{"id":51227,"date":"2017-01-17T00:36:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T00:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51227"},"modified":"2017-01-17T00:36:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T00:36:43","slug":"for-african-americans-obamas-presidency-had-been-largely-defined-by-his-reluctance-to-engage-with-the-ways-that-racial-discrimination-was-blunting-the-impact-of-his-administrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51227","title":{"rendered":"For African Americans, Obama\u2019s presidency had been largely defined by his reluctance to engage with the ways that racial discrimination was blunting the impact of his administration\u2019s recovery efforts."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For African Americans, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u2019s<\/a> presidency had been largely defined by his reluctance to engage with the ways that racial discrimination was blunting the impact of his administration\u2019s recovery efforts. Obama has not shown nearly the same reticence when publicly chastising African Americans for a range of behaviors that read like a handbook on anti-black stereotypes, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/16\/us\/politics\/15cnd-obama.html\" target=\"_blank\">parenting skills<\/a> and dietary choices to sexual mores and television-watching habits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, \u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51206\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s original sin: America\u2019s post-racial illusion<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>, January 13, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/jan\/13\/barack-obama-legacy-racism-criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/jan\/13\/barack-obama-legacy-racism-criminal-justice-system<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For African Americans, Obama\u2019s presidency had been largely defined by his reluctance to engage with the ways that racial discrimination was blunting the impact of his administration\u2019s recovery efforts. Obama has not shown nearly the same reticence when publicly chastising African Americans for a range of behaviors that read like a handbook on anti-black stereotypes, [&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":[26006,2103],"class_list":["post-51227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51227","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=51227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51228,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51227\/revisions\/51228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}