{"id":109155,"date":"2019-07-01T17:39:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T17:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpstaging.afromagazine.eu\/they-were-so-we-are\/"},"modified":"2019-07-01T17:39:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T17:39:36","slug":"they-were-so-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/they-were-so-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"They were, so we are"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"afrom-2424149443\" class=\"afrom-voor-inhoud-singlepost afrom-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ghanatours.nl\/keti-koti-pelgrimstocht\/\" aria-label=\"AFRO-BANNER-728X90\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-BANNER-728X90.webp\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-BANNER-728X90.webp 728w, https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-BANNER-728X90-300x37.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><p><strong>When they were told to stay<br \/>\nThey ran<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When they were told to shut up<br \/>\nThey spoke out<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When they were told to get up<br \/>\nThey sat down<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When they were whipped\u00a0<br \/>\nThey whipped back<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When they were shackled\u00a0<br \/>\nThey broke free<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When they were hunted<br \/>\nThey killed &#8216;m\u00a0all<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When they were caught\u00a0<br \/>\nThey killed themselves<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When they were denied freedom<br \/>\nThey took it<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When they were given back their freedom<br \/>\nThey demanded equality<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When they were marginalized<br \/>\nThey multiplied<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When they were expected to die<br \/>\nThey lived<br \/>\nThey survived<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>So<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>When they say salute<br \/>\nWe kneel<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When they say be quiet<br \/>\nWe speak up<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When they say sit down<br \/>\nWe rise!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When they want us to forget<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s because of them<br \/>\nThat we are<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>They were, so we could be<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When they were told to stay<br \/>\nThey ran<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[2583],"class_list":{"0":"post-109155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-opinie"},"authors":[{"term_id":2583,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mermar","display_name":"mermar","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b97554d899a7ce8df2bc286c2f73beda56ebbc97d5d9ced74f7a04498e0fb0d3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109155"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=109155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}