{"id":23448,"date":"2020-06-09T11:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T18:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=23448"},"modified":"2020-06-09T11:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T18:22:39","slug":"reverend-jesse-jackson-shares-i-am-somebody-poem-with-sesame-street-kids-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2020\/06\/09\/reverend-jesse-jackson-shares-i-am-somebody-poem-with-sesame-street-kids-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverend Jesse Jackson shares &#8220;I Am \u2013 Somebody&#8221; poem with Sesame Street kids (1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In 1972, Reverend Jesse Jackson shared a moving\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iTB1h18bHlY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poem<\/a> with the children of <em>Sesame Street<\/em>. It&#8217;s called &#8220;I Am &#8211; Somebody&#8221; and it was written in the 1950s by\u00a0Reverend\u00a0<a title=\"William Holmes Borders\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Holmes_Borders\">William Holmes Borders<\/a>, Sr.,\u00a0 a pastor and civil rights activist from Atlanta, GA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sesame Street - I Am Somebody\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iTB1h18bHlY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>I am Somebody! I am Somebody! I may be poor, But I am Somebody. I may be young, But I am Somebody. I may be on welfare, But I am Somebody. I may be small, But I am Somebody. I may have made mistakes, But I am Somebody. My clothes are different, My face is different, My hair is different, But I am Somebody. I am Black, Brown, or White. I speak a different language But I must be respected, protected, never rejected. I am God&#8217;s child!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Jackson has recited the same poem many times over the years, including this time in 1963:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;I am somebody!&quot; - Historical footage of Rev. Jesse Jackson leading a crowd in a chant of solidarity\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sn5hCdHuZzw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1972, Reverend Jesse Jackson shared a moving\u00a0poem with the children of Sesame Street. It&#8217;s called &#8220;I Am &#8211; Somebody&#8221; and it was written in the 1950s by\u00a0Reverend\u00a0William Holmes Borders, Sr.,\u00a0 a pastor and civil rights activist from Atlanta, GA. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesome","category-cool","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23458,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23448\/revisions\/23458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}