Muhammad Rasheed's Blog, page 186

"Then Let Them Drink Salt!"

In Self-Defense II: Protesting the Protesters

Inspired by this chilling, classic 1876 cartoon.
Henry Fu  - The way I look at it is I defended the right of spoiled rich athletes who never knew a day of real oppression in their pampered lives to protest our country and our flag."

Muhammad Rasheed - They are protesting the systemic racism that oppresses their entire group, it doesn't matter if they were given a piece of the vast wealth they generate for the team owners or not. Remember, one of these "spoiled rich athletes" was recently roughed up by a cop after the MayMac fight for no other reason than because he was a Black man.

The "spoiled rich athletes" comment leaves the impression that you feel the money bought their silence fair-n-square, bought the stoppage of their belief that Black lives matter, and bought their allowing the continued oppression of their people.

Wallace L. Garneau - They are protesting the wrong things.  American Apartheid

Muhammad Rasheed - You believe they shouldn't protest the continued subjugation and exploitation of their people? Why?

Wallace L. Garneau - I did not say that. I said that they are taking the wrong side.

Muhammad Rasheed - The football players are taking the wrong side?

Wallace L. Garneau - Yes. Read the article. It spells it out clearly.

Muhammad Rasheed - lol What if I disagree with your article? Did Jesus write it?

Muhammad Rasheed - Stand by...

Muhammad Rasheed - Wait... YOU wrote it!!

How come you can't just sum this up here?

Muhammad Rasheed - Alright, hold on (this better be good too).

Muhammad Rasheed - Wallace L. Garneau wrote: "African Americans had been moving north in great numbers to seek better economic opportunities than were available in the South."

They were also escaping the terror inflicted on them by white supremacist groups during the height of the lynching era.

Wallace L. Garneau - Economics had a lot to do with it too. You are right though that active persecution, which was worse in the South, was also a large factor.

Muhammad Rasheed - Okay, so your article lists some of the items that aid in the systemic racism that oppresses Blacks (conspicuously omitting the many housing-based confidence scams like redlining and gerrymandering directly responsible for the enormous wealth gap between the races), but you think the athletes are wrong for peacefully protesting the oppression of their people.

I don't get it. Was this just a trick to get me to read your article?

Muhammad Rasheed - Both the GOP and the Demos are responsible for items that make up components of systemic racism, and both parties represent the USA, symbolized by the flag and anthem the activists direct the symbol of their kneeling.

They are protesting the oppression of their people.

Muhammad Rasheed - Is the point of directing me towards your article, Wallace, to vilify the Democrat Party?

The "wrong side" you alluded to was just a partisan rival comment. The African-American's political opinion can be found on both sides of the aisle, and their needs as special interests can be managed by either. The trick is that the ethnic group needs to come together as a political group inside of which ever party makes the most sense to do so under (naturally I would suggest they do so under the Democrats since the post-Southern Strategy era has left the GOP openly hostile towards them).

The bottom line is that their protests aren't a partisan issue, it's a justice issue -- the systemic racism at the nation's core was put there by both parties. Which one of them is going to help them remove it?

Wallace L. Garneau - Why percent of African Americans voted for Hillary Clinton? Republicans are not hostile to African Americans. We are hostile to the policies that are oppressive to our inner city communities.

Muhammad Rasheed - There's a greater percentage of Black votes going towards the Democrat Party because of the overt hostility the GOP has displayed towards them in recent decades, especially since the Southern Strategy of Reagan recruited the anti-civil rights white conservative Southern Democrats to the GOP team en masse.

Muhammad Rasheed - That's the party that the modern white supremacist subscribes to when he bothers to play the partisan politics game at all.

Muhammad Rasheed - Do you deny this?

Ethan Hauber - The Southern Strategy isn't what you think it is. THE MYTH OF THE RACIST REPUBLICANS

Ethan Hauber - The only racist Democrat that "switched sides" was Strom Thurmond, and that was after renouncing his racist views.

Wallace L. Garneau - I do deny it. African Americans started voting primarily Democrat in the early 1930s, and white Southerners began voting primarily Republican in the 1980s. Neither switch occurred when the 'big switch' supposedly happened.

Ethan Hauber - What's ironic is that the New Deal was a pretty explicitly racist set of policies that excluded blacks.

Phillip Standridge Sr. - I just got home from the Congo a few days ago. Maybe you would like it better there. I wouldn't stay were I'm not wanted. I hate that we have mistreated so many of you.

Muhammad Rasheed - Wallace L. Garneau wrote: "...and white Southerners began voting primarily Republican in the 1980s."

You deny that the GOP has been actively hostile to Blacks, while admitting that the very white supremacists Blacks migrated up North to escape began voting Republican in the '80s like I said.

I don't understand what it is you're supposed to be denying.

Muhammad Rasheed - @Phillip... The old "Go back to Africa!" response, eh? That's Racism Classic. Maybe you should've left this one to the more civilized of your group? #ItsBetterToRemainSilentAndBeThoughtAFool

Muhammad Rasheed - @Ethan... "Ironic" to what? Didn't I say that BOTH the GOP and the Dems have racist blood on their hands a few times now? I thought I was clear that the activist kneeling was a whole systemic racist protest, and not a narrow partisan one? Please note that Kap's kneeling didn't begin under the Trump Admin.

Ethan Hauber - The Democrats have a history of overt regulations that took black competition out of the market as well as state expansion.  Walter Williams column: The welfare state's legacy

Ethan Hauber - Also, I'm not a Republican, just for future reference.

Muhammad Rasheed - So what's the point of bombarding me with anti-Democrat rhetoric?

Muhammad Rasheed - Since the kneeling item ISN'T a partisan issue, then what ARE you arguing exactly?

Wallace L. Garneau - @Muhammed... The places in the South that went Republican were the urban centers - not the country. It was a reduction in racism in the South that flipped it Republican.

Muhammad Rasheed - Ethan's article: 1.) "the GOP deliberately crafted its core messages to accommodate Southern racists."

2.) "the GOP captured the core of the Southern white backlash vote"

They admit this while still proclaiming it's a "myth," and then go about trying to spin it with socio-political commentary to convince the reader that what they admitted actually happened, was actually a myth. lol

John Chrabuszcz - Haha, Bennett was not roughed up. He lied. It's on film.

Muhammad Rasheed - @John... New Police Body Cam Footage Of Michael Bennett Arrest Released

Ethan Hauber - @Muhammad Rasheed... because I'm not a Democrat either. I'm an Austro-Libertarian Anarcho-Capitalist.

Muhammad Rasheed - So you're neither a Republican nor are you a Democrat, and you believe bombarding me with anti-Democrat rhetoric, in perfect imitation of a GOP true believer, is a sensible response to my support of the very non-partisan activist peaceful protest.

Ethan Hauber - I will say this: Libertarians always have the best interests of people in mind.

Muhammad Rasheed - I know what the Libertarian ideals state from my research (I'm particularly moved by Rose Wilder Lane's famous work in the literature), but the members of the Libertarian party and friends certainly haven't done a good job of demonstrating those ideals in the last decade.

Muhammad Rasheed - Why would I wish to partner with a group whose members regularly espouse the same anti-Black rhetoric of my active enemy during the darkest days in American history?


Muhammad Rasheed - Your vision and ideals for the nation do not align to my own. I'm suspect of your version of "best interests."

John Chrabuszcz - @Muhammad Rasheed... still don't see roughing. He ran from cops, he's being detained. I'll bet there's thousands of guys who ran from police who wish they were roughed up like that. I won't argue with your premise but this is a weak case.

Muhammad Rasheed - Unlike you, John, I'm not inclined to trust a cop's word after all they have shown. They'll have to earn it. Currently they stand at a tremendous deficit.



Ethan Hauber - "Libertarians spouting anti-black rhetoric."

Lol where?

Ethan Hauber - You cannot minimize state sanctioned violence without first minimizing the state.

Muhammad Rasheed - The most high-profile ones were in Dr. Paul's newsletters, remember?

Ethan Hauber - The ones that he literally had nothing to do with and wasn't aware of the existence of until the media got wind of it?

Muhammad Rasheed - That's just the clean-up effort to save the Revolution propaganda train.

Ethan Hauber - Not an argument.

Muhammad Rasheed - lol Of COURSE it is. A lie, is a lie, is a lie, Ethan.

"Fool me once, shame on you..."

Urvy Jaramillo - Meanwhile, blacks killing blacks and other races are ignored and as long as they kill each other, they don’t have to take knees.

Muhammad Rasheed - There's crime in every ethnic group's poor communities, but what's relevant here is that there are dozens and dozens of organizations working on controlling your favorite "black-on-black crime" political talking point. In fact, the Black urban area crime has been on a steady decline for years, with a huge jump during the Obama era.

Funny how you are unaware of these facts while pretending you know so much about Black people. Thanks for supporting the cartoon's message.  

Urvy Jaramillo - @Muhammad Rasheed... Actually, I’m not supporting your message, race baiter

Muhammad Rasheed - lol You're supporting the message of the character IN the cartoon.

Thanks for playing.  

James Cox - Hey bro what about how black people oppress themselves far worse than anybody else does about 90% of us are killed by own people most of us will not marry hot women after impregnating them, don't love and train our children .That's the worst oppression my brother God bless you. I also believe you criticized One race for oppression and ignore what your own base do to each other that kind of makes a person a racist does it not because it's discrimination based upon race. Criticize the the white and ignore what the black is doing to themselves, Which is far far worse, kind of cruel to me my brother.

Muhammad Rasheed - The well-read and wise "bro" will recognize the items you are listing are the effects of the systemic racism designed to keep Blacks vulnerable for exploitation. You have to think deeper. The LAST thing you need to do is listen to their spin on anything.

James Cox - Mr Muhammad Rasheed I will share one more thing with you and I'm finished God bless you sir people do what they do because of the spirit they have in them it is either God or the devil the devil all of us I mean all of us have one of those Spirits in US the devil's not going to act different because of the color of the skin he inhabits he's going to do the exact same thing as white, black ,yellow brown Chinese Russian-American, black white is the same brother. Whatever you upset and blaming white people for blacks will do the same exact thing just like all mankind will but the devil is the devil my brother that's the only difference it never has been and never will be by the color but always about a spirit you the child of God of child of the devil we are all the same God bless you again my brother.

Ethan Hauber - @Muhammad Rasheed... you haven't debunked anything regarding Ron Paul's lack of involvement in those newsletters.

Because it makes sense that an anti-war activist who said racism is collectivism would write those.

Muhammad Rasheed - "Debunked?"

I just don't believe him or his true fans. Should I?

Muhammad Rasheed - I have ZERO faith in y'all's word. #SpeaksWithForkedTongue

Ethan Hauber - Look into some quotes and policies by Gary Johnson. Also, explain why black communities are plagued by singe parent homes after years of federal subsidies and lack of free market competition.

Muhammad Rasheed - I already know Gary Johnson.

Black communities are plagued by the various arms of systemic racism's effects. This is a bipartisan evil. It will continue until Blacks learn to come together as a powerful bloc, and use the force of their political might to tell their representatives "what to do" in order to get what they need for long-term success.

Muhammad Rasheed - James Cox wrote: "Whatever you upset and blaming white people for blacks will do the same exact thing..."

You're saying that because Black people have the capacity to potentially turn around and subjugate, terrorize and exploit whites as has been done to them, that I should just stop talking about it and allow whites to continue to subjugate, terrorize and exploit my people unopposed?

That seems to be the gist of what your point was. If so, you must not expect me to do anything with it except show it to my friends and mercilessly ridicule both it and you. I'll give you 24 hrs to clean it up.

Henry Fu - Growing up Asian I faced racism and bias from both blacks and whites. There will always be someone that don't like you because of your race, sex, creed, or whatever. Spending your time trying to prove a case of systemic racism is a poor waste of your precious time because yes, there are people who wont like you. So what? I spent my time focused on my career and family and I am happy and grateful for the success I have had with both. You should try the same.

Muhammad Rasheed - I don't have to prove it, Henry, it is self evident. The bad guy of our story has taken pains to pretend he isn't maintaining that systemic racist system that benefits only him, but his efforts are sloppy in his arrogance. I don't need to prove it, just discuss it. Silencing people who want to talk about this great evil is part of his strategy.

I reject his strategy. The USA's most enduring evil will never go away if the oppressed agree to remain silent like cowards. You think being a coward in the face of evil will make me happy? lol I thought you were a soldier?

James Cox - @Henry Fu... Amen bro.

Henry Fu - Yes, systematic racism exists along with systematic bias against short people, systematic religious intolerance, etc. etc. Point is, you will waste your life spending your time consumed with the boogeyman. Better approach is simply to acknowledge it exist, move on, make your own life better.

Muhammad Rasheed - You are unaware of what "systemic racism" actually is. It is a tactic that deliberately prevents the Black community from building up wealth over generations, that deliberately widens the wealth gap between Blacks and whites using real estate/housing scams, political disenfranchisement, and non-economic liberalism. I am in the middle of a war, and your misinformed opinion of it, and dismissal of decades of research cannot help me.

Henry Fu - It is the government and the virtual plantation holding hostage the black community. It is the self-victimization of the mind. The more you focus on finding the boogeyman as the reason for your failures, the least likely you will get ahead.

Muhammad Rasheed - Getting ahead isn't about me, it's about my entire ethnic group. Fighting against "the boogeyman" is the only righteous work in front of me. You've already explained that you prefer cowardice over the fight, and that's fine. That's your path and you may have it. I reject your offer to take it on for myself. I have to look into my family's faces every day. Cowardice is not my portion. No, thank you.

Rodney Norton - That’s a lie Muhammad, & there lies the problem. There tape proving Michael Bennett is a flat out liar. Notice it hasn’t been brought up lately. It’s just put in the column of bad cops, poor innocent mIchael. Same goes for mIchael Brown. Who in their right mind goes after a cop, or tries to run from them? It’s about personal decisions, not skin color. There are cases and the should be prosecuted If found guilty. Busy Systemic? Nope.

Marv Gaby Mitchell - The issue of race is interesting. Currently a black child has more opportunities in life than a "white" child born today. We have laws to assist the black child in housing, education,employment, congressional representation and so much more. I get upset listening to how the black community is being oppressed by police? That's crazy, you act like a thug and yelling racism when you are treated as a thug? Besides, the facts do not support this claim. The black community is broken and no one is willing to acknowledge that fact. The crazy part to this is you can't discuss this issue with out being called a racist. The name racist is so quickly losing its sting as it continues to be abused. We need to do away with laws that divide us. We need to stop classifying ourselves by color. I am not a white male, I am an American!

Muhammad Rasheed - Please stop pretending you two are interested in any facts when all three of us know that is not so. All you care about is the spin of your partisan talking points that help you sleep better at night.

Muhammad Rasheed - Facts singes your skin the way holy water prolly does. Be honest for once. You'll release the burden in your souls. Such as they are.

Henry Fu - @Muhammad Rasheed... if you aren't willing to listen to reason and you refuse to read any real books on the topic then what exactly are you trying to achieve here?

Muhammad Rasheed - It's pretty clear at this point that you hold no reason to share, Henry. Did you not literally just dismiss everything I had to say in favor of willfully misinformed nonsense?

As I said, my point was to be heard.

Muhammad Rasheed - You know nothing of the topic of systemic racism, yet proudly labeled it "boogeyman" as if not knowing about something is a badge of pride.

Muhammad Rasheed - Is that what "reason" sounds like to you then?

Henry Fu - The dismissing is based on the fact that 1) you don't have any new facts to contribute, 2) you simply repeat the same propaganda over and over like some mantra. Tell me I'm wrong.

Muhammad Rasheed - 1.) You are unaware of any OLD facts on the topic, so your charge is laughable at best.

2.) We all repeat the same "propaganda" over and over, since the issues remain the same. I won't ever ask you to tell me I'm wrong since you've proven to be unqualified for the task.

Muhammad Rasheed - Marv Gaby Mitchell wrote: "The black community is broken and no one is willing to acknowledge that fact."

"Systemic racism." Pretty sure I acknowledged that a few times.

Muhammad Rasheed - Rodney Norton wrote: "Notice it hasn’t been brought up lately."

It's going to court. Bennett is going to sue the crappola out of those people. Good for him. I hope it destroys them, and they're forced to build an entirely new police dept. from the ground up.

Weapon of the People: "All That Money"

Weapon of the People: "Kneeling"

Attack of the Trolls

fatkafir - Here's one for you M. Rasheed:  Give me one verse in the Quran Hadith or sunnah that preaches respect and love for the kufar!

Muhammad Rasheed - ???

Who are you? Do I know you?

Muhammad Rasheed - You want me to find a verse with God instructing the believer to respect and love those who have rejected God and prefer hell?

No such verses exist. The closest thing to it was when God told the believers not to make fun of the idols of the pagans because it would only encourage them to slander the One God, and Allah didn't want to hear it.

BasimaFaysal - Of course you don't respect and love non-Muslims.

Muhammad Rasheed - I respect and love believers in the One God who are not Muslims. Allah said you don't specifically have to sign up to Islam to win paradise.


Those who reject the One God altogether -- the unrepentant hellbound -- are a different matter.

BasimaFaysal - Sure, you only love and respect people who believe the thing you believe.

You're programmed.

Muhammad Rasheed - Is this your official attempt to get me to change my mind? lol

Christians and Jews who are sincere in their belief, and strive to please the One God have earned my love & respect. I have no beef with them.

BasimaFaysal - No. It's illegal for you to find fault in Islam or leave it. Penalty of death. Ciao.

Muhammad Rasheed - 1.) There is no fault in Al-Islam.

2.) Allah said "there is no compulsion in religion," therefore the "legalities" have nothing to do with it.

Actually, the 'apostasy laws' are hold-overs from the European colonialist period. They 100% have nothing to do with the faith itself.

BasimaFaysal - Just as I said. It's illegal for you to even acknowledge fault in it.

Muhammad Rasheed - I read what you said, that's why I dismissed it. Here ya go: Why Blasphemy Laws Are Actually Anti-Islamic

Try harder, please. Your empty words alone do not move me since I'm actually read-up on the topic.

BasimaFaysal - You're a bit of an ignoramus if you don't know Muslims wrote sharia, not Europeans.

I'll assume you aren't and that you're a liar.

Muhammad Rasheed - The formerly-colonized Muslims carried over the Euro-colonialist's rules into their sharia works. You should get out and read more. Try it.

BasimaFaysal - Muslims must be retarded to make sharia - the law of Islam- from the infidel unbeliever laws.

You lying joker.

Muhammad Rasheed - People have often built up bureaucratic institutions around the Word of God that conflict with the Word itself. I agree it's certainly a 'retarded' trait. That's why the prophets came to correct them, and realign the people back to the Word.

lol I'm not 'lying' nor am I joking. I happen to be read up on the topic. That trumps your sloppy professional trolldom. Please work harder at challenging me. Is there a Level II anti-Islam troll course you can certify in?

BasimaFaysal - Oh, what prophets came to correct the sharia after the stupid Muslims copied if from the Europeans?

Muhammad Rasheed - Muhammad (peace be upon him) is the prophet that came to realign the people back to the Word after the previous guardians molested it. He is the last. Fortunately the 'scholar' bureaucrats confine their foolishness to sharia, and it doesn't spill over into the Qur'an itself. Therefore, the believers merely have to bypass sharia and go straight to the unmolested source. You may consider that one of the Qur'an's miracles in action. Similar to the unmolested spider web story? Like that.

Muhammad Rasheed - Will that be all?

BasimaFaysal - Sure. Muslims scholars ruined Islam by basing it not on Quran or Muhammad but by copying European laws! And it's all corrupt except Quran!

I don't need to hear from you again.

Muhammad Rasheed - The Qur'an is the Word of the One God of Abraham -- the final scripture in the revealed sacred canon. It is perfect and protected.

lol You're the one that keeps reaching out to me, remember? Presumably trying to 'trip me up' using only your uniformed hateful opinions. I suggest you upgrade to the Anti-Islam Hatred Course: Level II if you hold hope of actually challenging me on this stuff.

fatkafir - Hey mr Rasheed, bearing in mind Mohammad was a complete arsehole and Allah, if he did exist, would be the same. Point is to the verses in your holy books that show peace and respect for the kufar. Prove to us that Islam is peaceful!

Muhammad Rasheed - You're not using "bearing in mind" correctly, considering I reject any and everything you believe to be true about the subject. #DoOver

So basically you're going to create a straw man effigy based on your willfully uninformed understanding of my faith, and expect me to conform to it? Such a discussion would necessitate first the toppling of your straw man, and then an explanation of what makes Islam the religion of peace.

fatkafir - If Islam were peaceful then it would instruct peace rather than destroy everything and let everyone who doesn't want to play part burn

Muhammad Rasheed - This post of yours demonstrates without doubt that you have no idea what the Qur'an actually instructs about the matter. Or perhaps you do, but you've been instructed to ignore those facts by your anti-Islam troll farm trainers.

Notes While Observing: Driving the Narrative of 'Whiteness'

1.) "Could The Beguiled have taken a more unflinching approach to the history of the Civil War–era South and its lingering scars that affected black people most acutely? Undoubtedly. But Coppola isn’t the filmmaker to do so — her greatest strength and weakness has always been her myopia. More broadly, I find this obsession with making every film intersectional to be misguided. As Ira Madison aptly put it for the Daily Beast, 'We should demand that studios and producers give those opportunities to black filmmakers instead of looking for meager scraps from white people who don’t fully grasp our stories and will portray them horribly.'” ~Angelica Jade Bastién; How The Beguiled Subtly Tackles Race Even When You Don’t See It (10 July 2017)


2.) “This world is all about branding and marketing. The number one branders in the universe is the United States. They made United States seem like it’s the best place in the world to be. It’s the land of the free, home of the brave… I go there to finally chase my dreams. We have to be able to tell our own stories. Directors, film makers, entertainers – it’s going to be clearly (and the press) it’s going to be your job to redefine how people think about Africa. Because you’re here. You see what’s going on. You clearly can see a vivid picture of the good, the bad and the ugly. What you choose to put out there is what the world is going to get. Because I can tell you right now, in Chicago alone, there’s more people dying in Chicago than there was dying in the war in Iraq. But you will never see that. There’s a lot of things that’s happening in the U.S. that you will never see because they choose to show you what they want you to see. It’s about country integrity. You have a certain reputation that you have to keep.” ~Akon speaks on rebranding Africa


3.) INTERVIEWER: "Obviously we want to try to find any positives we can as we go along."

FRANK MIR: "We're going to pull some strings for Conor, is what you're saying." *smirk*

~[Re: The aftermath of the Mayweather vs McGregor fight]
4.) ‘We only kill black people,’ a cop told a woman — on camera. His defense is that he was just being sarcastic and joking with her as a fellow white person; he was just trying to assure her everything was fine in an attempt to connect by making fun of SJW activists like BLM. Of course it was a joke. I believe him. But it was a joke at MY expense, to coddle becky's fake white fragility. Please note that Sandra Bland is DEAD. Yet they actually want me to feel sympathy for racist nazis when Antifa runs through to slap them upside the backs of their heads. Okay.





5.) Sam Harris and Ben Carson are the same character. Both of them hold high-level educations in difficult fields of study (neuroscience and neurosurgery respectively) that are known for how smart you have to be to pull them off. Both of them decided to abandon their fields, finding it easier and more lucrative to become socio-political commentators, using their "intelligent voice" to drive the narrative that their political bases want to hear. For Harris it's the post 9-11 anti-Islam agenda narrative, and for Carson it's the GOP's anti-Black partisan talking points. Both use their well-trained education skills to help fill in the gaps of their bases' narratives, and to convince the people that they are on the right teams. Both are very valuable mouthpieces for their bases' leadership class, able to 'talk that talk' in a way that sounds credible to the layman ear.


6.) The reason why the tale of 300 is celebrated in the West isn't because of the hyper-masculine heroism blown up by the works of Frank Miller and Zack Snyder.  It's because of the symbolism it represented that the collective European ethnic tribes identify with. The 300 story represents the white race's ages old global war with the majority Black/brown people, that in the post-Darwin modern day includes the white's atheistic materialism versus Black/brown spirituality.  During the colonialist era, the European conquerors would seize the records of the subjugated nations and send their lore back to Europe. The best and brightest of white intellectuals would decipher the materials, repackage them, and claim the works as their own inventions, formalizing a Western world trend began during the so-called "Greek miracle" period.

Interestingly, the European appears to have admitted to either a lack of talent for spiritual studies, or a disdain for them, as the British Royal Society stopped grouping theological texts with the hard science ones, eventually separating the subjects completely in their institutions of learning since the progress in deciphering confiscated esoteric works were not as forthcoming as those in high mathematics. Despite valiant efforts of European "mystics" to make heads or tales of the spiritual works of the Black ancients, groups like the Theosophists, Rosicrucians, etc., never managed to make the ambitious contributions to the stolen European canon they hoped to, and never shook loose their reputation as kooks, cranks and frauds based on the lack of follow through on their initial grand claims. Despite this utter failure to master matters of the spirit, causing the scientific community to officially declare the field fictitious, Hollywood still manages to cast the whitest white person in the universe for all high-level spiritual guru characters in recent films. Before they had little trouble conceding those roles to "magical negro" type characters, since they were confident that spirit must be fiction because they couldn't figure it out, but apparently the Dragon Ball Z generation of film makers must have decided to appropriate that, too.

In the original Doctor Strange story from Marvel Comics, the titular character's mentor figure called "The Ancient One" was depicted as an Asian man, but the movie cast a white woman in the role. Symbolically this change meant that the white elite no longer accepted the fact that they inherited their knowledge from the previous Black/brown civilizations, but were always the gurus of everything worthwhile in the entire body of human knowledge. EVER. This attitude means that, despite some token surface-level 'progress' identified with the 21st century socio-politic, racism has actually gotten worse, and if allowed, we may expect official public policy to reflect this.


7.) In Western Society, the figures that are celebrated at the highest levels are those that help fill in the gaps in the White Supremacist-Eurocentric historical narrative; that help clarify the tale in the way they wish the global populace to be indoctrinated. Everyone who is capable of aiding the "spin" sound better, smoother and more plausible/credible are raised up as heroes.  The canon of Western "great books" is the collected tale of the 'Whiteness' narrative that the elite require everyone to believe as "truth," and are indoctrinated into young minds as high school and college "must reads."

Note that the collected, sorted, and categorized data of science is immediately hijacked by Western thought police, who hold the authority to determine how the material is interpreted, which is of course done solely through the lens of the "great books" narrative of 'Whiteness.'


8.) The one thing the GOP does exceptionally well is thoroughly indoctrinate all class levels of the right-leaning conservatives with their political messaging, to the point where the Average Joe can talk the same rhetoric just as well as Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. The Democrats don't even come close to matching the shear volume of socio-political commentators at all levels  that the GOP (and overseas allies) spend a fortune on to make sure the message leadership wants the people to know is known, and known well. By contrast, the Democrat's weaker marketing attempts are often drowned out by the louder voice of their rivals, with the bipartisan distrust of the Trans-Pacific Partnership being a perfect example. Over the course of Barack Obama’s two POTUS terms, the liberal mainstream news programs failed to focus on the components of the president’s actual agenda towards building up the middle class:
Common Core The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 (SAFRA; H.R. 3221) The TechHire Initiative The enforcing of anti-trust laws to prevent more cartels from stifling the mobile phone industry and the Internet...so that the people weren’t aware of the long-term plan. When Obama aggressively pushed to get the TPP through, lack of context based on what his focus had been was lost on nearly everyone. Lack of a relentless stream of socio-political commentary voices to compete with the deep-pockets of their conservative rivals, created a vast knowledge void within the Democratic base, and the poor suffer for it. If they knew how vital TPP was to president Obama’s plan to help pull them up into the middle class, they may have turned up at the polls in sufficient numbers to overwhelm the GOP’s voter suppression machine, as the president’s own rock star popularity numbers miraculously enabled him to do in 2008 and 2012. Instead, shamefully, even Hillary Clinton was unsure and wishy-washy over the TPP issue, and couldn't talk it up herself to a skeptical, uniformed liberal crowd without them turning away from her. The Democrats MUST pour money into liberal media owners to counter balance the extra loud GOP messaging that is dominating the ear of the average American.



9.) Editorial Cartoons are incredibly powerful for simplifying complex ideas, and moving the general consciousness within a smartly-planned propaganda campaign. So much so that the elite have all but silenced their voices. Greg Palast, the very brave investigative journalist who revealed the voter suppression scam, was fortunate enough to grab Ted Rall, one of the few working editorial cartoonists to illustrate his book. Rall pointed out that after the massacre of the four cartoonists at the Charlie Hebdo offices, the surviving 25 cartoonists at the controversial French magazine still equaled the total number of editorial cartoonists working at all 1,350 American newspapers combined, and that number is shrinking. Among all the American news websites, there's only one that employs an editorial cartoonist. There's no secret as to why this should be. The 1% fear the wild card voice of the political cartoon inside of their carefully controlled indoctrination machine. Even in this environment, notice how they're a little more forgiving of powerful prose written by activists, despite how potentially damaging such pieces could be to their machine if such work really went viral as it should. Yet the 1% are much more frightened of the "1000 words" of the single editorial cartoon image that may get large media exposure.

All alternate media voices, but especially the editorial cartoons that the GOP fears the most, should be used to counter their well-funded big voice messages. I personally think it's impossible to do so while news distribution is linked to the profit margin, because small media companies and internet cartoonists cannot compete with the mega-corporate machine's bottomless pockets. The solution is to fund alternate news voices outside of the fickle flow of business' supply & demand rules. Or like the aforementioned Charlie Hebdo French cartoonists, and even the "troll farm" staff working for Vladimir Putin to infest the Internet with Russian propaganda, both groups are provided subventions to make sure the work is continued. This, or some other smart funding sources, is something that should be provided for editorial cartoonists to keep them aloft so that the big voice of the anti-citizen elite does not go unopposed.

Shadow Left II: "The anti-Anti Fascist"

Muhammad Rasheed - This was drawn in response to this linked toon that was posted as a comment under my 'Russian Agent Baby Hands' post.

Bakkah Rasheed-Shabazz - Trump treats racism and even the murder of peaceful protesters like a joke. Those caught up in the rhetoric are acting out of emotions instead of moral conscious.

Richard Sherman - The art is good, but the inking needs work. Vary the line width and you'll get a better effect, concerning depth.

As to the content- well, either you're simply completely self-absorbed, or blind. No telling, really, which it is, as they both stem from the same place.

Muhammad Rasheed - My lines are varied, Sherman. I got the depth that I wanted by using the texture and grey lines in the background, and silhouettes in the foreground, giving the impression that the mid-ground figures are on their own cell layer.

And you should know by now that I am never interested in your opinions regarding the content. Even less so than normal since you, as a Jew, is siding against the anti-fascism group. How do you justify that? Is it a demonstration of cowardice, or are you actually pro-Nazi? Don't bother to respond, since I still don't care.

Richard Sherman - Well, since you've just outed yourself again, as a racist and an anti-Semite, I will let your own ridiculous words speak for themselves.

As to the line width, work on that. It might improve things a bit. Just a suggestion. One your massive, unwarranted and unearned arrogance will likely ignore.

Muhammad Rasheed - Meanwhile, I am neither a racist (whatever that means when you use the term) nor an anti-semite, and nothing in my response suggested I am. Your odd stand suggests you are a self-hating Jew though. You may wish to make a better effort in cleaning that up. FYI.

Your artistic suggestions are suspect and unwanted based on our history. Go away now.

Richard Sherman - M.Rasheed wrote: "And you should know by now that I am never interested in your opinions regarding the content. Even less so than normal since you, as a Jew, is siding against the anti-fascism group."

You've gone from simple-minded denial to full-blown stupidity, now.

Your own words convict you, Muhammad.

Try vary line width. Just once. Condescend to see if it makes a difference. Not for me. For your artwork.

Muhammad Rasheed - Antifa... yea or nay?

Choose.

Richard Sherman - Anti-Semite... yea or nay?

Richard Sherman - You first.

Muhammad Rasheed - I've already denied your false anti-semite accusation.

Muhammad Rasheed - Are you blind, too?

Muhammad Rasheed - Or just illiterate?

Muhammad Rasheed - Antifa... yea or nay?

Choose.

Richard Sherman - Good for you.

Then you'll be happy to stop acting like a fascist and demanding that I be quiet because you reject my views based on my being a Jew.

You'll also likely stop trying to silence me because you think i disagree with your view on the world.

Muhammad Rasheed -I don't reject your views because you are a Jew. That is a straw man effigy typical of you. I reject your views because they are both hypocritical and anti-Black. Do YOU even know what the Jewish nation is supposed to believe in? I doubt it.

Muhammad Rasheed - Antifa... yea or nay?

Choose.

Richard Sherman - "The fight against fascism leaves no room for humor, Nazi-lover!"

You're simple-mindedness and child-like view of things would almost be endearing, if it wasn't so obviously deliberate.

Muhammad Rasheed - Antifa... yea or nay?

Choose.

Richard Sherman - The irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife!

Muhammad Rasheed - Antifa... yea or nay?

Choose.

Richard Sherman - What, exactly, does Antifa stand for, and what are its goals?

I cannot choose, because I do not know.

I was referring to your stupid balloon caption, about armed people silenceing unarmed people, beause they disagreed with them.

Muhammad Rasheed - Richard Sherman, it is obvious you don't want to choose because it will out you as a Nazi sympathizer because of your own commitment to anti-Black racism.

Take a bow.

Richard Sherman - @Muhammad... I thought you uneducated before. You've proven that, now. Please explain to me- in simple terms, as you would to a child- or one of your ilk- What, exactly, does Antifa stand for, and what are its goals?-

Muhammad Rasheed - You've heard of "Google," yes?

Try to spend less time being slimy and intellectually dishonest and go work on your cartooning, please. Thanks.

Richard Sherman - M.Rasheed wrote: "it is obvious you don't want to choose because it will out you as a Nazi sympathizer because of your own commitment to anti-Black racism. Take a bow."

The problem, you see, Muhammad Rasheed, is that the Antifa people you have, chasing the other people, in your cartoon, are not black. Neither are the people they're chasing. If, as you suggest, I am anti-black, based on this cartoon, how, exactly, does that work?

Muhammad Rasheed - Didn't I say I was uninterested in your opinions regarding the content? That window has closed on our relationship based on your history of proudly spewed filth & slime.

Go work on your art now. Go on.

Richard Sherman - M.Rasheed wrote: " You heard of 'Google,' yes? Try to spend less time being slimy and intellectually dishonest on work on your cartooning, please. Thanks."

If you can't explain it, because you yourself do not know, please just say so.

Otherwise all your posturing and preening about a topic you are ignorant of, is simply absurd.

Now, please stop the name calling and do something useful- explain your position.

If you're actually able to, and it's not simply for show.

Muhammad Rasheed - You called me "racist and an anti-Semite" and are thus the first one to call someone a name in this thread. Hypocritical much? Or is this just the latest demonstration of your routine sliminess?

I can't tell at this point...

Richard Sherman - @Muhammad Rasheed... Let me add, then, unoriginal, predictable and not very clever.

Still, you're continuing to spin around rather than explain what Antifa is, does, wants, and stands for.

Please stop posing long enough to explain.

Richard Sherman - Because basically, if you're going to draw political cartoons, it would be good to understand the topic you draw about. I don't think you do. I think you're simply being a populist parrot, right now, and that inpugns the integrity of the field I have worked in, diligently and professionally, for 40 years.

Please either explain the premise, or stop pretending to be among the politically educated.

Muhammad Rasheed - I've already explained the reason why you refuse to publicly choose a definitive Antifa stance. Since you decided to respond with straw men and over-confused babbling, that means I was correct.

Elementary, Watson. 

The Liberating Power of Earnest Study

Mohammad Abduluzzah - Why do non-Muslims refuse to believe that the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) split the moon even though NASA has proved it happened during the prophet's lifetime?

Muhammad Rasheed - Please note that the Qur'an is full of references to the people of olde and their continuous pleadings that they would indeed believe if only the prophets would show them a miracle. They did not believe, but only made up some "moving the goal post" excuse for why the miracle wasn't good enough for them. When the Christ Jesus came along (peace be upon him), he point blank told the Pharisees and scribes among the children of Israel that "an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a miracle."

So it shouldn't be a surprise that in the prophet Muhammad's day (pbuh), Allah wasn't putting up with the request at all. When the prophet would break down under the continuous requests for a sign, Allah would tell the legend of a previous prophet who performed miracle after miracle to no avail... the people would not believe. Verse 6:109 below shows Allah telling the prophet what to say to the believers who were also assaulted with such requests from disbelievers, seeking to have the sahaba pressure Muhammad into performing signs for them. Verses 29:50-51 shows Allah proclaiming that the Qur'an itself is miracle enough!

Allah's answer to the numerous requests was a clear "No!" and yet we have Muslims even today somehow believing in this "split the moon" miracle during the prophet's lifetime. This is absurd. It is clear that 54:1 is a reference to the unseen future when the great cataclysm that heralds the resurrection of humankind for Judgment is upon us. The moon will literally be smashed into two chunks, like from an impact of cosmic proportions. Those who insist that the prophet "split the moon" as the very miracle that Allah refused to perform, only reveal themselves as that "evil and adulterous generation" that the Christ described.

O ye who believe! Stop chasing after foolishness in perfect mimicry of the disbeliever, and focus instead on keeping your feet firmly upon the Path as our Lord requires of us all!

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54:1-8
1. The Hour of Judgment is nigh, and the moon is cleft asunder.
2. But if they see a Sign, they turn away, and say, "This is but transient magic."
3. They reject the warning and follow their own lusts but every matter has its appointed time.
4. There have already come to them Recitals wherein there is enough to check them,
5. Mature wisdom;- but the preaching of Warners profits them not.
6. Therefore, O Prophet, turn away from them. The Day that the Caller will call them to a terrible affair,
7. They will come forth,- their eyes humbled - from their graves, torpid like locusts scattered abroad,
8. Hastening, with eyes transfixed, towards the Caller!- "Hard is this Day!", the Unbelievers will say.

6:109
They swear their strongest oaths by Allah, that if a special sign came to them, by it they would believe. Say: "Certainly all signs are in the power of Allah: but what will make you Muslims realize that even if special signs came, they will not believe"?

29:50-51
50. Ye they say: "Why are not Signs sent down to him from his Lord?" Say: "The signs are indeed with Allah. and I am indeed a clear Warner."
51. And is it not enough for them that we have sent down to thee the Book which is rehearsed to them? Verily, in it is Mercy and a Reminder to those who believe.

Dave Roberts - As a born again Christian, I read your answer with interest, Muhammad. You have correctly quoted Jesus’ rebuke to those who sought only miracles, instead of what He was sent to the world to deliver; forgiveness of our individual sins. The following story from the Bible illustrates the point;

“And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city. And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.”

And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.” But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.” And he rose and went home. When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.”

Muhammad Rasheed - Hi, Dave. Thanks for reaching out.

As a Muslim, I have to disagree with your assessment of why the Christ was raised up among us. His mission was no different than that of all of the other prophets of Abraham’s Lord, from Adam to Muhammad, may peace be upon them all. Their sole job during their lifetimes was to preach God’s Word; to instruct us in scripture and wisdom. That’s it. They held no special authority to perform any aspect of Allah’s Divine Duties, they were only the messengers of what Allah revealed to humankind.

I will also use your biblical story to illustrate my point. Jesus’ job wasn’t to forgive us of anything. As the prophet, his job was to pass onto us the scriptural message revealed by his Lord that told us about the tool of repentance, and then instruct us in how to perform it correctly. Each believer has been instructed in what to do in order for their sins to be forgiven. It is written, that we must believe in the One God, repent of the wrong, and use faith, courage & integrity to do it no more (“Amen”). Do this, and Allah promised that the sin would be thrown into the Sea of Forgetfulness, and it wouldn’t be mentioned at all on the Day of Judgment. The Christ didn’t have the authority to forgive the man’s sins, but as one of the anointed master teachers of sacred scripture, he certainly held the ability to evaluate a believer to tell whether he had performed the repentance ritual correctly. The tale said that Jesus “saw their faith,” which means he saw that they — like the rich young ruler in the other tale — knew the rights and rituals of the Word from of olde and knew what to do. So upon confirming that all was right, and the paralytic was in compliance to the Word’s requirement, the Christ was able to comfort him and let him know that yes, “your sins are forgiven.”

The lesson is that we have the revealed scripture of our Maker among us, and we have the knowledge we need to be saved if we but study to show ourselves approved. The age of the prophets has come and gone, and the One God of Abraham confirms that they did indeed perform their earthly duties excellently. Now it is our duty to know what we are commanded to know so we may stick to The Straight Path and please God.

Thank you so much for an interesting topic, Dave. Peace.

Dave Roberts - You seem like a man who’s desire is to please God, Muhammad.

The Fundamental Sin of Racism

Q: "Are racists who believe in the God of Abraham saved by grace?"

Muhammad Rasheed - They will be saved only if the Day of Judgment finds that their righteous deeds outweigh their evil deeds, per the requirements of the One God of Abraham.

One of the requirements for passing the Final Judgment and winning through to paradise is one must "love the next life more than this life." That means, the believer must have faith that the next life is the eternal perfect realm that God promises, and long for it more than what your senses tell you to the knowing certainty of the material life you hold NOW. You do this by establishing regular charity, and setting aside a portion of the bounty God has provided for others less fortunate. In other words, the believer proves Belief in the Afterlife by not being attached to any of his or her possessions, and does not have a problem "letting go."

For the racist, this poses a dilemma. The systemic racism of Western Civilization is based upon the materialist's hoarding monopoly of wealth & power for the dominant rule of elites among the European ethnic groups under the banner of White Supremacy. The foundational philosophy and ethic of the West is the subjugation and exploitation of the poor and non-whites to uphold the White Supremacist Ideology that a handful of white legacy families benefit from in particular, and the majority whites benefit from as tickle-down residue. The refusal to let go of this "whitopian" system's racism, and for preventing the African-American from building wealth over generations by using terror and grifter confidence scams built into national policies, the racists at all class levels prove that they prefer the sinful man-made "heaven" on earth that benefits only them over the promise of God's heaven.

Whether the compounded force of this race-based selfishness sin will be enough to prevent those who willfully support systemic racist from entering paradise remains to be seen. Somehow they seem to think that being nice to all the cutest animals will be enough to cover over their many atrocities committed against their fellow humans so they can personally live the high-life, but this doesn’t seem very likely. Remembering the Christ's instructions to the rich young ruler, I would think they will be rebuked. The wealthy ruler admitted that he had kept the commandments "since he was a boy," so Jesus (peace be upon the messenger) told him he had to give up his wealth. In doing so he would both amass enough good deeds to outweigh his evil, and he would also prove that he held no attachment to the material realm that outweighed his love for God's promise. As you may recall, the rich young ruler refused to give up his wealth and preferred hellfire. The situation with the modern day racist is the same in their refusal to cease their subjugation/exploitation of the Black race, and their refusal to pay them Reparations for economic-based wrongs both old and new perpetually committed upon them in the last 500 years.

Using logic and reason in an analysis of the material, I cannot see how the racist would be saved at all, but of course only God knows best.

"You're Trying to Kidnap What I've Rightfully Stolen!"

DiDi Delgado - So WHAT I don't like to hear the truth. I don't like getting my period every month but I bet you I'm grateful for that shit once it's done and over

DiDi Delgado - I think you can not like something and still need it to survive

DiDi Delgado - That's the title of my next poem-- I'm in an abusive relationship with the truth

Muhammad Rasheed - *stolen*

Muhammad Rasheed - *starts new career in poet-ness*

DiDi Delgado - How you gonna tell me in advance you're stealing something

Muhammad Rasheed - IT'S IN THE PAST, DIDI!!!

Muhammad Rasheed -



DiDi Delgado - I can't stand you

DiDi Delgado - Now you have to make me one

Muhammad Rasheed - What do you mean...?

With MY new poem title??? Get your own.

DiDi Delgado -


via GIPHY


Muhammad Rasheed - OKAY FINE!!!!

DiDi Delgado - Thank you! Why am I excited why is about to be my next profile picture

Muhammad Rasheed - wow. no pressure or nuthin.'

Muhammad Rasheed - (how the hell am i going to get those eyes on one sheet...?)

DiDi Delgado - 

Muhammad Rasheed - lol
Muhammad Rasheed - Here... (you can borrow the poem title from me, DiDi.)