{"id":197898,"date":"2010-01-19T07:49:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T12:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/01\/19\/does-harold-ford-jr%e2%80%99s-race-matter\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T07:49:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T12:49:10","slug":"does-harold-ford-jr-%e2%80%99s-race-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/197898","title":{"rendered":"Does Harold Ford Jr.\u2019s Race Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Truthdig\/~3\/l5pzfBgf_iA\/\" >Does Harold Ford Jr.\u2019s Race Matter?       <\/a><br \/>New Yorkers, beware. It seems that former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., a transplant from Tennessee, has upset people again. Ford, an executive at Merrill Lynch and a New York University lecturer who might be seeking to unseat fellow Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand of New York in a race for the U.S. Senate, has made a very bold statement about his identity.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left; margin: 0 10px 0 0; border: 1px solid #333333;\"><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/does_harold_ford_jrs_race_matter_20100118\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/images\/reportuploads\/doesharoldfordjrsracematter_160.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Harold Ford Jr.\" width=\"160\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>                <b>By Marcia Alesan Dawkins<\/b><\/p>\n<p>New Yorkers, beware. It seems that former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., a transplant from Tennessee, has upset people again. Ford, an executive at Merrill Lynch and a New York University lecturer who might be <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/ford_gearing_up_for_senate_race_9UQVtyZ1z3d5OfLZddPzmN\">seeking<\/a> to unseat fellow Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand of New York in a race for the U.S. Senate, has made a very bold statement about his identity. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3>Related Entries<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>January 19, 2010 <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/the_bay_state_lesson_20100118\/\">The Bay State Lesson<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 18, 2010 <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/avbooth\/item\/bill_clinton_george_w_bushs_fourth_brother_20100118\/\">Bill Clinton: George W. 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New Yorkers, beware. It seems that former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., a transplant from Tennessee, has upset people again. Ford, an executive at Merrill Lynch and a New York University lecturer who might be seeking to unseat fellow Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand of New York in a race for [&hellip;]<\/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-197898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197898","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=197898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}