{"id":529,"date":"2018-04-24T15:45:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T22:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2018-04-24T15:45:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T22:45:05","slug":"america-by-claude-mckay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"America by Claude McKay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,<br \/>\nAnd sinks into my throat her tiger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tooth,<br \/>\nStealing my breath of life, I will confess<br \/>\nI love this cultured hell that tests my youth.<br \/>\nHer vigor flows like tides into my blood,<br \/>\nGiving me strength erect against her hate,<br \/>\nHer bigness sweeps my being like a flood.<br \/>\nYet, as a rebel fronts a king in state,<br \/>\nI stand within her walls with not a shred<br \/>\nOf terror, malice, not a word of jeer.<br \/>\nDarkly I gaze into the days ahead,<br \/>\nAnd see her might and granite wonders there,<br \/>\nBeneath the touch of Time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unerring hand,<br \/>\nLike priceless treasures sinking in the sand.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>heard this quoted by Allan Manga (sp?) on the radio today. An important perspective from minorities and immigrants in America. there&#8217;s a lot of this love\/hate relationship with current immigration policy in America which reflects the same sentiments of blacks emerging from racism and oppression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth. Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, Giving me strength erect against her hate, Her bigness sweeps my being like a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=529\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;America by Claude McKay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}