In our communities
\nwhite folks see habits they call bad,
\nLike holding our crotches
\nand letting our pants sag.<\/p>\n
They ask why do you do this
\ngrabbing on yourself?
\nRichard Pryor explained it:
\n“You motherfuckers done took everything else!”<\/p>\n
And what about
\nyour sagging pants
\nexposing yourselves in the streets?
\nLike MLK said
\nwith y’all kicking us in the head
\nsome of us still turnin’ the other cheeks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In our communities white folks see habits they call bad, Like holding our crotches and letting our pants sag. They ask why do you do this grabbing on yourself? Richard Pryor explained it: “You motherfuckers done took everything else!” And what about your sagging pants exposing yourselves in the streets? …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-3736","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\/3736","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3737,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/3737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}