{"id":4527,"date":"2012-09-01T13:37:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T13:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2022-01-18T17:11:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:11:14","slug":"coates-on-bam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/coates-on-bam\/","title":{"rendered":"Coates on Bam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/print\/2012\/09\/fear-of-a-black-president\/309064\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/a> has written a superb and insightful essay on black and white perceptions of Barack Obama as President and as a black American in a country that experienced 175 years of white affirmative action.&nbsp; The common phrase describing what black Americans need to be for success in white society is:&nbsp; <em>twice as good and half as black. <\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a superb and insightful essay on black and white perceptions of Barack Obama as President and as a black American in a country that experienced 175 years of white affirmative action.&nbsp; The common phrase describing what black Americans need to be for success in white society is:&nbsp; twice as good and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,34,57,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-heroes","category-obama-speeches","category-politics","p1","y2012","m09","d01","h13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10591,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions\/10591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}