{"id":47621,"date":"2016-06-13T18:03:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T18:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47621"},"modified":"2016-06-13T18:03:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T18:03:12","slug":"inside-the-five-day-stretch-when-obama-found-his-voice-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47621","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Five-Day Stretch When Obama Found His Voice On Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/inside-the-five-day-stretch-when-obama-found-his-voice-on-race\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Inside The Five-Day Stretch When Obama Found His Voice On Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\" target=\"_blank\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a><br \/>\n2016-05-26<\/p>\n<p>The number of Americans \u201cgreatly worried\u201d about race relations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/190574\/worries-race-relations-reach-new-high.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">hit an all-time low<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/190574\/worries-race-relations-reach-new-high.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">13 percent<\/a>, the year after <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> took office. Last month, Gallup recorded the opposite, an all-time high of 35 percent.<\/p>\n<p>As Obama prepares to leave office, the conversation about his legacy will no doubt include his role in how Americans see race. In the latest in <em>FiveThirtyEight\u2019s<\/em> podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/tag\/elections-documentary\/\" target=\"_blank\">documentary series<\/a> on key election moments, we go back to the first time in Obama\u2019s presidential career that he addressed the country\u2019s debate over race in a big way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Who you\u2019ll hear from in the podcast<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obama\u2019s Team\n<ul>\n<li>David Axelrod, Obama\u2019s chief campaign strategist at the time<\/li>\n<li>Jon Favreau, Obama\u2019s speechwriter at the time<\/li>\n<li>Valerie Jarrett, longtime adviser to the president<\/li>\n<li>Marty Nesbitt, one of Obama\u2019s closest friends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Media Members\n<ul>\n<li>Brian Ross of ABC News, whose reporting set off the firestorm<\/li>\n<li>Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson<\/li>\n<li>Clips of Joe Scarborough, Diane Sawyer, Chris Cuomo, Chris Matthews, Katie Couric, Sean Hannity and Karl Rove<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Analysts\n<ul>\n<li>FiveThirtyEight\u2019s Harry Enten<\/li>\n<li><em>The Nation\u2019s<\/em> Kai Wright<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Listen to the podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/inside-the-five-day-stretch-when-obama-found-his-voice-on-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Download the podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espnradio\/podcast\/archive?id=14554755\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside The Five-Day Stretch When Obama Found His Voice On Race FiveThirtyEight 2016-05-26 The number of Americans \u201cgreatly worried\u201d about race relations hit an all-time low, 13 percent, the year after President Obama took office. Last month, Gallup recorded the opposite, an all-time high of 35 percent. As Obama prepares to leave office, the conversation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,63,8,26],"tags":[24083,24089,24090,10955,24088,18578,24085,24087,24081,24086,24093,24091,24082,24092,24084,18649],"class_list":["post-47621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-brian-ross","tag-chris-cuomo","tag-chris-matthews","tag-david-axelrod","tag-diane-sawyer","tag-fivethirtyeight","tag-harry-enten","tag-joe-scarborough","tag-jon-favreau","tag-kai-wright","tag-karl-rove","tag-katie-couric","tag-marty-nesbitt","tag-sean-hannity","tag-tucker-carlson","tag-valerie-jarrett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47621","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=47621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47622,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47621\/revisions\/47622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}