{"id":46902,"date":"2016-05-09T21:43:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T21:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46902"},"modified":"2016-05-09T21:43:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T21:43:50","slug":"marvin-reess-triumph-as-mayor-defies-bristols-racist-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46902","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Rees\u2019s triumph as mayor defies Bristol\u2019s racist past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/may\/08\/marvin-rees-bristol-mayor-racist-past\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Marvin Rees\u2019s triumph as mayor defies Bristol\u2019s racist past<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2016-05-08<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/simonwoolley\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Simon Woolley<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/may\/08\/marvin-rees-bristol-mayor-racist-past\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net\/labourclp407\/pages\/220\/attachments\/original\/1457691151\/marvinrees.jpg?1457691151\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvinrees.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Marvin Rees<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>The descendant of enslaved Africans is now running a former slave city. His symbolic victory gives hope \u2013 and should not be forgotten<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While much has been said, rightly so, about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2016\/may\/07\/sadiq-khan-pledges-to-put-london-first-as-he-swears-in-as-mayor\" target=\"_blank\">a Muslim now leading London<\/a>, we must not lose sight of the symbolism and enormous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2016\/may\/07\/bristol-chooses-labours-marvin-rees-as-new-mayor-over-george-ferguson\" target=\"_blank\">significance of Marvin Rees<\/a> being elected mayor of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bristol\" target=\"_blank\">Bristol<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvinrees.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Rees<\/a>, the working-class son of an English mother and Jamaican father, makes history as the first directly elected city mayor in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Europe\" target=\"_blank\">Europe<\/a> of African or Caribbean heritage.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s important, because the city of Bristol and its governance cannot effectively be understood without seeing it, in part, through the prism of race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/may\/08\/marvin-rees-bristol-mayor-racist-past\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvin Rees\u2019s triumph as mayor defies Bristol\u2019s racist past The Guardian 2016-05-08 Simon Woolley Source: Marvin Rees The descendant of enslaved Africans is now running a former slave city. His symbolic victory gives hope \u2013 and should not be forgotten While much has been said, rightly so, about a Muslim now leading London, we must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,26,10],"tags":[851,81,23742,23743,2103],"class_list":["post-46902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-uk","tag-bristol","tag-england","tag-marvin-rees","tag-simon-woolley","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46902","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=46902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46903,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46902\/revisions\/46903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}