{"id":145179,"date":"2020-05-22T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/22\/scottish-national-poet-jackie-kay-talks-about-racism-she-endured-as-a-child\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T15:43:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:43:02","slug":"scottish-national-poet-jackie-kay-talks-about-racism-she-endured-as-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=145179","title":{"rendered":"Scottish national poet Jackie Kay talks about racism she endured as a child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland\u2019s makar recalls being taunted and beaten up by older boys as an eight-year-old and reflects on a much-changed countryOne of Scotland\u2019s most garlanded poets, Jackie Kay, has spoken out about the racist bullying she experienced as a child in the 1970s.Kay, who is Scotland\u2019s makar, or national poet, said that while growing up in Scotland, she \u201cgot beaten up quite a lot\u201d. As an eight-year-old, she said, older boys would wait for her after school, \u201cfill bubblegum wrappers with mud and get me down and shove them into my mouth and say, \u2018That\u2019s what you should eat, because you\u2019re from a mud hut,\u2019 and then I\u2019d get beaten up.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/may\/22\/scottish-national-poet-jackie-kay-talks-about-racism-she-endured-as-a-child\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish national poet Jackie Kay talks about racism she endured as a child<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland\u2019s makar recalls being taunted and beaten up by older boys as an eight-year-old and reflects on a much-changed countryOne of Scotland\u2019s most garlanded poets, Jackie Kay, has spoken out about the racist bullying she experienced as a child in the 1970s.Kay, who is Scotland\u2019s makar, or national poet, said [&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-145179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145179","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=145179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}