{"id":54328,"date":"2017-06-28T18:28:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54328"},"modified":"2017-06-28T18:28:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:28:54","slug":"i-only-protested-the-affordable-care-act-because-the-president-was-black-please-dont-take-away-my-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54328","title":{"rendered":"I Only Protested the Affordable Care Act Because the President Was Black. Please Don\u2019t Take Away My Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/i-only-protested-the-affordable-care-act-because-the-president-was-black-please-dont-take-away-my-health-insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>I Only Protested the Affordable Care Act Because the President Was Black. Please Don\u2019t Take Away My Health Insurance<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McSweeney\u2019s Internet Tendency<\/a><br \/>\n2017-06-27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidbradleyeye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>David Bradley Isenberg<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/i-only-protested-the-affordable-care-act-because-the-president-was-black-please-dont-take-away-my-health-insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/card_img\/879736856295784448\/g9lLGVjr?format=jpg&amp;name=600x314\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2009, when the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act<\/a> was being debated in Congress, I was fuming with anger. How could I, a fiscal conservative, support a program that would drive down my insurance costs and cover my child\u2019s preexisting condition? It clearly was a flawed bill that would ruin small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>I nearly boiled over for eight years, and rightly so. But now that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Obama<\/a> has finally left office, and the Republicans want to take away my health insurance options and increase my premiums, I just want to be up front about something.<\/p>\n<p>It was never about the taxes. It was always about the president\u2019s Blackness. It was super related to his race. Arguably, completely and wholly tied to race, alright? And now that the president is normal again, I\u2019d be very grateful to be able to enjoy this health insurance and all these patient protections that have saved my small business and my child\u2019s life. So please, don\u2019t repeal the Affordable Care Act..<\/p>\n<p>Read (and enjoy) the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/i-only-protested-the-affordable-care-act-because-the-president-was-black-please-dont-take-away-my-health-insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2009, when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was being debated in Congress, I was fuming with anger. How could I, a fiscal conservative, support a program that would drive down my insurance costs and cover my child\u2019s preexisting condition? It clearly was a flawed bill that would ruin small businesses.<\/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":[24471,27178,27177,24472],"class_list":["post-54328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-david-bradley-isenberg","tag-mcsweeneys-internet-tendency","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54328","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=54328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54329,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54328\/revisions\/54329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}