{"id":4666,"date":"2018-06-24T02:17:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T02:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imjussayin.com\/blog\/?p=4666"},"modified":"2018-06-24T02:27:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T02:27:21","slug":"oppression-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imjussayin.com\/blog\/oppression-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppression and Racism in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of sharing time and space with the young collective Poetic Unity and this spoken word poetry from Jamal, titled Cage Revolution, \u00a0is haunting. 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