{"id":51578,"date":"2017-02-19T00:44:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T00:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51578"},"modified":"2017-02-20T02:40:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T02:40:58","slug":"mixed-like-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51578","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Like Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed Like Obama<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Philadelphia Printworks<\/a>
\n2017-01-30<\/p>\n

Brianna Suslovic<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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I remember turning on the morning news in eighth grade, shoveling cereal into my mouth as my mother poured herself the second cup of coffee that morning. A man who looked like me was on-screen, announcing his candidacy for the presidency, answering questions from the nice white lady interviewer in the Rockefeller Center studio<\/a>. When I got home from school that day, I googled that man, someone I\u2019d never seen or heard of before. His name was Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like Obama, I\u2019m a half-black, half-white kid who was raised by a single white mother. Reading through his Wikipedia page<\/a> that afternoon had me sold\u2014I was ready to see myself represented in the Oval Office<\/a>, ready to watch a man like me take the presidential oath of office. My fourteen-year-old hopes were suddenly bound up in this man\u2019s trajectory toward the presidency. That fall, as a high school freshman, I campaigned my heart out for this man, holding Obama signs at the busiest intersection in my small upstate New York<\/a> hometown on weekends leading up to the election.<\/p>\n

After winning the election, Obama became America\u2019s first black president, which left me in a strange sort of predicament…<\/p>\n

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

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