{"id":51157,"date":"2017-01-14T14:09:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T14:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51157"},"modified":"2017-01-14T14:09:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T14:09:28","slug":"jolted-by-deaths-obama-found-his-voice-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51157","title":{"rendered":"Jolted by Deaths, Obama Found His Voice on Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/14\/us\/politics\/obama-presidency-race.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Jolted by Deaths, Obama Found His Voice on Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2017-01-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shearm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michael D. Shear<\/strong><\/a>, White House Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yamiche\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Yamiche Alcindor<\/strong><\/a>, National Reporter<\/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=100000004865840\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Tensions across the country prompted the president to abandon his early reticence on race again and again.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\">WASHINGTON<\/a> \u2014 Only weeks after 70 million Americans chose a black man for president, shattering a racial barrier that had stood for the entirety of the nation\u2019s 232-year history, no one in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a>, especially the man in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oval_Office\" target=\"_blank\">Oval Office<\/a>, wanted to talk about race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> had made a pragmatic calculation in January 2009, as the financial crisis drove communities across the United States toward economic collapse. Whatever he did for African-Americans, whose neighborhoods were suffering more than others, he would not describe as efforts to specifically help Black America.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama made the decision knowing how powerfully his election had raised the hopes of African-Americans \u2014 and knowing that no matter what he did, it would not be seen as enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember thinking, \u2018They are going to hate us one day,\u2019\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melody_Barnes\" target=\"_blank\">Melody Barnes<\/a>, who is black and served as Mr. Obama\u2019s first domestic policy adviser, recalling her sadness when she stood in an auditorium in those early months as a crowd cheered for the success of the new president. \u201cI knew that we couldn\u2019t do everything that people wanted to meet those expectations.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/14\/us\/politics\/obama-presidency-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jolted by Deaths, Obama Found His Voice on Race The New York Times 2017-01-15 Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, National Reporter Tensions across the country prompted the president to abandon his early reticence on race again and again. 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