{"id":531,"date":"2008-03-18T11:07:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T16:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2008-03-18T11:07:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T16:07:14","slug":"obama-and-the-race-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Obama and the &#8220;Race&#8221; Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120579535818243439.html?mod=djemEditorialPage\" target=\"_blank\">WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Race helps Mr. Obama in another way &#8212; it lifts his political campaign to the level of allegory, making it the stuff of a far higher drama than budget deficits and education reform. His dark skin, with its powerful evocations of America&#8217;s tortured racial past, frames the political contest as a morality play. Will his victory mean America&#8217;s redemption from its racist past? Will his defeat show an America morally unevolved? Is his campaign a story of black overcoming, an echo of the civil rights movement? Or is it a passing-of-the-torch story, of one generation displacing another?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120579535818243439.html?mod=djemEditorialPage\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: WSJ &#8230;Race helps Mr. Obama in another way &#8212; it lifts his political campaign to the level of allegory, making it the stuff of a far higher drama than budget deficits and education reform. His dark skin, with its powerful evocations of America&#8217;s tortured racial past, frames the political contest as a morality play. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}