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Refining the Grift

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Worshiping the White Male's Fetish

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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 it's 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*

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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.

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Silly, Blackie; Freedom is for Wypipo

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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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Tu Quoque Du Jour

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"You Keep Using That Word"

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Playing the Coon Card

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Muhammad Rasheed -

Gary McCoy - @Muhammad... does that somehow discredit Mr felder's tweet? I don't think so.

Muhammad Rasheed - You expect me to validate the whining complaints of an admitted race traitor to a representative of the rival race he sold us out to?
Are you crazy?

Muhammad Rasheed - I really don't understand the logic behind you using these worthless jackasses to somehow substantiate your POV. Who do you think these people are to me?

How did you feel about someone like Eminem when he made that piece making fun of Trump?

Jason Holford - @Muhammad... why did your parents name you after slave trading Arabs? Were your parents race traitors?

"Figures on the Arab slave trade in Africa are hard to come by, but the historian Paul Lovejoy estimates that some 9.85 million Africans were shipped out as slaves to Arabia and, in small numbers, to the Indian subcontinent. Lovejoy breaks his figures down as follows:

Between AD 650 and 1600, an average of 5,000 Africans were shipped out by the Arabs. This makes a rough total of 7.25 million.

Then, between 1600 and 1800, another 1.4 million Africans were shipped out by the Arabs. The 19th century represented the highest point of the Arabian trade where 12,000 Africans were shipped out every year. The total figure for the 19th century alone was 1.2 million slaves to Arabia."

Muhammad Rasheed - Hi, Jason. Thanks for reaching out.

Since you brought up the topic, did you know that the skilled Dutch and Portuguese merchant managers who originally set up the international apparatus of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (they owned the great stinking ships, the Newport, RI rum distilleries, the fortresses on the African coast, and the Caribbean sugar cane plantations) all have thriving direct descendants living on the African continent today, whose numbers are in the mid-to high hundreds of thousands? As you know, the great wealth generated by the slave trade and the slave economy fueled the rising power of the Western World, and it's why our own 1% class American and European legacy families refuse to let go of the obscenely lucrative anti-Black systemic racism that enriched them.

With that being the case, why would any reasonable person assume that the descendants of those same Dutch & Portuguese master slavers wouldn't have continued the tradition of trading in Black flesh into the modern day—since they found it oh, so agreeable the first time—and all while using their classic false flag/misdirection technique of naming their enterprise "ARAB slave trade" to throw the gullible and silly masses off their trail?

I suggest you not poke this bear with me.

Jason Holford - @Muhammad... I don't have any Jewish or Arab ancestors. My ancestors came to the Midwest from Germany after the 1848 revolutions (like the majority of white Americans). When they came to American they were abhorred by the institution of slavery and decided to do something about it, so they became abolitionists and ran the underground railroad, and fought the civil war with the Illinois volunteer milita.

I'm actually the one of the closet living relatives to Abe Lincoln. His mother Nancy Hanks and my great-great-grandma were first cousins.

Jason Holford - I live a few blocks from all these historic sites. Two blocks away from my house are the graves of hundreds of Union soldiers who died fighting slavery.

Muhammad Rasheed - @Jason... Based on how you initially intro'd yourself in this thread to me, I have zero reason to believe a single thing you've typed as a fact.

Muhammad Rasheed - Except for the German thing. I'll believe that.  ;)

Jason Holford - My grandpa's first cousin:

"Hanks Schrieber lived at 3500 Broadway, according to the lawsuit. The Hankses of Quincy were descendants of Dennis Hanks, a cousin of Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks."

Jason Holford - @Muhammad... it isn't fair that I still have my family history and yours was erased by slavery, but you shouldn't adopt a false history to justify your bitterness.

Muhammad Rasheed - @Jason... You shouldn't spam me with false narratives you parade around as real in your effort to defend white supremacy.

Mike Busch - @Muhammad... Why are you talking like there are two different people.... YOU SIR ARE THE BIGGEST RACIST PIG I EVER SAW IN MY LIFE.

Muhammad Rasheed - What does "racist" mean when you say it, Mike?

Mike Busch - What your reply to Gary Muhammad

Mike Busch - that is what racist means to me

Muhammad Rasheed - That's too vague for me since I can't pretend to share your point-of-view on anything. Provide a more 'straight-talk' definition of the term, if you please.

Mike Busch - Let me copy and paste...give me a minute

Mike Busch - You calling a human being a race traitor, jackass etc.

Muhammad Rasheed - Okay, so in your opinion, "racism" is calling out a treacherous member of the same race using negative, mean-sounding labels in the description.

Interesting.

Muhammad Rasheed - I'm also interested in the implication that a Black man isn't considered a human being until he sells out to the rival white race. That's worth exploring all by itself, really...

Mike Busch - No, you great at putting a spin on whatever. YOU calling him those names makes you NO better then the people that are RACIST

Gary McCoy - @Muhammad... I never listened to Eminem in my life. How do you feel about Jay-Z referring to black women as b****** and hoes?

Muhammad Rasheed - @Mike... I'm pretty sure your team is better at putting "spins" on things than I am (see: "ARAB" slave trade).

Muhammad Rasheed - @Gary... You didn't see that video Eminem put out just for Trump? It came out about six-seven months back or so. I didn't see it, but I got the gist. Funny you haven't heard of it at all.

Mike Busch - @Muhammad... Pretty sure??????? I'm PRETTY SURE your team is....but since your not racist, I'm not sure what you mean about ( team)

Gary McCoy - @Muhammad... nope. Never saw it. I'm not a fan of rap or hip-hop. Actually it makes me vomit.

Gary McCoy - but I'm interested in your views on Hip Hop's misogynist lyrics and disrespect for black women.

Mike Busch - @Gary... He won't answer that.....he can't

Usagi Goya - M. Rasheed wrote: "I'm also interested in the implication that a Black man isn't considered a human being until he sells out to the RIVAL white race. That's worth exploring all by itself, really.." 

Words of a racist, loud and clear.

Dave Olsson - Rasheed's meme is a logical fallacy called false equivalence. Benedict Arnold swore an oath to the Continental Army and betrayed his command and the trust Washington and political leaders had put in him. That's what made him a traitor. Demani Felder swore no such oath to his race or to Muhammad. He owes no allegiance to Muhammad or to his "color." He has the freedom to make choices based on his conscience and convictions, which make the man. He's a "traitor" to those whose identity is literally only skin deep. Martin Luther King, Jr. epitomized this best in his speech declaring that he wanted his children to be judged not the color of their skin, but on the content of their character.

Bret Rasch Sr - Drug testing before trump kills the useless Obamacare... let’s celebrate my boy!! I think this is the last thing to be eliminated from the obama era!!! Yea! Now we hope we can fry his ass for all the illegal crap he has done. Cockroaches coming out of the wood work!!

Muhammad Rasheed - @Dave... The content of Felder's character is as a traitor to his ethnic group, the community with centuries of creeds & traditions composed of significantly more than just epidermis pigment cells.

But leave it up to the hardcore white racist to try to reduce the entire group to just such a trivial point in order to push his barbaric agenda. *slow clap*

Muhammad Rasheed - @Gary... Since your tu quoque logical fallacy is hiding behind a faux-interest in my music tastes (lol), I'll play along and share my pet rant about it with you. How I feel about HipHop is in there.


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