{"id":3642,"date":"2010-01-15T17:20:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T01:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2010-01-15T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T01:20:14","slug":"magical-thinking-watch-eternal-unchanging-racism-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/magical-thinking-watch-eternal-unchanging-racism-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical thinking watch: Eternal, unchanging racism chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New York Times<\/em> columnist Clyde Haberman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/15\/nyregion\/15nyc.html?ref=nyregion\">seriously considers <\/a>whether President Obama&#8217;s failure to enthusiastically back three black politicians&#8211;David Paterson, William Thompson, and Harold Ford&#8211;shows &#8220;how much remains to be done&#8221; regarding civil rights.\u00a0 \u00a0Maybe Obama has &#8220;a problem with blacks,&#8221; Haberman speculates.\u00a0 Haberman acknoweldges that &#8220;there are those who see it as healthy that an African-American leader does not feel reflexively that he must support African-American candidates&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 and ultimately seems to agree with such iconoclasts, but not after demonstrating how insanely dug in the racial industry is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times columnist Clyde Haberman seriously considers whether President Obama&#8217;s failure to enthusiastically back three black politicians&#8211;David Paterson, William Thompson, and Harold Ford&#8211;shows &#8220;how much remains to be done&#8221; regarding civil rights.\u00a0 \u00a0Maybe Obama has &#8220;a problem with blacks,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/magical-thinking-watch-eternal-unchanging-racism-chapter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3644,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}