{"id":5236,"date":"2004-08-02T12:46:13","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T12:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:10:10","slug":"breaking-the-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/02\/breaking-the-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/01\/opinion\/01gates.html\">Breaking the Silence<\/a><br \/>\nThe New York Times<br \/>\nAugust 1, 2004<br \/>\nBy HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Go into any inner-city neighborhood,&#8221; Barack Obama said in his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention, &#8220;and folks will tell you that government alone can&#8217;t teach kids to learn. They know that parents have to parent, that children can&#8217;t achieve unless we raise their expectations and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.&#8221; In a speech filled with rousing applause lines, it was a line that many black Democratic delegates found especially galvanizing. Not just because they agreed, but because it was a home truth they&#8217;d seldom heard a politician say out loud.<\/p>\n<p>Why has it been so difficult for black leaders to say such things in public, without being pilloried for &#8220;blaming the victim&#8221;? Why the huge flap over Bill Cosby&#8217;s insistence that black teenagers do their homework, stay in school, master standard English and stop having babies? Any black person who frequents a barbershop or beauty parlor in the inner city knows that Mr. Cosby was only echoing sentiments widely shared in the black community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking the Silence The New York Times August 1, 2004 By HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. &#8220;Go into any inner-city neighborhood,&#8221; Barack Obama said in his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention, &#8220;and folks&#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":[],"class_list":["post-5236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1ms","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\/5236","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=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7086,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions\/7086"}],"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=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}