{"id":45643,"date":"2016-02-15T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T20:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45643"},"modified":"2016-02-15T20:15:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T20:15:14","slug":"bill-clinton-downplays-obama-were-all-mixed-race-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45643","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton downplays Obama: \u2018We\u2019re all mixed-race people\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/02\/14\/bill-clinton-downplays-obama-were-all-mixed-race-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Clinton downplays Obama: \u2018We\u2019re all mixed-race people\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Post<\/a><br \/>\n2016-02-14<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronshortstory\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Short<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Clinton<\/a> still wants to be known as America\u2019s \u201cfirst black president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former president downplayed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama\u2019s<\/a> historic presidency, telling a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memphis,_Tennessee\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis<\/a> crowd Friday everyone has some African ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless your ancestors, every one of you, are 100 percent, 100 percent from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sub-Saharan_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">sub-Saharan Africa<\/a>, we are all mixed-race people,\u201d he said, according to reports&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/02\/14\/bill-clinton-downplays-obama-were-all-mixed-race-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Clinton downplays Obama: \u2018We\u2019re all mixed-race people\u2019 The New York Post 2016-02-14 Aaron Short Bill Clinton still wants to be known as America\u2019s \u201cfirst black president.\u201d The former president downplayed President Obama\u2019s historic presidency, telling a Memphis crowd Friday everyone has some African ancestry. \u201cUnless your ancestors, every one of you, are 100 percent, [&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":[22991,22990,21966,21965],"class_list":["post-45643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-aaron-short","tag-bill-clinton","tag-new-york-post","tag-the-new-york-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45643","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=45643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45644,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45643\/revisions\/45644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}