Muhammad Rasheed's Blog, page 151
January 17, 2019
A Regular Visit by an Old Friend
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January 16, 2019
Free Agent for Racial Justice
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January 15, 2019
Decoding the Forked-Tongue Dialect
Artist's DescriptionRyan Caezar Itang - What is the best way to gain independence? Through violence or non-violence?
Muhammad Rasheed - It depends on the responses of the opponent when you state your demands, as some will be more mature and reasonable than others.
The best approach is to firmly make your demands known and use potent but non-violent tools like economic boycotts and labor strikes to pressure the opposing forces into meeting them. If the opponent should find that his over-the-top lust for exploitative greed ranks higher than any reason or even basic-level decency he may possess, then you will need to use violence to defend yourself from his emotionally triggered, barbaric physical attack.
Be on the look out for the infiltration of false friends planted within your community who will insist that these tactics should never be used.
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January 14, 2019
Protecting Racism from the Left-Hand Side
Artist's DescriptionCharles Locke - What are some examples of failed liberal/progressive policies with respect to African-Americans and Hispanic Americans?
Muhammad Rasheed - There are many liberal checklist items that have failed the Black American community and include:Stooping to their own usage of vote suppression techniques during Democratic Party presidential primaries and other elections in a hypocritical war against the poorUsing interracial relationships as an irresponsible and short-sighted symbol of social "progress"Convincing milksop Black community leaders to agree to give up Black business independence in exchange for socialist programming experimentation, only to allow their conservative rivals to strip those programs of all force, aiding in the half-century plummet of the Black community into chronic povertyConvincing the Black community to never fight back against anti-Black racist oppression either with economic boycotts or with the "fire with fire" violence as self-defense.
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January 13, 2019
Highly Sensitive to the Thought
Artist's DescriptionMohamed Ziauddin - Did the post-Civil War reconstruction efforts by the North cause great resentment among the southern whites and worsen the racial hatred of blacks?Muhammad Rasheed - Yes. Even though the poor whites didn’t own slaves themselves, they covenanted with the wealthier whites to form a racist aristocracy. One of the terms of this agreement was that —in exchange for poor white loyalties—Black people would be permanently delegated to the bondsman class to save poor whites from chattel slavery themselves. So even though the poor whites had nothing else (literally) they at least had the artificial status of ‘whiteness’ to elevate them over Black people so they could pretend to be mini-lords strutting about in the land.
Naturally, the poor whites jealously guarded this special status and took it upon themselves to make sure slave uprisings and escapes wouldn’t ruin their good thing. But being on the losing side of the Civil War changed all of that. The Black people were now free… and worse! Under the reparatory program of Reconstruction they were becoming politically enfranchised, growing literate, and rising up the socio-economic ladder like a rocket! What was going to protect the whites from being at the bottom of society now if they didn’t have the permanent legal cushion of Black bodies to walk upon?!
This marked the birth of domestic terror, as the Ku Klux Klan and similar groups formed to sabotage the upward mobility of the newly-freed Black American. All their petty racism-based aristocratic dreams were directly tied to the subjugation and exploitation of Black people and they weren’t about to let them get away without a fight.
A lot has happened since those days, with the behavioral responses of white people towards Black people who express anti-racism messaging reflecting the same ole resentments of previous eras.
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January 12, 2019
The Devil's Limited Counsel
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The Sole "Benefit" of the Post-Civil Rights Era's Racial Integration Program
Muhammad Rasheed - As part of their mission to overtake the power base of their capitalist rivals, the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) entrenched itself into American society by infiltrating the social groups, organizations and institutions of all social progress programs favored by the fired-up youth and intelligentsia classes. The Black American anti-racism activist groups were no exception to this, and consequently they also found themselves with strong pro-communist/socialist tenets embedded within their rhetoric.
The inherent problem with the Black activists being so trusting under this influence is the fact that the leaders of those liberal groups were every bit as anti-Black racist as their conservative counterparts. What was ultimately sold to the Black American in the guise of "post-racial progress" turned out to be just more of the betrayals they already knew.
First, the hard-charging and uncompromising 1st tier Black leaders were assassinated. Second, the weaker, more "flexible" minded next tiered leaders were offered a pretty-sounding 'progressive socialist' deal of this nature:
"In exchange for you giving up all dreams of full Black empowerment, the financial freedom of entrepreneurship, economic inclusion and political enfranchisement, the white liberals will instead provide for all the Black American's needs in the form of free government funds and housing through liberal socialist programs. It will be a Win/Win situation--help us by allowing us to help you! We'll show the whole world that capitalism is wrong and socialism is the way to solve the world's problems!"
Of course the gullible and treacherous heirs to the assassinated Black leaders' positions 100% agreed to this scheme, and the 'Assimilated Integrationist Token" era was born. The fruit of this era is, as promised, the complete disunification, economic exclusion, disenfranchisement and chronic poverty of the Black American ethnic group. As their wealth is continuously plundered to maintain the white racist aristocracy, the best & brightest tokens among them (famous for working 3-to-5 times harder than their white colleagues!) use their talents to help further the socio-political goals of white people.
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INSPIRATION : 1) "If your feminism doesn't include black women and other women of color it isn't feminism. It's just regular old racism optimized for white women." ~Kwasi Flexx Khalid
2) [SONG] This is a Man's World by James Brown
3) Notes While Observing #14: The Toxicity of Unsolicited "Advice"
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January 10, 2019
Nasty Sounds of a Lower-Level Devil's Defense
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Condolences from a True Believer
"Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today. But, unlike a team of costumed supervillains, they can't be halted with a punch in the snoot, or a zap from a ray gun." ~Stan Lee (28 Dec 1922 - 12 Nov 2018)
Muhammad Rasheed - I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree, big guy. Rest in peace. And thank you.
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January 8, 2019
The War Against Greatness
Artist's DescriptionMuhammad Rasheed - [ARTICLE] Birmingham Civil Rights Institute cancels plan to honor Angela Davis
Jeff Pinner - Looks to me like they chickened out when donors got antsy.
Muhammad Rasheed - Yeah, but WHY did they get antsy?
Kelly Erickson - From what the article said, having named the award for a non-violent activist, maaaaaybe they got antsy because she doesn’t have a fully non-violent past? She was acquitted of any role in the Marin County Courthouse situation, but people still remember her for it. But it’s not like they didn’t know who she was when they gave her the award, so saying she’s not worthy of Rev. Shuttlesworth’s namesake prize at this point seems odd, and frankly sad.
More likely they got antsy because others got antsy, and loud. Breaks your heart to think of an institute in a place where people died for civil rights being antsy over potential protesters’ whining.
“Civil Rights Institute scared to stand their ground and stick with what they believe in the face of spurious attacks like Dr. King and Rev. Shuttlesworth used to” might be a more accurate headline.
Richard Nathan - What the hell? I will have to Google this. What is wrong with Angela Davis?
Muhammad Rasheed - Angela's anti-racism agenda is incompatible with the business models used by the sponsors, and they felt that by honoring her in such a way it would formally legitimize her body of work, and thus obligate them in some way to actually make meaningful change.
They said, "Nah."
Jeff Lipton - To many, she is associated with the shoot-out at the Marin Civic Center (Angela Davis - Arrest & Trial | Wikipedia). That might be an additional reason.
Muhammad Rasheed - I’m very aware of the incident. Ms Davis provided the fire arms used in the aggressive protest using an armed kidnapping theme to bring maximum awareness. It went awry when—as the protesters drove away with their party—the police recklessly opened fire at the group.
Because of a California law technicality, Davis was pinned as a direct suspect, and J.E. Hoover decided to make her the symbolic face of the entire event. It looks like the decision to have the police shoot up the party of protesters and their hostages was a deliberate order to prevent the effectiveness of the high-risk, but brilliant social awareness scheme from having the desired effect.
From the establishment’s perspective, it was significantly less expensive to cause that ensuing carnage and spin the incident with typical white supremacist propaganda, than to allow the young protesters to hold all the cards with such a bold move.
Since Ms Angela Davis was found innocent of the charges against her, there was no reason for her not to be celebrated as the powerful civil rights figure she was. It was clear that none of the protesters who planned and executed the Marin Civic Center incident intended for anyone to be seriously injured, they merely wanted to bring maximum awareness to their very worthy cause to effect much needed change for their people. The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute withdrew their invitation to celebrate her because they feared this formal legitimizing of her work would inspire the next generations of protesters to also risk such bold, counter-establishment awareness moves. Ms Davis showed she didn’t want the war, she wanted the change, but she wasn’t shy about fighting for what she believed in if necessary either. The establishment wanted to neutralize that message in favor of an impotent peaceful, non-violent protest model it would be easier to ignore.
Tom Deyoung - You support kidnapping a judge?
Muhammad Rasheed - In general, like for daredevil fun, or the thrill of criminality? No.
Do I support outside-the-box, potentially high-risk protest efforts to effect MUCH needed change to a white supremacist society that the anti-Black systemic racist government has proven to be more than happy to protect with assassinations? Yes.
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