{"id":109,"date":"2014-07-10T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T19:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/?p=109"},"modified":"2014-07-10T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T19:02:36","slug":"109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/2014\/07\/10\/109\/","title":{"rendered":"#BLACK , am more than just a color."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#black , being black is hard , u dream of chicken wen ur hungry, u spell stuff incorrectly, u have an irrational fear of cops, u love watermelon and grape koo-laid, and society has already branded you as a young man of color, with no future. Despite all that, black is indeed beautiful, black looks good on a baby boy, regardless of his skin color, and black looks good as a dress. However, black is more than just a dress or diapers on a baby, black is a race, its a generation, its a history, its a legacy. A legacy of men and women who toiled in the fields of slavery, which was sweltering with the heat of injustice, who were liberated from the bondage known as &#8216;slavery&#8217;, only to be brought back to it under a new name, segregation, &#8221; separate but equal &#8221;, &#8221; Jim Crow &#8221;, they fought for us, some of us take that for granted, but&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. some of us &#8230;.. respect their bravery, admire their courage, and idolize what they stood for , some of us &#8230;.. honor them. #BLACK<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-2.57.25-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-175 aligncenter\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-07-10 at 2.57.25 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-2.57.25-PM-300x181.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-2.57.25-PM-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-2.57.25-PM.png 515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-3.01.17-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-179\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-07-10 at 3.01.17 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-3.01.17-PM-293x300.png\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-3.01.17-PM-293x300.png 293w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-3.01.17-PM.png 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-177\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-07-10 at 2.59.37 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-2.59.37-PM-238x300.png\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-2.59.37-PM-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-10-at-2.59.37-PM.png 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#black , being black is hard , u dream of chicken wen ur hungry, u spell stuff incorrectly, u have an irrational fear of cops, u love watermelon and grape koo-laid, and society has already branded you as a young man of color, with no future. Despite all that, black is indeed beautiful, black looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67630,67629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitterresearch","category-summer-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}