{"id":461,"date":"2009-01-30T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/30\/african-americans-now-lead-both-national-political-parties\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T21:37:00","slug":"african-americans-now-lead-both-national-political-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/30\/african-americans-now-lead-both-national-political-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"African Americans now lead both national political parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know &#8211; Barack Obama isn&#8217;t technically chairman of the Democratic National Committee, but he&#8217;s still the leader in chief of the his party.<\/p>\n<p>And now Michael Steele heads the RNC.  <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the first black man to hold the chairmanship of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an amazing few months in terms of our society&#8217;s on-going negotiation with issues of race.<\/p>\n<p>This can only be positive, in terms of the Republican Party&#8217;s coming-to-grips with the country&#8217;s changing demographic texture.<\/p>\n<p>And I know people are getting tired of my rah-rah and my exceptionalism, but I think I&#8217;m being accurate when I say:  Only in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know &#8211; Barack Obama isn&#8217;t technically chairman of the Democratic National Committee, but he&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}