{"id":48154,"date":"2016-07-09T18:20:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T18:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48154"},"modified":"2016-07-09T18:20:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T18:20:39","slug":"obamas-delicate-balance-on-issue-of-race-and-policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48154","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Delicate Balance on Issue of Race and Policing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/09\/us\/politics\/obama-balance-race-police-dallas-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Obama\u2019s Delicate Balance on Issue of Race and Policing<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2017-07-08<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkLandler\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mark Landler<\/strong><\/a>, White House Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shearm\" target=\"_blank\">Michael D. Shear<\/a><\/strong>, White House Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video\/players\/offsite\/index.html?videoId=100000004519441\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warsaw\" target=\"_blank\">WARSAW<\/a> \u2014 As <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_Force_One\" target=\"_blank\">Air Force One<\/a> headed for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Europe\" target=\"_blank\">Europe<\/a> on Thursday afternoon, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> holed up in the plane\u2019s office editing a Facebook post meant to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/potus\/posts\/507884336068078\" target=\"_blank\">express his anguish<\/a> at two deadly shootings by police officers. Given what had happened, he told his aides, he didn\u2019t think it was enough.<\/p>\n<p>Wrestling with what the appropriate thing to do instead was the start of a wrenching 10 hours in which Mr. Obama would find himself whipsawed by grim events back home, forcing him to once again search for the right tone in a moment of national shock and mourning.<\/p>\n<p>In that time, Mr. Obama delivered a trans-Atlantic call for racial justice after the gruesome deaths of two black men at the hands of the police, only to face the same television cameras hours later to denounce the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers\" target=\"_blank\">killings of five officers by a black snipe<\/a>r.<\/p>\n<p>For Mr. Obama, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Alton_Sterling\" target=\"_blank\">killing of Alton Sterling<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baton_Rouge,_Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\">Baton Rouge, La.<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Philando_Castile\" target=\"_blank\">Philando Castile<\/a> in suburban <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Paul,_Minnesota\" target=\"_blank\">St. Paul<\/a> and the bloody reprisal in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dallas\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a> encapsulated the challenge he has faced throughout his presidency: how to confront a justice system that he views as tilted against the very people whom he, as the nation\u2019s first black president, seemed singularly equipped to help&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/09\/us\/politics\/obama-balance-race-police-dallas-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama\u2019s Delicate Balance on Issue of Race and Policing The New York Times 2017-07-08 Mark Landler, White House Correspondent Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent WARSAW \u2014 As Air Force One headed for Europe on Thursday afternoon, President Obama holed up in the plane\u2019s office editing a Facebook post meant to express his anguish at [&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":[14733,15046,18646,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-48154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-mark-landler","tag-michael-d-shear","tag-michael-shear","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48154","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=48154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48156,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48154\/revisions\/48156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}