{"id":675,"date":"2013-06-11T23:31:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T04:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=675"},"modified":"2013-12-27T11:57:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T16:57:45","slug":"how-obama-played-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2013\/06\/11\/how-obama-played-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"How Obama Played Hip Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/12\/Jay-Z-for-Obama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-852\" title=\"Jay Z for Obama\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/12\/Jay-Z-for-Obama-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/12\/Jay-Z-for-Obama-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/12\/Jay-Z-for-Obama.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the third in my trilogy of hip hop\/Obama articles, titled &#8220;<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/erik-nielson\/how-obama-duped-hip-hop_b_3421040.html?utm_hp_ref=tw\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">How Obama Played the Hip Hop Community<\/span><\/a><\/span>,&#8221; now up at <em>Huffington Post.<\/em> \u00a0In the wake of the recent revelations that the NSA and other intelligence agencies are actively spying on American citizens, I decided to revisit the idea of Obama as a &#8220;hip hop president.&#8221; \u00a0Here I argue that Obama essentially used hip hop to get elected so that he could pursue an agenda that is far from what the movement stands for.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/span> According to William F. Buckley&#8217;s nephew, Brent Bozell, I am a &#8220;<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/brentbozell\/2013\/06\/14\/obama-and-the-callous-kanye-culture-n1619841\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">real radical<\/span><\/a><\/span>.&#8221; Of course, this is coming from a guy\u00a0who said on Fox that Obama looked like a &#8220;skinny ghetto crackhead.&#8221; \u00a0To see the kind of audience he speaks to, just have a look at the comments below his article. \u00a0In-your-face, not-trying-to-hide-it racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the third in my trilogy of hip hop\/Obama articles, titled &#8220;How Obama Played the Hip Hop Community,&#8221; now up at Huffington Post. \u00a0In the wake of the recent revelations that the NSA and other intelligence agencies are actively spying on American citizens, I decided to revisit the idea of Obama as a &#8220;hip &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2013\/06\/11\/how-obama-played-hip-hop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Obama Played Hip Hop<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}