{"id":48047,"date":"2016-07-03T01:53:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T01:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48047"},"modified":"2016-07-03T01:53:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T01:53:07","slug":"colorblind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48047","title":{"rendered":"Colorblind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorblind<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Salon<\/a>
\n2007-01-22<\/p>\n

Debra J. Dickerson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Barack Obama<\/a> would be the great black hope in the next presidential race — if he were actually black.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am confident that I have held out longer than any other pundit to weigh in on both the phenomenon that is Barack Obama<\/a> and the question of whether race will trump gender as America looks toward election 2008.<\/p>\n

I had irritably avoided columnizing on these crucial topics (though I have been quoted by others) for several, somewhat unorthodox, reasons. First, because the Clinton<\/a>-Obama stand-off has been more than well-covered \u2014 and in an overly simplistic, insubstantial, annoyingly celebritized way. (Horrors, Obama smokes<\/a>! But isn\u2019t he hot in his swim trunks?) I was waiting for the discussion to get serious and, at last, it has. Finally, we\u2019re asking the tough questions; instead of just crowing that he\u2019s raised $20 million, we\u2019re starting to wonder where it came from and what will be asked for in return for that much sugar. Why is the supposedly eco-friendly New Age senator supporting coal<\/a>, however liquefied, as a way to wean ourselves off foreign oil? Wouldn\u2019t be his home state\u2019s powerful coal lobby, would it? And then there\u2019s his support for ethanol<\/a>, which, strangely enough, comes mainly from corn-rich Iowa<\/a> \u2014 site of the first presidential caucus, if I\u2019m not mistaken. All much more important than why he doesn\u2019t wear a tie<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colorblind Salon 2007-01-22 Debra J. Dickerson Barack Obama would be the great black hope in the next presidential race — if he were actually black. I am confident that I have held out longer than any other pundit to weigh in on both the phenomenon that is Barack Obama and the question of whether race […]<\/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":[7560,7559,10962],"class_list":["post-48047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-debra-dickerson","tag-debra-j-dickerson","tag-salon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48047","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=48047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48048,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48047\/revisions\/48048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}