{"id":6461,"date":"2010-04-04T17:33:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T17:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6461"},"modified":"2011-10-27T19:37:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:37:14","slug":"obama-census-choice-african-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6461","title":{"rendered":"Obama Census Choice: African-American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/04\/02\/obama-census-choice-afric_n_524012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Census Choice: African-American<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2010-04-02<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark S. Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 He may be the world&#8217;s foremost mixed-race leader, but when it came to the official government head count, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a> gave only one answer to the question about his ethnic background: African-American.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a> confirmed on Friday that Obama did not check multiple boxes on his <a href=\"http:\/\/2010.census.gov\/2010census\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Census<\/a> form, or choose the option that allows him to elaborate on his racial heritage. He ticked the box that says &#8220;Black, African Am., or Negro.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Obama the community activist and then politician always self-identified as African-American, and he now wears the mantle of America&#8217;s first black president with pride&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/04\/02\/obama-census-choice-afric_n_524012.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Census Choice: African-American The Huffington Post 2010-04-02 Mark S. Smith WASHINGTON \u2014 He may be the world&#8217;s foremost mixed-race leader, but when it came to the official government head count, President Barack Obama gave only one answer to the question about his ethnic background: African-American. The White House confirmed on Friday that Obama did [&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":[2704,2425],"class_list":["post-6461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-mark-s-smith","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461","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=6461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}