Muhammad Rasheed's Blog, page 179
February 17, 2018
February 3, 2018
January 26, 2018
Letters From Facebook Jail
Muhammad Rasheed - So this time I'm banned for 30 days, which as a long-time fan of the old Deputy Dawg cartoon made me chuckle when I saw the FB message. The titular character used to hand out 30-day sentences like candy on that show, so I heard his voice in my head as I read it. I sent in my report protesting the ban. Hopefully it kicks in and I'm able to return to my regular posting schedule on my M. Rasheed Art Page.
Facebook is my social media homeroom, so it sucks being unable to respond to the comments there now. My solution will be to copy/paste the comments in this "Letters From Facebook Jail" space and address them here. So peek in for updates.
Mo'Nique's Righteous Fight
Jeremy Travis - [FB VIDEO] Mo'Nique Explains Her Side
Jeremy Travis - So when Monique brought up this issue a few days ago, I didn't know the context and details and numbers behind it, so I just sat back and looked, listened, and learned. And the more I see, hear, and learn, the more I see that, not only does she have a well-stated, well-constructed, well-reasoned point, she also has a lot of people who couldn't care less about what she had to say, they just want her to shut the fuck up, DESPITE the fact that what she's saying and doing is correct and just.
Marlon Davis - I think she has valid points. Especially after i seen a video compilation of Amy Schumer stealing jokes
Scootsie McKnickey - MoNique literally has never done anything shitty or hurtful to anyone but for soooome reason niggas are aggressively coming for her. Im so confused
Muhammad Rasheed - @Jeremy... I think it's an example of systemic racism/misogyny. Mo'Nique should be able to negotiate whatever she wants with the force of her talent, skill and accomplishments, but they were trying to keep her from that because they didn't want her to do it without playing the game their way. Compare her to Jerry Seinfeld, and see what he was able to negotiate for himself as a low-to-mediocre comedian. Why was he able to do what he did to gain the industry support that enabled him to become rich & famous the way he did? The gatekeepers and power-players allowed him to, but they didn't want Mo'Nique to do it and set a precedent with other Blacks. That game isn't designed for you. Only certain Blacks are allowed through that gate.
Scootsie McKnickey - Jerry Seinfeld literally has 0 talent and 1 show. Its amazing how much bread white mediocrity generates
January 24, 2018
Walking Down the Time
Muhammad Rasheed - As I sit here patiently counting down the time to when I’ll be released from my Facebook ban, I analyze the specific technique used to silence my efforts to use my art to fight the diabolical White Supremacist Ideology and its willing supporters. I posted a cartoon which illustrated a point I made during a #WhenTheAliensCome discussion, and over the next few days a legion of white supremacists showed up to complain and ridicule me. Nearly drunk on all of the triggered drama they provided for me to cartoon later, it didn’t take long before I was banned the first time for 24 hrs. I promptly sent a protest report to Facebook to let them know I was an editorial cartoonist who was being harassed by extremists weaponizing their auto-report system to monopolize Freedom of Expression for themselves. My note was either ignored by FB Admins who were of like-minds to my dedicated enemy, or my complaint was simply too far down in the queue to do me much good. In any event, only a couple hours or so after that ban I was banned again, this time for seven days, in which I now count down the remaining hours. Once banned, the white supremacists immediately started filling up my cartoon with taunts and vitriol to which I couldn’t immediately respond. To my delight though, I found that I still retained the ability to delete posts and ban people! I used this power freely to prevent the enemy from controlling the narrative of what was going on, removing all posts that (“Well, actually…”) sought to matter of fact proclaim lies as definitive truths to indoctrinate the readers. Not on MY page you’re not. I left all the comments though that I intended to address within the short time I had before being banned again, which I fully expect since the nature of the attack is pure cowardice. One of my favorite comments I read once the enemy realized I was deleting posts from my invisible-silent realm, was one protesting how unfair it was that I didn’t allow this virtual army of racist trolls to say whatever they wished on my Art Page while I was otherwise unable to address their toxic caucasity directly using my preferred weapons. Isn’t that one of the most classically WHITE things you’ve ever heard? The virtual lynch mob of legions of trolls said it was “unfair” that I used what little tools I had at my disposal to defend myself from their literal attack on my Right to Freedom of Expression. lol This is a sliver of the amazing nonsense we have to deal with on the grander scale as African-Americans.Although I don’t expect to have very much time as a free man once this 7-day ban is lifted (I wouldn’t be surprised if they flagged/reported every single cartoon in my Art Page folio in efforts to get my entire account deleted), I don’t consider this a loss. The fact that they got triggered and came on the run… from pure word-of-mouth mind you… meant that my work is doing what it was intended to do: Speak truth to power and force them to do some form of damage control to cover up their newly-bared asses for the documented record. The actual content of what they say doesn’t matter very much (they lie as their first language and can never be trusted, since they only care about supporting white supremacy at all costs), but the fact that they protest at all says volumes and lets me know the mission of my art is successful. If they said nothing at all it would be one thing, of course, but they’re the ones that ironically invented the term “triggered” in this context, and it’s only the hurt dog that yelps. So what is my mission? Outside of basic entertainment, my cartoons adhere to 3 Prime Directives, which are as follows:1.) To Make the Complex Simple. I believe this is true of all art, and especially the cartoon media and its naturally inherent emphasis on glyphs, short-hands and symbols.
2.) To Decode the Objectives & Methods of White Supremacy. The main tool of racists is their propaganda – using gaslighting, repetition of nonsense, subliminal imagery, and other indoctrination techniques – to encode their toxic message into everyone. They indoctrinate themselves to justify their actions and convince themselves it is okay (in fact, their DUTY!) to exploit and plunder Black people. The video below from Agyei Tyehimba describes the specific role of my art best.
[EXCERPT] 5 Types of Black People Needed in the Black Liberation Movement by Agyei Tyehimba
3.) To Make the Oppressor Class Uncomfortable. As Ta-Nehisi Coates points out in the vid below, the racist aristocracy doesn’t get to comfortably enjoy the loot plundered from Blacks. To allow them that comfort is to throw in the towel of cowardice, and hope they toss us a crumb. No. If you aren’t triggering them and refusing to take their bs seriously then you are just as wrong as they are, and count as the “good friends” who allowed evil to rage about with your silence. The fight is a righteous fight.[EXCERPT] Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Chris Jackson - One World Big Ideas NightI don’t know if I’ll end up losing my Facebook account in the end, but there are other social media outlets, and other means of distributing my work. What are the chances that FB will make their reporting system less white racist lynch mob friendly in the near future? This is a perfect example of the need for Black-owned media safe spaces, free of the sabotaging reach of the white racist fake patriots.
January 23, 2018
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Extraterrestrial Rude Awakening
Riaan van Niekerk - #WhenTheAliensCome a lot of people will be changing their religious beliefs
Melanin Monroe - Why? Just cuz God created life here doesn’t mean he can’t do it elsewhere. That’s always been my take ♀️
Riaan van Niekerk - Could possibly be.
Muhammad Rasheed - In the Qur'an, God refers to Himself as "Lord of all the worlds," so I'll be straight. It's the folk who think the earth is only 6,000 yrs old who'll have the issues.
Omar Diaz - Or that we came from monkeys...
Muhammad Rasheed - I'm sure the evolutionists will pull some kind of spin out of their butts, until the aliens confirm that melanin is friggin' AWESOME. Then they'll declare war on the aliens and pretend they are an invading force.
They'd rather destroy the whole planet than deal with THAT shit. lol
Omar Diaz - You're absolutely right. Funny enough, people of faiths will be more accepting of alien life than evolutionists and agnostics. #teamaliens
Matt McKinney - wow, calling white people monkeys? That's not racist at all
Muhammad Rasheed - White people invented the concept of "humans evolved from an ape-like common ancestor" and labeled humans "primates." Obviously they WANT to be monkeys, so how is it racist that I call them what they want to be again?
Matt McKinney - If humans evolved from monkeys, that means that white and black people evolved too. But in this comic, the black people are shown to be KINGZ while white people are attacked and name-called. It’s not hard to admit your prejudice!
Muhammad Rasheed - Humans didn't evolve from monkeys. Whites invented the concept because they wanted to separate themselves from the Book of Genesis origins of the species. They're the ones that want to be monkeys, so I called them that in the cartoon. So how am I being racist?
Matt McKinney - Well you also admit in one of your other comics that it’s ok to hate white people, because they’re the ones who are “systematically oppressing you”
Muhammad Rasheed - lol Are you actually equating white people with white supremacy? Because the latter is the only thing that deserves hatred. Is this what you are admitting in public? That they are in fact one and the same? Tell me.
Matt McKinney - How is there white supremacy exactly? Cause so far, all I’ve seen white people being seen as a negative trait by the media and racists cartoonists like you
Muhammad Rasheed - All that means, Matt, is that you haven't studied the topic. You believe political talking points are the alpha-n-omega of the issue.
Matt McKinney - Yeah I haven’t studied enough books that tell I’m the devil for being white. And that everything is my fault. I should really catch up on that
Muhammad Rasheed - Admitting to the deficiency is the first step in curing it.
Matt McKinney - I haven't done anything to any person whatsoever based on their skin color. It's racist to assume that all members of one singular race are responsible for everything wrong with your life. "It's all the whites fault!" It's all the blacks fault!" It's the same shit.
Muhammad Rasheed - Matt, it's clear that you have done no research into this subject to even know what the facts are, so your attempts to shut down the people who are read up on the topic absolutely contribute to a white supremacist culture. I'm genuinely sorry to see you gaslighting. It's racist.
Matt McKinney - Gaslighting is the new term to describe when somebody is proving you and your flawed beliefs wrong
Muhammad Rasheed - lol You're doing it again, Matt.
Matt McKinney - You really don’t have anything to say
Muhammad Rasheed - Oh, is THAT why you're doing all of this triggered trolling on my Tweets? Because I'm NOT saying anything. #SeemsLegit
Matt McKinney - Oh I’m trolling huh? Yeah, people who don’t agree with your racist bullshit don’t have legitimate problems with it, they’re just TROLLING!!
Muhammad Rasheed - Especially once they admit in a public forum that they are unlearned on the topic of discussion, while passionately opinionated about it from a base of willful ignorance. That's the tool kit racist trolls often bring with them.
See Also : Alien HR Department: "Monkey Boy" Complaint Files
