{"id":35113,"date":"2017-08-05T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35113"},"modified":"2017-08-05T14:55:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:55:26","slug":"hour-six-a-black-womans-hair-dont-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-six-a-black-womans-hair-dont-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour six &#8220;A Black Woman&#8217;s Hair&#8221; (don&#8217;t touch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>06 2017 Black Woman\u2019s hair (don\u2019t touch)<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nSome tips for white folks in a multicultural setting.<br \/>\nBy Paul Sanford<\/p>\n<p>Introduction:  Evidently some of you have not read the manual,<br \/>\nand you are embarrassing us out there.<br \/>\nAll you do is  shampoo and condition, blow dry and run  comb through your hair,<br \/>\nso you re fascinated by people who have to do more elaborate steps.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t embarrass yourself or the people with you.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t run your mouth or ask to touch any black woman\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n<p>White people listen<br \/>\nLearn from 400 years of history<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a lesson to be learned<br \/>\nand it\u2019s not some exotic mystery.<br \/>\nI know that she is lovely and you are moved to stare<br \/>\nbut please:  don\u2019t ever touch a black woman\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t fly by accident,<br \/>\nit\u2019s not a case of luck<br \/>\nyou\u2019re seeing hours of work<br \/>\nand the spending of some bucks.<br \/>\nSo jump off  a cliff if someone makes a dare,<br \/>\nbut don\u2019t every touch a black woman\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n<p>She may have amazing booty<br \/>\nBut you wouldn\u2019t ask to  make it clap<br \/>\nAnd her bosom may be marvelous<br \/>\nkeep your gross hands in your lap!<br \/>\nI\u2019ll give you  a lesson  how to treat her fair and square<br \/>\nHey! Don\u2019t  ever touch a black woman\u2019s hair!<\/p>\n<p>Let me spell it out more plainly<br \/>\nkeep your damn hands to yourself.<br \/>\n\\None of your damn business<br \/>\nif she stores it on a shelf.<br \/>\nTouching other people is a habit to make rare,<br \/>\nListen!  Don\u2019t ever touch a black woman\u2019s hair!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>06 2017 Black Woman\u2019s hair (don\u2019t touch) . Some tips for white folks in a multicultural setting. By Paul Sanford Introduction: Evidently some of you have not read the manual, and you are embarrassing us out there. All you do is shampoo and condition, blow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":736,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35130,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35113\/revisions\/35130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}