{"id":5139,"date":"2003-12-29T02:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-29T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5139"},"modified":"2021-06-13T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T21:43:07","slug":"what-made-sammy-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/29\/what-made-sammy-run\/","title":{"rendered":"What Made Sammy Run?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/28\/books\/review\/28GIDDINT.htm\">What Made Sammy Run?<\/a><br \/>\nDecember 28, 2003<br \/>\nThe New York Times<br \/>\nBy GARY GIDDINS <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is it possible for an entertainer who achieved the pinnacles of success &#8212; wealth, fame, power, a critical and collegial regard verging on awe, at least during the long climb to the top &#8212; to be remembered primarily as a cultural martyr? In the case of Sammy Davis Jr., a qualified &#8221;yes&#8221; seems reasonable. Unlike Frank Sinatra, whose music will ultimately obliterate the man&#8217;s boorish qualities, Davis has virtually disappeared from the cultural landscape while his immense, long-lived celebrity clouds the minds of those who endured it. To many of us born in the 1940&#8217;s and 1950&#8217;s, he has become a joke: a bejeweled, Nehru jacket-wearing, women-and-stimulants-pursuing, faux-hipster caricature who cackled at racially stupid jokes that were designed to show how progressively good-natured the tellers and their victim-buddy were.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Made Sammy Run? December 28, 2003 The New York Times By GARY GIDDINS Is it possible for an entertainer who achieved the pinnacles of success &#8212; wealth, fame, power, a critical and collegial&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-5139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-interracial-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1kT","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7315,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions\/7315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}