{"id":8332,"date":"2010-08-17T22:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T22:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8332"},"modified":"2015-10-14T01:27:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T01:27:01","slug":"president-obama-checks-the-%e2%80%9cblack%e2%80%9d-box-evidently-its-official-barack-obama-is-the-nations-first-black-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8332","title":{"rendered":"President Obama checks the \u201cBlack\u201d box; Evidently it&#8217;s official: Barack Obama is the nation&#8217;s first black president."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/what-the-wild-things-are\/201004\/president-obama-checks-the-black-box\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama checks the \u201cBlack\u201d box Evidently it&#8217;s official: Barack Obama is the nation&#8217;s first black president.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\" target=\"_blank\">Psychology Today<\/a><br \/>\n2010-04-04<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/node\/40151\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha Smithstein<\/a><\/strong>, Psy.D., Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Co-Founder<br \/>\n<em>Pathways Institute for Impulse Control, San Francisco<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This week, the <em>New York Times<\/em> reported that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=6435\" target=\"_blank\">It is official: Barack Obama is the nation&#8217;s first black president<\/a>.\u201d Evidently, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> chose to check the &#8220;African-American&#8221; box when defining his race for the 2010 census<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<strong>From the perspective of science and biological anthropology, race does not exist.<\/strong> In other words, there is not one gene, trait, or characteristic that distinguishes all members of one race from all members of another. In fact, eighty-five percent of all human variation can be found in any local population, and a full ninety-four percent can be found on any continent. <strong>In other words, there are no sub-species when it comes to humans; we are, in truth, one of the most genetically similar to each other species of all species on earth<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/what-the-wild-things-are\/201004\/president-obama-checks-the-black-box\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama checks the \u201cBlack\u201d box Evidently it&#8217;s official: Barack Obama is the nation&#8217;s first black president. Psychology Today 2010-04-04 Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D., Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Co-Founder Pathways Institute for Impulse Control, San Francisco This week, the New York Times reported that \u201cIt is official: Barack Obama is the nation&#8217;s first black president.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,33,8,26,394,20],"tags":[3532,3531],"class_list":["post-8332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-psychology-today","tag-samantha-smithstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332","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=8332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43236,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions\/43236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}