{"id":132,"date":"2019-09-16T13:45:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T17:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/?p=132"},"modified":"2019-09-16T13:45:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T17:45:26","slug":"make-america-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/09\/16\/make-america-great-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Make America Great Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A particular poem by Langston Hughes that stood out to me was \u201cLet America Be America Again.\u201d This poem talks of how the ideals that America and the \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d were built on do not apply for everyone that make up this nation. Lines such as, \u201cbut opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe,\u201d are countered with lines like, \u201c(There\u2019s never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this \u2018homeland of the free.\u2019)\u201d America boasts the importance of liberty, equality, freedom, etc.; however, not every person in America has these important rights our nation was built on. For those of color, achieving these aspects of the American dream has been an on-going battle throughout the entirety of the nation\u2019s history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I found this poem particularly interesting because of the present day relevance with the similarities it holds with the slogan of the Trump administration: \u201cMake America Great Again.\u201d This slogan closely mimics the title of the poem. Both the poem and this slogan infer a greater America in the past, but for those of color, America has never been great; issues such as the oppression and segregation of African-American citizens were only more severe. Although America is still not a land of equality for minority groups, comparing this present day America to the America 100 years ago, America is technically \u201cgreater,\u201d even if not by much.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A particular poem by Langston Hughes that stood out to me was \u201cLet America Be America Again.\u201d This poem talks of how the ideals that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/09\/16\/make-america-great-again\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Make America Great Again<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}