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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Uncommon Favor: Spoiled Children of the Colonizer." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 11 Dec 2021. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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Cal Vernham - Why do people not take racism seriously against non-black people?
Muhammad Rasheed - What “people?”
Cal Vernham - Unreasonable people.
Muhammad Rasheed - The question creates more questions and needs more information and context. What are we talking about exactly?
Cal Vernham - Specifically I'm talking about people who only see racism as a problem if it's directed at or affects them. im sure that there has been hundreds of thousands of words written on this subject and we still haven't ironed it out. It's so complex each case has to be considered individually.
Muhammad Rasheed - Cal wrote: “Specifically I'm talking about people who only see racism as a problem if it's directed at or affects them”
An interesting concept. It reminds me of the fact that my ethnic group has been trying to get that anti-lynching law passed for 150 yrs, but the government was more concerned about angering the worst people in the world if they did it. By contrast, the Asian-American community was able to get their anti-Asian hate bill passed — from start to finish — within a 30 day campaign.
My people are still treated as pariah—bothersome nuisance to the dominant political identities who all pretend to be better than us no matter where they fall in the USA’s economic caste hierarchy. Centuries of accrued discrimination against my people by the legions of colluding immigrant cartels tell me my struggle is all in my mind even as they work together to exploit & plunder me for their own hoarding of wealth & opportunity continuously denied me.
I think questions like this one are anti-Black American and evil. Shame on you.
Muhammad Rasheed - What “people?”
Cal Vernham - Unreasonable people.
Muhammad Rasheed - The question creates more questions and needs more information and context. What are we talking about exactly?
Cal Vernham - Specifically I'm talking about people who only see racism as a problem if it's directed at or affects them. im sure that there has been hundreds of thousands of words written on this subject and we still haven't ironed it out. It's so complex each case has to be considered individually.
Muhammad Rasheed - Cal wrote: “Specifically I'm talking about people who only see racism as a problem if it's directed at or affects them”
An interesting concept. It reminds me of the fact that my ethnic group has been trying to get that anti-lynching law passed for 150 yrs, but the government was more concerned about angering the worst people in the world if they did it. By contrast, the Asian-American community was able to get their anti-Asian hate bill passed — from start to finish — within a 30 day campaign.
My people are still treated as pariah—bothersome nuisance to the dominant political identities who all pretend to be better than us no matter where they fall in the USA’s economic caste hierarchy. Centuries of accrued discrimination against my people by the legions of colluding immigrant cartels tell me my struggle is all in my mind even as they work together to exploit & plunder me for their own hoarding of wealth & opportunity continuously denied me.
I think questions like this one are anti-Black American and evil. Shame on you.
Cal Vernham - I didn't ask this question. Its an uncomfortable question about something that does happen. I'm not saying one ethnic group does this more than any other I think we probably all do it some extent. I'm not going to argue anti lynching laws nobody should be lynched or killed by an angry lawless mob in any way for any reason. I'm not going to say that racist policies haven't negatively affected black people. These policies contribute massively to police violence. I'm not going to try to dispute any of that. All of those things are terrible and wrong. My position is we have to let go of the past to move forward. You have been legitimately wronged you are right. Clinging to that keeps you in that spot My interest in the subject is to study all aspects of racism as it exists today to try to understand it more. If you are accusing me of being anti Black I don't think that's very fair. I'm sincerely not. I want the best for everyone who treats others properly. I really do. If a person doesn't treat others right. I am indifferent to their problems. If they are hurting people they need to be stopped. So many people don't think I shouldn't have an opinion on racism because the color of my skin. I live here too. I want all this racist shit to stop. I want to find a way for us to cohabitate equitably and comfortably. For that to happen we need to be able to talk about it without getting triggered and throwing shade just because someone has a different opinion or experience.
Muhammad Rasheed - Cal wrote: “I didn't ask this question.”
You stepped up to translate it on behalf of those who share that same mindset. You own it now as the representative of that group.
Cal wrote: “Its an uncomfortable question about something that does happen.”
It’s a form of gaslighting the Black American former slave class and moving the minds of other immigrant groups who are more likely to side with the opinion of the “POC/BIPOC” fellow immigrant than they would over the non-immigrant Black American.
Cal wrote: “I'm not saying one ethnic group does this more than any other I think we probably all do it some extent.”
My ethnic group is the ever-exploited wealthless bottom caste in this country we built that all the other ethnic groups immigrate to for better opportunities.
You stepped up to translate it on behalf of those who share that same mindset. You own it now as the representative of that group.
Cal wrote: “Its an uncomfortable question about something that does happen.”
It’s a form of gaslighting the Black American former slave class and moving the minds of other immigrant groups who are more likely to side with the opinion of the “POC/BIPOC” fellow immigrant than they would over the non-immigrant Black American.
Cal wrote: “I'm not saying one ethnic group does this more than any other I think we probably all do it some extent.”
My ethnic group is the ever-exploited wealthless bottom caste in this country we built that all the other ethnic groups immigrate to for better opportunities.
Cal wrote: “I'm not going to argue anti lynching laws”
How convenient (not that you had an argument). The anti-lynching laws versus anti-Asian hate law is the perfect illustration as to why this question is not only nonsense, but also anti-Black American.
Cal wrote: “I'm not going to say that racist policies haven't negatively affected black people. These policies contribute massively to police violence.”
Police violence is just a component of the 400 yrs of systemic racism my people have dealt with here. The primary focus of racism has always been economic oppression of my group in order to elevate other favored groups, hence the ever-present hostilities from the entitled immigrants (ALL of them) whenever I protest the ongoing practices of America’s original sin.
Cal wrote: “I'm not going to try to dispute any of that. All of those things are terrible and wrong. My position is we have to let go of the past to move forward.”
That always means that Black Americans should just be happy being abused for another 400 yrs so the colluding immigrants can keep getting rich without hearing me protest.
Cal wrote: “You have been legitimately wronged you are right.”
I don’t need you to tell me I’m right. lol The documented facts of history inform me I’m right. Those same facts reveal that folks like you are more likely to deliberately cover up those facts and protest them being taught in schools.
Cal wrote: “Clinging to that keeps you in that spot”
For example, my people are the wealthless bottom caste in this country and the freedom struggle to be economically repaired continues because my ideological foe is a selfish, greedy racist monster. Consistently fighting against the systemic racism that preys upon me is the only possible way to finally achieve the economic inclusion we deserve since that monster will never, ever, EVER willingly do the right thing without hearing the political pressure of “the squeaky wheel gets the grease.” That racketeering racist monster will NEVER just do the right thing by my people under his own initiative just because it’s the right thing to do. In fact, he will continue to kick that can down the road forever if he is allowed to. How do you allow him to? By ‘let[ting] go of the past’ and ignoring the situation so he can continue to ‘move forward’ getting rich at my expense without any resistance because I've "let it go" like an idiot.
Cal wrote: “My interest in the subject is to study all aspects of racism as it exists today to try to understand it more.”
That means you are looking for ways the racist dominant political identity group and its loyal ‘POC/BIPOC’ allies can maintain their position. This includes figuring out how those ‘POC/BIPOC’ allies can erase the Black American and receive their long-withheld Reparations instead of the deserving group. Racism as usual reveals itself as a scheming long-con.
Cal wrote: “If you are accusing me of being anti Black I don't think that's very fair. I'm sincerely not.”
The question is a gaslighting, anti-Black American question seeking to direct all “civil rights racism struggle” sympathy away from Black Americans and towards wealthy & economically included ‘POC/BIPOC’ immigrants. You are the defending the question as the champion of the position it takes.
Cal wrote: “I want the best for everyone who treats others properly. I really do.”
The colluding cartels of immigrant groups have treated my people poorly for centuries, and their response to my protest is to tell me to just relax into it and shut up, like you have done twice now in this one post.
Cal wrote: “If a person doesn't treat others right. I am indifferent to their problems.”
Same. Which is my formal Answer to this question. My people are the artificially impoverished wealthless bottom caste in this country we’ve built and other “non-black people” have been complicit in that wrong. So, why should I not be indifferent to their exaggerated for political performance problems while they pretend any problems I have are narrowly confined to a box they created in their anti-Black biases so they can determine for me what I should have while keeping me as a wealthless bottom caste?
Cal wrote: “So many people don't think I shouldn't have an opinion on racism because the color of my skin.”
I’m not one of those. I know many true white allies who have trained themselves to not flinch away from the ugly & uncomfortable documented history of U.S. race relations so they can effectively work with the activists to get real transformational politics moved forward on our behalf. Shallow skin color has nothing to do with it, but a heart for righteousness. Unfortunately, there are very few of them.
Cal wrote: “I want all this racist shit to stop.”
Do you?
Cal wrote: “I want to find a way for us to cohabitate equitably and comfortably.”
That work has already been done. The fact that you don’t know about it at all while claiming you have studied “all aspects of racism as it exists today to try to understand it more” means a very specific thing.
Cal wrote: “For that to happen we need to be able to talk about it without getting triggered and throwing shade just because someone has a different opinion or experience.”
You are a random talking head on the Internet who sits outside of the serious anti-racism library of scholarship and political activism that does the real work. Do you think what you have typed in this thread has any substance worthy of being taken seriously by people who have actually studied the history and are creating policies designed to fix this nation’s anti-Black wrongs? The fact that you used the buzz phrase “the color of my skin” doesn’t mean to me what you imagine it means to me. My ideological foes countered the 1964 Civil Rights and 1965 Voting Rights Acts by amending the immigration laws and allowing Black immigrants to come over. Their job is to replace me and take over as the “face of Black America.” Their 60 yr complicity in aiding the hostile dominant group keep me subjugated for continued exploitation and plunder proved that “skin color” isn’t the identifying issue. This tactic of weaponizing the Black immigrants against me proved that American racism is in fact lineage-based — the entire point is to refuse to share wealth, land & rule with the American Descendants of Slavery SPECIFICALLY.
In other words, when whites say, “because the color of my skin,” they are trying to hide the true nature of America’s evil, so they can continue to exploit me.
Cal Vernham - Blame everyone else for your problems never take personal responsibility for anything and be a victim for the rest of your life. I don't care what you do. Do you want a past or a future? you can't have both. If you don't like America why don't you leave. I'm white and proud of it. Accusing me of somehow participating in the oppression of anyone is completely ridiculous. If you believe that I am oppressing anyone you are delusional. Accusing me of hating anyone or believing anyone is superior in racial grounds is inaccurate magical thinking based on evidence that doesn't exist. I think you are angry in an effort to understand that anger you have assigned blame to people who really actually did nothing to you. Grow up dude. Really. Life is hard for people of all races. No matter what the worst thing a black person has been through there are many people of other races that have been through the exact same thing or worse. Do you really believe I just walk through life without adversity because my skin is white.
Muhammad Rasheed - Cal wrote: “Blame everyone else for your problems”
lol Should I ignore the clear evidence in the historic record and just believe what you say?
Cal wrote: “never take personal responsibility for anything”
My personal responsibility is to unify and advocate for transformational politics so my people will finally be made economically whole. My ideological foe doesn’t want me to do that, hence 150 yrs of voter suppression, red lining, trolling me in my Quora Answers, etc.
Cal wrote: “and be a victim for the rest of your life.”
The transformational politics I fight for will make me whole and cure me of my ‘victimhood.’ That’s how it works.
Cal wrote: “I don't care what you do.”
Why are you commenting under my post?
Cal wrote: “Do you want a past or a future? you can't have both.”
I have zero interest in the opinions of someone who is passionately emotional against my people’s freedom struggle, is completely uninformed on the subject and uses all of the partisan political buzz phrases of my classic ideological foes (“color of my skin”; “victimhood”; “just let it go”).
Cal wrote: “If you don't like America why don't you leave.”
hahahaha I like America just fine since I’m the one who built it. I don’t like enemy and rival political identity groups who’ve formed a racketeering organized crime ring to keep me locked out of access to the capital, credit and wealth-building ownership I deserve. I don’t leave because this is my home worth fighting for and my government owes me.
Cal wrote: “I'm white and proud of it.”
So?
Cal wrote: “Accusing me of somehow participating in the oppression of anyone is completely ridiculous.”
This thread discussion is the evidence of your complicity. You claimed to have studied racism in all its forms yet all you have demonstrated here is to tell Black Americans to “let it go” and “stop being the victim” the way every racist in the universe talks. In other words, the point of your question is to claim ‘reverse racism victimhood’ for white people. lol
Cal wrote: “Grow up dude. Really.”
I said you didn’t have an argument. Didn’t I call it? Are you a teenager?
Cal wrote: “Life is hard for people of all races.”
Who said it wasn’t? My job is to fight for my own people’s liberation from centuries of economic oppression.
Cal wrote: “No matter what the worst thing a black person has been through there are many people of other races that have been through the exact same thing or worse.”
So, you are trying to convince me to stop fighting for what my people need because someone somewhere else is having a hard time? You're a bad person.
Juan Solo - You really needed that anti-lynching law, right? People are coming out of time machines from the early 1900’s and lynching people in the streets. GTFO Jussie.
Muhammad Rasheed - The children of the high profile Ferguson activists have been lynched and the white terror-tied FPD blanket called them “suicides” to protect the perpetrators in the usual method.
Just because you and people who think like you are willfully ignorant of the history because you stand with white terror, doesn’t mean I’m making up fake stories on behalf of the lgbt’s efforts to co-op civil rights era Black struggle rhetoric, or whatever your point is supposed to be.
Muhammad Rasheed - The children of the high profile Ferguson activists have been lynched and the white terror-tied FPD blanket called them “suicides” to protect the perpetrators in the usual method.
Just because you and people who think like you are willfully ignorant of the history because you stand with white terror, doesn’t mean I’m making up fake stories on behalf of the lgbt’s efforts to co-op civil rights era Black struggle rhetoric, or whatever your point is supposed to be.
KC Info Rail - Love your stuff. The verbiage is a bit too wordy for most tho. I'd love to help with getting the same points across with less words, so the goats can get it.
Muhammad Rasheed - I think a lot of varying creative styles & expressions is more valuable to the marketplace than one type of universal-sized product that forces everyone to conform to a particular [red commie-like] mindset/mentality, presumably to make it easier for soulless corporate entities to categorize it.
Muhammad Rasheed - I'd love to see you address the same points from your own uniquely honest place of self-expression using the number of words you prefer to use.
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