{"id":8547,"date":"2004-03-10T17:56:54","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T17:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2021-09-22T21:18:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T21:18:53","slug":"blacks-eye-that-john-kerry-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/03\/10\/blacks-eye-that-john-kerry-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Blacks eye that John Kerry guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clarence Page, writing for the Chicago Tribune, on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/ct-xpm-2004-03-10-0403100127-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"_15gqBTUta5ZVWkGNTkvx90\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Blacks eye that John\u00a0Kerry guy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">&#8220;:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;John Kerry is not a black man,&#8221; she said, according to the Associated Press. &#8220;He is a privileged white man who has no idea what it is in this country to be a poor white in this country, let alone a black man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe. But if Kerry wins the presidency, at least his wife would be our first African-American first lady. Theresa Heinz Kerry, whose ancestry is white Portuguese, was born and raised in Mozambique, and then joined the anti-apartheid movement as a college student in nearby South Africa. She may not be black, but she&#8217;s a lot more African than most Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that no one suggests that either Clinton or Kerry should search his geneology in order to become &#8220;black.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarence Page, writing for the Chicago Tribune, on &#8220;Blacks eye that John\u00a0Kerry guy&#8220;: &#8220;John Kerry is not a black man,&#8221; she said, according to the Associated Press. &#8220;He is a privileged white man who&#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-8547","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-2dR","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\/8547","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=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8548,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions\/8548"}],"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=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}