{"id":5309,"date":"2004-10-22T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5309"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:09:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:09:46","slug":"senate-debate-gets-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/10\/22\/senate-debate-gets-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate debate gets personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate debate gets personal:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/specials\/elections\/chi-0410220071oct22,1,6919193.story\">Obama, Keyes exchange fighting words on morals, race, religion<\/a><br \/>\nBy John Chase and Liam Ford<br \/>\nTribune staff reporters<br \/>\nOctober 22, 2004<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a discussion of the significance of race in the nation&#8217;s first-ever Senate contest between two major party African-American candidates, Keyes said the racial background of the challengers was important for voters to consider.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Race is involved in this in one way because the heritage that people have has a bearing on who they are and what they consider to be important,&#8221; Keyes said.<\/p>\n<p>Obama took offense at the remark, considering it to be an insinuation that Keyes had a more pure African-American identity than Obama, who is the child of a white mother and an African father.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess Mr. Keyes started off making a point that he&#8217;s somehow more authentically African-American than I am,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;You know, I obviously find that offensive.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama will find that he will never achieve total acceptance by his adopted people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate debate gets personal: Obama, Keyes exchange fighting words on morals, race, religion By John Chase and Liam Ford Tribune staff reporters October 22, 2004 In a discussion of the significance of race in&#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":[197],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1nD","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\/5309","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=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6996,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions\/6996"}],"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=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}