{"id":24821,"date":"2021-04-15T08:55:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T15:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=24821"},"modified":"2022-04-14T11:52:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T18:52:41","slug":"five-haikus-for-malcolm-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=24821","title":{"rendered":"Five Haikus for Malcolm X"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24822 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Five-haikus-for-Malcolm-X.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Five-haikus-for-Malcolm-X.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Five-haikus-for-Malcolm-X-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Five-haikus-for-Malcolm-X-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Five Haikus for Malcolm X<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s talk down to earth\u00a0<br \/>No celestial problems<br \/>Ballots or bullets.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not scared of bullets<br \/>More frightened of the ballot<br \/>But no new gun laws<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Legislation<br \/>Forty-seven angry states<br \/>To limit the vote.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American fear<br \/>Shaped like a citizen\u2019s hand<br \/>Holding a ballot\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tell the whole story<br \/>No Malcolm X no Martin<br \/>The yin and the yang<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(By Heidi Lindemann and Michael Perry)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Photo Credit: Library of Congress \/ Parris Stancell \/ Camilo J. Vergara)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Haikus for Malcolm X Let\u2019s talk down to earth\u00a0No celestial problemsBallots or bullets. Not scared of bulletsMore frightened of the ballotBut no new gun laws New LegislationForty-seven angry statesTo limit the vote. American fearShaped like a citizen\u2019s handHolding a ballot\u00a0 Tell the whole storyNo Malcolm X no MartinThe yin and the yang &nbsp; (By [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5048,6336,4964,6337,1616],"class_list":["post-24821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-heidi-lindemann","tag-malcolm-x","tag-michael-perry","tag-the-rev-dr-martin-luther-king","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25895,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821\/revisions\/25895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}