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In a country that likes to think it celebrates cultural diversity, race and identity continue to be a complex topic. When Barack Obama entered the presidential race, people of Mixed Race thought they finally had someone to speak for them...or do they? Independent Producer Dmae Roberts deciphers the hidden messages in Obama's famous "race" speech in March.
This story is part of the Promise Commentary series, an intimate look at the promises candidates are making this election year. All of them are free, compliments of CPB and the 100s of local stations who contributed to the PRX campaign audio archive. Check them out: http://www.prx.org/articles/1474
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In a country that likes to think it celebrates cultural diversity, race and identity continue to be a complex topic. When Barack Obama entered the presidential race, people of Mixed Race thought they finally had someone to speak for them...or do they? Independent Producer Dmae Roberts deciphers the hidden messages in Obama's famous "race" speech in March. This story is part of the Promise Commentary series, an intimate look at the promises candidates are making this election year. All of them are free, compliments of CPB and the 100s of local stations who contributed to the PRX campaign audio archive. Check them out: http://www.prx.org/articles/1474
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The Mixed Race Promise Dmae Roberts
I grew up in rural Oregon at a time there was no name for my ethnicity--at least no name I wanted to use. Through the years, I called myself half-Asian, bi-racial, Amerasian, and more recently Mixed Race?
A couple years ago, someone said to me??so Mixed Race is the new cool?? At the time I didn?t know what to make of it? As a Mixed Race Asian I?ve gone through four decades of trying to figure out what to call myself but ?cool? was never a description I?d ever use. And then Barack ran for President?
(PUT OBAMA?S ?THANK YOU?S? BEFORE OR AFTER GIVING SPEECH HERE?MAYBE LEAVE THE AMBIENCE LINGERING UNDER FOR 5-10 SECONDS)
Mixed Race people held a collective breath. We knew he was biracial. He wrote a couple books about it and many of us with parents of different races waited?waited to hear him speak for us. But for the longest time he d...
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In a country that likes to think it celebrates cultural diversity, race and identity continue to be a complex topic. When Barack Obama entered the presidential race, people of Mixed Race thought they finally had someone to speak for them...or do they? Independent Producer Dmae Roberts deciphers the hidden messages in Obama's famous "race" speech in March.
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