{"id":53757,"date":"2017-05-03T02:37:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T02:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53757"},"modified":"2017-05-03T02:39:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T02:39:03","slug":"barack-obamas-400000-speaking-fees-reveal-what-few-want-to-admit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53757","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama’s $400,000 speaking fees reveal what few want to admit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama’s $400,000 speaking fees reveal what few want to admit<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2017-05-01<\/p>\n

Steven W. Thrasher<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n\u2018It seems like Obama<\/a> will spend his post-presidency hauling in money as the Clintons have.\u2019 Photograph: Susan Walsh\/AP <\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

His mission was never racial or economic justice. It\u2019s time we stop pretending it was<\/em><\/p>\n

The reason many of us have been critical of Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> outrageous $400,000 speaking fee is that it robs us of a fantasy: that sooner or later, the first black president was going to use his considerable powers, in or out of office, to help the economic ravages of the poor, who are disproportionately black.<\/p>\n

That Obama\u2019s project was or ever would be racial and economic justice was always a dream \u2013 and the sooner we let go of this and recognize Obama for who he is and what he does, the better we\u2019ll all be.<\/p>\n

Some people who disagree with me believe I am racist for not lauding Obama\u2019s right to cash in on the presidency the same way the Clinton and Bush dynasties have. I will never deny the representational and psychological value of having had Obama in the Oval Office<\/a> and his beautiful black family living in the White House. I always liked the guy immensely, even as I\u2019ve criticized the politician…<\/p>\n

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

His mission was never racial or economic justice. It\u2019s time we stop pretending it was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[2103],"class_list":["post-53757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53757","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=53757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53759,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53757\/revisions\/53759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}