{"id":1505,"date":"2015-01-04T14:43:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T14:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2015-01-04T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:08:08","slug":"human-community-stew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"HUMAN COMMUNITY STEW"},"content":{"rendered":"

an American ethnicity \u2026.
\nTHEM<\/em> in the know say
\nI ain\u2019t got one
\neven though
\nAmerica can be my nation
\nand based on genetics
\nthe color of my skin
\nI have to check off
\nas my race \u2026.. \u00a0 hmmmm<\/em> ..\u2026
\nwhatever happened to
\nthat identifier
\nTHE HUMAN RACE<\/em> \u00a0 ~
\nthen we would not
\nhave to decide
\nif the\u00a0president
\nof the USA
\nis either
\nblack or white
\nor something else
\n’cause it would then
\nbe up to our acts and deeds
\nour service to humanity
\nthat should define us<\/p>\n

as far as that
\nethnicity thing
\nI was born and raised
\nin America
\nI\u2019m a little pinch
\nof this or that
\nall important ingredients
\nadded to what makes up a stew
\nmy grandfather called COMMUNITY<\/i><\/p>\n

WE THE PEOPLE<\/em><\/p>\n

experiencing
\nthis mixed up blend
\nof diversity
\ninteracting physically
\nand cognitively
\nas this
\nHUMAN COMMUNITY STEW<\/em>
\nwith an emergent
\ncultural flavor
\nof complexity
\nborn of
\nWE THE PEOPLE<\/em>
\nliving and breathing
\neach day
\nwithin a portion
\nof shared land
\nwhile still being
\na part of
\nTHE HUMAN RACE<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0~
\nprogressively learning
\nwhat freedom truly is
\nor is not
\nand too
\nwhat freedom has still
\nnot fully become \u00a0 ~
\n~ \u00a0 \u00a0especially
\nfor many
\nof our brothers and sisters
\nas to equality and rights
\nbeing a normal reality
\nof liberty
\nand that WE THE PEOPLE<\/em>
\nrepresent
\nso much more than
\nethnicity
\nculture and nation \u2026.<\/p>\n

WE THE PEOPLE<\/em> are
\nTHE WHOLE HUMAN RACE<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0~
\na little pinch
\nof this or that
\nall important ingredients
\nadded to what makes up a stew
\nmy grandfather called COMMUNITY<\/em><\/p>\n

HUMAN COMMUNITY STEW<\/em><\/p>\n

peace out<\/p>\n

Words by \u00a0 \u00a0~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n

This poem will be a part of the February edition that’s a collaboration by the 2015 Poetry Posse \u00a0– The Year of the Poet published by Inner Child Press. \u00a0Buy your monthly copy Here: http:\/\/www.innerchildpress.com\/the-year-of-the-poet.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

an American ethnicity \u2026. THEM in the know say I ain\u2019t got one even though America can be my nation and based on genetics the color of my skin I have to check off as my race \u2026.. \u00a0 hmmmm ..\u2026 whatever happened to that identifier THE HUMAN RACE \u00a0 ~ then we would not … Continue reading “HUMAN COMMUNITY STEW”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poertyposse2015","category-wordimagerystyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}