{"id":193306,"date":"2010-01-18T07:42:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T12:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/01\/18\/obamas-first-year-high-hopes-and-deferred-dreams-for-black-americans\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T07:42:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T12:42:52","slug":"obama%e2%80%99s-first-year-%e2%80%98high-hopes-and-deferred-dreams%e2%80%99-for-black-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/193306","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s first year: \u2018High hopes and deferred dreams\u2019 for black Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama’s first year: ‘High hopes and deferred dreams’ for black Americans \t\t\t<\/a>
Adapted from A Day Late and A Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama’s ‘Post-racial’ America, published this month by John Wiley and Sons.
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Obama invokes health-care ‘progress’ in speech honoring MLK \t\t\t<\/a>
President Obama called on the memory of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday in making what could be seen as a veiled plea for pragmatism on his health-care overhaul, saying that the civil rights leader never chose to forsake progress for a theoretical ideal that was out of reach at the time.

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Fewer Americans think Obama has advanced race relations, poll shows \t\t\t<\/a>
Soaring expectations about the effect of the first black president on U.S. race relations have collided with a more mundane reality, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

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Obama’s first year: ‘High hopes and deferred dreams’ for black Americans Adapted from A Day Late and A Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama’s ‘Post-racial’ America, published this month by John Wiley and Sons. Obama invokes health-care ‘progress’ in speech honoring MLK President Obama called on the memory of the Rev. Martin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}