The Greatest of Expectations

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "The Greatest of Expectations." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 19 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Glen Carr - Did racism get worse when Obama became President, or did it become better?

Muhammad Rasheed - Racism was exactly the same in every way before, during and after Barack Obama’s presidency. The only difference was that the historic nature of the first Black president of the United States caused white people to talk about racism more and to get triggered over any “pro-Black/Black pride” demonstrations more often. Just because the dominant class was uncomfortable didn’t mean that the anti-Black racist system suddenly became MORE anti-Black racist.

The main problem was that the white racist aristocracy panicked at the lower rung socio-economic levels because they somehow assumed that the then politically unsophisticated black American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS)would take advantage of the opportunity and push an ADOS Political Agenda through to finally win free from systemic racism and receive their long overdue Reparations payout.

Nosa Empires - [ARTICLE] Rep. Ilhan Omar responds to 'send her back' chant with Maya Angelou poem

This bothers me a lot. Basically they push Pro Illegal Immigration Agendas, then when the pushback comes, they hide behind #ADOS history.

Dave Jackson - Let me put this issue in perspective for everyone. You wanna know the bottom line on this sister and AOC, and the like. Ask yourself this question. If all congressional members were like Omar, AOC and company, would ADOS Reparations get passed through Congress? And for those of you who still answer in the negative, if you can’t see what a difference that would make in our likelihood of success, then you’re not being intellectually honest.

Muhammad Rasheed - Dave wrote: "If all congressional members were like Omar, AOC and company, would ADOS Reparations get passed through Congress?"

Hell no.

Dave Jackson - @Muhammad... appreciate the answer, but what about the second part of the question?

Muhammad Rasheed - I don't see another question. I see a statement from you that was expressed from your own subjectively opinionated world view.

Would you like to rephrase it as a question so I can take an honest stab at it? I'm game.

Dave Jackson - Well it’s actually a second thought:

“And for those of you who still answer in the negative, if you can’t see what a difference that would make in our likelihood of success, then you’re not being intellectually honest.”

Muhammad Rasheed - The Black immigrant community will show up at our cookouts and help us tap dance and soft shoe while shaking hot sauce all day long, but they don't believe in ADOS receiving any kind of political advantage. They are our rivals as much as the white community.

Muhammad Rasheed - It's only when #ADOS fights to the top to seize our piece of the mountain ourselves will we then be in a position to have interconnected Win/Wins with those other groups. Right now they ALLLLL have their feet on our necks trying to prevent us from competing in the marketplace for fear we'll take something they want for themselves.

We are all we have.

Muhammad Rasheed - Our job is to link arms and form a solid wall of determination, and juggernaut our way to our ultimate goals with unwavering belief and fortitude. No one is going to help us but God. The sooner we realize that fact, the faster our progress will be.

Dave Jackson - @Muhammad... I appreciate the discussion. And it’s an important topic for #ADOS. Dr. Darity estimates that we’ll need support from 40% of white folks to make Reparations a reality. That’s not coming from me. But I agree with him. This is a moral claim, and we’re asking the US Congress to pass unprecedented legislation. So we’ll need help. Honestly, I ignored this latest debacle with the “go back to where you came from” charge. I mean really, we’ve heard that one all of our lives. So for me it’s not a matter of defending anyone. But we need votes, so in my opinion it’s just common sense to secure support from folks like Omar. Unless we don’t agree with Darity and the #ADOS approach to go through Congress for Reparations? Again, I’m open to other avenues but according to ADOS101, it’s through national legislation.

Muhammad Rasheed - Dave wrote: "Dr. Darity estimates that we’ll need support from 40% of white folks to make Reparations a reality. That’s not coming from me. But I agree with him.”

What it doesn’t mean is that we don’t FIRST lock arms and fight for our goals with unwavering belief and patient perseverance. Once we get on board that train, then the people who we’ll need to help us get there will align to our vision and it will happen. Even despite themselves and their own selfish inclinations.

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A Class of Entitled Thieves

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "A Class of Entitled Thieves." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 18 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Anonymous - Does giving free handouts ruin character?

Muhammad Rasheed - During the 20th century, the poor whites of the United States were given numerous government free handouts in the form of money, land, education, and many other white exclusionary benefits which grew the American middle class. The black American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) were pointedly left out of these programs, and in fact, the whites were allowed to grift and plunder ADOS out of what they had managed to acquire under the murderously hostile, forced jim crow segregation conditions.

Whenever the topic comes up of the long overdue Reparatory Justice and the opportunity to enable the ADOS community to also receive government handouts to grow their own middle class that is economically equal to that of their rivals, the white community unreasonably reacts in spiteful fury as if allowing ADOS to be economically equal to them is magically wrong in some way.

I am forced to conclude that a society that was restructured to coddle the entitled attitude of the so-called white peoples has actually ruined their collective character as a group and damaged their spirit. The first step in any possible redemption is for them to voluntarily pay Reparations, but it would seem that they would much rather doom their souls to hell than give up their earthly material advantage.

John Thyret - Be careful what you wish for...when you're bought off, your bought off and so is the great nobility of your ancestors. I'm dirt poor but if your drawings are reasonable, I'd buy one...and your noble spirit ancestors would smile on you.

Muhammad Rasheed - Repairing the economic damage done to my ethnic group by returning the wealth of my stolen labor isn't "buying me off." That's ridiculous.

The court system is in place so that when someone has been wronged the offending party can be held accountable. You understand that principle when it comes to literally every other scenario except the one between whites and ADOS. Why is that?

You lot enjoy just making up crazy excuses trying to squirm out of this debt. You're going to mess around and get another $10 trillion added to that ticket for your insolence.


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Freedom is Worth the Fight

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Freedom is Worth the Fight." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 17 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

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The Barbarian's Impression of a Civilization

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "The Barbarian's Impression of a Civilization." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 16 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Anonymous - Is racism lack of empathy?

Muhammad Rasheed - No. Lack of empathy, bigotry and prejudice are just the side effects of racism.

Racism is the systemic subjugation, exploitation and plunder of a group targeted along racial phenotype, whose wealth is given to another group favored along racial phenotype.

Chris White - Where in the world did you get your definition of racism?

Muhammad Rasheed - From the actual scholarship on the origins of racism and how it actually functions in Western society. It’s unhelpful treating the emotion-based, ‘individual prejudice’ definition of the term as used by social media casuals as if it is the primary meaning, since that definition only serves as a distraction from the actual racist problems.

Chris White - Sorry, that question was rhetorical. The inference is that you are speaking an entirely different language than most people. This obviously creates and exacerbates a massive communication barrier, which is the reason for the word-play in the first place.

I was recognizing this fact.

Muhammad Rasheed - Chris wrote: “The inference is that you are speaking an entirely different language than most people.”

Agreed. Most people are unaware of the scholarship and falsely believe the ‘word on the street’ of the casual, armchair philosopher is true. For example, your “most people” comment is a common logical fallacy called ‘Appeal to the People.’

The truth about racism is conspicuously absent from public discourse, and certainly from public schooling, as you have been so kind to demonstrate.

Chris White - Do you know why Ernest Hemmingway was a great writer? Among other things, it was primarily because he was capable of expressing complex concepts with simple words. He wrote at a 4th-grade reading level.

As to your accusation of fallacy, you have committed the fallacy fallacy. Your assumption that my argument is invalid because I used the phrase “most people” is invalid on its own merit. The proof of this is in your agreement that you are, in fact, speaking a different language.

Also, if you want to throw around accusations of fallacy, let’s back up to your first reply, “From the actual scholarship on the origins of racism”, which would be an appeal to authority. The problem for you is I don’t recognize your authority.

I can play the same word games you can. My sincere thoughts on the matter are that it doesn’t help anything, or change anything. This leads me to believe that you, as someone who is clearly intelligent, know this.

As to your last statement; if anyone was really concerned about something being absent from public discourse, I would imagine they would attempt to be more like Hemmingway and use language that resonated with “most people”, rather than an “elite” group that subscribes to the “actual scholarship”.

Muhammad Rasheed - Chris wrote: “Do you know why Ernest Hemmingway was a great writer?”

You’re babbling and wasting my time. Your heroes are not my heroes.

Chris wrote: “Your assumption that my argument is invalid because I used the phrase ‘most people’ is invalid on its own merit.”

The ‘Appeal to the People’ logical fallacy is committed when someone implies that because a lot of people did something, it must be true or valid (see: the ‘lemmings jumping off the cliff’ myth).

Chris wrote: “The proof of this is in your agreement that you are, in fact, speaking a different language.”

Most people are content being ignorant. It’s a mindset.

Chris wrote: “…which would be an appeal to authority.”

Not so. There’s a difference between pointing out the well-researched scholarship on a topic versus saying an authority figure said it so it must be true.

Chris wrote: “The problem for you is I don’t recognize your authority.”

You gave the impression you didn’t believe in scholarship from your first post.

Chris wrote: “I can play the same word games you can.”

I haven’t played any.

Chris wrote: “My sincere thoughts on the matter are…”

Not interested. Thank you.

Chris White - M. Rasheed wrote:“Not interested”

That was obvious from the outset, which I pointed out in my first reply. That’s what “rhetorical” meant.

Have a good day.

Muhammad Rasheed - The definition of “rhetorical” is available in the Google search (you can open another tab). Please correct your comment using the edit function before you go.

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From the Archives of Lessons Learned

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "From the Archives of Lessons Learned." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 15 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Kurt Moehlenkamp - Does the thought of paying Reparations to the proven descendants of slaves mean anything? Isn't this a bit like putting a new coat of paint on a burned out house?

Muhammad Rasheed - You’re saying that giving the exploited American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) the wealth that was plundered from them is the same as giving something valuable to something that is worthless. That’s a pretty harsh opinion of the people. It gives the impression that you’re judging the entire ethnic group based on the criminal class of the poorest, most uncouth members of the group. Naturally, I would expect you to protest were I to judge all white people based on your grimiest, most barbaric members in like fashion. Neither opinion would be fair.

I want you to remember that when the white exclusionary New Deal was enacted and the very uncouth poor whites were given free money and land by the U.S. government, every resource was provided to help them learn how to work that land and learn how to use the benefits provided for them. I would reasonably expect the same treatment for my own people.

The point of Reparations, in repairing the astronomical wrong of anti-Black systemic racism, is to close the artificially created racial wealth gap and to make the two groups economically equal.

Kurt Moehlenkamp - My point is more to the root of the delusion that people living today owe anything to anyone. If you track the path back a fair piece of profit was being collected on the backs of those future slaves by the other tribes that would traffic in them and sell them to the white man. Why are we not seeing those countries for billions. Then look into pursuing China for reparations to all who live in the modern day middle east and eastern Europe. Or perhaps the great Zulu nation for genocide. Man has had a long history over slavery and killing, everywhere not just here.

Muhammad Rasheed - Kurt wrote: “My point is more to the root of the delusion that people living today owe anything to anyone.”

No one owed the poor whites anything at all, and yet the U.S. gov spent a thousand thousand fortunes giving them free money and land to grow the white middle class and allow them to have great lives. And the gov did all of this while inflicting forced jim crow segregation on the same ADOS community they refused to pay the Reparations they owed to them for slavery, sharecropping, the white hate group domestic terror lynching campaign, and the slavery 2.0 of mass incarceration.

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A White Monopoly On That, Too?

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "A White Monopoly On That, Too?" Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 14 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Bradley Johnson - What does it mean to act "white"?

Muhammad Rasheed - The charge of “acting white” from a black American Descendant of Slavery (ADOS) has a few different meanings depending on the socio-economic class of the accuser and some other factors. Usually it’s an accusation of treachery towards a fellow ADOS.

• When coming from the lower class poor ADOS, to be accused of ‘acting white’ almost always means you are perceived to be a peer who is fraudulently putting on airs and pretending to a station you are not a part of. Often nothing more complex than a wider vocabulary is enough to receive this insult, which is a terribly sad demonstration of being “poor minded” since it implies that whites hold a barrier over simply going to the library and reading a book for free.
  
• When coming from the ADOS middle classes (such as they are), to be accused of ‘acting white’ is usually a dig at your household and how you were raised. It can mean your parents cut you off from the culture (for whatever reason) and had you “out there” to be raised by white folks so now you don’t know your people. More often than not, this is an accurate ‘reading of someone’s mail,’ and the defensive victim will usually embrace the negative comments made about Black people in general by his/her white ‘friends’ by pretending the ‘acting white’ accusation is actually coming from the “poor minded” lower class mindset, though this is not the case.
  
• Even though the actual term “acting white” isn’t used, other instances of the concept as used by ADOS are leveled at white people themselves, and represent a specific mode of communication not necessarily universal among all socio-economic classes of the white racist aristocracy. One is the coded language of political pundits, alt-right journalists and others who hide racist/discriminatory speak in seemingly innocent-sounding rhetoric to pretend they don’t hold anti-Black views. This is a relatively new strategy by the guardians of white supremacy, and it goes hand-in-hand with a false victimhood narrative using a “black supremacist” false equivalency fallacy as part of this manifestation of their sociopathy.
  
  The other specific way in which the white racist aristocracy “acts white” is the normalized mainstream demonstration of forcing all information through the Eurocentric White Supremacist Ideological worldview in order to maintain a ‘whiteness narrative’ as part of the ongoing indoctrination of the populace. Similar as to how FoxNews forces all information through the white Republican conservative viewpoint and pretends it’s the ‘default normal’ view of the world, the mainstream society does the same on a bigger scale with a specific Eurocentric white supremacist view. This is the truer, far more dangerous version of “acting white,” and it is a mighty weapon used to protect the status quo from overthrow by brainwashing the populace into believing that white people hold a monopoly over thought itself.

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Rigging the Game

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Rigging the Game." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 13 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

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White Supremacy's Problems with Change

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "White Supremacy's Problems with Change." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 12 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Anonymous - Are Reparations wrong?

Muhammad Rasheed - It may SEEM wrong for someone used to having their way—as seen from within a system that their ancestors set up to give them an unfair advantage—for their favorite victims to finally receive justice, causing that system to tip towards a socio-economic balance it had never seen before.

That is only pure, selfish, butthurt, emotional tantrum energy being expressed,not the passion of legitimate righteous outrage over a wrong. Remember, it was the wrong that was originally established with chattel slavery and an additional 150 yrs of U.S. government supported, anti-Black discriminatory practices which is then to be corrected by the Reparations payout. The definition of “reparations” is the reparatory justice for a wrong committed.

Richie Richards - Thieves never care about the opinions of their victims. They're selfish and evil.

Muhammad Rasheed - Slavery was the theft of Black labor.

Richie Richards - Slavery was the theft of labor, regardless of color. Fortunately, this country outlawed that evil practice over 150 years ago.

Muhammad Rasheed - "Regardless of color" doesn't make since considering there was only one "color" permanently delegated as the slave class.

The slave owners built in a loophole in the 13th amendment that enabled them to continue the slave labor practice legally. It's still going on today and why there is still racism against Black people and attitudes like yours towards me finally being free of that evil.

Richie Richards - It does make sense. Slave owners and slaves weren't designated by their skin color, it was an economic status. There were slaves and slave owners of all colors. Of course, the majority were black (you can thank the muslims and fellow Africans for enslaving them and selling them for cheap labor all over the world) but not all.

Can you point to an example of legal slavery protected by the 13th amendment loophole you're referring to? Aside from imprisonment (because sometimes, bad people need locked up).

Muhammad Rasheed - Richie wrote: “It does make sense.”

No, you’re just making up nonsense based on your anti-Black biases as usual.

Richie wrote: “Slave owners and slaves weren't designated by their skin color…”

Meanwhile, they were designated by their skin color by law.

Richie wrote: “…it was an economic status.”

Established by racial phenotype by law.

Richie wrote: “There were slaves and slave owners of all colors.”

There were very few Black slave owners, and even then they were under strict Black Code rules. The majority of them purchased their relatives until they could get them freed which was why they did it.

Richie wrote: “Of course, the majority were black”
The majority were Black because the system was specifically set up to permanently delegate Black people to the bondsman class to create a white racist aristocracy.

Richie wrote: “(you can thank the muslims and fellow Africans for enslaving them and selling them for cheap labor all over the world) but not all.”

That doesn’t make sense. This is a white supremacist myth.

Richie wrote: “Can you point to an example of legal slavery protected by the 13th amendment loophole you're referring to? Aside from imprisonment (because sometimes, bad people need locked up).”

Imprisonment is the loophole that they built into the 13th amendment to specifically to return the newly-freed Blacks back to slavery to force them to work those plantations again. Fraudulently throwing Black people in prison to work in prison cheap-labor camps goes on today from the same traditions.

Muhammad Rasheed - 13th Amendment: "...except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted..."

Texas prisons lose $500,000 of inmate-grown cotton destroyed in Hurricane Harvey | Houston Chronicle

Richie Richards - Let's just ignore your revisionist history and focus on what's most relevant... today.

Unfortunately, that 13th Amendment loophole is necessary. Without it, prisons could not exist. Do you want thieves, child molesters, rapists and murderers to live among you? Of course not. That's why that clause was added. Again, some people need to be imprisoned.

Nobody is throwing blacks in prison today to make license plates. If racially-motivated legal sentencing is important to you, that's great, and a noble cause (much more respectable than racist gimme-white-people's-money crap). You should also consider supporting the Trump administration for actually passing criminal justice reforms :)

Muhammad Rasheed - Richie wrote: "Let's just ignore your revisionist history..."

That's what white supremacists type when they don't have anything except more white supremacist nonsense. lol

Richie wrote: "...and focus on what's most relevant... today."

Literally nothing has changed in 150 yrs. You and your family are still the same racist scumbags talking the exact same political talking points that you pull out of your butts.

Richie wrote: "Unfortunately, that 13th Amendment loophole is necessary."

That's what I said. It was necessary for the white slave owners to continue slavery legally and keep their fortunes. That's literally why that clause was added -- because they were racist scumbags.

Richie wrote: "Nobody is throwing blacks in prison today to make license plates."

You saw the link I posted with the inmate grown cotton.

Richie wrote: "(much more respectable than racist gimme-white-people's-money crap)"

Oh, I'm getting my Reparations, and it'll be precisely because of all of this we're talking about. You can cry about it as you like. #WhiteTears

Richie wrote: "You should also consider supporting the Trump administration for actually passing criminal justice reforms."

??? All he did was allow one of Obama's old bills to go through that just released a handful of people as a fake political statement, and he increased the for-profit prison system market that will literally make the problem worse. Now what are you supposed to be talking about?

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Party Loyalty and the Definition of Insanity

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Party Loyalty and the Definition of Insanity." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 11 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Anonymous - If Black people, en masse, threatened to end their traditional support for Democrats until they were guaranteed reparations, would Democrats agree to it if, thereby, they could avoid the possibility of Donald Trump winning the 2020 general election?

Muhammad Rasheed -  It’s possible they would agree to it in order to:

• Save their cushy politician jobs
• Keep from losing their party altogether

Can’t hurt but to work the plan and see it through with consistent action and fortitude. Otherwise it makes zero sense for the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) to continue throwing their ballots into the Democratic Party black hole with zero return.

Rob Wilson - ADOS feels like needlessly dividing African Americans from the greater African diaspora and I'm not super into it.

Muhammad Rasheed - The #ADOS movement is a matter of national identity. We were the only ethnic group in the Black African Diaspora who didn't have a title identifying us by lineage and heritage, and because of this, it enabled some Black immigrant groups to take advantage and grift us. A definitive naming convention that identified us properly to prevent things like that from happening further was necessary to protect ourselves, as well as to make sure our house was in order when it came time to hold the US gov accountable over our Reparations grievance. It's important to be able to identify ourselves as the defendant -- with zero ambiguity -- for that fight.

Also, it is not possible for us to have a positive, Win/Win interconnected experience with the rest of the African diaspora without first making sure our own house is in order. If this wasn't true, then our relationship with them would be strong today.

Rob Wilson - I suppose I'm just not familiar with this history Black immigrant groups taking advantage and grifting African Americans?

Muhammad Rasheed - Because of the inexact and wishy-washy nature of terms like "Black American" and "African-American" Black immigrants have been able to pass as ADOS over the decades and -- paired with special immigrant benefits -- use it as an economic come up for their families. Then they would leverage themselves into high-ranking positions and then actually pretend to be ADOS to work against our Political Agenda. Candace Owens, who's from the Caribbean, is one example. Roland Martin is another. Joy Ann Reid is another. Basically, the rule of law has proven that any public Black personality who is rabidly anti-Reparations will turn out not to be ADOS, but will have Black immigrant ties while they pretend to speak for the ADOS cause.

Mindy Kaling's brother: I faked being black | CNN

Rob Wilson - O_O

Muhammad Rasheed - The African families would never write a confession like this one, because they have been in the habit of using the grift as a part of the technique for getting their relatives over here, so why would they break it by exposing it?

But that's why the Black immigrant celebrities -- like Joy Ann Reid -- are so viciously against Reparations, because if the so-called "Black Americans" start listing themselves formally as "American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS)" then the immigrant groups who can physically pass won't be able to use this grift anymore... no more than ADOS would be able to pass as Nigerian-Americans or whatever.

This ISN'T about "dividing the diaspora" but about lineage and heritage. In many ways I'm locked out of opportunities due to political disenfranchisement precisely because I haven't been calling myself ADOS so the whole world knows exactly who I am as an ethnic group.

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Savagely Conquered Fair and Square

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Savagely Conquered Fair and Square." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 10 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Anonymous - Why do some people call racism against white people "reverse" racism?

Muhammad Rasheed - The “reverse racism” charge is a tactic used by white people in their defense of white supremacy. Composed of flimsy false equivalency and ‘Whataboutism’ logical fallacies, as well as attempts to divorce the meaning of ‘racism’ from its economic and systemic purpose and primary function, the use of the phrase is confined to deceptive misdirection.

When in use, the “reverse racism” card is put into play solely to steer Black anti-racism activists away from the obscene and highly lucrative anti-Black systemic racism that fuels the white racist aristocracy, and when successful, causes the activists to waste time jumping through ‘moving the goalpost’ hoops.

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