Muhammad Rasheed's Blog, page 131

The Anti-American Tradition of Prolonging Deliberate Injustice

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "The Anti-American Tradition of Prolonging Deliberate Injustice." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 02 Aug 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

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Risk Response of the White Racist

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Risk Response of the White Racist." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 01 Aug 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Anonymous - Are there any benefits to identity politics?

Muhammad Rasheed - Of course. The entire political structure of the United States government is designed for special interests to come together as political blocs along whatever identity they unify under to pressure elected officials to meet their demands. The system can be cheated to provide unfair advantages if the special interest group is collectively wealthy and can employ professional lobbyists armed with stacks of cash to grease the palms of unscrupulous politicians in the notoriously corrupt Washington D.C. “swamp.”

Even without the money, legions of committed voters within a special interest group are quite capable of pressuring representatives into giving way to their demands, which is why the dominant special interest group — under its own identity political bloc of “whiteness” — is so adamant in its effort to convince its non-white political rivals to abandon the tools that will enable them to compete on the playing field that the so-called white people hoard for themselves.


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Just a Cyber Attack by Your Friendly Social Media Alt-Right Troll

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Just a Cyber Attack by Your Friendly Social Media Alt-Right Troll." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 31 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Keith Hinman - I googled what that hash tag was and found that it might not have been created by a source that has the black community or American interests in mind: What to know about ADOS, a group targeting Black progressives

Muhammad Rasheed - The #ADOS was created by anti-racism activists Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore. You can find out about them here: American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS)

Muhammad Rasheed - It's one of the very few groups that 100% has the interests of the so-called Black American and American interests in mind.

Please note that the mainstream supports white supremacy as its default and is raw evil in that position.

Keith Hinman - I'm not saying that there isn't a problem with white supremacy, there certainly is. But what I'm saying is that the hashtag ADOS has been either created or augmented by right wing, racist, forces that are seeking to drive a wedge in the left by radicalizing a portion of the progressive black community. And when I looked into it I saw a kind of extremism that sent up red flags. I saw purity tests as they attacked people like Joy Reid and called for a boycott of MSNBC (but without any real alternative).

Those flags tell me that the movement seeks to isolate people from facts and create an antagonism within the black community that is born from arbitrary purity tests. Just like how the right claims that everything that isn't Fox is fake news and how if you're not conservative you're a liberal, communist socialist who hates America.

Yvette Carnell, I mean in this medium post the author claims this:

" Largely due to the impeccable research of a twitter user named @ImaniKushan I began to see that Yvette Carnell, who’s twitter name is @breakingbrown, seemed to use her YouTube channel to push right wing, pro Trump, anti immigration propaganda. She has videos titled “Why Is Everyone So Afraid of Steve Bannon” and “Trump Is Right About Black Poverty.” There was a video of her wearing a MAGA hat, which she deleted once we called her out for wearing it. She has tweets about how Trump looks so presidential on TV, and about how Trump is correct about birthright citizenship."

It seems to me that nothing could be more insidious and exactly what the extremist right would do than to prey on people's need for economic and social justice - exploiting their passion to get what is theirs - and subversively creating a companion movement that aims for the same goals as white supremacy, right wing fascism and Trumpism. Hell, it's exactly the kind of shit Putin is pulling and they seem to be following in his footsteps.

We live in a new age of deception turned viral and social manipulation. Everyone needs to be acutely aware of where their information is coming from at all times because it has become weaponized against us.

Muhammad Rasheed - The last thing white supremacists want is for anti-Black systemic racism to be dismantled and ADOS to finally receive their long overdue Reparations payout. It is reasonable to expect attacks against the #ADOS movement to attempt to sabotage it.

Talib is a long-time enemy of the movement whose beef comes by way of him being from a Black immigrant family who has fraudulently used "African-American" and "Black American" identities to receive benefits intended for ADOS. If the ethnic group agrees to definitively name ourselves ADOS to emphasize our lineage and heritage, then Talib and other Black immigrant grifters (Mindy Kaling's brother: I faked being black to get into medical school) will not be able to use that grift anymore. That's the sole reason for his attack.
Keith wrote: "I'm not saying that there isn't a problem with white supremacy, there certainly is. But what I'm saying is..."

You are only helping the group's enemies. Talib doesn't have an argument.
Keith Hinman - Well no, he does have an argument and a pretty good one. I showed you two sources that claim the origins of that hashtag are right wing, white supremacy. You write them off by claiming they're the enemy but you don't have anything substantial to refute my sources. It sounds like you're just writing them off because you don't want to hear it.

The language you're using is very problematic. You're saying the group has enemies and my sources are on the bad guys side. But I thought you were making these cartoons for all this time to defend and promote reparations, not a hashtag. Do you care more about a hashtag with dubious origins and having that identity than you do about the economic and social justice concept you believe is necessary to help the black community? Do you care more about having perceived enemies that you can rail against as part of this hashtag, than the Nazis and white supremacists who are using that hashtag and movement as a tool for division and lies to continue the policies of white supremacy that has hurt you and the black community? It sounds like you're more interested in the ADOS identity than social and economic justice.

If ADOS was created by white supremacists and Nazis and the far right to divide the black community and hurt Democrats in 2020 then aren't their enemies the side all your cartoons have been fighting for?

Why is ADOS so important to you when there are plenty of other groups that are fighting for justice?
Muhammad Rasheed - Keith wrote: "Well no, he does have an argument and a pretty good one.”

Meanwhile, he doesn’t have an argument. He was just making noise in a transparent attempt to derail the movement for self-serving reasons as I mentioned in the previous post.

Keith wrote: "I showed you two sources that claim the origins of that hashtag are right wing, white supremacy.”

I know. I saw them. They were stupid in their deliberate misrepresentation of the facts. Naturally, I find it interesting that you embraced that fact-devoid, anti-Black opinionated nonsense with your whole heart.

Keith wrote: "You write them off by claiming they're the enemy but you don't have anything substantial to refute my sources.”

Meanwhile, I literally posted the link to the actual #ADOSwebsite created and maintained by the two founders of the movement.

Keith wrote: "It sounds like you're just writing them off because you don't want to hear it.”

I wrote them off because they were stupid in their deliberate misrepresentation of the facts and because you don’t know enough about the topic to have an intelligent debate about whether those assertions made in the links were legit or not.

Keith wrote: "The language you're using is very problematic.”

Your position is problematic.

Keith wrote: "You're saying the group has enemies and my sources are on the bad guys side.”
You are also on the bad guy side.

Keith wrote: "But I thought…”

Who cares what you thought?

Keith wrote: "…you were making these cartoons for all this time to defend and promote reparations, not a hashtag.”

That doesn’t even make any sense. Do you understand what a hashtag is, how it functions in social media marketing and what it is used for in spreading the awareness of a cause?

Keith wrote: "Do you care more about a hashtag with dubious origins…”

I literally posted the actual website of the movement’s founders explaining everything about it. You have zero credibility and you even appear to be proud of that fact.

Keith wrote: “Why is ADOS so important to you when there are plenty of other groups that are fighting for justice?”

The ADOS movement is the group that not only organized a Black Political Agenda that they successfully got the high-profile 2020 presidential candidates seriously discussing on the national stage, but they also coined the term American Descendants of Slavery that accurately links us to our lineage & heritage. The number one Reparations subject matter expert is counted among the group’s inner circle, also with several other high-end scholars. ADOS is the real deal, of the same caliber of anti-racism activism as the great leaders of the civil right era. I would be stupid not to hold #ADOS as vitally important to me and my long-suffering ethnic group, especially since –unlike you – I am read up on exactly who they are and I’m capable of accurately discerning #ADOS from their active enemies.
Keith Hinman - Wait, if ADOS is compromised why would you go to their website to get the truth from people who are lying? You're just retreating to to the rhetoric, created by white supremacists, to confirm your bias.Your hostility and your petty attacks at me and the sources (which you did not refute, you basically said "fake news") is just a cover for your inability to defend the very real possibility that ADOS is manipulating you to work against your interests. 
I'm not going to fight with you. But you really need to consider where your information is coming from because it's becoming more and more clear to me, the more I research, that you're doing exactly what the racist right wants.
Muhammad Rasheed - You think that my merely pointing out that you don't know enough about the topic to have an intelligent discussion --while you are oddly embracing a contrary position with your entire heart because you subjectively find it aligns to your personal ideology -- is somehow an attack against you.
I don't understand why you believe that I should take your comments seriously at all. You appear to have an incredibly over-inflated opinion of yourself. Please note that I do not share this opinion of you. In fact, I find you quite offensive.
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Wasted Words of My Dedicated Enemy

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Wasted Words of My Dedicated Enemy." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 30 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

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Better than Money

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Better than Money." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 29 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.


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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 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 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 equal 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 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.

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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.

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