{"id":356,"date":"2008-11-06T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=356"},"modified":"2008-11-06T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T14:53:02","slug":"checking-racisms-post-election-pulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/11\/06\/checking-racisms-post-election-pulse\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;checking racism&#8217;s post-election pulse&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by John Pazdan on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/14409138@N00\/3008191410\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2215\/3008191410_094de22b72_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Somewhere in Chicago...\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2008\/11\/06\/checking_racisms_postelection_pulse\/\">Boston Globe<\/a> ran a story this morning about whether or not American racism is dead after the nation chose an African-American as the next president of the United States on Tuesday. The Globe reports, &#8220;The answer, coming as people began to digest the fact that a majority of Americans had chosen a black man, Barack Obama, to be the 44th president, was not nearly as straightforward. No, but sort of. Maybe, but probably not. While Obama&#8217;s achievement was profound, its psychological lift enormous for many, the impact on the rhythms of people&#8217;s everyday lives was revealing itself in subtler ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article includes commentary from researchers, lawyers and Boston residents. Sociologist Dan Monti weighs in&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Are there racist people out there? Absolutely. Is our society racist? No,&#8221; said Dan Monti, a professor of sociology at Boston University whose specialty is race and ethnic relations in the United States. &#8220;I know there are people who will think that&#8217;s just wrong. But I think Barack Obama winning the presidency of the United States is the single clearest example that we are not. Because if we were, it wouldn&#8217;t have happened &#8211; period&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In his sociology classes yesterday at BU, Monti told his students that everything &#8211; and nothing &#8211; changed on Tuesday night and that a series of changes, small and large, over the last century had laid the platform for Obama&#8217;s victory stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With that said, what this represents, both domestically and internationally, is a coming of age of the American people,&#8221; Monti said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2008\/11\/06\/checking_racisms_postelection_pulse\/?page=2\">Full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe ran a story this morning about whether or not American racism is dead after the nation chose an African-American as the next president of the United States on Tuesday. The Globe reports, &#8220;The answer, coming as people began to digest the fact that a majority of Americans had chosen a black man, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39112,154,39115,39111],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-culture","tag-political","tag-politics","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}