{"id":120252,"date":"2019-11-23T14:05:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T13:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/23\/im-britains-first-black-woman-bishop-and-i-long-for-the-day-when-thats-not-unusual\/"},"modified":"2019-11-23T14:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T13:05:01","slug":"im-britains-first-black-woman-bishop-and-i-long-for-the-day-when-thats-not-unusual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=120252","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Britain\u2019s first black woman bishop and I long for the day when that\u2019s not unusual\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new bishop of Dover, Rose Hudson-Wilkin, is a child of the Windrush generation. She speaks out about racism, inequality \u2026 and compassionRose Hudson-Wilkin was just a baby in Montego Bay, Jamaica, when her mother left for the UK as part of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants seeking work. She didn\u2019t see her again until she was nine years old.\u201cSo many of my generation\u2019s parents left their little ones behind. I didn\u2019t know anything different,\u201d says Hudson-Wilkin. \u201cAs I got older, I learned that I had a mother in the UK, and then I eventually met her. It was a big moment. I remember standing beside her thinking, \u2018Oh, this is my mother, she\u2019s so pretty\u2019.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/23\/first-black-woman-bishop-church-england-rose-hudson-wilkin-dover-racism-inequality\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018I\u2019m Britain\u2019s first black woman bishop and I long for the day when that\u2019s not unusual\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new bishop of Dover, Rose Hudson-Wilkin, is a child of the Windrush generation. She speaks out about racism, inequality \u2026 and compassionRose Hudson-Wilkin was just a baby in Montego Bay, Jamaica, when her mother left for the UK as part of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants seeking work. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}