{"id":3302,"date":"2023-01-02T16:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T16:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:38:14","slug":"the-first-black-to-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3302","title":{"rendered":"THE FIRST BLACK TO… (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Revolution\"<\/a>

Revolution<\/p><\/div>\n

Put on display
\nLike an animal in a zoo
\nYou’ve been recognized as
\n“The first Black to…”
\nWhat does it mean
\nSome sort of progress?
\nThat you’ve proven
\nYourself a success?
\nThat you’re
\nBetter than the rest?
\nNo, all it means
\nIs just that
\nYou’ve proven
\nYou’re no threat
\nThat you’ll go along
\nWith the dance and song
\nFor a pat on the head
\nYou’ll turn your head
\nTo the many outrages
\nThat persist instead
\nOf making waves
\nJust a house slave
\nFalsely portrayed
\nAs representing all of us in the fields
\nThe degraded and neglected
\nWhose fate is sealed
\nBy those
\nWhose praise you so cherish
\nWhile the rest of us perish
\nTheir egos you’re stroking
\nTo be their token
\nTaking great pride in being an exception
\nIn the perception
\nOf bigots
\nWho by recognizing you are saying
\nThe rest of us don’t measure
\nIs why you’re such a treasure
\nA better cut of meat
\nAll the others of us are scrap
\nBeing “the first black to…”
\nIs just an ego trap
\nIt’s really a slap
\nIn your face
\nSaying you’re an exception
\nWithin an inferior race
\nThen you’re placed
\nAs a role model
\nFor others of us to follow
\nHow hollow
\nTo be all for one
\nIt should be all or none
\nCaptured caged
\nDisplayed in a zoo
\nThat’s what it means
\nTo be “the first Black to…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Put on display Like an animal in a zoo You’ve been recognized as “The first Black to…” What does it mean Some sort of progress? That you’ve proven Yourself a success? That you’re Better than the rest? No, all it means Is just that You’ve proven You’re no threat That …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-3302","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\/3302","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=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3939,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions\/3939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}