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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Parsing the Four-Part Noise." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 05 Sep 2020. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
Owen R. Broadhurst - This is right-wing agit-prop; Can others here see why?
Muhammad Rasheed - There's nothing "right-wing" about pointing out the very bi-partisan nature of the centuries old attacks against the Black American former slave class strugging for their Reparations and economic inclusion.
Stop pretending to be an anti-racism ally and actually BE one.
Owen R. Broadhurst - You're a right-wing conspiracy theorist, and this group has lost its way
Muhammad Rasheed - I'm not a "right-wing" anything. I am an advocate for the Black American Descendants of Slavery and the dedicated right-wing hates my guts.
The Maggie Phair Institute - @Owen... Mr. Rasheed has been posting his cartoons in this group for over 2 years now.
Tim Jacks - What is meant by "American-ness" given that the entire idea of USAmeriKKKa is based in the pseudoscience of race theory?
Muhammad Rasheed - American-ness is the right to Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness under our capitalist free open market competition tradition. This tradition was sabotaged/usurped by the 1% monopolists to prevent the populace from thriving once the chattel slave institution was dismantled. Afterwards, the 1% class schemed to hold on to their monopoly of government & industry with colluding cartels of white men agreeing to break the anti-racism & antitrust laws for their own self-serving greedy goals.
Sippo Kähmi - What is this garbage, and why would anyone want to uphold "American-ness"
Muhammad Rasheed - Sippo wrote: "...why would anyone want to uphold 'American-ness'"
The group whose blood, sweat & tears was used to build the nation and her great wealth, but was pointedly locked out of her benefits, capital and the wealth-building ownership class.
Sippo Kähmi - So what you're saying is you recognize the inherent injustice of "American-ness" and it's inherently exploitative nature and basis in white supremacy... and that's something you want to become part of?
What can I say, that's an abhorrent idea, and I have no idea what it's doing in a leftist group.
Muhammad Rasheed - Sippo wrote: "So what you're saying is you recognize the inherent injustice of 'American-ness' and it's inherently exploitative nature and basis in white supremacy..."
I recognize that cartels of white supremacists usurped the building early nation to hoard its benefits for itself, sabotaging justice systems in their favor by taking over all positions of power up into the modern day.
Sippo wrote: "and that's something you want to become part of?"
That's something that needs to be fixed.
Sippo Kähmi - But that's not really what happened... the US was built on settler colonialism and the genocide of the native peoples from the start, none of it was "usurped" by "cartels".
Muhammad Rasheed - There was a specific point in which the Euro-ethnic groups colluded across class lines to delegate the Africans among them to a permanent bondsman class, creating the white racist aristocracy. This "Racial Contact" has been the backbone of the number one driving ideology of the USA ever since... allowing these colluding cartels of white men to hoard the wealth and rule of industry and government for their legacy families alone, allowing the poor whites to enjoy the more abstract benefits of 'whiteness' prestige in the lowest side of the aristocracy.
Sippo Kähmi - What specific point? What are you even talking about? At what point was there a period when white racists didn't hold power in the U.S.?
The development of European capitalism was based on colonialism, which in turn was based on white supremacy. The development of capitalism in the US followed in those steps.
Muhammad Rasheed - Sippo wrote: "What specific point?"
A specific point in the 17th century.
Sippo wrote: "What are you even talking about?"
A portion of history usually either ignored by white people, or self-servingly simplified to the point where the narrative no longer holds meaning.
Sippo wrote: "At what point was there a period when white racists didn't hold power in the U.S.?"
This is a strawman effigy question. The reality is that, before Black people were permanently delegated to the bondsman class by law, Blacks were also indentured servants, were freemen, owned property, shared in power and crafting policy, etc. After they were permanently assigned the chattel class was the formal birth of "racism" as we know it.
Sippo wrote: "The development of European capitalism was based on colonialism, which in turn was based on white supremacy. The development of capitalism in the US followed in those steps."
Considering the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was literally based on corporate cronyism with the monarchies of Europe to keep competition down in the markets, there was zero "capitalism" present by definition. Likewise capitalism was sabotaged in the colonies once the white racist aristocracy was formed which locked Black people out of access to the wealth-building ownership class.
Sippo Kähmi - I mean, sure, if you twist the definition of capitalism to mean something other than historical capitalism, you can pretend capitalism is anything you want it to be. It's a tactic often employed by libertarians, but has absolutely nothing to do with leftism.
Also you didn't answer the question. What was this specific point when racism suddenly came into existance by law, and before which capitalism wasn't deeply racist?
Muhammad Rasheed - Sippo wrote: "I mean, sure, if you twist the definition of capitalism to mean something other than historical capitalism, you can pretend capitalism is anything you want it to be."
lol Actually no. I'm removing the unrecognizably twisted caricature of capitalism from the ideological grasp of what you hold to return it to its true definition.
Sippo wrote: "It's a tactic often employed by libertarians, but has absolutely nothing to do with leftism."
Irrelevant.
Sippo wrote: "Also you didn't answer the question."
So far I find your questions to be so laden with ideology that they function as strawman effigy logical fallacies. I'm forced to peel back the ideological film to answer the questions at the heart of the actual definition of capitalism.
Sippo wrote: "What was this specific point when racism suddenly came into existance by law, and before which capitalism wasn't deeply racist?"
It was after the several smaller events leading to the 'Bacon Rebellion' when the rise of the white racist aristocracy was the main deliverable of Euro-ethnic greed-fueled unrest.
Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today - Jacqueline Battalora
Sippo Kähmi - I mean, you started this whole thing with a call for "American-ness", you can't really criticize anyone for being "ideological" after that. The American identity and the "American Dream" are the height of ideology. What's more, they're the height of anti-leftist ideology, so far from being "irrelevant", I ask again why bring such ideology into this group, that's diametrically opposed to it?
Now you're still failing to present a time where capitalism wasn't racist, but you make some reference to Bacon's rebellion which happened in 1676. So was capitalism in existence but somehow not racist before that? How?
Muhammad Rasheed - Sippo wrote: "I mean, you started this whole thing with a call for 'American-ness,'"
Noooo... I pointed out that the Black American former slave class built America, but were continuously locked out of American-ness benefits.
Sippo wrote: "...you can't really criticize anyone for being 'ideological' after that."
Another strawman effigy logical fallacy. Note that I never vilified ideology as a concept, but took digs at your specific pet ideology and its commitment to caricaturing and misrepresenting capitalism for its own goals.
Sippo wrote: "The American identity and the 'American Dream' are the height of ideology."
Nonsense. The height of ideology involves organized religion.
Sippo wrote: "What's more, they're the height of anti-leftist ideology, so far from being 'irrelevant,'"
It was irrelevant in the point I was making.
Sippo wrote: "I ask again why bring such ideology into this group, that's diametrically opposed to it?"
Because my commitment to anti-racism makes me a formal leftist.
Sippo wrote: "Now you're still failing to present a time where capitalism wasn't racist, but you make some reference to Bacon's rebellion which happened in 1676."
So even though I literally referenced a specific event marked in time enabling you to find a specific date, you claim that I failed to mark a specific time. Curious.
Sippo wrote: "So was capitalism in existence but somehow not racist before that? How?"
Racism is economic in nature. Before the Black peoples were delegated to the permanent bondsman class (which birthed the concept of racism) they were active participants in the free open markets available to other groups. Once that competitive marketplace was closed off enabling only a colluding cartel to build wealth, then it was no longer a capitalist system by definition.
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MEDIUM: Scanned pen & ink cartoon drawing w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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