{"id":3466,"date":"2023-10-08T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:38:52","slug":"strangled-history-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3466","title":{"rendered":"STRANGLED HISTORY (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1140\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/I-cant-breathe.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1140\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1140\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1140\" src=\"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/I-cant-breathe-1024x762.jpg\" alt=\"I Can't Breathe\" width=\"700\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/I-cant-breathe-1024x762.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/I-cant-breathe-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/I-cant-breathe-268x200.jpg 268w, https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/I-cant-breathe-700x521.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I Can&#8217;t Breathe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>hidden from history<br \/>\nso few mentions<br \/>\nblack bodies hanging<br \/>\nthose horrid lynchings<\/p>\n<p>amerika&#8217;s fingers<br \/>\never pointed abroad<br \/>\ncondemnation of other nations<br \/>\nits righteousness a fraud<\/p>\n<p>what crimes more outrageous<br \/>\nwhat motives more insane<br \/>\nwhat offenses qualify more<br \/>\nas crimes inhumane<\/p>\n<p>for decades thousands murdered<br \/>\nin public executions<br \/>\ncrowds cheered children peered<br \/>\nmen leered mass confusion<\/p>\n<p>body parts chopped off<br \/>\nparaded kept as mementoes<br \/>\nfingers genitals<br \/>\nnot a single law passed to prevent those<\/p>\n<p>heinous acts against Blacks<br \/>\nin which officials joined<br \/>\ndescribed as strange fruit<br \/>\na term Billy Holliday coined<\/p>\n<p>she was hounded<br \/>\nby the government for exposing it abroad<br \/>\nfor daring to perform songs<br \/>\nthat exposed the U.S. image as a fraud<\/p>\n<p>the same motives lie behind<br \/>\nwhy there are still so few mentions<br \/>\nof these historic crimes<br \/>\nthousands of black lives stolen by lynchings<\/p>\n<p>we pled for over a century<br \/>\nfor anti lynching legislation<br \/>\nas thousands died officials denied<br \/>\nblack folks told just be patient<\/p>\n<p>and we were until occurred<br \/>\na global uprising<br \/>\nin response to witnessing the<br \/>\npolice lynching George Floyd died before their eyes and<\/p>\n<p>with amerikas image on the line<br \/>\nonly then did officials pretend<br \/>\nto denounce what for hundreds of years<br \/>\nthey instigated and participated in<\/p>\n<p>even during that protest summer<br \/>\na number of Blacks died<br \/>\npublic hangings which officials<br \/>\ndismissed as suicides<\/p>\n<p>so not until 2022<br \/>\nand only because<br \/>\nof international exposure and resistance<br \/>\ndid they finally pass anti lynching laws<\/p>\n<p>and what of capital punishment<br \/>\nthe injustice system&#8217;s racist intentions<br \/>\nblack and brown selectively targeted<br \/>\nas legalized lynchings<\/p>\n<p>whether by mob hysteria capital punishment<br \/>\nor police violence it&#8217;s all a racist game<br \/>\npublic executions of Black bodies<br \/>\nits all lynching just the same<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Art and poem by Kevin &#8221;Rashid&#8221; Johnson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; hidden from history so few mentions black bodies hanging those horrid lynchings amerika&#8217;s fingers ever pointed abroad condemnation of other nations its righteousness a fraud what crimes more outrageous what motives more insane what offenses qualify more as crimes inhumane for decades thousands murdered in public executions crowds cheered &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-3466","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\/3466","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=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3938,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/3938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}