{"id":3279,"date":"2022-12-29T14:49:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:54:16","slug":"motherfucker-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3279","title":{"rendered":"MOTHERFUCKER! (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/child-with-flag.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2093\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2093\" src=\"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/child-with-flag-945x1024.jpg\" alt=\"child with flag\" width=\"700\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/child-with-flag-945x1024.jpg 945w, https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/child-with-flag-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/child-with-flag-768x832.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/child-with-flag-600x650.jpg 600w, https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/child-with-flag-700x758.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During slavery<br \/>\nBlack folks would often invent<br \/>\nFigures of speech and words<br \/>\nThat were meant<br \/>\nTo express their grievances<br \/>\nAnd anger<br \/>\nBut in a way<br \/>\nAs to avoid the danger<br \/>\nOf arousing the<br \/>\nWraith and violence<br \/>\nOf the owners<br \/>\nWithout keeping silent<br \/>\nMotherfucker is<br \/>\nJust such a word<br \/>\nNot ironically though<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve often heard<br \/>\nWhite folks twist<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s meaning<br \/>\nTo express something<br \/>\nOther than what slaves were meaning<br \/>\nAlso they would<br \/>\nSpin these words<br \/>\nTo mean things<br \/>\nThat would hide their own shame<br \/>\nAbout their history<br \/>\nThe barbaric things they did<br \/>\nThings they try to<br \/>\nKeep hid<br \/>\nLike children bearing witness<br \/>\nTo white males raping their mothers<br \/>\nWhich is the actual meaning<br \/>\nOf the word<br \/>\nMotherfucker<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is the corrected version of this poem, to replace previous&nbsp;versions<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During slavery Black folks would often invent Figures of speech and words That were meant To express their grievances And anger But in a way As to avoid the danger Of arousing the Wraith and violence Of the owners Without keeping silent Motherfucker is Just such a word Not ironically &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3997,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions\/3997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}