{"id":104885,"date":"2021-07-05T11:31:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=104885"},"modified":"2021-07-05T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:32:11","slug":"im-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=104885","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019M Woke!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- RSR AD 1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"7759247395\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=104885\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=104885\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-104593 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Joyce-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Poem by Joyce Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>I\u2019m woke; I got insomnia; I can\u2019t sleep on what you are doing<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>You want me to shut up and be quiet while I watch the white supremacist you are wooing<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>At the rate I see you daily tearing us down I may never sleep again<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>For fear you\u2019ll bury me in my sleep and swear I died from my visible sin<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>My sin of being black or brown or my sin of being LGBTQ<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>My sin of being Muslim, or Mexican or daring to be me and not act like you<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>I cant even take the luxury of sleeping with one eye shut<!--more--><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>While you operate on my blind side and try to punch me in the gut<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>If I get tired I got to stand I can\u2019t take a cat nap<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>If I dare rest my eyes I know you\u2019ll send democracy into a mishap<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>I will stay in my state of insomnia cause if I sleep you\u2019ll take my hope<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong>I need to see all you are doing; so I fight hard to stay woke<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem by Joyce Davis I\u2019m woke; I got insomnia; I can\u2019t sleep on what you are doing You want me to shut up and be quiet while I watch the white supremacist you are wooing At the rate I see you daily tearing us down I may never sleep again For fear you\u2019ll bury me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26863],"class_list":["post-104885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-im-woke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104885"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}