{"id":95444,"date":"2019-06-01T02:35:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T00:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/01\/new-zealand-schoolgirls-spoken-word-poem-about-racism-clocks-half-a-million-views-video\/"},"modified":"2019-06-01T02:35:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T00:35:14","slug":"new-zealand-schoolgirls-spoken-word-poem-about-racism-clocks-half-a-million-views-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=95444","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand schoolgirl&#039;s spoken-word poem about racism clocks half a million views \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Yesterday I was African, today I am lost,\u2019 Zimbabwe-born Takunda Muzondiwa tells an Auckland audience. A video of her describing the racism she has faced in her adopted country has clocked up more than 500,000 views. &#8216;Maybe I was blinded by the neon sign of opportunity, failed to read the fine print that read: \u201cAssimilate or go back where you came from.\u201d\u2019 Her speech was part of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission&#8217;s annual Race Unity Speech awards, where six of the country\u2019s best high school speakers addressed how race relations could be improved. She delivered a poem she wrote to \u2018the man who sat behind me on the train last week who had the audacity to touch my hair without even asking\u2019.&nbsp; The year 13 pupil calls for educational institutions to place a greater emphasis on language, culture and history, arguing &#8216;the more students feel they belong in an educational context the better they perform&#8217; Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/video\/2019\/jun\/01\/new-zealand-schoolgirls-spoken-word-poem-about-racism-clocks-half-a-million-views-video\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand schoolgirl&#039;s spoken-word poem about racism clocks half a million views \u2013 video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Yesterday I was African, today I am lost,\u2019 Zimbabwe-born Takunda Muzondiwa tells an Auckland audience. A video of her describing the racism she has faced in her adopted country has clocked up more than 500,000 views. &#8216;Maybe I was blinded by the neon sign of opportunity, failed to read the [&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-95444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95444","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=95444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}