Broken by Design

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Broken by Design." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 10 Apr 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

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Weaponizing Poverty

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PotatoJuice - Can you explain the second point a bit more, and how the fourth point is a part of him softening his message?

Muhammad Rasheed - The 2nd point functions as a cowardly & lazy cop-out when Black intellectuals -- who aren't of the poorest demographic and may have little to no direct experience with mass incarceration and other anti-Black racism targeting -- give up in a fit of frustration when confronted with the shear magnitude of the work needed to dismantle anti-Black systemic racism. "None of us deserve full citizenship then!" is what they say in a tantrum when the fight to achieve racial equality becomes too overwhelming to them. Similarly, white conservatives will proclaim "Well, they're ALL corrupt!" when you point out that the wrongdoing they point out in a rival political figure is practiced by the politician they favor, too.

The 4th point represents a softening of the Black Intellectual's anti-racism message because it isn't real. White people already know Black people are human beings, so appealing to them to recognize our humanity is a waste of time and energy. It's a Step-n-Fetchit dance that liberals have the Black intellectual performing to give the illusion that real meaningful work is being done.

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White Supremacy's Usurpation of Science

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phdology - Congratulations!!!

bezartlife - Congrats on this BEASTLYHOOD!

blackpeopleinvest - Congrats

Richie Richards - Congrats! One year of flagrant racism!

Muhammad Rasheed - Richie, when white people appropriate the terms 'racism/racist' to use in defense of their precious white supremacy—as you are doing here—it fails to move me.

Try to be less of a vain attention-seeker, please. It looks ugly.

Richie Richards - I forgot that everything I do is in the name of white supremacy. Here, I thought I was just calling out racism because it's evil and wrong. My bad.

The irony of being called ugly by perhaps the most racist, dark-hearted person I've ever encountered is staggering. You're so consumed in hatred that you really have absolutely zero self-awareness.

Muhammad Rasheed - Richie wrote: "I forgot that everything I do is in the name of white supremacy."

I didn't forget since you insist on posting periodic reminders of your psychosis. #DoBetter

Mic Worthy - @Muhammad... It seems Richie's "whiteness" is under attack here! LOL

claudieluv47 - I just saying this will make an excellent animated series...

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Refining the Grift

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Anonymous - What causes some internet trolls to hate black people?

Muhammad Rasheed - They don't all "hate." There are many classes of people involved in the online trolling of Black people, and even though some absolutely do hate, that strong emotion isn't necessary to perform the act. Most perform the trolling with the coldly stoic face of a professional paint scraper even though the activity itself can of course be considered "hateful."

Many of the trolls that specifically target Black people do so in order to sabotage liberation/empowerment activism efforts. Pro-Black activism's primary goal is to achieve full socio-political freedom for Black people and their economic inclusion in the mainstream, which will enable them to realistically compete directly with the dominant group, threatening the current wealth & power monopolies. This fact makes race relations a high stakes chess match with human civilization itself as the prize, and among the many white supremacist "race soldiers" engaged in active battle to prevent Black people from achieving their goals, there are among them some who genuinely hate the idea of the power balance flipping and Black people ruling over them on a personal level.

We now have about five centuries of this kind of thinking to saturate itself fully into the cultures and creeds of certain classes and tribes, so that the Internet trolls recruited from among them hold a deep-seated pure hatred in their hearts that drives their anti-Black systemic racism.

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Worshiping the White Male's Fetish

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Worshiping the White Male's Fetish." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 06 Apr 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Mandel Cheeks - Unpopular Comicbook Opinion: Storm was a STRONGER character when she was with FORGE than she was with BLACK PANTHER

Muhammad Rasheed - I suspect you think that because when she was with Forge, a white writer wrote her as a stereotype, while the Black writer wrote her with BP as an actual woman.

Clifton Hatchett - You didn't like her with Forge, or her in the leadership role with the X-Men?

Muhammad Rasheed - *shrug* Indifferent either way. I was just responding to the original post opinion.

Mandel Cheeks - @Muhammad... The Black writer wrote her as a STEREOTYPE as well but at at least early on she was independent and strong rather than a trendy cliche to satisfy some power couple mentality. She ceased being her own character and became a prop.

Muhammad Rasheed - @Mandel... Originally she was the half-naked, sexually free "exotic alien-type" stereotype that white writers always create, so she was clearly always a shallow prop. When she took on the mohawk persona, they just added the "strong Black woman" app to the prop. Her value in comicdom is only the fact that she's the only such stereotype prop with longevity in that industry, so she gives the illusion of "being her own character."

What stereotypes did you see the Black writer using for her?

Mandel Cheeks - @Muhammad... and making her an idealized prop for "black exellence" to play second fiddle was any better?

Muhammad Rasheed - It sounds like you're saying being the wife of a Black man was inherently inferior to shacking up with Forge, the "$5 indian" white dude.

In what way was she written as second fiddle?

Clifton Hatchett - This is an interesting critique.

Mandel Cheeks - @Muhammad... nah thats what you looking for me to say. So really spare me. What Im saying is they made a marriage to hype one character above the next and as a result diminished the other solely for the sake of sales and when it went south broke it up a kinda wiped off all the traits STORM was known for. I'm not looking for representation in every thing Im looking for different. Hell Im not even a big storm fan. But I recognized her depth and strengths when written well. Her and Forge were doomed but the polarity if thier story was more intriguing. Her and BP... tgey had to rewrite the hell out if it and it still doesnt gel to me.They shoehorned those two together and everything about it came off as fake and superficial. Black white klingon...dont matter so much as what each had before and after..STORM had her own sway and they killed it trying to market it as a book FIRST.

Muhammad Rasheed - Mandel wrote: "nah thats what you looking for me to say." 

Until you explain what you really mean, that's how it seems.

Mandel wrote: "So really spare me."

Please note that you didn't spare me your unpopular opinion. Eat the critique.

Mandel wrote: "What Im saying is they made a marriage to hype one character above the next..."

That's not how it seemed to me. The union made sense and was organic from my perspective. That they decided to hype it up into an event -- no different than how the company did previous high-profile marriages between less interesting characters in the past -- made sense from a marketing/book sales stand point.

Mandel wrote: "...and as a result diminished the other..."

How was she diminished exactly? Because at this point it STILL seems like you believe being married to a Black man is inherently inferior to being married to Fake Chief Crackerjack.

Mandel wrote: "...solely for the sake of sales..."

It's a publishing company. They do literally everything for the sake of sales.

Mandel wrote: "...and when it went south..."

It didn't "go south." White fanboys just got mad and the company backed down from their tantrum.

Mandel wrote: "...broke it up a kinda wiped off all the traits STORM was known for."

All those stereotypical white writer provided traits you're enamored with? Those?

Mandel wrote: "I'm not looking for representation in every thing Im looking for different."

Thank God for those really, Really, REALLY different classic stereotypes to quench that thirst for you, huh?

Mandel wrote: "Hell Im not even a big storm fan."

Me neither, Mandel.

Mandel wrote: "But I recognized her depth and strengths when written well."

Do you though? lol

Mandel wrote: "Her and Forge were doomed but the polarity if thier story was more intriguing. Her and BP... tgey had to rewrite the hell out if it and it still doesnt gel to me.They shoehorned those two together and everything about it came off as fake and superficial. Black white klingon...dont matter so much as what each had before and after..STORM had her own sway and they killed it trying to market it as a book FIRST."

I 100% disagree with all of this, and to be honest, you come across as if you are a puppet beholden to white interests in some way. But that's just the impression you give me when reading that part. Did you like all of those Tarzan flicks, too? Captain Kirk and all of his "exotic colored alien" flings?

Mandel Cheeks - @Muhammad... LOL.You are the type of reader looking for everything to reflect you aint yah?! Your breaking down my conversation dont make you no more versed in what you looking for. Black fans were reading Storm with just as less complaints as I had about her strong regal intelligence and independence. Dont come on my page with your fake 5% percenter rant bullshit. You dont know jack about me and the novelties I entertain nor are tgey any of your buisness. I I don't fuck give a what you agree with nor were you asked dont but I always noted your nonproductive ass always got a judgement in how black somebody is . Your ability to break a conversation up and shoot somebody down with your opinion on what was said doesn't maked you versed in debate..regurgitation aint intelligence. But since you wanna go there..its thier characters..they can do what they want and bringing a black writer on didnt automatically make for good writing. And in this case it showed. Coates wrote a dull BP. There were better writers. Period. You gonna do the job do it right.

Muhammad Rasheed - Mandel wrote: "LOL.You are the type of reader looking for everything to reflect you aint yah?!"

I have a problem with Black people taking shitty, stereotyped-based crumbs from whites and fighting to the death for them. It looks funny.

Mandel wrote: "Your breaking down my conversation dont make you no more versed in what you looking for."

It's how I keep my thoughts organized as a holdover from the old message board 'quote' format. You don't need to read too much into it.

Mandel wrote: "Black fans were reading Storm with just as less complaints as I had about her strong regal intelligence and independence."

I know. Y'all enjoy accepting shitty, stereotype-based crumbs from white people and worshiping them on a pedestal of fake Blackness. They apparently made you their king. #SweetChristmas

Mandel wrote: "Dont come on my page with your fake 5% percenter rant bullshit."

Hm. First, point out all the "5% percenter" [sic] references I made in the above exchange.

Mandel wrote: "You dont know jack about me and the novelties I entertain..."

Sure I do. That's why you were kind enough to share your unpopular opinion, is it not? Now I know.

Mandel wrote: "...nor are tgey any of your buisness."

Relax. I have no use for it anyway. It's just an intellectual diversion exercise on my day off.

Mandel wrote: "I don't fuck give a what you agree with..."

So?

Mandel wrote: "...nor were you asked..."

Yet, it was heavily implied in your sharing your unpopular opinion. If your skin is too thin for the critique, then go re-read your old Storm X-issues and hush.

Mandel wrote: "...but I always noted your nonproductive ass..."

I'm the author of 20 graphic novels and I was just nominated for a Glyph Comics Award for almost 400 straight days of original editorial cartoons, Mandel. The last thing I am is nonproductive, but go off.

Mandel wrote: "...always got a judgement in how black somebody is ."

Have I? Like who?

Mandel wrote: "Your ability to break a conversation up and shoot somebody down with your opinion on what was said doesn't maked you versed in debate."

Do you feel shot down, Mandel? awww... Put some ointment on it. You'll be alright.

Mandel wrote: "regurgitation aint intelligence."

I'm pretty sure you're the one praising Storm's solid background of white writer stereotypes. Do you know what regurgitate means?

Mandel wrote: "But since you wanna go there..its thier characters..they can do what they want..."

Yeah? Well, that's why I'm indifferent to whatever they want to do with the character. I'm not a fan if you can't tell at this point. You, however, seem to be taking this real personal though. You love her, don't you?

Mandel wrote: "...and bringing a black writer on didnt automatically make for good writing."

We've already established that you prefer how white writers write Black women, so there's no need to go any further on that point. lol

Mandel Cheeks - *Blocks M. Rasheed*

KNephilim - Forgot to mention, powers related to electricity. Check.

But, in reality the comic industry has grown in actual diversity as well as representation over the years (this is from a public recognition standpoint that), I am excited. I say public recognition, because POCs have always been in the industry.

Muhammad Rasheed - In reality, the comics industry is a white supremacist cartel that funnels most of the profits to the few while creating an "Assimilated Integrationist Token" grift program to give the illusion of race relations progress.

KNephilim - Lol. Think about this. With the surge of personal devices that have internet connection, the amount of Black comic artist that have an audience has increased. Though, your right that most publishing companies are run by white supramicist or follow mechanisms of systematic racism, you cannot just deny some progress, because we haven't gained FREEDOM yet. Every step forward should be celebrated, because it took at least a hundred of us to get there.

Muhammad Rasheed - The "Assimilated Integrationist Token" isn't progress, it's a grift scheme designed to remove Black competition from the markets to protect white supremacy. How is it "progress" if I give up my Black business districts for a 13% diversity slot to help white business owners get richer while my own people now lack a self-reliant economic floor?

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The Miserly Thief

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Gary McCoy - AOC says "people make mistakes" and "I've got time to learn". Good to know she takes being an elected representative with the seriousness it deserves.

Muhammad Rasheed - "President Trump" nullifies whatever this post is supposed to mean. lol

Gary McCoy - My name is Alexandria ocasio-cortez. And I make Valley girls seem smart.

Muhammad Rasheed - AOC is clearly smart. That's not the problem y'all actually have with her.
The Democratic Party is at its best when it is driven by strong, charismatic personalities. Its stagnant without those kind of figures. AOC irritates the GOP because she's one of those and y'all are just saying stuff to see what sticks. lol

John Richards - "Strong charismatic personalities" simply means you can get yourself elected by people not smart enough to actually delve into complex issues, understand how those issues interrelate. Or to put it much more bluntly... It doesn't mean a person has the ability to find their butt with both hands. It also indicates that the people voting for them are even less capable of finding their butts with both hands and can be easily conned into believing that it's the government's responsibility to care, and pay, for their needs. Essentially people far to ignorant to understand that every "benefit" provided for by the "government" is actually paid for by real people. Or worse yet, is paid for with borrowed funds. At some point the realization sinks in with the people buying that debt that there is no possible way to repay the debt.

Europe is already finding that to be the case. The entire executive circle of those running Finland just a few weeks ago figured that out, and, since they may be charismatic but without the ability to collectively find their butts with both hands, simply quit. Quite hysterical how, on the day that great charismatic leader Bernie Sanders pointed to Finland's socialism by stating in our country it costs $12,000 to have a baby but only $60 in Finland, their charismatic leaders all quit after realizing they couldn't find their butts with both hands to work their way out of the mess they made. All due to the fact that they believed in some sort of "funding fairy" who would come to their rescue.

Incredibly tough times lie ahead for Finland, actually all of the EU nations. And those tough times become even tougher when one who can find their butt with both hands realizes the entire "energy shortage" was a lie to increase revenue to oil producers coupled with the fact that North Sea crude revenues could face major declines as oil extraction expenses become less costly in other parts of the world.

Then you have the wonderful results of socialism (just another way of saying "We the government will provide for you if you do exactly what we tell you to do) in Venezuela. That wonderful land where people have resorted to eating their pets to survive... What next? Cannibalism?

AOC, and those of her charismatic, but ignorant and lacking simple common sense ilk, are cut from the very same cloth.

Muhammad Rasheed - John wrote: "'Strong charismatic personalities simply means you can get yourself elected by people not smart enough to actually delve into complex issues, understand how those issues interrelate."

True. And that describes the political machine as a whole. If it didn't, then we would be experiencing true progress and the 1% wouldn't wield the power over the masses that they do. Right now, politics is a game that plays in favor of the wealthiest grifter class and their visions for society.

John wrote: "Essentially people far to ignorant to understand that every 'benefit' provided for by the 'government' is actually paid for by real people."

The problem in that case isn't the ignorance of the people, but the demonic-level selfishness of the people complaining about paying it.

John wrote: "Then you have the wonderful results of socialism in Venezuela."

"Socialism" isn't the problem in Venezuela. They are the victims of the same crony corporatism responsible for the rest of the Western world's ills.

John Richards - Funny how the ill-informed always fall back on the evil Koch brothers but entirely ignore the far greater evil deeds of George Soros. But that's simply a result of your indoctrination and your own lack of knowledge, completely self-inflicted, of who the real power brokers of the world are. Really quite a sad waste of a life.

Muhammad Rasheed - I literally sourced a high-level investigative journalist SME for the Koch Bros. reference, but if "cited subject matter expert" is synonymous with "ill-informed" in your universe, John, then you just tossed out whatever credibility you intended your essay to project.

John wrote: "...but entirely ignore the far greater evil deeds of George Soros."

You brought up the Koch Bros. linked Venezuela situation, and are now trying to deflect to Soros because you can't escape the Koch Bros. link to the Venezuela situation your ill-informed "socialist angle" blew up in your face. Interesting.

Anonymous - Why is financial mobility and independence discouraged—or outright stymied—for certain groups?

Muhammad Rasheed - The primary reason for holding someone back from anything is basic selfishness. If I want to monopolize resources, then I sabotage your natural right to compete with me for those resources so I may hoard them all for the sole usage/consumption of myself and my progeny.

The American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) are the perfect example of such a group who has been ‘outright stymied’ by the white racist aristocracy since the end of the Civil War. All just Reparatory Justice efforts (money; land) were stolen by resentful white people, leaving ADOS disenfranchised and impoverished—deliberately prevented from building wealth over generations with an ever widening wealth gap—while the oppressor class disingenuously blames ADOS economic conditions on ‘inferior culture’ and ‘laziness.’

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Silly, Blackie; Freedom is for Wypipo

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Richie Richards - lol black landlords dont' exist?

Muhammad Rasheed - That's an odd question in context. There were Black landlords during the heights of both chattel slavery and jim crow; did that mean ADOS were fully free in either case?

Y'all never seem to even try to think your comments through first before you post.



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Sleeper Cells... ACTIVATE!

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Dolezalism: Infiltrated by the Enemy

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Learning How to Repeat the Mistakes of White America

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