{"id":51188,"date":"2017-01-16T01:35:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T01:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51188"},"modified":"2017-01-17T23:58:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T23:58:49","slug":"farewell-to-the-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51188","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to the chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/magazine\/the-sunday-times-magazine\/farewell-to-the-chief-kdb89z0wr\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Farewell to the chief<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Times of London<\/a><br \/>\n2017-01-15<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trevor Phillips<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/magazine\/the-sunday-times-magazine\/farewell-to-the-chief-kdb89z0wr\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.thetimes.co.uk\/web\/imageserver\/imageserver\/image\/methode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F3e6eb9a4-d34d-11e6-8b94-fca56794aac7.jpg?crop=2250,1266,0,117&amp;resize=1138\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>April 22, 2013: the president pauses for a moment of silence in honour of the victims of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_Marathon_bombing\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Marathon bombings<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.petesouza.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PETE SOUZA<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>After eight years in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> relinquishes the top job this Friday. Trevor Phillips criticises his legacy on race, while the White House photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petesouza.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Souza<\/a> shares candid portraits of the outgoing president<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most of the 40,000 graves in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flushing_Cemetery\" target=\"_blank\">New York\u2019s Flushing Cemetery<\/a> are marked by neat marble headstones, mostly white or grey, occasionally black. A few bear elaborate tombs, but for the most part they display the quiet restraint of immigrants for whom the American dream means exchanging a precarious existence in a developing country for a steady blue-collar job in the world\u2019s greatest metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>These modest memorials also tell the story of the borough where America\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">flamboyant president-elect<\/a>, himself the son of a Scottish immigrant, was born and raised. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Queens\" target=\"_blank\">Queens<\/a> claims to be the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world. The tombstones carry thousands of names charting two centuries of ceaseless migration: English Quakers, German Protestants, Italian and Korean Catholics, African-American and Caribbean Episcopalians. Under a tree close to the cemetery\u2019s southern boundary lies one marked \u201cMarjorie Eileen Phillips\u201d. My mother.<\/p>\n<p>I always make a point of running over the family\u2019s news for her benefit. We sometimes also talk politics. Last time I was there, shortly after the presidential election, we reflected on Obama\u2019s tenure. I was keen to know what the wise matriarch thought the legacy would be of America\u2019s first black president, who steps down this Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/magazine\/the-sunday-times-magazine\/farewell-to-the-chief-kdb89z0wr\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farewell to the chief The Times of London 2017-01-15 Trevor Phillips April 22, 2013: the president pauses for a moment of silence in honour of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings PETE SOUZA After eight years in the White House, Barack Obama relinquishes the top job this Friday. Trevor Phillips criticises his legacy on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,63,8,26,20],"tags":[10877,147,7769,23235],"class_list":["post-51188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-pete-souza","tag-photography","tag-the-times-of-london","tag-trevor-phillips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51188","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=51188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51235,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51188\/revisions\/51235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}