{"id":5858,"date":"2026-05-24T18:32:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/?p=5858"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:32:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:32:35","slug":"she-hated-black-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/she-hated-black-people\/","title":{"rendered":"She Hated Black People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was raised in a family<br>\nthat hated black people<br>\njust because they looked<br>\ndifferent.<\/p>\n<p>She grew up with her<br>\nparents\u2019 bias and began<br>\nto pass the unjustifired hate<br>\non to her children.<\/p>\n<p>But, mercifully, one day<br>\na compassionate black woman<br>\nsaved her son from drowning,<br>\nwhich opened her eyes to the<br>\ngoodness in many of that race.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter she altered her thinking<br>\nand acceptance of people not of<br>\nher race.<\/p>\n<p>And the years of hate drained out<br>\nof her, replaced with acceptance<br>\nand love, which she passed on<br>\nto her children.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was raised in a family that hated black people just because they looked different. She grew up with her parents\u2019 bias and began to pass the unjustifired hate on to her children. But, mercifully, one day a compassionate black woman saved her son from drowning, which opened her eyes to the goodness in many&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/she-hated-black-people\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}