{"id":48678,"date":"2016-08-16T00:45:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T00:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48678"},"modified":"2016-08-16T00:45:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T00:45:27","slug":"justin-webb-the-tragic-irony-is-that-under-barack-obamas-policy-of-not-being-black-america-has-become-more-divided-by-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48678","title":{"rendered":"JUSTIN WEBB: The tragic irony is, that under Barack Obama\u2019s policy of not being black, America has become MORE divided by race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-3698494\/JUSTIN-WEBB-tragic-irony-Barack-Obama-s-policy-not-black-America-divided-race.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>JUSTIN WEBB: The tragic irony is, that under Barack Obama\u2019s policy of not being black, America has become MORE divided by race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Mail<\/a><br \/>\n2016-07-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Justin_Webb\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Justin Webb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like many of the most persuasive public speakers, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> has always had a neat line in self-deprecation.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before being elected President in 2008 he told an audience: \u2018Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krypton_(comics)\" target=\"_blank\">Krypton<\/a> and sent here by my father, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jor-El\" target=\"_blank\">Jor-el<\/a>, to save the planet Earth.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In other words, he was saying, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superman\" target=\"_blank\">Superman<\/a>, not <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jesus\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I used to wonder if he was completely joking. Be in no doubt that this man, when he arrived on political Earth, was not coming among us to make up the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>He was on a mission \u2014 a mission to bring change&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-3698494\/JUSTIN-WEBB-tragic-irony-Barack-Obama-s-policy-not-black-America-divided-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUSTIN WEBB: The tragic irony is, that under Barack Obama\u2019s policy of not being black, America has become MORE divided by race The Daily Mail 2016-07-19 Justin Webb Like many of the most persuasive public speakers, Barack Obama has always had a neat line in self-deprecation. Shortly before being elected President in 2008 he told [&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":[9810,24756,3050],"class_list":["post-48678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-daily-mail","tag-justin-webb","tag-the-daily-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48678","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=48678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48679,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48678\/revisions\/48679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}