{"id":45196,"date":"2016-01-19T18:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45196"},"modified":"2016-01-19T18:57:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:57:45","slug":"olbermann-ties-dolezal-race-manipulation-to-senseless-charleston-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45196","title":{"rendered":"Olbermann Ties Dolezal Race Manipulation to \u2018Senseless\u2019 Charleston Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2015\/06\/18\/olbermann-ties-dolezal-race-manipulation-to-senseless-charleston-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Olbermann Ties Dolezal Race Manipulation to \u2018Senseless\u2019 Charleston Shooting<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\">Breitbart News<\/a><br \/>\n2015-06-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MagnifiTrent\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Trent Baker<\/strong><\/a>, Sports Reporter<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday\u2019s \u201cOlbermann\u201d on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ESPN2\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN2<\/a>, host <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keith_Olbermann\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Olbermann<\/a> opened his show with a monologue speaking about former <a href=\"http:\/\/spokanenaacp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spokane NAACP<\/a> head <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a>, deceased American sports executive and the first woman inducted into the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum\" target=\"_blank\">Baseball Hall of Fame<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Effa_Manley\" target=\"_blank\">Effa Manley<\/a>, who was white and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">identified as black<\/a> after being raised by her black step-father, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charleston_church_shooting\" target=\"_blank\">shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church<\/a>, which he tied all of them together at the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Effa Manley story is not about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a>, but both lives rise from curiosity and story telling when one remembers that biologists long ago concluded genetically there are no \u201craces\u201d just one species we call human beings. In the stories of both Rachel Dolezal and Effa Manley the importance and meaning we have given to skin pigmentation prove to be amazingly easy to manipulate, proved to be flexible, prove to be impermanent; prove to be remarkably inaccurate, all of which means the madness and nightmare and terrorism that unfolded last night at the church in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\">South Carolina<\/a> all of that was even more senseless.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story and watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2015\/06\/18\/olbermann-ties-dolezal-race-manipulation-to-senseless-charleston-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olbermann Ties Dolezal Race Manipulation to \u2018Senseless\u2019 Charleston Shooting Breitbart News 2015-06-18 Trent Baker, Sports Reporter On Thursday\u2019s \u201cOlbermann\u201d on ESPN2, host Keith Olbermann opened his show with a monologue speaking about former Spokane NAACP head Rachel Dolezal, deceased American sports executive and the first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame Effa Manley, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,6462,20,842],"tags":[22681,7945,22685,22683,22682,20257,20241,7222,22684],"class_list":["post-45196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-videos","tag-breitbart-news","tag-effa-manley","tag-espn2","tag-keith-olbermann","tag-olbermann","tag-rachel-a-dolezal","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-sports","tag-trent-baker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45196","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=45196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45197,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45196\/revisions\/45197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}