{"id":218,"date":"2016-02-07T13:23:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T18:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/?p=218"},"modified":"2016-02-07T13:23:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T18:23:17","slug":"tough-to-despise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/2016\/02\/07\/tough-to-despise\/","title":{"rendered":"tough to despise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>a poem by [lylah]<\/h6>\n<p>Is it because my hair is long,<br \/>\na stream of black? Or because<br \/>\nit goes halfway down my back?<br \/>\nOr is because I&#8217;m lighter<br \/>\nthan a paper sack, and the next<br \/>\nblack girl isn&#8217;t like that?<br \/>\nIs it because she has little<br \/>\nnaps, and they say I act<br \/>\nwhite\u2014I&#8217;m not the real black?<br \/>\nCould you explain that?<\/p>\n<p>Is it because their pants hang<br \/>\nlow or their music is rap,<br \/>\nR&amp;B or soul? Or because<br \/>\nthey are darker than you?<br \/>\nOutsiders think our nice rides<br \/>\nare stolen cars. They call<br \/>\nthe lighter ones like me<br \/>\nbeauty stars. Do you know how<\/p>\n<p>hard we&#8217;ve been fighting<br \/>\nto get this far. This death,<br \/>\nthe broadcasting of riots.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s taught, with birth,<br \/>\nracism isn&#8217;t brought. Kids<br \/>\nraised to be sold and bought.<br \/>\nWe are also blessed with love<br \/>\nfrom the most precious God<br \/>\nabove. Racism is not tough<br \/>\nto despise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a poem by [lylah] <\/p>\n<p>Is it because my hair is long,<br \/> a stream of black? Or because<br \/> it goes halfway down my back?<br \/> Or is because I&#8217;m lighter<br \/> than a paper sack, and the next<br \/> black girl isn&#8217;t like that?<br \/> Is it because she has little<br \/> naps, and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[308028],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lylah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}