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Protest of the Parasitic Class

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Protest of the Parasitic Class." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 09 Sep 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

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[REVIEW] Dave Chappelle's Sticks & Stones

Anonymous - Did Dave Chappelle go too far in his latest Netflix special “Sticks & Stones?”

Muhammad Rasheed - No, I don’t think he went too far. We need to have that Candid & Courageous Conversation on every topic Dave touched upon. Here’s my takeaway bullets from his show:

Founding Fathers writing the Constitution – Every key moment in the building of the United States of America we find a Black person taking it to the next level. White supremacists enjoy revealing their ignorance of history and the depths of their anti-Black indoctrination by boldly asking “What contributions have ADOS ever made to civilization?”
Leaving Neverland – “I’m going to say something really controversial: I don’t believe these mother*ckas.” Nuff said.
Standards & Practices – “Because, David, you aren’t gay.” The strength of Chappelle’s comedy insight is pointing out the hypocrisy in the national social justice discourse. If the black American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) do not aggressively fight for their rights and freedoms, they will get ran over by every other special interest group who is unapologetically pushing & shoving to position themselves towards political advantage, and we will find ourselves back in chattel. Period.
The G’s are Driving that Car – White men are the driving force behind the gay rights movement and they are able to achieve the socio-political progress they make by negotiating through the roads of discrimination because they built those roads. Brilliant insight.
Chappelle’s Solution to the Abortion Issue - “And if I’m wrong, perhaps we’re both wrong.” Dave’s comment is the summary of what is actually happening in society: abortion is normal, as is the male abandonment of the child born outside of wedlock. Both are the extreme side effects of the sexual revolution which violently rebelled against traditionalist family trends born from an often oppressive patriarchal system. There’s obvious levels of blatant irresponsibility and immorality inherent within each gender’s approach, but I’m more interested in whether the future discussions will ever clear the hurdles of blind political ideology to determine when it will ever be time for that pendulum to finally swing away from the “death & abandonment” side of the spectrum to rest at a more reasonable middle ground that enables us to approach something significantly closer to a healthy society.
Disarm America’s Whites – That’s adorable. Obviously arming ADOS is the way to go for far more valuable reasons than what was stated in Dave’s punchline.
ADOS Saving America Again – As pointed out in the 1619 Project, ADOS has always believed in the highest ideals of the United States of America, and has used the force of that belief to build up the country on the policy side whenever they got the chance to. The dominant group obviously only wants the USA to work for them alone, and routinely molest it to support their precious white racist aristocracy. If ADOS doesn’t do the work then it won’t get done, but the rub is that we CAN’T neglect ourselves in the doing. Make sure we fight equally for our ADOS Reparations, ADOS socio-political empowerment and our ADOS economic inclusion while we seize the nation by the ear and frog march it towards the greatness of its woefully neglected dormant potential.
Battle of the Drug Epidemics – “Because I don’t care either.” I agree with Dave in every way on this item. Are you REALLY trying to get me to feel sorry for your hypocritical, drug addicted stank ass while you STILL criminalize ADOS under the anti-Black banner of the so-called ‘War on Drugs?” A public policy of treating opioid addicted white people with care, respect & love while continuing to treat my people like crap is an open declaration of the formal race war as far as I’m concerned.
Jussie Smollett – Dave pointed out that during the early stages of the controversy, the gay community charged the ADOS community of not being supportive enough of their issues. I noticed that the gay community is very aggressive in pushing for their political agenda bullets, but actively attack ADOS when we aggressively fight for ours with an equal single-minded focus – the same level of focus the LGBTQ has used to achieve their milestone accomplishments. They should back off since this behavior can only be interpreted as bullying and it’s NOT how to maintain an ally.

Protecting the Spigot of Plunder

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Protecting the Spigot of Plunder." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 08 Sep 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

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The Birth of Socialism

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "The Birth of Socialism." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 07 Sep 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

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Placating the Former Competition, pt 2

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Placating the Former Competition, pt 2." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 06 Sep 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

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Placating the Former Competition

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Placating the Former Competition." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 05 Sep 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Bob Heather - I genuinely used to think you were smart. You've managed to prove me wrong once again with your right wing, boogie man socialism scare mongering.

Muhammad Rasheed - If it helps, I never thought you were smart. ;)

Bob Heather - @Muhammad... yeah, that just shows again how fucking stupid you are.

Muhammad Rasheed - Clearly not.

I'm also "impressed" with your amazing level of 'debate' skill.

Muhammad Rasheed - The leftist economic systems are not the cure for the evils of the monopolists' crony corporatism, but are the long-planned end results of it.

You are a mouthpiece for the anti-capitalist 1% grifter class while pretending otherwise. So you are either equally sneaky and diabolical or you are "fucking stupid." Pick one and wear it proudly.

Bob Heather - @Muhammad... anti-capitalist 1%? Holy fucking hell, you don't just lick the boot you deep throat that shit. Who fucking brainwashed you? You're really just a right wing shit bag, aren't you? Drinking that faux news koolaid and worshiping at the altar of trumpism.

Bob Heather - You literally pull out the schoolyard "I'm rubber and you're glue" then insult my debate skills? If you could actually make a coherent logical point I would debate that. But, you're just some fucking unfunny schlub who believes in right wing conspiracy theories that follow absolutely no logic.

Bob Heather - Hope your still waving the banner of pro capitalism when his goons throw you in a concentration camp.

Muhammad Rasheed - Bob wrote: "You literally pull out the schoolyard 'I'm rubber and you're glue' then insult my debate skills?"

Look up at the very first comment in this thread. That's you being a juvenile clown. You've brought zero value to any of these discussion. You have no debate skills.

Muhammad Rasheed - Bob wrote: "anti-capitalist 1%?"

Exactly. There would be no 1%... no billionaire class... if it weren't for those greedy assholes warring against capitalism. Starting with J.D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, they are the reason antitrust laws were created (see: the history leading up to the passing of the so-called Sherman Act), because of their thirst for monopolizing the open free markets capitalism needs in order to function.

The only people who say capitalism is a bad thing are the greedy 1% grifter class themselves and YOU... their left-wing puppets.

So you are either operating out of a genuine indoctrinated ignorance, or you're a damned agenteur working for the 1% pretending you're for the people. Which is it, Bob?

Muhammad Rasheed - Bob wrote: "You're really just a right wing shit bag, aren't you? Drinking that faux news koolaid and worshiping at the altar of trumpism."

No. I'm a black American Descendant of Slavery (#ADOS) who recognizes that white people on BOTH sides of the partisan divide are out of their damned minds and always have been. Get yourself together, please. Your antics are tiresome.

Brian Jones - So I notice that every time you post one of these and get any friction, you copy the thread's posts and add them to your own personal page under the comic. Are you actually participating here for collaborative discussion, education, and learning or are you just looking to get friction so you can post it as content to your own site for your own benefit?

Because if you're just here to generate content for yourself off of exploiting our effort in discussions, you can take that grifter-class capitalist nonsense somewhere else.

Muhammad Rasheed - @Brian... Long ago, I lost an excellent thread discussion due to some jackass deleting it because he got all up in his ignorant feelings about the flow of the conversation. Since then I make sure to capture threads for my own reference material whenever they get some length to them. This is particularly important to me because 1) I value active and engaged dialog as a potent learning tool, and 2) I use these discussions as fuel for my editorial cartoon oeuvre.

Joe Montana - Socialism aiming at communism does not break them off a piece of the wealth; it appropriates the capital in totum for all, with literally none left for not only the 1%, but any capitalist or would-be capitalist.

Muhammad Rasheed - The truth is the opposite of what you typed. That 100 yr old leftist bamboozle has handed the world to the 1% grifter class.

Joe Montana - You might want to study history more carefully. That 1% class existed long before there was any proletarian state on the planet.

Muhammad Rasheed - "Handed the world to the 1% grifter class" implies that the class already existed, bud, but were further empowered by you beyond what they had any right to and against the wishes of the people themselves, whom the left has betrayed. You may wish to improve your reading comprehension skills.

Joe Montana - Your grasp of history is counterfactual and conspiratorial.

Muhammad Rasheed - lol Your grasp of history is nonexistent.

Muhammad Rasheed - Go away, Joe.

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Conflict of Interest

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Conflict of Interest." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 04 Sep 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

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The Bamboozle: Why ADOS hasn't received Reparations and why the 'Occupy Movement' failed

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "The Bamboozle: Why ADOS hasn't received Reparations and why the 'Occupy Movement' failed." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 03 Sep 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
Muhammad Rasheed - The White Liberal's Classic Attempt to Cancel ADOS Reparations

Chelsea Rustad - Since when do liberals critique capitalism ever? The Democrats are an openly capitalist party.

Muhammad Rasheed - On social media.

Chelsea Rustad - I’ve literally never seen it happen. All they do is make excuses for capitalists and their failures

Muhammad Rasheed - I'm not denying that's your own experience. But my experiences with them are the inspiration for my cartoons.

Chelsea Rustad - ok well capitalism is 100% garbage and there is no such thing as capitalism for the people, unless those people are bosses, developers, and landlords

Muhammad Rasheed - That's the rhetoric propaganda of the followers of Marx. It doesn't accurately describe capitalism, but the crony corporatism which is the enemy of capitalism.

Capitalism requires the open markets to function, and those markets are vulnerable to the greed of the wealthy, who always seeks to close the markets with monopoly. Only gov regulation (antitrust law) can protect capitalism's for-the-people markets from the greed-fueled 1% grifter class.

Muhammad Rasheed - The bad guys of the story hate capitalism, and have no problem allowing you to continue to vilify it like this since they don't want it themselves. If you win in your desire to kill capitalism, the 1% will win.

Chelsea Rustad - Crony capitalism is capitalism. It’s never been good for anyone. Btw the 1% already one.

Muhammad Rasheed - Crony corporatism is literally the enemy of capitalism. I am under no illusion in that regard.

We'll have to agree to disagree on this, Chelsea. Your ideological opinion of the topic doesn't align with the facts of history revealed through my research. Capitalism isn't a tool of the enemy, it's a weapon of the people, and that's why the bad guys hate it. 

Capitalism needs competition in order to work, while the bad guys cut off competition so all revenue will funnel to their little class alone. A multi-millionaire or billionaire class isn't possible under a well-regulated capitalist open free market competition. The signs are right in front of you.

Chelsea Rustad - you’re in the wrong forum if you worship capitalism. Capitalism is right wing, period.

Muhammad Rasheed - I'm Muslim. I worship the One God alone. Your comment is offensive.

Chelsea Rustad - Promoting a murderous ideology like capitalism in a leftist forum is offensive.

Muhammad Rasheed - Capitalism isn't a murderous ideology. The crony corporatism that usurped it to empower a 1% minority of greedy wealth & power hoarders are responsible for the murderous standard operating procedure that is falsely (and religiously) labeled "capitalism."

Muhammad Rasheed - The old trading companies that drove the logistics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade represented a cartel in partnership with the monarchies of Europe. They operated in a deliberately closed market, which means by definition it was not capitalism.

Brian Jones - Yes, when a true capitalist system begins there is 100% open and honest competition... among those who already have enough hereditary wealth to enclose large swaths of common means under their name, use that ownership to siphon off excess value from those who now have to labor for them in order to access wages and buy back access to the now enclosed commons, and to pay the state to turn the police into a force to enforce their enclosure claims against any organization by those without massive amounts of inherited wealth.

After that, anyone who had a family that managed to run the systemic gauntlet and gain a large amount of wealth can potentially acquire their own means of production with which they can siphon off the excess value of their own laborers.

With or without "cronyism", capitalism still relies a class of people who undemocratically own all the means to survival and voting with your dollars means that the people who own your labor and thus your wages can vote with your dollars no matter what you think.

Muhammad Rasheed - Brian wrote: “Yes, when a true capitalist system begins…”

It’s not a matter of how it begins; it’s a matter of how the economic system actually functions, what defines it, and what causes it to no longer be.

Brian wrote: “…there is 100% open and honest competition...”

The competition of the open markets is how capitalism works. Without it, it is no longer capitalism.

Brian wrote: “…among those who already have enough hereditary wealth to…”

Whether the people who show up to a given marketplace are able to take advantage of the obvious or established business opportunities presented is a completely different item. There is a certain amount of creativity in being able to see or find opportunities, even to create whole new markets. As long as the people are allowed to buy/sell in those markets in a well-regulated competition, it is a healthy capitalist system than works for the people, both as consumers and as entrepreneurs.

Brian wrote: “…enclose large swaths of common means under their name, use that ownership to…”
Once unscrupulous people start manipulating the markets to benefit themselves alone, locking others out to rid themselves of competition, we are no longer talking about a capitalistic system, but the diabolical enemy of capitalism.

Brian wrote: “…and to pay the state to turn the police into a force to enforce their enclosure claims against any organization by those without massive amounts of inherited wealth.”

This is the “crony” aspect of ‘crony corporatism’ that now shut down the open markets to benefit the few over the many. This is not capitalism, which requires the competition of free open markets to function.

Brian wrote: “With or without ‘cronyism,’ capitalism still relies a class of people who undemocratically own all the means to survival and voting with your dollars means that the people who own your labor and thus your wages can vote with your dollars no matter what you think.”

This part doesn’t make sense. When a successful, but greedy and unscrupulous businessman uses cronyism to pay equally greedy and unscrupulous government officials off to violate antitrust laws and look the other way so the businessman can close the markets by monopolizing the industry, it is now crony corporatism and not capitalism. The free markets of capitalism are fragile for this reason, and need the government to enforce antitrust to protect them from the very anti-capitalism practice of monopoly. The people need to use their political might to force the U.S. government to do its job to protect their markets from the wealthy and their greed-fueled overreach.

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A Real Black Caucus for the People

The Black American D.O.S. Caucus - Please Register!
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "A Real Black Caucus for the People." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 02 Sep 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

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The White Liberal's Classic Attempt to Cancel ADOS Reparations

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "The White Liberal's Classic Attempt to Cancel ADOS Reparations." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 01 Sep 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

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