because of Obama\u2019s popularity and the possibility of him becoming president. The obvious is clear, for various reasons, some of their white friends did not like it\u200a\u2014\u200aand they let their blacks friends know it.<\/p>\n<p>I <strong><em>listened<\/em> <\/strong>and <strong><em>thought<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@delonteharrod\/obama-a-nation-divided-46134b79a56\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama: A Nation Divided Medium 2016-01-14 Delonte Harrod I was at grad school during the time President Obama campaigned for and eventually was elected to the highest office in this country. I remember listening to people talk about the potential of him becoming president. Some of my white friends complained, and were genuinely confused, about [&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":[22638,18537],"class_list":["post-45125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-delonte-harrod","tag-medium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45125","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=45125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45126,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45125\/revisions\/45126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}