{"id":49383,"date":"2016-10-10T00:28:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49383"},"modified":"2016-10-10T00:28:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:28:39","slug":"the-president-has-never-said-the-word-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49383","title":{"rendered":"The President Has Never Said the Word \u2018Black\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/09\/18\/magazine\/morgan-parker-the-president-has-never-said-the-word-black.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The President Has Never Said the Word \u2018Black\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Poem selected by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems-and-poets\/poets\/detail\/matthew-zapruder\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Zapruder<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/magazine\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n2016-09-30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morgan-parker.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Morgan Parker<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This poem\u2019s expressions of feeling about the blackness of the president disquiet, trouble and inform. Its tones shift among mockery, sympathy, cynicism, anger and mourning. Here, a young African-American poet is addressing the explosive subject of race, so often reduced to platitudes in our public discourse, employing a vital complexity that might be possible to achieve only in poetry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To the extent that one begins<br \/>\nto wonder if he is broken.<\/p>\n<p>It is not so difficult to open<br \/>\nteeth and brass taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The president is all like<br \/>\nfive on the bleep hand side&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire poem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/09\/18\/magazine\/morgan-parker-the-president-has-never-said-the-word-black.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President Has Never Said the Word \u2018Black\u2019 Poem selected by Matthew Zapruder The New York Times Magazine 2016-09-30 Morgan Parker This poem\u2019s expressions of feeling about the blackness of the president disquiet, trouble and inform. Its tones shift among mockery, sympathy, cynicism, anger and mourning. Here, a young African-American poet is addressing the explosive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20],"tags":[25176,25175,2640,25174,2327,25173],"class_list":["post-49383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-matthew-zapruder","tag-morgan-parker","tag-new-york-times","tag-new-york-times-magazine","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49384,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49383\/revisions\/49384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}