Muhammad Rasheed's Blog, page 132
July 13, 2019
A White Monopoly On That, Too?
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "A White Monopoly On That, Too?" Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 14 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
Bradley Johnson - What does it mean to act "white"?
Muhammad Rasheed - The charge of “acting white” from a black American Descendant of Slavery (ADOS) has a few different meanings depending on the socio-economic class of the accuser and some other factors. Usually it’s an accusation of treachery towards a fellow ADOS.
When coming from the lower class poor ADOS, to be accused of ‘acting white’ almost always means you are perceived to be a peer who is fraudulently putting on airs and pretending to a station you are not a part of. Often nothing more complex than a wider vocabulary is enough to receive this insult, which is a terribly sad demonstration of being “poor minded” since it implies that whites hold a barrier over simply going to the library and reading a book for free.
When coming from the ADOS middle classes (such as they are), to be accused of ‘acting white’ is usually a dig at your household and how you were raised. It can mean your parents cut you off from the culture (for whatever reason) and had you “out there” to be raised by white folks so now you don’t know your people. More often than not, this is an accurate ‘reading of someone’s mail,’ and the defensive victim will usually embrace the negative comments made about Black people in general by his/her white ‘friends’ by pretending the ‘acting white’ accusation is actually coming from the “poor minded” lower class mindset, though this is not the case.
Even though the actual term “acting white” isn’t used, other instances of the concept as used by ADOS are leveled at white people themselves, and represent a specific mode of communication not necessarily universal among all socio-economic classes of the white racist aristocracy. One is the coded language of political pundits, alt-right journalists and others who hide racist/discriminatory speak in seemingly innocent-sounding rhetoric to pretend they don’t hold anti-Black views. This is a relatively new strategy by the guardians of white supremacy, and it goes hand-in-hand with a false victimhood narrative using a “black supremacist” false equivalency fallacy as part of this manifestation of their sociopathy.
The other specific way in which the white racist aristocracy “acts white” is the normalized mainstream demonstration of forcing all information through the Eurocentric White Supremacist Ideological worldview in order to maintain a ‘whiteness narrative’ as part of the ongoing indoctrination of the populace. Similar as to how FoxNews forces all information through the white Republican conservative viewpoint and pretends it’s the ‘default normal’ view of the world, the mainstream society does the same on a bigger scale with a specific Eurocentric white supremacist view. This is the truer, far more dangerous version of “acting white,” and it is a mighty weapon used to protect the status quo from overthrow by brainwashing the populace into believing that white people hold a monopoly over thought itself.
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Rigging the Game
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Rigging the Game." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 13 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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July 11, 2019
White Supremacy's Problems with Change
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "White Supremacy's Problems with Change." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 12 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
Anonymous - Are Reparations wrong?
Muhammad Rasheed - It may seem wrong for someone used to having their way—as seen from within a system that their ancestors set up to give them an unfair advantage—for their favorite victims to finally receive justice, causing that system to tip towards a socio-economic balance it had never seen before.
That is only pure butthurt emotional energy being expressed, not the passion of legitimate righteous outrage over a wrong. it was the wrong that was originally established and then corrected by the Reparations payout. The definition of “reparations” is the reparatory justice for a wrong committed.
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July 10, 2019
Party Loyalty and the Definition of Insanity
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Party Loyalty and the Definition of Insanity." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 11 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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July 9, 2019
Savagely Conquered Fair and Square
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Savagely Conquered Fair and Square." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 10 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
Anonymous - Why do some people call racism against white people "reverse" racism?
Muhammad Rasheed - The “reverse racism” charge is a tactic used by white people in their defense of white supremacy. Composed of flimsy false equivalency and ‘Whataboutism’ logical fallacies, as well as attempts to divorce the meaning of ‘racism’ from its economic and systemic purpose and primary function, the use of the phrase is confined to deceptive misdirection.
When in use, the “reverse racism” card is put into play solely to steer Black anti-racism activists away from the obscene and highly lucrative anti-Black systemic racism that fuels the white racist aristocracy, and when successful, causes the activists to waste time jumping through ‘moving the goalpost’ hoops.
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July 8, 2019
The Impenetrable Brick Wall of the Frontline Race Soldier
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "The Impenetrable Brick Wall of the Frontline Race Soldier." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 09 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
Magalee Ciripli - As a black American is it worth it to argue with racist white people or have you stopped expecting white people to respect or understand you?
Muhammad Rasheed - As an editorial cartoonist with an anti-racism focus, I use such arguments as the raw material to inspire my Gag-A-Day output. Within this self-imposed situation, I do find the necessarily contentious dialogues worth it, though they require the patience of Job that I sometimes find I am not able to match.
My challenge has been to break down my opponent’s coded language and spell out the meaning in the cartoon as blunt as possible so they cannot hide from it behind their own ironic version of political correctness. Largely successful, I believe the body of work will ultimately prove useful in helping move the progressive needle towards what right looks like.
Robert Hafetz - African Americans are the most racist people in America.
Muhammad Rasheed - “The most racist people in America” based on what exactly?
Robert Hafetz - Their preoccupation with it such as the question you just posted. Race has no inherent value. Its used incorrectly to mean culture. Culture has value race has no value and cant even be defined. We all evolved from the same tribe of African Sans Bushmen. You describe white people when there is no such thing. You have been indoctrinated to view the world through the filter of race. Democrats use race to manipulate people and turn them against each other. Race doesnt matter culture does.
Muhammad Rasheed - Robert wrote: “Their preoccupation with it such as the question you just posted.”
I’m preoccupied with it because the concept of “race” was created and weaponized to subjugate and exploit my people with for the last 400 yrs up into the present day. I can’t avoid to pretend this isn’t happening since to do so will only benefit the people inflicting this horror upon me.
Robert wrote: “Race has no inherent value.”
It certainly holds no value to me. For me, within the USA, it is the functional equivalent of a prison inmate identification number. The value race holds is within a white supremacist system deliberately set up to benefit your favored group chosen along racial phenotype.
Robert wrote: “Its used incorrectly to mean culture.”
How do you know when you believe that it can’t be defined anyway?
Robert wrote: “Culture has value race has no value…”
“Race” holds value to the architects of the White Supremacist ideology and the anti-Black systemic racism for which it stands.
Robert wrote: “…and cant even be defined.”
In the United States of America, in which the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) have been targeted for subjugation, exploitation and plunder based on the combination of physical racial phenotype, and the cultural traits of their lineage and heritage traditions, “race” is defined thus and so. The oppressor race of the white racist aristocracy is likewise so defined and contrasted against along physical racial phenotype.
Robert wrote: “We all evolved from the same tribe of African Sans Bushmen.”
That has nothing at all to do with the race-based economic system that we deal with in the West.
Robert wrote: “You describe white people when there is no such thing.”
“White people” are the favored group of the white racist aristocracy who protect and maintain the White Supremacist Ideology and the anti-Black systemic racism for which it stands. “The white peoples of Europe” is what they have named themselves to mark them as members of the race-based socio-economic aristocracy they’ve created. I’m fascinated by your effort to hand all of this to me as if it was my invention. Trust me that I want nothing more than to rip it all down around your ears so I can be free.
Robert wrote: “You have been indoctrinated to view the world through the filter of race.”
Currently I’m fighting to end the concept by pushing for the dismantling of anti-Black systemic racism and the payout of Reparatory Justice to close the infamous racial wealth gap. When I’m finished, then we both can proudly close the door on the diabolical evils of “race” together.
Robert wrote: “Democrats use race to manipulate people and turn them against each other.”
Anti-Black systemic racism is definitely a bi-partisan effort and always has been. I will admit that the liberal side is deceptively more powerful in its usage than they pretend, especially in the modern day.
Robert wrote: “Race doesnt matter culture does.”
Well, as an abstract concept that has long been debunked as a physiological descriptor it doesn’t matter. But in an artificially created economic system when it’s used as an identifier to determine who is to be abused and who is to receive economic favor, it matters indeed.
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July 7, 2019
ADOS On the Crossroads
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "ADOS On the Crossroads." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 08 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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Heritage Matters
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Heritage Matters." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 07 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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July 6, 2019
Stall Tactics 3: Partnering with My Rival
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Stall Tactics 3: Partnering with My Rival." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 06 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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July 4, 2019
Patriotism Versus Racism
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Patriotism Versus Racism." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 05 Jul 2019. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
Magalee Ciripli - What are your thoughts on the statement "America loves black culture but not black people"?
Muhammad Rasheed - Hm. My first thought is that it is offensive to label white supremacy as “America” by default. That’s crazy to me, and it actually coddles white America’s equally offensive pretend monopoly over American patriotism, considering they function as the most unAmerican special interest group in the country. It would be more accurate, albeit more cumbersome, to rephrase it into this:
"The white racist aristocracy loves Black culture but not Black people."
Yeah, that’s better. After-all, I am an American as a black American Descendant of Slavery (ADOS), and I LOVE me.
The phrase means that the white racist aristocracy practices a thieving, appropriating, grifter sub-culture with a continuous eye out for new content to steal, re-label as their own and reap the profits from it. As usual, Black people are their preferred prey to exploit and plunder for new material.
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