{"id":50866,"date":"2016-12-22T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50866"},"modified":"2016-12-23T01:20:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T01:20:02","slug":"walsh-says-race-backlash-in-part-led-to-trump-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50866","title":{"rendered":"Walsh says race backlash in part led to Trump win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2016\/12\/20\/walsh-said-partially-views-trump-election-blacklash-against-first-black-president\/rZ4r7uScx1FUfeUmAxUsLJ\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Walsh says race backlash in part led to Trump win<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Boston Globe<\/a><br \/>\n2016-12-20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeghanIrons\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Meghan E. Irons<\/strong><\/a>, Reporter<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2t0vrf0CYTs?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marty_Walsh_(politician)\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Martin J. Walsh<\/a>, taking on a contentious issue rippling across the country, said Tuesday that he believes the election of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> was in part due to a backlash against the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">nation\u2019s first black president<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would hope [that] as a country we have gone beyond that,\u2019\u2019 the mayor said, adding that the election exposed economic and racial divisions. \u201cBut I\u2019m afraid that is not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walsh took on race and other thorny issues during an hourlong interview, vowing to continue the city\u2019s [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston\" target=\"_blank\">Boston\u2019s<\/a>]\u00a0race dialogues to heal \u201cdeep wounds.\u201d The mayor discussed the cloud of federal indictments looming over his administration, laid out the posture the city aims to take with the incoming Trump administration, and made his case for his reelection, saying Boston is much better off than when he took office three years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2016\/12\/20\/walsh-said-partially-views-trump-election-blacklash-against-first-black-president\/rZ4r7uScx1FUfeUmAxUsLJ\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walsh says race backlash in part led to Trump win The Boston Globe 2016-12-20 Meghan E. Irons, Reporter Mayor Martin J. Walsh, taking on a contentious issue rippling across the country, said Tuesday that he believes the election of Donald Trump was in part due to a backlash against the nation\u2019s first black president. \u201cI [&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":[3711,4072,21057,25840,25841,3712,25838,25839,5579],"class_list":["post-50866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-boston","tag-boston-globe","tag-donald-trump","tag-martin-j-walsh","tag-martin-walsh","tag-massachusetts","tag-meghan-e-irons","tag-meghan-irons","tag-the-boston-globe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50866","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=50866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50877,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50866\/revisions\/50877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}