{"id":34633,"date":"2013-10-14T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=34633"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:21:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:21:22","slug":"divided-n-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/10\/divided-n-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Divided N United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bang bang bang!<br \/>\nRang out the shots<br \/>\nStand up if you\u2019re Muslim<\/p>\n<p>Bang bang bang!<br \/>\nConfusion galore<br \/>\nHumans were no more<\/p>\n<p>Bang bang bang!<br \/>\nRang out the shots<br \/>\nOn blacks n whites n coloureds<br \/>\nOn Muslims n Christians n others<br \/>\nOn rich n middle class n poor<br \/>\nOn Kenyans n foreigners<br \/>\nOn males n females<br \/>\nOn adults n children n the unborn<\/p>\n<p>Bang bang boom!<br \/>\nThe death bell rung<br \/>\nDividing the divided<br \/>\nUniting the divided<\/p>\n<p>_______________________<\/p>\n<p><i>Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (Feb 4, 1913-Oct 24, 2005) was an African-American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress called &#8220;the first lady of civil rights&#8221; and &#8220;the mother of the freedom movement.&#8221; Her birthday and the day she was arrested have both become Rosa Parks Day. On Dec 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey the bus driver&#8217;s order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger. She was arrested and became a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement in the USA.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Reposted from Pambazuka News 648 &#8211; Received through email, 3 Oct 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bang bang bang!<br \/>\nRang out the shots<br \/>\nStand up if you\u2019re Muslim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}