{"id":622,"date":"2008-02-19T22:41:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T03:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=622"},"modified":"2008-02-20T22:54:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T03:54:17","slug":"dubious-quote-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Dubious quote of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/barbara-ehrenreich\/unstoppable-obama_b_86677.html\">Barbara Ehrenreich, in The Huffington Post, on Obama<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We, perhaps white people especially, look to him for atonement and redemption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But isn&#8217;t that precisely the problem? Obama as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2004\/20041025\/kinga.shtml\">&#8220;Magical Negro&#8221;<\/a>, absolving white people of their racist guilt? (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/ministerfaust.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/obama-fable-and-obama-challenge.html\">Minister Faust<\/a> for this reference&#8230;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Ehrenreich, in The Huffington Post, on Obama: &#8220;We, perhaps white people especially, look to him for atonement and redemption.&#8221; But isn&#8217;t that precisely the problem? Obama as &#8220;Magical Negro&#8221;, absolving white people of their racist guilt? (thanks to Minister Faust for this reference&#8230;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}