{"id":3695,"date":"2025-01-24T18:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:25:58","slug":"i-am-we-2025-by-kevin-rashid-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3695","title":{"rendered":"I AM WE (2025)  by Kevin &#8220;Rashid&#8221; Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not me<br \/>\nI am We<br \/>\nwithout which<br \/>\nI cannot be<br \/>\ncannot be free<br \/>\neven if I could go<br \/>\nwherever I desired to be<br \/>\na warrior&#8217;s life<br \/>\nbelongs to the people<br \/>\nindividualism is evil<br \/>\nfeeble<br \/>\nnot equal<br \/>\nwith an army of one<br \/>\nno victory is achievable<br \/>\nI am We<br \/>\nis a verb<br \/>\nan action word<br \/>\nan Afrikan proverb<br \/>\nbefore the Arabs or Europeans<br \/>\ncame<br \/>\nwith their class aims<br \/>\nreligious names<br \/>\nand slavery<br \/>\nWe were all the same<br \/>\none clan<br \/>\none woman and man<br \/>\nunited we stand<br \/>\nnot all for one<br \/>\nbut all or none<br \/>\na people of the sun<br \/>\nhow we had begun<br \/>\nharken back to the time<br \/>\nbefore the middle passage<br \/>\nacross a horrid sea<br \/>\nbefore they claimed to be masters<br \/>\nwhen We were all free<br \/>\noh how we long for things<br \/>\nto be<br \/>\nthe way they were<br \/>\nwhen We could all see<br \/>\nthat there was no me<br \/>\njust I am We<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not me I am We without which I cannot be cannot be free even if I could go wherever I desired to be a warrior&#8217;s life belongs to the people individualism is evil feeble not equal with an army of one no victory is achievable I am We &#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-3695","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\/3695","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=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3920,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions\/3920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}