Muhammad Rasheed's Blog, page 164
August 6, 2018
The Twin Bondage of Cowardice & Disbelief
Tharaka Namal - Why can't the black community in the US come together in a specific place and call for some independence from the white government?
Muhammad Rasheed - The Black community isn’t a hive mind; they are composed of numerous tribes with their own goals, ideologies, political leanings, etc. “Black Nation” would be a more accurate descriptor. It would not be easy for all Blacks to come together to build up their economic-political power under a “Blackness” banner for two reasons:
It isn’t natural to do so under racial phenotype. The European ethnic groups were able to come together under the economic theft system of “whiteness” over centuries because it was fueled by the obscene wealth amassed from their colonialist blight as well as the fear of being wiped out from vengeance wars. For Blacks to come together even for their own basic-level defense under centuries of traditional anti-Black systemic racism, it wold still take something equally as extreme.
Whites are understandably extremely protective of their White Supremacist Ideology and the anti-Black systemic racism for which it stands. They have literally spared no expense in making sure Blacks do not rise up and reverse the reins of power, which includes both physical and psychological terror campaigns that have induced a macabre trust in the abuser from the abused.
Only the Righteous
Q: Why do so many black people convert to Islam when it seems that other indigenous Muslims are as racist towards them as white Christians are?
Muhammad Rasheed - There’s a difference between the message of Al-Islam versus the way the religion is expressed in the lifestyles and attitudes of the body of believers.
Belief and practice in the former is how one becomes saved from hell and gifted with the Eternal Bliss of Paradise.The latter is often tainted by natural human weakness and can lead you astray.I think most humans are very aware of this fact—and how very important it is for us as rational beings to be able to carefully discern between the two—and this is why our ideals, and the systems that they are expressed in, can continue to be among us over the ages. It takes a very narrow-minded person to reject a system for no other reason than because he or she witnessed others who claimed to subscribe to the system but performed it poorly. To miss out on the great benefits that the system will provide because you saw that someone else didn’t give it their all is foolishness personified, and I think it is to humanity’s credit that such fools have not been in the majority.
Black people convert to Al-Islam—the divine message perfected by the One God in the religion for all of humankind—because they believe that the Word of their Lord is true and they are not fools. The Straight Way of Righteousness is a merit-based path, and Black people will rejoice in the knowing that they will receive favor with Allah over those arrogant “indigenous cultural Muslims” who merely play in the faith and refuse to master the tenets as full believing Muslims.
Lina Aitsaid - What does it mean to be a secular Muslim?
Muhammad Rasheed - A "secular Muslim" is the functional equivalent of " non-practicing Jew ." It's a disbeliever who takes pride in the religion and history of Al-Islam as a cultural, ethnic or even national identity. Also called “cultural Muslim.”
In today's climate, in which a fundamentally narrow-minded rejection of belief in God and the unseen spirit is oddly considered a mark of 'intelligence' or 'progress,' the secular Muslim figure is called upon to use what is perceived as his or her superior rational insight into the faith (divorced from the mind-slowing sludge of actually believing in the religious system, you see) to help the secular community make sense of what is ‘really’ going on in the Muslim world.
In usage, the informal "secular Muslim" title functions as a badge of faux-objectivity by a biased group's very subjective point of view.
August 4, 2018
Well-Trained and Strictly Monitored
Kevin Grevioux - Just for my own edification, what are you trying to say?
Muhammad Rasheed - Just that it seems like a conflict of interest and counter-productive to push for pro-Black Awareness in the way it's presented but without the Black Empowerment & Economic Inclusion part that gives you the wealth and power inherent within your group to be independent and express yourself as honestly as you deserve.
"I can't express myself honestly from my own group's voice because an historically hostile alien group may get mad at us and withdraw support we require to survive on a basic level" is the natural fruit of the toxic Integrationist Assimilated Tokenism era.
Kevin Grevioux - I see what you mean.
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August 2, 2018
The Enemy Among Us
Q: Morgan Freeman stated the best way to fight racism is to quit talking about it. Stop saying "black man" and "white man". Would it really help?
Muhammad Rasheed - It wouldn’t help at all. In fact, it would help the pro-racists make things worse for Black people.
Racism is composed of the systemic, institutionalized economic exclusion of Black people, exploiting and plundering them to feed the white racist aristocracy, which creates the infamous and ever-widening wealth gap. The dictionary definition of racist/racism merely describes the most common usage of the terms, but not the system itself. The most common usage of the terms comes primarily from the white working class who use the words to refer—not to the political and economic disenfranchisement of Blacks—but to their own resentments and hatreds directed towards Blacks as a class.
Freeman’s faux cure-all will serve only to direct all attention away from the reality of the white racist exploitation of Black people, to give the very false impression that racism is only composed of shallow “skin color” prejudices on the individual level. This will enable the white racists to continue to exploit Blacks unopposed, while all official anti-racism programs impotently go after “implicit bias” and other paint-thin, surface-level foolishness.
August 1, 2018
Black Slave Codes #2,019: The Mercurial Definition of "Racist"
Anonymous - When talking about racism, why is it always about black people? How about Asians? Are Asians less discriminated than blacks when the racists discriminate?
Muhammad Rasheed - This isn’t really a real thing. It’s just a gaslighting misdirection pretending to be a thing. Everybody has problems, and everyone is entitled to attempt to solve their own problems. I can work on my problems while the next guy works on his problems and there is nothing wrong with that. The fact that I’m working on my problems doesn’t in any way take resources away from the other guy working on his problems.
The idea of “Why is it always about the Blacks???” within the same climate where other special interest groups have used the Black American civil rights model of the 1960s to attain their own political gains, is clearly just a way of guilt-tripping Blacks to stop their complaining and let other groups pull ahead of them. Anti-Black systemic racism is still a thing with other groups—including the mainstream white racist aristocracy—still building their wealth by exploiting and plundering Black people, so obviously questions like this one are just part of the pro-racism propaganda campaign to keep Blacks in an exploitable state.
July 31, 2018
Seven Billion Witnesses
Q: Why is the world so cruel? Why is there so much hate?
Muhammad Rasheed - It takes a lot for the average person to step up and check cruelty/evil when they see it. The fact that cruelty and evil is so prevalent, and the world as a whole doesn’t have a zero policy against it, backs my observation analysis.
The average person will tend to watch in stunned silence—maybe they’ll make some impotent chirp—and let the evil happen right in front of them. That forces me to think that the energy and courage needed to do the right thing is much, much higher than where the base level energies and courage fall in Joe or Jane Normal . This creates situations where evil people can confidently get away with their schemes, and worse, get an embarrassing number of Joe Normals to help them pull their schemes off. Whole armies even! Though there are some heroes who do their part to make the world less cruel, obviously there just aren’t enough of them out there to make it unprofitable to propagate evil.
The reason the world is so cruel is no less than because we all allow it. We’ve misused the Free Will the One God gifted us with and we abuse ourselves in process. In the aftermath, we find a messed up cruel world, that if we don’t assert and shove and grab to force a piece of that cruelty into our own pockets then we’ll be left out of any kind of decent quality of life. This causes us to resent our neighbor over slights both real and imaginary, turning any amount of conflict into raw hatred.
July 30, 2018
The Decoded Noise of Your Silence
John Roscoe - In your opinion, how legitimate are Conservative accusations of "Liberal intolerance" and "reverse-racism in politics"?
Muhammad Rasheed - The ‘reverse racism’ charge is a kneejerk defensive response towards a perceived threat against anti-Black systemic racism. Since the 1600s, the European ethnic groups conspired across class lines to to create the concept of “whiteness.” This is the racist aristocracy that is fed by the subjugation, exploitation and plundering of Black wealth, preventing them from building wealth over generations and keeping them economically excluded from their rightful share of society’s power and wealth. This situation delegates Black people to the bottom of the socio-economic ladder, saving the poorest whites from being in that role—a situation whites are very protective over.
Consequently, any talk from Black people of escaping this unacceptable situation is interpreted as ‘hatred,’ ‘reverse racism,’ etc., as a direct attack against white culture.
July 29, 2018
A Routine Sacrifice to Maintain Evil
Terrence Clay - Is it irresponsible to speculate that stabbing death of Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station was a possible "gang hit"?
Muhammad Rasheed - I think that particular speculation is more than “irresponsible.” It’s a deliberate attempt to force the socio-political narrative in a particular direction that serves only to protect white supremacy, while allowing the most savage among them a free pass to do whatever they like.
Anthony Puckett - I have never met anyone that a Hated black people as much as you hate whites
Muhammad Rasheed - ???
Why do you think I hate whites? Especially based on this cartoon's message.
Are you equating "white people" with "white supremacy?" Because that's a line that I wouldn't even cross. My activism is strictly against anti-Black systemic racism, not against the descendants of the Europe's ethnic tribes. The former is an evil blight upon the globe that I do hate, while the latter are people I share the planet with and hold no inherent animosity against.
Please explain your comment further so that we are at least clear.
Anthony Puckett - Not just this cartoon but all the cartoons you push.
Muhammad Rasheed - Are you equating "white people" with "white supremacy," Anthony? So when I speak against systemic racism and want to tear it down you feel defensive?
Why would that be? That's the impression that you are giving me.
Muhammad Rasheed - Tell me why do you think I hate whites, please.
