{"id":1320,"date":"2013-03-27T20:03:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T00:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2013-03-27T20:04:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T00:04:58","slug":"black-stripe-white-stripe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2013\/03\/27\/black-stripe-white-stripe\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK STRIPE, WHITE STRIPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/isiah\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">ISIAH<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Forced to read literature about things unknown,<br \/>\nlike racism and segregation, to open my blind eyes to things I needed to know,<br \/>\nlearning about Malcolm and Martin fighting interracial crime<br \/>\nlike apartheid or the dark side or similar slavery in its prime,<br \/>\nmy view widened with knowledge of past problems explained in depth.<br \/>\nBlack culture grew as each page got flipped,<br \/>\nand when people of different races said racist phrases I&#8217;d flip.<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t wanna know just one side because I&#8217;m racially mixed,<br \/>\nso when I looked in the mirror I didn&#8217;t see a hypocrite.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d read the wrongdoings of both sides in the ethical war,<br \/>\nlike the Black Panthers or KKK hunting for sport.<br \/>\nI was oblivious to the treacherous ways of the past.<br \/>\nBut now I know the past and I live in the past&#8217;s future.<br \/>\nNo more judging\u2014white doesn&#8217;t mean <em>preppy<\/em>, black doesn&#8217;t mean <em>stupid<\/em>.<br \/>\nAfter I read that book, I know<br \/>\nignorance judges by the color of the blanket around the bones,<br \/>\nand since I know I have black stripes and white stripes,<br \/>\nyou don&#8217;t have to be the same color as me to be my family or friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/isiah\/\">ISIAH<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Forced to read literature about things unknown,<br \/> like racism and segregation, to open my blind eyes to things I needed to know,<br \/> learning about Malcolm and Martin fighting interracial crime<br \/> like apartheid or the dark side or similar slavery in its prime,<br \/> my view widened with knowledge of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[79494],"coauthors":[79475],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-isiah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}