{"id":691,"date":"2008-06-12T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2008-06-12T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T16:27:00","slug":"stirring-the-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Stirring the pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#39;t get <a href=\"http:\/\/campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/11\/benign-neglect\/\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In his March 18 remarks in Philadelphia, Mr. Obama eloquently called for a national discussion on race. But in a speech lauded for its honesty, this plea was unconvincing. Having benefited from the nation&rsquo;s quieter tone, Mr. Obama must avoid stirring the racial pot, unnerving white voters for whom his race requires a leap of faith.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Why wasn&#39;t the speech &quot;convincing&quot;?&nbsp; What is &quot;stirring the racial pot&quot;?&nbsp; If somehow our public discourse has moved beyond Obama&#39;s race, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/06\/11\/fox-news-calls-michelle-o_n_106655.html\">I haven&#39;t seen it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#39;t get this: In his March 18 remarks in Philadelphia, Mr. Obama eloquently called for a national discussion on race. But in a speech lauded for its honesty, this plea was unconvincing. Having benefited from the nation&rsquo;s quieter tone, Mr. Obama must avoid stirring the racial pot, unnerving white voters for whom his race &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=691\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stirring the pot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,2],"tags":[108,109],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lack-of-evidence","category-op-ed-writers","tag-obama","tag-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}