Muhammad Rasheed's Blog, page 177

Damage Control: White Supremacy's Risk Response Plan

The Failed Leadership & Treachery of 'Respectability Politics'

The Milksop Cowardice of 'Respectability Politics'

The Hard Sell: Developing a Committed Workforce Through Indoctrination

Muhammad Rasheed - [VIDEO] 3 workers fired at L.A. Fitness after black men kicked out of NJ gym

I disagree with Oates' over-generous and naïve sentiment. The reason why racism happens is because it is profitable. Make it unprofitable using a zero tolerance boycott that destroys a company's brand and racism will stop cold. I guarantee it. You think the billionaire owners won't desperately figure out how to save their wealth if they know a nation-wide Black Boycott is in place and 100% serious? Try it.

Stephen Wilkinson - no racism is a non-profit

you are also looking at racism incorrectly, if i may dare correct an expert.

Racism and its expression is multi faceted and nuanced and the expression of it is also similarly multifaceted - restricting our mental grasp of it will also restrict our options and mental model limiting our abilities unnecessarily

Muhammad Rasheed - "Racism" is a money-making system designed to uphold the collective Euro-ethnic groups in an artificial racist aristocracy at the expense of Black people. The emotion-based, individual-level bigotry aspect that has falsely come to define racism was only ever the marketing/propaganda campaign used to indoctrinate the poor and middle class whites to justify in their minds why it's okay to abuse Blacks in this way.

If you only address the marketing 'bigotry' piece of racism without ever addressing the root cause economic core of it, then racism will continue and you will be forced to invent false narratives to explain the racial wealth gap and mass incarceration, etc., which will of course force you to return to believing the false marketing campaign that sold the poorer class whites on maintaining systemic racism in the first place.


The 1% class needs you to buy-in to the fallacy that the surface film bigotry aspect IS racism in its entirety. Therefore if they "train" their workers in an 8 hr (+ lunch breaks + get out early) seminar to stop being emotion-based bigots, and release the training sign-in sheets or whatever to the public, it will give the illusion that the corporation is now purged of racism, while the racial wealth gap continues to widen and the managerial/overseer-level racists pretend it's because of "culture" and "deficiencies in IQ."

Stephen Wilkinson - Hmmmm true

Appease the anger with platitudes and self admonishments while the rape continues

Muhammad Rasheed - Your observance that racism is "multifaceted, nuanced and multifaceted in its expression" is just the various ways the poorer class whites manage the system. The core of racism is still all about siphoning wealth out of the Black community to hand to white people.

CURING RACISM: Desperate Diseases Must Have Desperate Remedies

SheStillTweets - I really don't care abt #Starbucks closing & doing "racial bias training day". I'm still getting coffee from #BlackOwnedCoffee shops only. Yall see how afraid they are of losing Black dollars? I hope u don't fall for the okey doke. This is all abt money, nothing else.

#BuyBlack

Muhammad Rasheed - Agreed.

A zero tolerance policy towards racism is EXTREME, but racism is extreme. Subjugating, exploiting, plundering Black people for centuries to build a white racist aristocracy into the present day is extreme. Your brand will be destroyed if any of your employees is caught in a racist act towards Black people. That's what it will take to cure us of racism, and that extreme position is not unreasonable.

Every Black person should staple this Tweet to their foreheads and LIVE it...

SheStillTweets - I’ll be glad when we do.

Robb Armstrong - I’m not gonna miss Starbucks at all. I’ve always made better coffee at home, anyway!

Rick Stromoski - The President and CEO of Starbucks has called the harrassment of the two men arrested for being black an abomination and is meeting with them to personally apologize and institute sensitivity training in all of their stores nationwide.

It seems to me that the actions that took place in the Philadelphia Starbucks are less likely a store policy than an example of the institutional imbedded racism that sees young black males as threats.

Its too bad this entire nation cannot undergo such training.

Rick Stromoski - I'm not apologizing for Starbucks. Just recognizing when a corporate head takes full responsibility for the actions of their employees. Its a good first step.

Now if they would just stop burning their beans....

Eric C. Martin - @Rick Stromoski... Um, that wasn't directed at YOU. I'm confused by all of these "screw Starbucks", "I hate Starbucks", "boycott Starbucks", etc. posts.

It was ONE incident, by ONE (now fired) employee, at ONE location.

Outrage at the incident?....understandable.

Outrage at Starbucks nationwide?...unintelligent.

Muhammad Rasheed - Racism is the nation's most enduring sin. A zero tolerance policy from the citizens -- just ONE incident will be enough to end your brand forever -- will definitely help cure it.

Rick Stromoski - M. Rasheed wrote: "just ONE incident will be enough to end your brand forever -- will definitely help cure it."

Even if that brand denounces the incident of its employees, fires the employee responsible and institutes sensitivity training?

That doesn't seem fair....we should be trying to educate not be unnecessarily punitive. Reserve the punitiveness for those who are unrepentent...like Fox, Chic Fil A, Holly Lobby etc...

Muhammad Rasheed - 500 years of systemic racism isn't fair, Rick. Destroying a brand with a zero tolerance for racism policy is justice, and that's VERY fair.

It'll also be very educational for the racist community, I'll bet.

Eric C. Martin - So let me get this straight… Destroy a business for the actions of one employee? Instead of pulling the weed, burn down the entire garden?

There is no logic or intelligence to that idea.

Destroying a business because of the actions of one employee isn’t going to educate anyone, it isn’t going to make racism go away. There are 7 billion people on this planet. Racism/prejudice will never go away 100%.

Those who are actually naïve enough to think it can be eradicated? These are the same people that must believe that somehow you can fix stupid.

Actually, I don’t believe you. I don’t believe for one second that you believe it’s fair to destroy an entire brand/corporation for the actions of one employee. You’re way smarter than this.

Muhammad Rasheed - The education will revolve around the fact that if we ALL work together to destroy racism once and for all, then even the dominant class who traditionally benefitted from it will finally face the harsh hand of justice.

It doesn't matter if you believe me or not. I do believe that in your heart you don't think racism is a big deal. You're not the only one either. That's why Starbucks must fall.

Eric C. Martin - M. Rasheed wrote: “I do believe that in your heart you don’t think racism is a big deal.”

That’s your ego talking.

You’re not a mind reader, and how arrogant of you to think otherwise. Nowhere in my retort did I mention anything about it “not being a big deal“ comment all I said was that it will never go away. Ever. That’s not pessimism either, it’s realism. There are 7 billion people on this planet.

No, I don’t believe you. You’re smarter than that. You know perfectly well that if “justice“ revolved around your so-called logic, there wouldn’t be any companies left. One bad apple would mean the end of a company. Where’s the justice, logic, or intelligence behind that?

Once again, you have failed to present an intelligent and logical reason why, in your words, “...Starbucks must fall.”

There is no evidence whatsoever to back up your belief that making Starbucks go out of business will somehow eradicate racism.

Muhammad Rasheed - Meanwhile your entire retort is saying that "racism isn't a big deal, and it's not right to fight it because some people may lose money if you fight it. Blacks are just going to have to get over it and hope that the rare instance of evil white people getting fired happens a little more often instead of you getting shot all the time over being Black."

THAT'S your message, Eric.

Racism is an economic system. From the very beginning it was designed to build up wealth for white people at the expense of Black people. Common sense and plentiful evidence has shown that if racism becomes unprofitable for the evil white aristocracy it will go away.

You are unlearned on the topic and somehow believe your power of whiteness alone gives your uninformed opinion magical weight, but that is only your arrogance, ego and fear of the idea of racism going away that's talking.

Eric C. Martin - Not surprisingly, you didn’t read one single word of what I wrote. Sadly, you made the decision to lie as well:

You made false accusations: you falsely accused me of saying or believing that “racism isn’t a big deal“, but you know for a fact that my entire premise is that The very idea of boycotting or as you put it “Starbucks must fall“ is nothing short of illogical, idiotic, and pointless. You also accused me of arrogance, having an ego, (project much?) and being afraid of the idea of racism going away. (that’s the best you could think of?)

Your last retort was completely scatterbrained. Just all over the place. The Irony is you claim to have “commonsense“, but you’ve failed spectacularly to show any.

You might want to try to control your emotions which have affected what is otherwise a clear head:

I have no power. (The hell are you talking about?) “Whiteness?“ Newsflash: my mother is 100% Mexican. Raised by a single mom in a Mexican household.

“Fear of the idea of racism going away“? OK I think I’m done here. I cannot possibly debate with somebody who is even more paranoid, and more of a loon, than Alex Jones.

I truly feel sorry for you. But hey, it’s your life. You can go and keep checking under your bed at night for the imaginary Klansman.

Muhammad Rasheed - "Mexican" isn't a race, it's an ethnic group. There are Black and white Mexicans... races within the ethnic group. I'm pretty sure you self-identify as a 'white man' within your half-Mexican citizenship.

It wasn't a false accusation. It's what your position is. It's what you are arguing. You believe that racism isn't a big deal and attempts to cure it aren't 'fair.'

Racism is systemic, embedded throughout our entire society. It's EXTREME. It's fundamental purpose is economic -- it plunders wealth from the Black community to artificially uplift the white community. It's literally how the great wealth of the Western nations was built up in the first place.

The way to cure it is to make it unprofitable. Extreme measures were used to create it, therefore equally extreme measures are needed to destroy it. A Fortune 1,000 company that knows society has shifted to a zero tolerance policy will either root out the racists during the hiring/recruitment phase or go out of business (you may consider it a corporate-level 'lynching' if you will). That's how we can cure it.

Or we can have another Civil War. I suggest we choose the economic route.

Rick Stromoski - M. Rasheed wrote: "500 years of systemic racism isn't fair, Rick. Destroying a brand with a zero tolerance for racism policy is justice, and that's VERY fair."

I think destroying a brand for the actions of one manager is a bit overkill. Especially when corporate immediately responds in a positive and repentant way to correct the racist actions of its representative.

I agree with you regarding the systemic racism embedded in America’s history that continues to this day. But I disagree with a zero tolerance policy in ANYTHING. The world shouldn’t be looked st as a zero sum all or nothing proposition. Going nuclear immediately is a losing proposition in the long run.

Rick Stromoski - @M. Rasheed... I’m not sure how you would root out racists during the hiring process. But I agree with you that racists institutions should be boycotted and called out with the end result being their demise but it’s important to pick your targets because they have systemic racist policies, the banking industry, Fox News and other businesses I mentioned earlier, and not because of individuals whose actions taint that corporates brand. Starbucks reacted appropriately to the actions of a stupid and racist employee.

Personal racism would be impossible to eradicate. Institutionalized racism is a much more realistic target that should be the focus.

Muhammad Rasheed - 1.) You're telling me that you don't believe in a zero tolerance for racism. lol We will never disagree more, I think. Racism MUST go. If people are too attached to their systemic racism income streams to let it go, then they are courting another Civil War. Nobody wants a sequel to the bloodiest conflict in American history, but if that's what it takes, then that's what it takes.

2.) It's not my job to figure out how the 1% will save their mega-corporations and root out the racists. I'm sure they will figure something out since their great fortunes would be on the line.

3.) Institutional racism is the only target. The emotion-based, indoctrinated individual bigotry part of racism will go when the economic part goes. Or at least it will go in the closet and learn to hide better.

Rick Stromoski - M. Rasheed wrote: "1.) You're telling me that you don't believe in a zero tolerance for racism." 
That’s not what I was referring to and it’s disingenuous to suggest that. 
If an employee of any company expresses racist views and the company fires said employee, apologizes to the victims of the racism and then institutes a policy and program for racial sensitivity, I think it’s logical that said company has acted on good faith. To continue to call for the boycott or punishment of that company even after they take corrective and apologetic action is just unnecessarily punitive and illogical.
Muhammad Rasheed - Racism is itself unnecessarily punitive and illogical, Rick. The entire system is racist; it's not racist on an mere emotion-based individual by individual basis. The infamous wealth gap between the races isn't caused by emotional bigotry but by systemic racism, and that was created and maintained into the current day by by deliberately manufactured extreme conditions.
How the police responded was part & parcel of the problem. When that cop arrested Skip Gates for "trespassing" on his own porch, the POTUS called the behavior 'stupid' and ALL white people got mad at him and his popularity dropped. lol smdh
Your entire corporation will be destroyed if a single employee commits an anti-Black racist act. That means more than the cashier-level or middle management worker. That means you're due an extreme Mueller Investigation-type super audit of EVERYTHING. And fuck you.
[VIDEO] Not Again!!! Starbucks Profiles All Over The Country
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How Toyota May Have Started Overcharging Minority Customers

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City Council alert: Fifth Third Bank hiked interest rates on minority customers

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Feds: BancorpSouth illegally denied black consumers fair access to mortgages

Just FOUR Home Loans Were Given To African-Americans In This Major City In A Whole Year

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The Truth, the Half Truth & the Kirby

Kirb Brimstone - @M. Rasheed... For you my friend. [VIDEO] How Muhammad Ali Was Deceived by Islam

Muhammad Rasheed - Oh.

I thought you were tagging me to show that you finally responded to that thread you promised that you weren't going to abandon. Instead I see you've tagged me in more nonsense.

Curious.

Kirb Brimstone - You watch the video? NO. So how do you know it's non-sense?

I'll respond when I have time. In the meantime See above.

My gift to you.

Muhammad Rasheed - Because everything you tag me in is nonsense (except for ONCE, but it was a very noble cause), and the "deceived by islam" part is inherently nonsense, and your entire opinion of religion -- especially tied to anything you've tagged me in -- is nonsense. Oh, and your position in the thread you abandoned, that you swore you wouldn't abandon, was un-defendable nonsense, hence why you abandoned it.

Any more questions?

Kirb Brimstone - @M. Rasheed... Nah your responses are non-sense. You're prophet is obviously false.

Watch the video.

Muhammad Rasheed - Don't tag me in anymore of this nonsense.

Kirb Brimstone - @M. Rasheed... See you on the thread.

Muhammad Rasheed - To do what?

Kirb Brimstone - When I respond. I never forgot about the thread.

Kirb Brimstone - I just have life.

Kirb Brimstone - Islam is false.

Muhammad Rasheed - More nonsense?

You are false. Grow up.

Muhammad Rasheed - My favorite part is how you believe you're going to convert me to the white supremacist's version of Western Christianity by insulting my belief system like a sociopath.

Good luck!

Adam Thompson - Is “un-defendable” the same as indefensible?

Muhammad Rasheed - Kirb wrote: "I never forgot about the thread. I just have life."

Is this really the excuse you want to use considering you're the one that tagged me in all of these vids as you try to pull me into these discussions? You always initiate them and when I respond suddenly you "have a life" and are too busy to defend your own position.

Right.

The Cornering of Absolute Power

The Hate That Racism Produced

jojo - i just want to know WHAT black people did so wrong for every race to hate us. what have we done?? we didn’t mass colonize, enslave, or anything like that. so what’s the answer?

maxine - This is the most infuriating part of anti-Blackness. We didn’t even do anything lmao

Muhammad Rasheed - The 'hate' is a mask designed to artificially justify why it's okay to subjugate, exploit and plunder you for centuries to build and maintain a racist aristocracy.

GOP Wages War on Flint, Syria

The Amazingly Colossal Lazy Entitlement of White Privilege

Alt Fed Employee‏ - A white man who has a law degree and worked on the campaign of the president can have a meltdown of epic proportions on national TV, but republicans think we should drug test food stamp recipients. #Nunberg

Muhammad Rasheed‏ - I'll bet that very same white man would deny that "white privilege" is a thing.

Kyle Tomlinson‏ - Where do I cash me white privilege card in I need it bad. It just seems to not work for me maybe I need to act more white. Idk

Muhammad Rasheed‏ - There are numerous people in the country who've gone through certain institutions (like university, the military, etc.) who were just not clever enough to take advantage of all the opportunities that were available to them, effectively wasting the experiences.

Muhammad Rasheed‏ - You're asking a Black man to help you, a white man, figure out how to take advantage of your 'whiteness' card while in a society specifically designed to favor you over me.

That colossal level of lazy white entitlement is "Expert," I would think.

Kyle Tomlinson‏ - Keep making excuses we keep on climbing

Muhammad Rasheed‏ - What 'excuse' did I use and for what action, Kyle?

Kyle Tomlinson‏ - I’m not going to sit here and say it doesn’t exist, First, no reasonable person can argue that white privilege applies to the great majority of whites, let alone to all whites. There are simply too many variables other than race that determine individual success in America

Muhammad Rasheed‏ - The European imperialism, that spread the white supremacist ideology all over the globe like a blight, does indeed apply to the "great majority" of white people. In fact, the term "white people" was created as the privileged access badge of exactly what you are denying.

Muhammad Rasheed‏ - The access to the path towards economic success is stronger for you than it is for me within a society specifically built to favor a white male over a Black male. It would serve you better to stop whining and go figure out how to get a better quality of life. You look foolish.

Kyle Tomlinson‏ - crying over BS na, “white privilege” is an actual thing, but for you to assume that it’s been easier for me because I’m white is childish. You don’t know me, where I been. Without even knowing me you see privileged just because of the color of my skin. #twowrongsdontmakearight

Muhammad Rasheed - 1) "Been easier" means nothing to me. It IS easier for you; you just failed to take advantage of the legacy of racism that benefits your specific demographic. Again, all whining from your direction looks foolish and amazingly lazy/entitled.

Muhammad Rasheed - ‏2) "Privileged for the color of skin" is the system your specific demographic created (at my expense!) to benefit YOU. lol Literally.

You sound crazier and crazier the more you type. Do YOU even know what your point is trying to be? hahaha

Kyle Tomlinson‏ - Excuses, times are changed stop feeding this bs into young black kids heads, before they grow up they already fail. People like you are holding the African American youth back. Say what you want, believe the lies from the lips of the same people that created white privilege

Muhammad Rasheed - Negative.

It's people like you who tell people like me to stop warning my people about the nature of white supremacy who we need to guard ourselves from. The LAST thing we need is to believe the diabolical lie that the devil doesn't really exist WHILE it's exploiting us. You may keep what you're selling, Kyle. I can't use it.

Kyle Tomlinson‏ - I hope you don’t have kids man growing up to hate white man, yeah you want to educate them about “what it’s like” but it does is create a bigger divide. Have fun yelling in the streets, and defending clearly guilty people, “stay woke” can’t fail if it’s not your fault.... right

Muhammad Rasheed - I don't hate white men. I hate white supremacy, and those who willingly support it. It was my understanding that "white people" and "white supremacy" were two different things, unless you've accidentally admitted to something you weren't supposed to reveal.

Explain.

Muhammad Rasheed - While you're explaining that, I haven't yet figured out what you mean when you type "excuses." Are you just using that for filler or what? It doesn't make sense in context. Explain that too, please.

Kyle Tomlinson‏ - White supremacy there you go again bouncing shit off the wall we were talking about the effects of white privileged people and then you bring that up am I a white supremacy supporter cause I’m white

Muhammad Rasheed - lol White privilege would not exist without the white supremacist system. The one is the stinking, runny discharge of the latter.

Kyle Tomlinson‏ - This guy, whatever clearly you just see color with shades of factual stats surrounding it. Maybe some day you can get to know some one not based on the color of there skin. You can’t change the world by contributing I the hate.

Muhammad Rasheed - Well, since white supremacy is evil and is used to subjugate and exploit Black people to fuel white privilege, I'm pretty sure you're wrong and I AM supposed to hate it.

You're not very good at these kind of arguments, I noticed. Maybe you should stick to North-Western sports.

Kyle Tomlinson‏ - Hahahahahaha I will and you stick to wasting your time, I’d like to thank you for standing up for something though, most people just give up because they tell they’ve already been beatin. Keep up the good fight, whatever that is.

Kyle Tomlinson‏ - Excuses, you let something get in the way of your progress, and you brought that up about the white supremacy BS. you referred it to a byproduct of my way of life because of years of wrong doing on there part. You say you don’t hate the white man but negate the success of one

Muhammad Rasheed - Oh, okay. You're just projecting while pretending you're talking about racism from my perspective. I'm doing just fine actually; this is a systemic problem that affects the whole. Some individual Blacks (and families) have managed to escape poverty. #BootStrapsLOL

Your "excuses" filler doesn't apply to me individually, but it does to you with all your lazy whining.

On the other part, I can't tell whether you are trying to gaslight me, or you really are ignorant about the history of racism in the West. Have you ever looked it up before?

Kyle Tomlinson‏ - So your saying some people are better then others. I mean you did say some black families have managed to make it out of poverty. How they do that fam

Muhammad Rasheed - Wait... your first sentence implies that you believe that having more money makes someone inherently "better."

Better in what way exactly, Kyle?

Kyle Tomlinson‏ - My first sentence is summarizing what you said and you said economically it’s geared towards white people way from the start I’m just rephrasing what you said. And you didn’t answer my question what do you mean “some people made it out” POVERTY.

Muhammad Rasheed - To be clear, white supremacy is evil, so a society that is fundamentally built around it is an evil system. Black people who for whatever reason are able to benefit from aspects of that society that are normally withheld from them in favor of whites doesn't make them "better."

Also, the USA uses a form of capitalism as it's core economic system, so there are alternate ways for people to escape poverty here. There were numerous wealthy free Blacks during the height of slavery itself. So that's not a trait of "better," it just means you have more money. Racism is built into class in the West, creating a white supremacist racist aristocracy. Black people are prevented from pooling their resources and building a political-economic support base so they can achieve economic inclusion within the mainstream society. When they try to do so they are actively attacked and sabotaged by the intelligence agencies and lesser law enforcement in a system set up originally by J. Edgar Hoover.

Muhammad Rasheed - I'm basically giving you a glimpse/snapshot into the body of information about the history of racism that's available. I suggest you take the time to be informed before you go around lecturing people from your "just made it up" ideas.

Kyle Tomlinson‏ - When you fight prejudice with prejudice, not only you escalate the tension but also compound the problem, making it harder to solve. Ima just leave because your gonna hate even with all the reason in the world #notallwhitesarebad #mediasheep #MAGA

Muhammad Rasheed - I'm not prejudiced against white people, Kyle. I'm protesting white supremacy and the systemic racism built to plunder Blacks in order to maintain the racist aristocracy. Anyone who loves the ideals of the Republic and believe all people are equal should feel the same way.

Muhammad Rasheed - Kyle wrote: "notallwhitesarebad"

If you really want me to believe that, and specifically about you, then why do you think a white man who is 100% uninformed on the topic of racism in the USA can lecture a black man who is informed about it?