{"id":6435,"date":"2013-03-16T16:40:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T16:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2013-03-16T16:42:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T16:42:51","slug":"asked-to-declare-his-race-obama-checks-%e2%80%98black%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6435","title":{"rendered":"Asked to Declare His Race, Obama Checks \u2018Black\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/03\/us\/politics\/03census.html\" target=\"_blank\">Asked to Declare His Race, Obama Checks \u2018Black\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2010-04-02<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam Roberts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Baker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is official: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> is the nation\u2019s first black president.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a> spokesman confirmed that Mr. Obama, the son of a black father from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenya\" target=\"_blank\">Kenya<\/a> and a white mother from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kansas\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas<\/a>, checked African-American on the <a href=\"http:\/\/2010.census.gov\/2010census\/\" target=\"_blank\">2010 census<\/a> questionnaire&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Mr. Obama could have checked white, checked both black and white, or checked the last category on the form, \u201csome other race,\u201d which he would then have been asked to identify in writing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/03\/us\/politics\/03census.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked to Declare His Race, Obama Checks \u2018Black\u2019 The New York Times 2010-04-02 Sam Roberts Peter Baker It is official: Barack Obama is the nation\u2019s first black president. A White House spokesman confirmed that Mr. Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, checked African-American on the 2010 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,33,8,26,20],"tags":[2640,2703,2702,2327],"class_list":["post-6435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-new-york-times","tag-peter-baker","tag-sam-roberts","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435","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=6435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}