{"id":7460,"date":"2010-01-31T17:55:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T17:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/01\/31\/forgetting-that-obama-is-black\/"},"modified":"2010-01-31T17:55:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T17:55:33","slug":"forgetting-that-obama-is-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/31\/forgetting-that-obama-is-black\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;forgetting that Obama is black&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chris Matthews &#8220;forgetting that Obama is black&#8221; falls into that same range of racism as &#8220;Pretty for a black girl&#8221; and the &#8220;You&#8217;re not like those other black people&#8221; claptrap often espoused by the &#8220;I&#8217;m not racist, but&#8230;&#8221; crowd. They&#8217;re coded as compliments, but the subtext is still an ugly one that frames racism as being the fault of the oppressed&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>see: <a href=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/2010\/01\/29\/transcending-race-a-history-lesson\/\">Transcending Race&#8230;A History Lesson <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Chris Matthews &#8220;forgetting that Obama is black&#8221; falls into that same range of racism as &#8220;Pretty for a black girl&#8221; and the &#8220;You&#8217;re not like those other black people&#8221; claptrap often espoused by the &#8220;I&#8217;m not racist, but&#8230;&#8221; crowd. They&#8217;re coded as compliments, but the subtext is still an ugly one that frames racism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/31\/forgetting-that-obama-is-black\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230;forgetting that Obama is black&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1Wk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}