Muhammad Rasheed's Blog, page 145
March 8, 2019
The Complexities of Social Union
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Stephanie Baldwin - Why are most people OK with interracial relationships if it's between a white man and non-white woman but not between a non-white man and white woman?
Muhammad Rasheed - For one, the interracial relationship was listed as a formal social progress goal of liberalism since the very beginning of the civil rights movement. The majority of people will at least show a lip service of support from behind their public mask so as to demonstrate a willing acceptance of political correctness in a performance of basic civility.
For two, under the patriarchal traditions of the West's White Supremacist Ideology, it is the male of the white racist aristocracy who holds the power in society, therefore the Caucasian male is considered "a catch!" for non-white women and the union elevates the latter’s social status. For the white woman—who holds a lesser status under her male counterpart in the patriarchy—her decision to allow the inherently low status non-white males to "bag her" is considered foolish and recklessly irresponsible (similar to a male catching feelings for a drug-addicted prostitute).
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A Classic Demonstration of Toxic Whiteness
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March 6, 2019
The Defeated Attitude of the Successfully Subjugated
Click for Artist's DescriptionJay Scott - Black people... Serious question.
Do you honestly feel that we can vote our way to a sustainable better way of life here in America?
Muhammad Rasheed - Yep.
If it were otherwise, the white racist aristocracy wouldn't use the same vote suppression tricks from 1870 to sabotage elections against you.
Jay Scott - Muhammad but what differences have been made thus far?
Muhammad Rasheed - Thus far, vote suppression has been used to politically disenfranchise you, so over the decades you have only received brief windows into how well the voting process would actually work in your favor. You MUST fight to get your voting power back. It's not going to be given to you by the very person who's schemed to sabotage your vote for these last 150 yrs.
Political power is extremely important. Learn the process at ALL levels then fight to get politically enfranchised. It's on the short list of things you MUST do to hold true Black Empowerment. There's no question.
Jay Scott - "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." ~Audre Lorde
Muhammad Rasheed - This isn't "the master's tools." The power of the Vote is a true Weapon of the People. You are not a legal slave, so he is not your master. You have been subjugated for exploitation and to reverse it, you must fight. The only way the vote wouldn't work after you dismantled his cheating apparatus is if he outright physically attacked you. If he does so, plant your feet, beat him down, and then vote again.
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March 5, 2019
1968 Intelligence Briefing
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March 4, 2019
Carrying the Wrong Dream
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March 3, 2019
Face of My Brother, Words of an Enemy Agenteur
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March 2, 2019
Antisecret
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March 1, 2019
The Wily Ways of Predatory Skin Folk
Click for Artist's Description - Free Access on Saturdays!Anonymous - Do African immigrants get along with black people in America?Muhammad Rasheed - Some do, others don’t. In the modern day, there are many Black immigrants with origins throughout the African continent who routinely decide to support white supremacy by actively taking advantage of the subjugated state of the Black American ethnic group — the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) — by joining in with other predatory “P.O.C. minorities” to exploit them. The attitude the Black immigrants take in this position varies and ranges from the “smile-in-your-face” while stabbing you in the back tactic, to active hostility.
It is an unfortunate situation, the root cause of which is the ongoing effort of the guardians of white supremacy to keep the ADOS Black Nation unstable to allow both the white racist aristocracy and their P.O.C. buddies, to plunder them at will.
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Tony Isabella - Review of Monsters 101, Book One
I read it, I returned to it a couple times since, and I'm still not sure how I feel about Monsters 101, Book One by M. Rasheed [Second Sight Graphix; $15]. Its protagonist is Willy Pugg, a vicious bully who preys on smaller kids at his school and whose driving ambition is to become an actual monster. This is pretty dark fare and it's made all the more unsettling by Rasheed's pleasant style of cartooning. It's a traditional comic-strip style that shocks when turned to violence.
Pugg is a well-crafted protagonist, but he's almost impossible to like. Rasheed does offer some mitigating circumstances for the boy's behavior, but he never hesitates to show Pugg's failings and the consequences of those failings, especially when Pugg agrees to supply kids meals - as in actual kids - to the trio of monsters who have moved into his neighborhood.
I am sure Rasheed is a most promising storyteller. This book was a page-turner, even when I was fairly certain I wouldn't like what I'd see when I turned the page. His writing and art have a good panel-to-panel and page-to-page flow. I'm looking forward to reading more of his work.
Monsters 101, Book One earns a solid three Tonys.
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Lottery Party - Review of Monsters 101, Book Ten
15 July 2013
Monsters 101, Book Ten
"Class Dismissed"
Created, written and illustrated
by M. Rasheed
the three cents:
These are dark days among us indeed. I have been reading comic books for over thirty years, since before kindergarten even. I could not begin to count the comic books I have read in my days, from modern self published mini-comix to Golden Age reprint collections and all points in between. I’ve read the silly mainstream superhero stuff and I’ve read even sillier custom comics. I’ve read underground comix and I’ve read translated foreign comics, newspaper strips and webcomics, crafted by men and women of diverse nationalities and even more diverse creeds. As a journalist with friends active in the industry I have even been fortunate enough to read comics that never saw print. I have not read mere hundreds of four-colored funny books; I have read thousands, possibly tens of thousands. And one of my all-time favorite series is drawing to a close, as Muhammad Rasheed’s Monsters 101 series of graphic novels ends with this chapter.
I first made Rasheed’s acquaintance online just a few years ago, during my brief stint writing for the Self-Publishers Association. He was looking for additional press and I was looking for over-looked reading materials. He kindly supplied me with digital copies of his books, so that I could write up my review articles. And I did: Book One, Book Two, Book Three, Book Four, Book Five, Book Six, Book Seven, and Books Eight and Nine. The last few as they were completed. Each volume being a 150 page wonder, eloquently written, intelligently written, and with Rasheed’s one in a million artwork style in brushy black and white goodness. I was quickly spellbound by his universe-building, his vast array of characters from all walks of life of beyond, his mixing of theological ideals with cultural observations, his exuberance for the arcane and the hermetic. His research alone is just astounding. I even interviewed him a ways back. We grew to be pals after a fashion and indulged each other in long email chains discussing philosophy and religion, and aspects of the history of the comics medium. When I was co-editing the Solestar book on behalf of the Naïve Project and the Brain Aneurism Foundation, he readily donated days of his time to knock out some of the prettiest and most professional pages in the mix, ahead of schedule. He has accomplished many projects in his prolific career, but Monsters 101 has been his magnum opus (thus far!), his testament to the ages. In any fiction it is a rare and beautiful thing to create characters that stir in the readership a genuine emotional attachment, and it is even more obscure for such to be done on a consistent basis. And all along my reading of the adventures of his two protagonists, Pugroff the boy bully turned king of the monsters, and Mort, a bright young African-American boy delving into his own path as a future sorcerer supreme, I have felt that attachment since page one. And it grew and grew, as have the characters themselves. I did not always care for the decisions they made in Rasheed’s stories, but that only added to their realness. In the 1500+ pages of material there have been funny moments, and sad moments, awkward moments and frightful moments. And my mind has been blown on more than one occasion. Rasheed is one of the few people who I will admit to being wiser than me, and to consider him a friend is not a statement I make lightly. He is a creative genius, to put it as mildly as possible.
In this final installment, we get many threads wrapped concisely well, with many more doorways opened up for roads yet to be explored. Pugroff goes political, defending his adopted people to the point of changing his eating habits, and Mort finally achieves his largest step in his own quest for knowledge. We get a very, very long-awaited apology, and we even get some biblical references, to expand on the many other mythologies hinted at previously. In the segment involving a fallen capitalist we see possibly the finest standalone chapter, and in the segment involving the Candid Creative Collective we see Rasheed getting carefully preachy where regards overlaps of art and spirituality. We also get some stone-cold solid visual storytelling, and some of Rasheed’s best inking to date. His inks alone outclass 99% of the comics on the stands today.
And now it is all over. If this series is new to you, know that print and digital copies are available via his website and blog. If you’re interested in a starkly original epic, uniting an all-encompassing origin of the world with other planes of existence and family issues and clandestine orders and sexy demon princesses and 1960s revolutionaries and so, so much more, Monsters 101 is it. Many indie creators itch for the chance to tackle bigger properties, but I honestly cannot think of a single Marvel or DC title that is worthy of Rasheed’s exceeding talents. I do know he has many more stories in the works, some that will touch upon themes and characters we have seen before in this megalithic series, but even still, knowing that a Book Eleven will never magically appear in my inbox is a horrible, horrible thing to acknowledge. There have been times when I wanted to renege on reviewing comics altogether, but a new Monsters 101 would quickly undo that decision. If you want true imagination rendered in utmost quality, I personally invite you to see for yourself why. Don’t let the cartoony visuals dissuade you. That’s just the candy coating, as Rasheed has unleashed just the right medicine the godforsaken comic book industry has been yelling for decades for.
Buy Monsters 101, Book Ten NOW!
~Richard Caldwell
See Also :
Lottery Party - Review of Monsters 101, Book One
Lottery Party - Review of Monsters 101, Book Two
Lottery Party - Review of Monsters 101, Book Three
Lottery Party - Review of Monsters 101, Book Four
Lottery Party - Review of Monsters 101, Book Five
Lottery Party - Review of Monsters 101, Book Six
Lottery Party - Review of Monsters 101, Book Seven
Lottery Party - Review of Monsters 101, Book Eight & Nine
Lottery Party - Review of Monsters 101, Book Ten
