{"id":568,"date":"2008-05-12T09:05:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T13:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=568"},"modified":"2008-05-12T09:06:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T13:06:15","slug":"the-occidental-negro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"The Occidental Negro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cqLvzFv5Q14\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tellin\u2019 it like it is\u2026\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/screen9.jpg\" title=\"Tellin\u2019 it like it is\u2026\" alt=\"Tellin\u2019 it like it is\u2026\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fact that, in 1974, Barack Obama was 13 and living in Hawai&#8217;i means nothing to the time-stuttering, narrative-bending comedian in this absurd, high-larious short.<\/p>\n<p>Freddy Lockhart&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/BARACKin74\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>BARACKin74<\/em><\/a> series imagines an alternate universe in which Obama is a rising, ambitious, yet somewhat naive and full-of-himself freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Captured in the faux, promotional video-style of schools at that time, mixing archival footage with his own impersonation of the senator, I have a hard time putting my finger on why I love Lockhart&#8217;s cerebral act. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a15X-ZjODms\"  target=\"_blank\">Dave Chappelle doesn&#8217;t, though<\/a>. So, listen to Rick James, if that&#8217;s what it takes to get you to watch this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that, in 1974, Barack Obama was 13 and living in Hawai&#8217;i means nothing to the time-stuttering, narrative-bending comedian in this absurd, high-larious short. Freddy Lockhart&#8217;s BARACKin74 series imagines an alternate universe in which Obama is a rising, ambitious, yet somewhat naive and full-of-himself freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Captured in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,42,8,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568"}],"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=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}