{"id":45788,"date":"2016-02-26T20:33:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T20:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45788"},"modified":"2016-02-26T20:33:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T20:33:26","slug":"trevor-noah-blasts-ben-carson-for-claiming-president-obama-was-raised-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45788","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Noah Blasts Ben Carson for Claiming President Obama Was \u2018Raised White\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/02\/25\/trevor-noah-blasts-ben-carson-for-claiming-president-obama-was-raised-white.html\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Noah Blasts Ben Carson for Claiming President Obama Was \u2018Raised White\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Beast<\/a><br \/>\n2016-02-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMattWilstein\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Matt Wilstein<\/strong><\/a>, Entertainment Writer<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Daily_Show\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Show<\/a>\u2019 host hits back at the low-in-the-polls neurosurgeon for claiming <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a> can\u2019t relate to the \u2018experience of black Americans.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Carson\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Carson<\/a> is still running for president. And this week, he made some news by claiming in an interview that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> was \u201craised white\u201d and therefore can\u2019t identify with the \u201cexperience of black Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trevornoah.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Noah<\/a> isn\u2019t having it. \u201dLike a glitched character on a video game, Ben Carson is just off facing the wrong direction,\u201d <em>The Daily Show<\/em> host said Wednesday night. \u201cYeah, he is not attacking <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> or the other Republicans, but rather he\u2019s chosen to attack President Obama. And it\u2019s not for his policies and it\u2019s not for his record. It\u2019s for not being black enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Ben Carson is saying that because Obama didn\u2019t grow up poor, he didn\u2019t grow up black,\u201d Noah said after playing the clip of Carson\u2019s comments. \u201cThat is such a bullshit argument. Being poor isn\u2019t what makes you black.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/02\/25\/trevor-noah-blasts-ben-carson-for-claiming-president-obama-was-raised-white.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Noah Blasts Ben Carson for Claiming President Obama Was \u2018Raised White\u2019 The Daily Beast 2016-02-25 Matt Wilstein, Entertainment Writer \u2018The Daily Show\u2019 host hits back at the low-in-the-polls neurosurgeon for claiming Obama can\u2019t relate to the \u2018experience of black Americans.\u2019 Believe it or not, Ben Carson is still running for president. And this week, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,63,8,26,20],"tags":[21335,13385,21388,23074,13384,19769,15219],"class_list":["post-45788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-ben-carson","tag-daily-beast","tag-daily-show","tag-matt-wilstein","tag-the-daily-beast","tag-the-daily-show","tag-trevor-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45788","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=45788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45789,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45788\/revisions\/45789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}