{"id":5548,"date":"2010-02-27T02:39:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T02:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5548"},"modified":"2011-10-27T19:37:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:37:15","slug":"dominic-mhiripiri-%e2%80%9912-please-mr-obama-is-not-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5548","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Mhiripiri \u201912: Please. Mr. Obama is not black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.browndailyherald.com\/dominic-mhiripiri-12-please-mr-obama-is-not-black-1.2156915\" target=\"_blank\">Dominic Mhiripiri \u201912: Please. Mr. Obama is not black<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.browndailyherald.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Brown Daily Herald<\/a><br \/>\n2010-02-03<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:dominic_mhiripiri@brown.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Dominic Mhiripiri<\/a><\/strong>, Opinions Columnist<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the United States marked the first anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>\u2019s historic ascent to the apex of American politics. For a candidate who electrified a whole generation of American youth and whose promise gave the whole world great expectations, the man\u2019s image borders on the divine. At least, it did one year ago. Since then, America has basked in some sort of self-congratulatory-slash-too-good-to-be-true euphoria. It\u2019s because Obama\u2019s election comes in a different context \u2014 namely, a very historic one. It\u2019s because he is the first black president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Wait. Really? Black?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;In an understandable but nevertheless misplaced assertion, the U.S. is trying to convince itself, primarily through Obama\u2019s election, that it has attained the cherished ideal that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King_Jr\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Luther King Jr.<\/a> and many others fought for in their illustrious civil rights movement: a post-racial America&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browndailyherald.com\/dominic-mhiripiri-12-please-mr-obama-is-not-black-1.2156915\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Mhiripiri \u201912: Please. Mr. Obama is not black The Brown Daily Herald 2010-02-03 Dominic Mhiripiri, Opinions Columnist Recently, the United States marked the first anniversary of Barack Obama\u2019s historic ascent to the apex of American politics. For a candidate who electrified a whole generation of American youth and whose promise gave the whole world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,6,26,394,20],"tags":[2323,2322],"class_list":["post-5548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-dominic-mhiripiri","tag-the-brown-daily-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548","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=5548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}