{"id":57090,"date":"2018-11-27T03:05:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T03:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57090"},"modified":"2018-11-27T03:35:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T03:35:28","slug":"in-2008-there-was-hope-in-2018-there-is-hurt-this-is-americas-state-of-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57090","title":{"rendered":"In 2008, there was hope. In 2018, there is hurt. This is America&#8217;s state of hate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/26\/us\/america-state-of-hate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>In 2008, there was hope. In 2018, there is hurt. This is America&#8217;s state of hate.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cable News Network (CNN)<\/a><br \/>\n2018-11-26<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mallorysimoncnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mallory Simon<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarasidnercnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sara Sidner<\/strong><\/a>, CNN<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/26\/us\/america-state-of-hate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/181126215836-20181126-america-state-of-hate-no-headline-main-illustration-super-tease.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(CNN) On Election Night in 2008, Americans gathered in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grant_Park_(Chicago)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grant Park, Chicago<\/a>. They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/11\/04\/obama\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cried tears of joy<\/a> knowing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a> would become the first black president.<\/p>\n<p>For millions of Americans, Obama lifted the nation. For white supremacists, he lit a powder keg.<\/p>\n<p>His election supercharged the divisions that have existed since the country&#8217;s birth.<\/p>\n<p>The hate created two Americas. Two realities. Split-screen reactions to the same events, that continued and were exacerbated with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Trump&#8217;s<\/a> victory and time in office&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/26\/us\/america-state-of-hate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For millions of Americans, Obama lifted the nation. For white supremacists, he lit a powder keg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,23674,394,20],"tags":[9447,3142,21057,29124,29122,29123],"class_list":["post-57090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-cable-news-network","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-jason-kravarik","tag-mallory-simon","tag-sara-sidner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57090","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=57090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57092,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57090\/revisions\/57092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}