{"id":50855,"date":"2016-12-22T18:47:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T18:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50855"},"modified":"2016-12-22T18:48:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T18:48:43","slug":"how-obamas-unique-background-shaped-his-outlook-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50855","title":{"rendered":"How Obama\u2019s unique background shaped his outlook on race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/obamas-unique-background-shaped-outlook-race\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>How Obama\u2019s unique background shaped his outlook on race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" target=\"_blank\">PBS NewsHour<\/a><br \/>\n2016-12-21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/author\/jwoodruff\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Judy Woodruff<\/strong><\/a>, Co-Anchor &amp; Managing Editor<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2365919885\/\" width=\"512\" height=\"376\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic&#8217;s<\/a><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tanehisicoates\" target=\"_blank\">Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/a> has criticized <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama\u2019s<\/a> policies toward black Americans. Perhaps for that reason, he was invited to discuss such issues with Mr. Obama several times throughout the president&#8217;s second term. As part of a collaboration with <\/em>The Atlantic<em>, Coates speaks with Judy Woodruff about his latest Atlantic cover story, which considers Mr. Obama\u2019s legacy and rare optimism through a racial lens.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>JUDY WOODRUFF: As <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> winds down his time in the White House, we will be looking back at the legacy of his presidency in the coming weeks. Tonight, as part of our partnership with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic<\/a>\u201d magazine, my conversation with writer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tanehisicoates\" target=\"_blank\">Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/a> about his cover story, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50622\" target=\"_blank\">My President was Black<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TA-NEHISI COATES, The Atlantic:\u00a0I think so many African-Americans got so much joy out of the image of Barack and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle<\/a> and Malia and Sasha, the first family, and that was going away, and there was a kind of sadness.<\/p>\n<p>JUDY WOODRUFF: Can you put into words how much his election meant in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>TA-NEHISI COATES: The notion of an African-American president for black people was perceived as being so impossible that most of the great sort of representations of it are in comedy. It\u2019s just a moment that seemed so impossible and so far off that actually it came to be, it actually happened&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>View\u00a0the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/obamas-unique-background-shaped-outlook-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Obama\u2019s unique background shaped his outlook on race PBS NewsHour 2016-12-21 Judy Woodruff, Co-Anchor &amp; Managing Editor The Atlantic&#8217;s Ta-Nehisi Coates has criticized President Obama\u2019s policies toward black Americans. Perhaps for that reason, he was invited to discuss such issues with Mr. Obama several times throughout the president&#8217;s second term. As part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20,842],"tags":[20909,25835,19266,6000],"class_list":["post-50855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-videos","tag-judy-woodruff","tag-newshour","tag-pbs-newshour","tag-ta-nehisi-coates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50855","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=50855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50857,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50855\/revisions\/50857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}