{"id":46939,"date":"2016-05-11T21:55:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T21:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46939"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:45:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:45:24","slug":"seven-days-three-speeches-one-week-in-the-life-of-having-a-black-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46939","title":{"rendered":"Seven days, three speeches: one week in the life of having a black president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/may\/09\/barack-obama-speeches-correspondents-dinner-flint-howard\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Seven days, three speeches: one week in the life of having a black president<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2016-05-09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thrasherxy\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Steven W. Thrasher<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>After seven years, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> is in his last months in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a>. When he leaves, nothing will be the same. For black people, nothing will be resolved<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like so many people I have unwisely loved, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Hussein Obama<\/a> intrigues and infuriates and enrages and inspires and uplifts and disappoints me all at once. And whether it is politically or psychologically healthy to do so, I have loved President Obama, even as I have known that it\u2019s not healthy and as I have wanted to maintain a certain critical distance since becoming a journalist&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/may\/09\/barack-obama-speeches-correspondents-dinner-flint-howard\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven days, three speeches: one week in the life of having a black president The Guardian 2016-05-09 Steven W. Thrasher After seven years, Barack Obama is in his last months in the White House. When he leaves, nothing will be the same. For black people, nothing will be resolved Like so many people I have [&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":[18193,18191,23764,2103],"class_list":["post-46939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-steven-thrasher","tag-steven-w-thrasher","tag-steven-william-thrasher","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46939","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=46939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51690,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46939\/revisions\/51690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}