{"id":48230,"date":"2016-07-11T22:11:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T22:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48230"},"modified":"2016-07-11T22:11:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T22:11:02","slug":"cnn-pundit-goes-off-on-racist-whites-who-think-they-allowed-obama-to-be-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48230","title":{"rendered":"CNN pundit goes off on racist whites who think they \u2018allowed\u2019 Obama to be president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/07\/cnn-pundit-goes-off-on-racist-whites-who-think-they-allowed-obama-to-be-president\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>CNN pundit goes off on racist whites who think they \u2018allowed\u2019 Obama to be president<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a><br \/>\n2016-07-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidEdwards\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>David Edwards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dvDoc7nWSio?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Congressional_Black_Caucus\" target=\"_blank\">Congressional Black Caucus<\/a> Executive Director <a href=\"http:\/\/angelarye.com\" target=\"_blank\">Angela Rye<\/a> took issue on Sunday with white Americans who think they \u201callowed\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> to become president.<\/p>\n<p>During a panel discussion about race in America, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CNN\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a> host <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fareed_Zakaria\" target=\"_blank\">Fareed Zakaria<\/a> noted that some pundits had speculated that \u201cthe fact that you have allowed in a member of an excluded minority in a strange way gives you license to continue the old pattern of discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes that make any sense to you?\u201d Zakaria asked. \u201cThat the fact that you have elected an African-American actually could mean a certain reversion to patterns of discrimination?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rye immediately objected to the premise of the question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s interesting even that you used the term \u2018allowed,\u2019 that he was <em>allowed<\/em> to be there,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s terminology that we would never use to describe the 43 presidents that preceded him.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/07\/cnn-pundit-goes-off-on-racist-whites-who-think-they-allowed-obama-to-be-president\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN pundit goes off on racist whites who think they \u2018allowed\u2019 Obama to be president Raw Story 2016-07-10 David Edwards Former Congressional Black Caucus Executive Director Angela Rye took issue on Sunday with white Americans who think they \u201callowed\u201d Barack Obama to become president. 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