{"id":51180,"date":"2017-01-15T22:17:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T22:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51180"},"modified":"2017-01-15T22:17:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T22:17:34","slug":"no-racial-barrier-left-to-break-except-all-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51180","title":{"rendered":"No Racial Barrier Left to Break (Except All of Them)"},"content":{"rendered":"

No Racial Barrier Left to Break (Except All of Them)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2017-01-14<\/p>\n

Khalil Gibran Muhammad<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, HKS Suzanne Young Murray Professor
\nHarvard Kennedy School<\/em>
\n Harvard University<\/em><\/p>\n

We can\u2019t create a more just nation simply by dressing up institutions in more shades of brown. Now we must confront structural racism.<\/em><\/p>\n

In a moving<\/a> farewell speech before an enormous crowd in Chicago<\/a> last week, President Obama<\/a> evoked the American creed of unity and aspiration as the foundation of our democracy. He has always embraced a vision of America as a \u201cmelting pot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Obama embodied for many Americans the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/a>, whom we celebrate<\/a> on Monday. Our national memory of Dr. King has, for nearly 50 years, reinforced the belief that America, unlike any other nation, could extend opportunity to everyone regardless of his or her identity. In Dr. King\u2019s name, assimilation and aspiration have been the keywords of the post-civil rights era, and diversity and inclusion its currency. And Mr. Obama has symbolized more than anyone in American history the idea that racial representation and the content of one\u2019s character were the perfect antidote to racism.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that, in fulfilling the duties of the presidency with great dignity, Mr. Obama represents the highest expression of the goal of assimilation. But for African-Americans, he was also the ultimate lesson in how this antidote alone is insufficient to heal the gaping wounds of racial injustice in America. It\u2019s clear that black leadership, in itself, isn\u2019t enough to transform the country. So we must confront the end of an era and the dawn of a new one…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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