{"id":104892,"date":"2021-07-05T11:42:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=104892"},"modified":"2021-07-05T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:43:15","slug":"i-dont-see-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=104892","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t See Color&#8230;"},"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=104892\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=104892\"><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: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>I don&#8217;t see color, I don&#8217;t see race<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>I don&#8217;t feel pain, I don&#8217;t even taste<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>How can we have your voice, if you have your eyes shut<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>You tell us you don\u2019t see us and we are supposed to do what<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>Pat you on the back tell you so glad you ignored me<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>While I was screaming out for help you protest my color you couldn\u2019t see<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>Made it easy for cops to kill with rarely a consequence<!--more--><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>Pretending to be blind to me makes no sense<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>George Floyd\u2019s murder was an asterisk to so many police killings<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>Chauvin guilty on all counts? I can\u2019t hide the joy I am feeling<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>Darnella Frazier a brave soul who kept recording what she saw<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>She had more presence of mind to do what was right than those that serve the law<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>If you don\u2019t see color you don\u2019t know why things are wrong<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>My pleas to be heard are pointless and probably shouldn&#8217;t go on<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>I refuse to give up hope or we the black culture will disappear without a trace<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><strong>I hope you decide to join our fight begin by not ignoring my race<\/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 don&#8217;t see color, I don&#8217;t see race I don&#8217;t feel pain, I don&#8217;t even taste How can we have your voice, if you have your eyes shut You tell us you don\u2019t see us and we are supposed to do what Pat you on the back tell you so glad [&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":[26865],"class_list":["post-104892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-i-dont-see-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104892","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=104892"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}