{"id":3671,"date":"2025-01-05T16:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T16:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2025-01-05T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T16:07:12","slug":"we-need-comrades-not-advocates-2025-by-kevin-rashid-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3671","title":{"rendered":"WE NEED COMRADES NOT ADVOCATES (2025)  by Kevin &#8220;Rashid&#8221; Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We endure torture death<br \/>\nand suffering<br \/>\nwhile you compete for clout<br \/>\nand fame<br \/>\nAdvocates helpers<br \/>\ngood talkers bad walkers<br \/>\nventriloquists who speak<br \/>\nin our name<br \/>\nWhich one of you<br \/>\nspoke to us<br \/>\nwalked a yard in our shoes<br \/>\nAsked us what mattered<br \/>\nwhat issues of protest<br \/>\nwe choose<br \/>\nWhen did you good Samaritans<br \/>\nvisit<br \/>\nride hours on a prison bus<br \/>\nBut somehow you claim to ride for<br \/>\nstand and speak for us<br \/>\nYour not-for-profits<br \/>\nchasing grant money<br \/>\nraising donations in our name<br \/>\nCriticize the wall street<br \/>\nprofiteers<br \/>\nbut reap profits from our<br \/>\nsuffering just the same<br \/>\nHave you no shame<br \/>\nseeking favor from those<br \/>\nwith whom we have beef<br \/>\nFriends of my enemy you&#8217;re no friend of me<br \/>\nwe need a movement of comrades<br \/>\nwith teeth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We endure torture death and suffering while you compete for clout and fame Advocates helpers good talkers bad walkers ventriloquists who speak in our name Which one of you spoke to us walked a yard in our shoes Asked us what mattered what issues of protest we choose When did &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","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=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}