{"id":540,"date":"2008-05-01T13:40:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T17:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=540"},"modified":"2008-05-01T13:40:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T17:40:43","slug":"will-barack-obamas-raceless-race-be-erased-by-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Will Barack Obama’s Raceless Race Be Erased by Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wright<\/p>\n

Bravo to Black Agenda Report<\/em><\/a> executive editor Glen Ford for his smart analysis<\/a> of the Obama-Wright debacle. Titled, “Obama\u2019s \u2018Race Neutral\u2019 Strategy Unravels of its Own Contradictions,”<\/a> the piece argues that, in the wake of pastor Jeremiah Wright’s three-day, “televised Black Liberation Theology tour de force<\/em>,” Obama is withering, not from what Wright hath wrought, but from a fundamental disconnect built into Obama ’08.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama’s strategy to win the White House was to run a “race-neutral” campaign in a society that is anything but neutral on race. The very premise – that race neutrality is possible in a nation built on white supremacy – demanded the systematic practice of the most profound race-factual denial, which is ultimately indistinguishable from rank dishonesty. From the moment Obama told the 2004 Democratic National Convention that “there is no white America, there is no Black America,” it was inevitable that the candidate would one day declare the vast body of Black opinion illegitimate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then, it just takes off from there. The weekly is, as they, themselves, say, like nothing else out there. A must-read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bravo to Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford for his smart analysis of the Obama-Wright debacle. Titled, “Obama\u2019s \u2018Race Neutral\u2019 Strategy Unravels of its Own Contradictions,” the piece argues that, in the wake of pastor Jeremiah Wright’s three-day, “televised Black Liberation Theology tour de force,” Obama is withering, not from what Wright hath wrought, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46,31,9,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4722,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}