{"id":58826,"date":"2019-09-04T21:34:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58826"},"modified":"2019-09-04T21:34:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:34:19","slug":"the-forum-council-did-not-oversell-its-claim-the-du-bois-stoddard-debate-turned-out-to-be-a-singular-event-as-important-in-its-way-as-lincoln-douglas-or-kennedy-nixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58826","title":{"rendered":"The Forum Council did not oversell its claim. The Du Bois-Stoddard debate turned out to be a singular event, as important in its way as Lincoln-Douglas or Kennedy-Nixon."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Forum Council did not oversell its claim. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lothrop_Stoddard#Debate_with_W._E._B._Du_Bois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Du Bois-Stoddard debate<\/a> turned out to be a singular event, as important in its way as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lincoln\u2013Douglas_debates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lincoln-Douglas<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1960_United_States_presidential_election#Debates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kennedy-Nixon<\/a>. The reason more people don\u2019t know about it may be its asymmetry. The other historic matchups featured rivals who disagreed politically but wouldn\u2019t have disputed their opponent\u2019s right to exist. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lothrop_Stoddard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Lothrop] Stoddard<\/a> had written that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mulattoes<\/a>\u201d like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._E._B._Du_Bois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[W. E. B.] Du Bois<\/a>, who could not accept their inferior status, were the chief cause of racial unrest in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>, and he looked forward to their dying out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Ian Frazier, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58815\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When W. E. B. Du Bois Made a Laughingstock of a White Supremacist<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, August 19, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2019\/08\/26\/when-w-e-b-du-bois-made-a-laughingstock-of-a-white-supremacist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2019\/08\/26\/when-w-e-b-du-bois-made-a-laughingstock-of-a-white-supremacist<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forum Council did not oversell its claim. The Du Bois-Stoddard debate turned out to be a singular event, as important in its way as Lincoln-Douglas or Kennedy-Nixon. The reason more people don\u2019t know about it may be its asymmetry. The other historic matchups featured rivals who disagreed politically but wouldn\u2019t have disputed their opponent\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30196,30197,16819,3886,30198,122],"class_list":["post-58826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ian-frazier","tag-lothrop-stoddard","tag-new-yorker","tag-the-new-yorker","tag-theodore-lothrop-stoddard","tag-w-e-b-du-bois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58826","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=58826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58827,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58826\/revisions\/58827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}