{"id":330,"date":"2007-08-13T06:24:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T06:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntucat.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/13\/who-else-would-be-black-enough\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T18:16:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:16:35","slug":"who-else-would-be-black-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/who-else-would-be-black-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Who else would be “black enough”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like Senator Barack Obama<\/a>, I’m also perplexed by the question of whether he is “black enough” or not. <\/p>\n

First of all, does the white community ask if Hillary Clinton or John Edwards is “white enough”? And if Barack isn’t<\/i> deemed to be “black enough,” does that mean Black democrats will vote for a white person instead? I’m confused by the whole logic of this line of inquiry. I don’t ever criticize Asian-American politicians as being not “yellow enough” be voted for, or Asian-American actors of not being “yellow enough” to act. <\/p>\n

Considering the United States has had only white male presumably heterosexual married (Masonic?) presidents since its inception, any deviation from that is refreshing. We’ve had one Catholic president. Maybe we could have a woman or “black enough” president soon. Who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like Senator Barack Obama, I’m also perplexed by the question of whether he is “black enough” or not. First of all, does the white community ask if Hillary Clinton or John Edwards is “white enough”? And if Barack isn’t deemed to be “black enough,” does that mean Black democrats will vote for a white person… Continue reading Who else would be “black enough”?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-class-gender-sexuality","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}