{"id":51224,"date":"2017-01-17T00:34:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T00:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51224"},"modified":"2017-01-17T00:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T00:34:05","slug":"as-i-see-it-mr-obama-is-the-only-figure-to-ever-give-dr-king-a-run-for-his-money-as-greatest-black-man-in-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51224","title":{"rendered":"As I see it, Mr. Obama is the only figure to ever give Dr. King a run for his money as Greatest Black Man in American history."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama\u2019s<\/a> historic tenure ends as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Day\" target=\"_blank\">nation celebrates<\/a> what would have been <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Luther King\u2019s<\/a> 88th birthday. As I see it, Mr. Obama is the only figure to ever give Dr. King a run for his money as Greatest Black Man in American history. More than a gentle rivalry for supremacy in the history books joins the two. They are tethered by death, too \u2014 if not by its actual occurrence, then by its looming possibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Eric Dyson, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51186\" target=\"_blank\">How Black America Saw Obama<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, January 14, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/14\/opinion\/sunday\/how-black-america-saw-obama.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/14\/opinion\/sunday\/how-black-america-saw-obama.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama\u2019s historic tenure ends as the nation celebrates what would have been Martin Luther King\u2019s 88th birthday. As I see it, Mr. Obama is the only figure to ever give Dr. King a run for his money as Greatest Black Man in American history. More than a gentle rivalry for supremacy in the history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15296,11229,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-51224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-martin-luther-king-jr","tag-michael-eric-dyson","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51224","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=51224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51225,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51224\/revisions\/51225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}