{"id":51278,"date":"2017-01-25T20:43:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51278"},"modified":"2017-01-25T20:43:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:43:33","slug":"obama-tapped-his-inner-krazy-kat-when-he-taught-us-to-embrace-mutts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51278","title":{"rendered":"Obama Tapped His Inner Krazy Kat When He Taught Us to Embrace Mutts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama Tapped His Inner Krazy Kat When He Taught Us to Embrace Mutts<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Daily Beast<\/a>
\n2017-01-18<\/p>\n

Michael Tisserand<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Tisserand is the author of <\/em>Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

A self-described \u2018mutt,\u2019 Obama encouraged us to think about race in ways that erased the color line. But George Herriman<\/a>, another mutt, and his creation <\/em>Krazy Kat<\/a> were there first.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A listing of President Barack Obama\u2019s statements about race<\/a> might start with his campaign speech \u201cA More Perfect Union,\u201d when the self-described son of a \u201cblack man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas\u201d said that the idea that this nation is greater than its parts is seared into his genetic makeup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During his presidency itself, there were the elegant \u201cremarks by the president on Trayvon Martin<\/a>,\u201d when Obama imagined aloud how the slain Martin might have been his son<\/a>, and the stirring eulogy for the Reverend Clementa C. Pinckney<\/a>, slain during the South Carolina church shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet history should not neglect a more offhand comment delivered in late 2008 when the then president-elect was chatting with reporters about the family\u2019s search for a family pet. At the time, the Obamas were considering adopting a dog from an animal shelter, although due to Malia Obama\u2019s<\/a> allergies they eventually accepted a Portuguese Water Dog<\/a> from Senator Ted Kennedy<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

Obama Tapped His Inner Krazy Kat When He Taught Us to Embrace Mutts The Daily Beast 2017-01-18 Michael Tisserand Michael Tisserand is the author of Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White. A self-described \u2018mutt,\u2019 Obama encouraged us to think about race in ways that erased the color line. But George Herriman, another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,125,8,26,20],"tags":[13385,9929,9930,25524,13384],"class_list":["post-51278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-daily-beast","tag-george-herriman","tag-krazy-kat","tag-michael-tisserand","tag-the-daily-beast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51278","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=51278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51279,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51278\/revisions\/51279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}