Muhammad Rasheed's Blog, page 209

"APOLOGISTS ASSEMBLE!"

Muhammad Rasheed – [shared meme]


Muhammad Rasheed – Whites make up the rules as they go along. It's different for them. Somehow none of the crazy shit in this asshole's past, nor his murder of several praying church folk, rate him being called a "thug."
"He wasn't a 'thug/terrorist.' He was just pissed! You don't understand!"
You all make it easy to hate, I understand THAT.
I remember all the hateful evil shit you said Mike Brown "must" be because you saw a pic holding money and a gun. But this racist murdering asshole, with his manifesto, and armed pics standing in front of racist "heritage" sites means he was just 'sick' and worthy of mercy and gentle coddlings till he takes his widdle nappy-nap. Right.
I'm starting to think you're performing like this on purpose because you want us to rage out at you, with a violent "enough is enough" attack. It pisses you off that the survivors' family forgave this asshole, doesn't it?
Douglas E Pendleton - Funny thing was that pic with the money was not even Mike Brown.
Muhammad Rasheed - lol They don't give a shit. They still call him a "gang banger." Do you think they care about facts?
What about any of these cases... the dialogues that come in their aftermath... make you think those people give a shit about facts?
Muhammad Rasheed - All they care about is for you to shut up complaining when they abuse you, bow down to them as lords of the earth, and eat the bullshit narrative they feed you. If you are not doing that, then you are a "race baiter." Or whatever other ignorant bullshit they spew.
Douglas E Pendleton - Man I know they don't.
Jay Mac - They're calling Dylan a child?
Say WHAT?!
Muhammad Rasheed - Muss up his hair and smile fondly when he walks by in his widdle buwwet-proof vest...
Rick Drew - He's not called a thug because that's hardly strong enough. Mass murderer would be perfect.
Rick Drew - I've looked everywhere - I can't find a single reference to him as a child. Plenty of sites using the same "bio" mentioning his "path from a child" - but none calling him a child.
Muhammad Rasheed - The reference comes from the Twitter author's discussions with the apologists.
Dee Anne Moore - Who are the "they" that are not calling him by a proper title..
Rex May - The left just makes stuff like that up. Elsewhere, somebody's saying that the media called Trayvon a thug. It did nothing of the kind, but the left likes feeling indignant, so they make things up to feel indignant about.
Muhammad Rasheed - It was the arguments with the pro-Zimmerman crowd who insisted that Trayvon was a thug because he was wearing a hoodie sweater. Zimmerman admitted on stand that he stalked and killed the boy based on racial profiling. A jury of his peers felt that was reasonable.
Muhammad Rasheed - And I'm not "the left."
Ricky Mujica - That pic of Michael Brown holding money and a gun turned out not to be Michael Brown. Go figure!
Candid Camera: Image depicts Mike Brown posing with a gun and holding money in his mouth?
Ricky Mujica - Mo. cop under review over fake 'Michael Brown' Facebook photo: report
Dee Anne Moore - I get frustrated because words that my generation and others have used with a particular meaning..have been co-opted and now have a totally different definition. For most of my younger years...'gay' meant happy....'fag' meant a cigarette, and 'thug' referred to anyone...usually a guy who is bullish, uncouth and disrespectful to others...thieves and scoundrels...too...but no specific ethnicity...just male...
Chris Rullestad - Your rhetoric makes things worse Rasheed
Muhammad Rasheed - Is that right? And here I thought it was the deliberate reinforcement of this asshole's white supremacist hateful mentality by the mainstream that made things worse, but now I find out that it was actually me.
Hm.
So the last time I wrote something like this was the reason this asshole killed those people. Wow.
Help me figure out how to use my powers for good, Chris.
Muhammad Rasheed - Rex May wrote: "The left just makes stuff like that up. Elsewhere, somebody's saying that the media called Trayvon a thug. It did nothing of the kind, but the left likes feeling indignant, so they make things up to feel indignant about."
THIS is the rhetoric that makes it worse, Chris.
Muhammad Rasheed - Denying and covering racism even while it is continuing to be committed. That's what makes the situations worse. Your idea that me getting mad about it is making it worse is ridiculous.
Muhammad Rasheed - There's no other way of interpreting your comment, Chris, except as a "shut up and take the white supremacists' abuse" stance. If you have another explanation for your comment, please submit it for analysis.

Chris Rullestad - I'm specifically referring to this particular mass murder after the fact.. My response to you had nothing to do with what you had written previously. When you look at how the people in SC, especially the victims loved ones are handling this horrible crime it should be obvious, why your inflamed rhetoric is not helpful here.

Muhammad Rasheed - How they are handling it is personal. They have a personal stake in it as well. Their forgiveness stance is of a religious position made potent by their direct tie to the pain of the tragedy. I'm not close enough to reap the benefit of it.

Is my inflamed rhetoric worse than the racist mess that Roof picked up his own stance from?

Chris Rullestad - I hope not

Muhammad Rasheed - lol Of course it isn't. You're saying that I'm not allowed to get outraged when these historic tragedies are inflicted upon my people. That you're more comfortable when we just bow our heads and silently take it.

I will never respect that attitude coming from a white person. In fact, it actually enrages me further and makes me hate. Please stop doing that. It does not help.

Muhammad Rasheed - I'm 100% serious.

Your job is to preach to your own people to stop pretending that racism doesn't exist, and to tell them it is time to stop abusing Black Americans and other minorities. You don't HAVE a message for me, other than status reports on how your message to your own people is going.

Choose Life Over Death

Muhammad Rasheed - "There's another side! There's always another side!"
Of course. There's righteousness, truth & peace versus white supremacy.
Choose.
Ekari Ekari - "Just to play devil's advocate..."
Ekari Ekari - "But you aren't looking at the facts."
Muhammad Rasheed - The fact is, you love your own people and lack any kind of empathy for anyone else. And you do it to the point of psychosis.
Empathy constrained: Prejudice predicts reduced mental simulation of actions during observations of outgroups ~Inzlicht
Ekari Ekari - "You're sorta being emotional right now, so it's hard to take your point seriously."
Muhammad Rasheed - I express emotion towards you abusing my people, which you lack in every way when you are killing them. You can't take me seriously because when I express outrage that you shot a 12 year old playing with a toy, you literally look at me like I expressed outrage at you shooting a rock.
Ekari Ekari - #derailment
Muhammad Rasheed -   >:(
Radi Lewis - Lol...I need this convo on a Tshirt like yesterday.

Lincoln & The Willingness to Change

Muhammad Rasheed - Today is 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and seems like a good time to dispel some common historical myths:
Myth: The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery and freed all Black people who were enslaved
Truth: The Emancipation Proclamation signed on January 1st, 1963 stated that slaves were to be freed in rebellion states. The proclamation did not address slavery in the Border States that did not secede from the union. Although, the proclamation went into effect on January 1st, it was largely unenforceable and many millions of Black people were still in bondage. In fact, in the state of Texas, Black people were still enslaved until June 19th, 1865, a full two and half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Myth: Abraham Lincoln was an abolitionist or an anti-racist.
Truth: In 1858 Lincoln said the following: “I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races—that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
He also said this:
“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.”
Myth: After the Emancipation Proclamation and the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment, Black people were given the right to freedom, right to citizenship, and the right to vote.
Truth: After the passage of 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment, states and localities passed heinous laws to not only restrict and prevent Black people from exercising their right to vote or enjoy the rights of full citizenship, but they even passed laws to legally re-enslave Black people. The 13th amendment does not outright end slavery it states that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
So in addition to the horrible practice of sharecropping, states passed laws to convict and arrest Black people of all kinds of ridiculous violations such as “selling cotton after sunset” and then placed steep fines for the crimes. (Read “Slavery by Another Name” by Douglas A. Blackmon) If they couldn’t pay the fine, they were sold leased to private businesses as laborers (i.e. slaves). This practice of convict leasing persisted until the 1940s and 1950s. I would also like to remind people that the current, racist criminal justice system as Michelle Alexander writes in her book “The New Jim Crow” is creating a literal caste system in the United States in which Black and Brown youth are being arrested at extraordinarily high rates and placed in a permanent underclass. Most shockingly, there are currently more Black people in the criminal justice system then were enslaved during the height of slavery in the United States.  ~SOURCE
Akil Fahd - It's posts like these that leave me so confused when we disagree on capitalism well the fact we on probably agree on 90% of things gives me solace
Muhammad Rasheed - Read this and you should understand my stance on the vilification of capitalism better:  McCarthy's War
Akil Fahd - I'm neither a socialist nor communist , I believe in personal property and profit it's interest, and exploitive nature that I have a problem with. That's another topic for a later time right now let's discuss how dead on point you are with this status
Muhammad Rasheed - Akil Fahd wrote: “I'm neither a socialist nor communist , I believe in personal property and profit it's interest, and exploitive nature that I have a problem with.”
It doesn’t have an exploitative nature. PEOPLE have an exploitative nature. The reason we disagree on this issue is because it is impossible for me to take seriously an effort to redefine a concept to fit someone else’s bs agenda that you have taken ownership of. The vilification of capitalism in that specific way comes directly from Karl Marx. His ideology is one of the parents of the Communist Party, who spent decades infiltrating the civil rights movement and other deep community systems that were dear to the hearts of the Black Diaspora. The result is that today we are still repeating that claptrap because it was indoctrinated into our cultural speak, passed down through the last few generations. 
Once again, it is the INDIVIDUAL that brings his own evil to the system. The system is not inherently evil. The chattel enslavement of a race, colonialist conquering and et cetera are not the inevitable results of practicing capitalism; they are the inevitable results of practicing white supremacy and asshole-ism. Stop repeating that bs. There’s a whole sub-demographic among the Black Community that are not pursuing Black Business, Black Empowerment, Black Economic Independence precisely because they believe “capitalism is evil and is the white man’s construct, etc.” because that’s what the enemy WANTS them to believe. To him, your attempt to achieve Black Empowerment is an act of war, so he brainwashed you to hate it. Capitalism is your friend.
Akil Fahd wrote: “That's another topic for a later time right now let's discuss how dead on point you are with this status”
I didn’t write it, I’m just sharing and building up my own understanding.
Dave Stephens - So Lincoln never changed his mind? 
@Muhammad Rasheed, do you know of his writings and speeches after 1858? I am no Lincoln expert, but I would wager that his writings and speeches after that point might contain new knowledge about his attitude toward slavery…
Muhammad Rasheed - Feel free to post them, Dave.
William Satterwhite - Abraham Lincoln’s Attitudes on Slavery and Race
Dave Stephens - I read it all. A common thread on that article supported by massive evidence was that Lincoln's attitudes changed as he understood and experienced more and met leaders of the emancipation movement...
Muhammad Rasheed - Thanks, Dave and William. Now I have a much better understanding of why President Obama considers Lincoln to be his favorite president. Like Malcolm X, once he knew better, he did better. I also have a great respect for that mindset.
Dave Stephens - You have a fine mind, Muhammad Rasheed - you are blessed with humility and that makes you a great person to discuss things with...
Chris Rullestad - This thread reads like a history lesson. Good job Rasheed. Imagine, one day you're a slave with a shack to live in and some food to eat. My son tells me that bar- b- que was invented by the slaves, when you think about it it seems obvious. Receiving lesser cuts not to mention offal that the master didn;t want. So here you are, free at last, walking down the dirt road with your family and friends carrying over your broken backs your meager possessions not knowing where to go but knowing wherever you go you will be hated and disrespected. Umm... I'm sixty and have bad feet and a bad back. Could I have my shack back please? So thanks to the young black men of that era ( the oldsters couldn't do it) alot of progress has been made thanks to hard work, will, and sacrifice.
Chris Rullestad - Not enough attention is paid to how difficult life was for these folks following their so called freedom. Jubilee my ass...
Riley Freeman - Abraham Lincoln never cared about the slaves, he wanted to cater to his voters. Roosevelt didn't create welfare to help blacks, he only did it for the benefit of European immigrants. And Kennedy didn't care about the civil rights movement, he wanted more pussy and knew this would help make young panties drop.
Jeremy Love - Abraham Lincoln evolved greatly on race and he was committed to fully integrating former slaves into society by the middle of the civil war. You only have to read his correspondence with Fredrick Douglass which paints a picture of a man struggling with he moral question of equality. In the end he earned Douglass' respect and admiration. It is unfair to say he never cared about blacks.

The Language of War

Muhammad Rasheed – [shared toon meme]


Muhammad Rasheed - Careful. You might get labeled a "kook" by a random Facebooker. That shit'll follow you the rest of your career. Oddly, if you direct the charge back at the random Facebooker it will only be "alleged" kookiness. It's in the manual. Look it up.
Pat Giles - This seems obvious to me and not at all radical. Why the hell won't they say it's "terrorism?"
Muhammad Rasheed - Because they are not trying to sabotage their carefully crafted agenda.
Pat Giles - I thought it was outright funny that the initial reaction on FOX was that this was an attack on "religion." It's like they are holding their hands over their ears and going "lalalalalalalalalalalalalalala"
Muhammad Rasheed - If the GOP wins the White House next year (and Jeb will sell his soul to do so), they have every intention of cranking the war machine back up. It's very important that the language exclusively used to describe their intended enemy-victim continues to point in that direction.
Rick Drew - I can see both sides of this. It was not done in the name of a "group" and he was not member of any group. He did it because he was pissed off. If someone launches an attack in the name of XXX, I'd say terrorism. If someone does it because they are nuts, etc, it's mass murder. However, any attack with the intent of causing "terror" can be consuidered a "terrorist" attack.
Rick Drew - But if you go by the definition of terrorism... "the unlawful use of force or violence, committed by a group(s) of two or more individuals"
Muhammad Rasheed - terrorism[ter-uh-riz-uh m] noun1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.
http://dictionary.reference.com/
Muhammad Rasheed - Rick Drew wrote: "It was not done in the name of a "group" and he was not member of any group."
Did you read his manifesto?
Rick Drew - The dictionary definition is not the same as the one the government uses, or is accepted as the "official" meaning of domestic terrorism.  Domestic terrorism in the United States (Wiki)
Muhammad Rasheed - The one you quoted was from a 1994 FBI memo. It has since been changed, under The Patriot Act, to include "(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended— (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States."
There is no such "two or more" limitations in the current definition so defined. Note how the Wiki article you sited considers Theodore Kaczynski a domestic terrorist?
Pat Giles - Rick, I think it's definitely part of "group think" for an extreme point of view. The Tsnarnaev brothers were acting in the service of a larger idea, and not necessarily a particular group, but the label f terrorism wasn't questioned. Oklahoma city was definitely terrorism, too. I think we tend not to see gun related tragedy as "terrorism." He definitely had a "political" goal, dumb as it was.
Bar Barian - I have no problem call it terror, likewise the same goes for that whackjob soldier who wiped all those people out in Texas.

Seeing the Enemy

Muhammad Rasheed - Since 2002, Right-wing White Terrorists have Killed More Americans Than Muslim Extremists
Muhammad Rasheed - smh. Hey, wasn't someone just arguing with me about how it was impossible to take me seriously when I compared the "dumb hick" with ISIS? Well, I guess the joke's on me since the dumb hicks are a hell of a lot more dangerous to the American people, huh?
Todd Holland - Ammosexual, inbreds have ALWAYS been more deadly, but they're White and Whites won't let other White people be seen as monsters...
Todd Holland - Can't be a psycho and be supreme.
Christopher Glenn - Rasheed yes them hicks are way more dangerous because they could be living next door you would not even no do not under estimate the enemy under your nose
Rick Drew - If you read the stats, they're counting almost every murder and assault on "right-wing terrorists..."
Tony Steed - Right wingers are the problem EVERYWHERE!
Robin Knight - Rebellious People are those who are " Spiritually Dead" it is written their likeness is unto "DEADWOOD "
Muhammad Rasheed - Technically the children of Israel were rebellious when they defied Pharaoh and left Egypt.
Robin Knight - No, Sweetheart they were not rebellious against THE MOST HIGH OVER ALL OF THE EARTH JEHOVAH GOD! Our Father released them from their oppressors hand who held the whip! The Pharoah Of Egypt.
Muhammad Rasheed - I know, I was just messing with you.
Robin Knight - Be clear! We were led by JEHOVAH GOD! OUR Father appointed Moses, strengthened Moses and Aaron with his commandments! Pharoah rebelled against his word and Our Father's Supreme Authority as a result many plagues ravished the Egyptian Land and JEHOVAH GOD destroyed their first born!
Muhammad Rasheed - They destroyed their own first born by deciding not to bow down to the One God who made them.
Chris Rullestad - Lol. I remember watching this kook Cenk Uygur on MSNBC. He was too radical even for them. I think it's funny how you site this guy as if he's a credible source of information. No bias here, nope, none what so ever. Next you'll probably be quoting Brian Williams
Muhammad Rasheed - What makes him a "kook," Chris? Because you disagree with him? Are you suggesting that I should defend right-wing terrorists because Chris Rullestad thinks Uyger is a "kook?"
Chris Rullestad - I don't know why he's a kook. Maybe you should ask him... and for me to suggest you should be defending right wing terrorists would be rediculous
Muhammad Rasheed - So he's a "kook" just because? You labeled him a kook and you expect me to take ownership of it just because Chris Rullestad said so?
You came here using a genetic fallacy, attacking the guy who wrote the article to discredit him. That was your contribution to this thread, remember? So if you you want to ruin his credibility, that means you are for what he is against. Why else would you come here for the sole purpose of smearing Uyger's credibility by arbitrarily labeling him a kook?
Muhammad Rasheed - What do you want, Chris?
Chris Rullestad - I didn't ruin his credibility, he did that himself with the things he would say on his show. Like I said previously, he was too much of a radical even for MSNBC. What do I want? Nothing. I'm just stating my opinion. I'm certainly not trying to change your mind. All we can do is clarify our position and move on.
Muhammad Rasheed - Your position thus far is that we shouldn't listen to this guy because you consider him a radical kook. In the article he sites the Police Executive Research Forum to support his claims, but that doesn't matter because you think he's a kook.
Muhammad Rasheed - The PERF data explains that more Americans have been killed by right-wing domestic terrorists than by Muslim extremists, but you're dismissing it because someone you labeled a kook sited it.
Muhammad Rasheed - Is this reasonable to you?
Chris Rullestad - Yes, that's pretty much it. I think I surprised you with the fact that I'm familiar with Cenk. And by the way, next time you call me out, site someone with more credibility.#peaceout
Muhammad Rasheed - Whoa! Get back here!
Chris Rullestad - Look at the time. I Gotta go to bed.
Muhammad Rasheed - Literally all you did was come in here and call that guy a name. Why in the world would you think I would take that seriously as if your raw, unsupported opinion alone would mean anything to me?
Muhammad Rasheed - What the heck?
Muhammad Rasheed - So YOU say he has no credibility because you disagreed with some stuff he said, and that means no one should take him seriously?
Who do you think you are supposed to be exactly? lol
Muhammad Rasheed - Chris, you are the one acting like a kook.
Chris Rullestad - I accept that as your opinion
Chris Rullestad - Peace out~The alleged kook
Muhammad Rasheed -  >:(
Muhammad Rasheed - I not going to let you drive me crazy today, rullestad. go draw some cartoons.

Changing Minds

Riley Freeman – [shared photo]


Riley Freeman – I fully agree.
Janine Rodenhiser - AGREE!
Muhammad Rasheed - Who did you kill, Riley?
Riley Freeman - Has this or has this not been an ongoing issue that never seems to cease?
Muhammad Rasheed - lol An ongoing issue with whom? I know certain folk like to use it as a weird kind of a defense whenever I get mad at racism-based killings, but what is it supposed to mean exactly?
It SEEMS like it's supposed to mean that only black people have homicides among their own communities, but that's retarded. They CAN'T mean that, can they?   :)
Riley Freeman - I'm not using it as a defense. And if you believe that I am, then I have to wonder why all black lives don't seem to matter. I don't just get mad at race based killings of black people. I get mad at the unnecessary loss of ANY black lives. I believe that sites that open promote what are no less than what I would call "Nigger fights" ands think they should be shut down. I refuse to post videos where black people are beating the shit out of other black people while others stand by taping worn their phones do that they can run and upload it for the world to see rather than trying to intervene and stop it. Do white people beat the shit out of each other and kill each other? Yes. Do I give a shit about them killing each other off? No. I care about MY people. Period.
Muhammad Rasheed - Riley Freeman wrote: “I'm not using it as a defense.”
Not you, the individuals among a certain race who get defensive about certain topics.
Riley Freeman wrote: “And if you believe that I am…”
No. You just seemed to buy in to that version of the narrative. I won’t know why until we have a discussion about it and you open up your thoughts.
Riley Freeman wrote: “…then I have to wonder why all black lives don't seem to matter.”
It’s just an illusion, based upon buying into that other guy’s misdirection attempt to take the spotlight off of his stuff.
Riley Freeman wrote: “I don't just get mad at race based killings of black people. I get mad at the unnecessary loss of ANY black lives.”
You’re implying that I only get mad when outsiders kill my own. There are three types of black homicides that I can see off the top of my head: 1) killings from white racists 2) killings from opportunistic criminals 3) killings from domestic crimes of passion. The second type of homicide is normal if you live in a poor community. In anybody’s poor community. When I lived in those communities, of COURSE I would get mad, but why would I treat it like it was a situation that ONLY the black poor dealt with? I would think that way if I was a racist and believed that blacks were inherently criminal minded. The number three category happens to people of all ethnic groups and races, no matter the socio-economic status. Ask Phil Hartman from SNL fame. The first category makes me angry because that creature is my natural predator who believes he knows me, but does not know me, and he attacks and kills me because of what he thinks he knows. He makes me furious because he is absolutely my enemy.
Riley Freeman wrote: “I believe that sites that open promote what are no less than what I would call ‘Nigger fights’ ands think they should be shut down.”
The low brow white poor watch their own version of the same thing with their “drunk hobo” fights. All races and ethnic groups have their ‘low culture’ class that like low life shit. I get more irritated at the implication that ONLY poor blacks do this stuff than I do at the material itself. 
Riley Freeman wrote: “I refuse to post videos where black people are beating the shit out of other black people while others stand by taping worn their phones do that they can run and upload it for the world to see rather than trying to intervene and stop it. Do white people beat the shit out of each other and kill each other? Yes. Do I give a shit about them killing each other off? No. I care about MY people. Period.”
And what will you do to change the mentality of the black poor’s low brow mentality? How would you fix such a thing? Something like that would require more than simply education, Riley. It would take a RADICAL form of indoctrination.
Riley Freeman - I do what I can sir. It may not be allot, but I will still try what I can. Like I said, I refuse to help share those videos because they hurt my heart and piss me off more than anything. When people on my friends list share them I ask them not to and tell them why. I talk to young black men when I get a chance to try to help at least get through to one. It ain't much, but is something. Every little penny in the jar counts.
Muhammad Rasheed - I certainly hope you plant some seeds that help them cultivate a new mindset.
Brandy Winkler - Well silly me, I think ALL lives matter. I dont agree with violence against any race. Just because I am white it does not mean that I only care about the lives of other white people and to say that I do would make me racist and that is where the hate begins
Muhammad Rasheed - My problem is with the people who say "AllLivesMatter," but when a young black teen is killed over a trivial or imaginary offense ("he looked threatening") they immediately begin conjuring reasons why it was "probably" necessary because of what the child "probably" did in the past because of the "all blacks are inherently criminals" stereotype.
Brandy Winkler - I agree with that
Riley Freeman - But Muhammad Rasheed, this post isn't about ALL lives mattering, it's about all BLACK lives mattering.
Brandy Winkler - But you Riley Freeman said that you only care about your people period. So you are saying that the other races dont matter to you.
Muhammad Rasheed - Riley Freeman wrote: "But Muhammad Rasheed, this post isn't about ALL lives mattering..."
I know, I was responding to Brandy's first sentence.
Muhammad Rasheed - Brandy Winkler wrote: "But you Riley Freeman said that you only care about your people period. So you are saying that the other races dont matter to you."
I interpreted that as meaning he's only responsible for his own people, not that he wants everyone else to die. lol
Brandy Winkler - We are all responsible for one another regardless of skin color. I am against violence to any race against any race. We need to stand together and stop the violence
Muhammad Rasheed - I hope you didn't think he meant that because he cares about his people, it automatically means he's declaring war against another? The "BlackLivesMatter" movement means that the Black American is protesting the mainstream institutions' callous disregard for Black Lives, demonstrated almost weekly.
Muhammad Rasheed - Brandy Winkler wrote: "We are all responsible for one another regardless of skin color. I am against violence to any race against any race. We need to stand together and stop the violence"
We do that by starting at home, Brandy. First we turn around and clean up the mess behind us. When we turn around and look at each other again, you'll find that the world is better, and we are now ready to work together to build an even better Peace.
Muhammad Rasheed - I cannot help you fix your historical mess, when my own house is messy, and you cannot come clean up my house, when your own house is messy. First we take care of our own houses. Then we come together and clean up the neighborhood.
First thing's first.
Riley Freeman - I'm saying that by Jews strengthening their community from within, they have prospered. Hispanics use community strength to come up. Same with Asians, people from the middle east ands so forth and so on. The black community used to have this kind of unity but have become splintered and distracted over the years. While black women did indeed have a dog in the fight for women's rights, they should have stayed the course for our own rights first. And to be honest we should not be at the head the fight for gay marriage when we aren't where we need to be ourselves. We need to strengthen and rebuild our community to be strong against those who transgress and plot against us. Because, as long as we stay splintered and divided, it makes it easier for predators to pick us off.

A Model for Success: Life Done Correctly

Arianna Alexander worked hard to graduate as a valedictorian with a 5.1 grade point average from Kenwood Academy. She additionally put a lot of effort into raking in over $3 million in scholarships. Now, she can go to college free from financial worries.
“I feel like it means I can afford college and I don’t have to worry about it. I feel like that’s an issue for a lot of people my age,” she said, according to WLS news.
Arianna, who is from Hyde Park in Chicago, has received acceptance letters from 26 universities, six of which are Ivy League schools.
“It was a lot to take in. I received emails, letters. It was just like, ‘Come here, come here!’ They were bombarding me with all this information,” Ariana explained.
She said that her family played a major role in encouraging her to set scholarship goals, especially her father, Pierre Alexander. After he learned that another student from Kenwood had won $1 million in scholarships, he knew that Ariana was able to do the same.
“I planted the seed in Arianna’s mind that you can do the same thing. So when the process got started and a million was achieved, let’s go for two. I said let’s go for three and she did it,” Pierre said. “My wife and I have always stressed to her, if you do your best, you will be the best. So we try to make sure she upholds to that.”
He added that Arianna’s three older siblings have already gone through college, so now he is relieved that his youngest will be able to continue her education without financial burdens.
Arianna says that she has never forgotten the inspirational words her father told her that has kept her going: “Work hard, pray on it, and don’t give up. No matter what happens, you did your best.”
“So as long as you work hard, I feel like there is always a way for you,” Arianna said.Her career goal is to be an entrepreneur and own four restaurants, something that she is already working on, as she has been planning the menus. But first, she wants to learn about business.
One of her teachers, Paul Brush, talked her into going to the University of Pennsylvania so she can enter the Wharton School of Business.
“As teachers, we have a big moment to play with the lives that we have in our classrooms,” Brush said.
Through all of Arianna’s success, her family has been supportive of her, and they assure that this will never change.
“We expect bigger and better things for her,” Arianna’s father said.

Muhammad Rasheed - This is what my real Black leaders act like.

Guerilla in the Midst: The Agenteur

Muhammad Rasheed - "I like yo eyes. Dey so pretty. You got that GOOD hair. You should be president of this chapter."
Milton Davis - 'She ain't white! She high yellow!'
Radi Lewis - Im done with both of yall..LMAO
Kristopher Michael Mosby - Forget that Red Nation crap, I'm laying out and soaking up as much Sun as I can this year!!!
Muhammad Rasheed - Better hurry up.
Muhammad Rasheed - We gone be checkin' papers in a minute.
Jerry Lee Brice - It's like arctic type of temperatures up in Spokane,Washington when I was forced to spend couple of days there, and frankly, they are lucky to have at least somebody up there trying to be black, because i ony saw one black person there for hundreds of miles..and that was me, and i could not stand it past 48 hrs...
Muhammad Rasheed - lol @ "and that was me"
Muhammad Rasheed - What did they need that chapter there for then? Because Rachel found the Affirmative Action application?
Jerry Lee Brice - Who knows,..but one could think that if you are in a city where the black folks make up only 1.9 percent of the population there, they probably are getting dissed, and need some sort of lobbying in their favor, because i ca not see any scenario for theblack vote at those numbers ever being significant enough to care about...so, they will need the aide and assistance of the NAACP and more, or we will be watching the cops there beat down black folks like in Ferguson, missouri, another small town..so, got to think about being totally underepresented in every way in your town.
Muhammad Rasheed - Comes across more like a 'keeping them in line' org, all things considered.
Muhammad Rasheed - Let me see your papers, John. Something's fishy about you.
Muhammad Rasheed - Recite "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," too.
Jerry Lee Brice - You could look at it cynically like that, or positively as i stated...but in reality, you could say that about EVERY organization in existence that represents the causes of any given people, or physical affliction, and of course sex..so it's just something that can be surmised to simply be a judgement of organizations, good or bad, but has nothing to do with the particulars of that any organization actually does.  It's more like a prejudgement of social organizations...kind of closed minded somewhat.
Muhammad Rasheed - Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "You could look at it cynically like that, or positively as i stated..."
Nothing motivates me to give them the benefit of the doubt. They need to try harder. I'll pass out another report card after they kill another unarmed black next week.
Jerry Lee Brice - ...face it, religion keeps people in line, and is used as crowd control.That's what you need to fight, not social organizations fighting for the rights of any particular group...including the one we belong to via our race.
Muhammad Rasheed - Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "...face it, religion keeps people in line..."
Who is being kept in line with religion? Does White Jesus keep white people from slaughtering innocents? Does it keep their savage racism in line?
Muhammad Rasheed - Hm?
Muhammad Rasheed - The NAACP was founded to nullify Booker T. Washington's "Do for self" message. I am not surprised at all to find a fraudulent white woman pretending to be black in that chapter's post. In fact, I expect nothing good from the NAACP. They like to pretend Thurgood's successes were THEIR success, meanwhile they really tried to get him to sit the fuck down somewhere.
Muhammad Rasheed - Fake pro-black org, pretending to have my back, designed from the BEGINNING to kill the message I really needed, and LOOK! Surprise! Look what we found!
Muhammad Rasheed - "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Muhammad Rasheed - Sure. "Religion" is the problem.
Right.
Muhammad Rasheed - W.E.B. Du Bois was an atheist, and his NAACP was full of shit.
Muhammad Rasheed - Religion was the fuel that backed the Civil Rights Mission that got that act passed. I can fucking VOTE because of the efforts of the Black CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jerry Lee Brice - Tell the truth, you are against these organizations for whatever reason...but the NAACP was founded with white people, and being black has never been a requirement to run it...You got white friends NOW, probably work for white folks, do business with them...
Muhammad Rasheed - But that pagan ass 'Talented Tenth' bullshit, from a fucking atheist, leads directly to this white woman!!!!!!!
There's your talented tenth right THERE!!!!!!!
Muhammad Rasheed - But, sure. "Religion is the problem."
Right.
Jerry Lee Brice - Religion is the opiate of the masses...
Muhammad Rasheed - Right.
Muhammad Rasheed - lol smh
Jerry Lee Brice - ...it's just that you agree with religion, and you choose to not agree with social organizations like the NAACP..so that's that.
John Crosby - Um I'm just real light skinned. Real real light skinned.
This whole situation is....still don't have the words for it. Smh
Muhammad Rasheed - Black Church = Civil Rights Act
NAACP = Deliberately sabotaging Booker T's "Do For Self" program
Jerry says: "You like religion and hate the NAACP because of magic."
Muhammad Rasheed - Right. "Just because."
Muhammad Rasheed - Stop fucking with me, Jerry. Is this revenge for the Pacquiao thing? I told you he wasn't going to win!
Muhammad Rasheed - Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "It's more like a prejudgement of social organizations...kind of closed minded somewhat."
This is a strawman. I have a beef with just ONE "social organization." The one designed specifically to nullify the efforts of one of my most effective black leaders in history. 
Your blind faith anti-religious stance is the very definition of "close-minded" since you are conspicuously ignoring the fact that the Black Church was the leading entity in getting the Civil Rights Act passed. How do you justify your "religion is the opiate" comment now? Oh, that's right... by conveniently ignoring it. Don't call me close-minded again.
Jerry Lee Brice - Not at all, i just like trying to negotiate and follow a argument fighting itself.I don't follow your devorion to a religion, yet you seem to clown others similar devotion to a social organization?..and if you are religious, you may have heard that satan is the author of confusion, and confused loyalties and priorities...i just see religious organizations as being on the same level as any social service organizations..  And i like white people, have issues with people of every color..so i can't follow what you feel about white folks, because i can't follow the logic.
Muhammad Rasheed - This isn't a matter of not liking white people. Aren't they the first ones to point out that not all the members of a given group are all bad? Who doesn't know that?
My beef is with the ones who ARE bad.
Muhammad Rasheed - John Crosby up there didn't shoot any black kids buying some Skittles. I have no reason to hate him.
Muhammad Rasheed - This is yet another strawman.
Jerry Lee Brice - By the way, i am a follower of a religious organization, i just don't wear my religion on my sleeve...like i see other's are wont to do.  i just live it...
Muhammad Rasheed - Does the religious text you claim to follow point blank tell you to preach the message like both the bible and Qur'an do? If so, then you can't claim to "live it" can you?
Jerry Lee Brice - ..and I also understand the church is viewed by the government to be a not for profit organization, under the same tax code as all religions here..so there is a vast similarity in these organizations...
Muhammad Rasheed - The church or the NAACP?
Muhammad Rasheed - There's a similarity in all organizations in which people gather for mutual benefit.
Jerry Lee Brice - I am not impressed by men who publicly proclaim their religion...that's your personal issue, as it is mine...but the business of the organizations religious or social are viewed as the same by the government.  THe only thing a person has to do is agree with the mission of the church/social group and champion their causes..
Muhammad Rasheed - Jerry Lee Brice I am not impressed by men who publicly proclaim their religion..."
Well, why is that important? So?  GOD... the Supreme Creator of the universe... said to preach His message. WHO ASKED YOU if you were impressed by it or not? 
I mean really.
Muhammad Rasheed - Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "that's your personal issue, as it is mine...but the business of the organizations religious or social are viewed as the same by the government.  THe only thing a person has to do is agree with the mission of the church/social group and champion their causes.."
Okay, so you want to downplay the fact that it was the religion that brought these people together to fight for this cause, because it 100% destroys your nonsense philosophy of it being an "opiate." Somehow the religion part wasn't at play, amIright?
Muhammad Rasheed - Right. lol
Muhammad Rasheed - "Magically religion didn't have anything to do with it that time because it messes up my personal philosophy."
Jerry Lee Brice - I did not say that anyone asked me, i just stated that, as you stated a lot that i never asked..all I can say to you for the additional information, is thank you for that.You see, some of our religions do teach us social grace....because when we argue, fuss and fight over these personal issues, we are only singing praises to satan...because I believe that is satanic...but there again, religion, pretty personal....
Muhammad Rasheed - So, God said... "Preach my message to mankind," while Jerry says, "If you preach God's message to mankind (making me uncomfortable personally) it means you're really worshiping satan."
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm... which one should I take seriously...?
Jerry Lee Brice - ..as i se it.you choose to beleive in a religous doctrine, and on the same note, you choose to disagree with the doctrine and mission of the NAACP...but let's be clear, it is all a choice to believe,...or not.But the groups pretty much serve a similar purpose...
Muhammad Rasheed - lol
Muhammad Rasheed - The mission and doctrine of the NAACP was to sabotage Booker T. Washington. Knowing my people's history is why I take that stance.
I would be a fool to subscribe Al-Islam to the mission of the NAACP sabotaging spyring.
Jerry Lee Brice - I believe that to Prosthelytize is satanic...that is what my religion teaches me...and my family, so i tend to view these type of public displays as satanic.i am aware that some religions teach the exact opposite, i just do not believe in those religious practices...
Jerry Lee Brice - On the other hand, a social organization publically proclaiming and fighting for their mission and cause, is a good thing.that's what they are set up to do...
Muhammad Rasheed - Jerry Lee Brice I believe that to Prosthelytize is satanic..."
Which is literally the exact opposite of what God said about the matter, and of course, anything that is literally the exact opposite of what God said, is by definition "satanic."
Please stop pretending that you "live" God's tenets when you documented yourself throwing them in His face.
Muhammad Rasheed - Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "On the other hand, a social organization publically proclaiming and fighting for their mission and cause, is a good thing.that's what they are set up to do..."
You need to learn Black History, sir. I'll wait for you to catch up.
Muhammad Rasheed - The KKK also "publically proclaiming and fighting for their mission and cause" so and?
Jerry Lee Brice - That's the problem, you are reading from s different bible than me, which is a free choice..our religion does not believe in public demonstrations of our religion, more about living the life and being an example to draw men to our beliefs, rather than diss others in their beliefs, which is what most religions do.
Muhammad Rasheed - Before Jesus ascended into heaven he gave his followers this reminder, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” Luke 24:47-49.
When Jesus reminds his disciples that repentance would be preached to all nations he was telling them to convert others from their way of thinking to his. The word repentance (“metanaeo” in the Greek) means “to change one’s mind.” In Acts 2:38 when Peter called the crowd to repent he was challenging them to change their view completely about who Jesus was and why he came to earth. He was no mere carpenter turned rabbi turned revolutionary. He was Christ (aka “the Messiah”) and Lord (aka “God”). As a result of Peter’s proseltytizing efforts there was a mass conversion of 3,000 men on the spot.
SOURCE: Proselytize: 3 Reasons Why Christians Can't (and Shouldn't) Stop(The Christian Post)
Jerry Lee Brice - Standing up for the rights and respect in society for a specific group is all good....publicly.  The other, beating folks over the head with a personal religious belief, will send folks running away from you...imo.BUt, i believe in the teachings of our church elders, and I can see, that when a person publicly beats his chest about his personal religious beliefs, ..is not only arrogant, egotistic, but is does nothing to draw men to god.at.all...
Jerry Lee Brice - ..again, you assume we are reading from the same bible...it's not helpful to assume all religions are to be viewed from the perception and frame of your own.
Muhammad Rasheed - That's the bible. A Christian on the bible. That's not Islam.
Muhammad Rasheed - lol
Muhammad Rasheed - YOU just demonstrated an assumption. NOW what?
Muhammad Rasheed - Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "Tell the truth, you are against these organizations for whatever reason..."
Actually, I am interested in getting to the truth, the bottom line of why you are here. Are you upset, and here to defend the honor of this woman because you hooked up with her when you passed through that town? Is that the issue? "Stop talking about my woman?"
What's REALLY going on?
Muhammad Rasheed - This is personal, isn't it? Tell me.
Muhammad Rasheed - Or is it as simple as you saw her picture in the article and said, "She cute. I ain't mad at her! I would hit. She can be MY president! Sheeeiiittt!" and now you are upset and defending her from that standpoint? 
Tell me.
Muhammad Rasheed - Why are you here arguing with me truly? Because nothing you have said so far has made a lick of sense, and is noticeably fact devoid. This isn't a real debate. Why are you defending this woman, Jerry?
Tell me.
Muhammad Rasheed - Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "BUt, i believe in the teachings of our church elders..."
And I believe in GOD and His commands for mankind that His worshipers may prosper according to His promises. Is it your "church elders" who told you to hate and reject the bible's instruction on proselytizing?
Good luck in following those people straight to hell. The bible told you one thing, but these people told you another, but you believe you are on the right path?
And you have the NERVE to tell ME who 'religion' is "keeping in line???" 
I follow God while you follow MEN, while nearly tearing your own arm off to come here in defense of this fraudulent lying person. WHO has she helped in that community? WHO? 
Other than herself to a position of "president." I'm sure she was proud of how THAT looked on her over-inflated resume when there were 7 black people in a 200 mile radius...
Jerry Lee Brice - No never personal...I see that you assume all religions are reading from the same text, and with that, i doubt if it's worth putting in time to try to convince you otherwise on line, so...if we meet each other, i will take you to church with me!LOl..other than that, i have stated my religious belief on public demonstrations and pronouncements of a faith as being satanic and divisive, and you have stated your personal beliefs on this topic...which I get.  ...now you may understand somewhat my reactions to people who constantly pronounce their religion in public...and how I perceive that...if you ask or not.  i do see that action as being satanic, as it only causes public discourse and division...
Muhammad Rasheed - Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "No never personal...I see that you assume all religions are reading from the same text..."
Tell me which translation you prefer. I have them all on speed dial.
Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "...with that, i doubt if it's worth putting in time to try to convince you otherwise on line..."
So you admit you've been proselytizing even though you believe it's the devil's work, eh? You're adorable. Anyway you're not going to convince me of anything when you revealed you don't have foundational knowledge of the topics we're discussing. Convince me from what basis?
Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "i will take you to church with me!"
A California church? Does the preacher wear tie dye? [skeptical]
Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "i have stated my religious belief on public demonstrations and pronouncements of a faith as being satanic and divisive..."
I remember. Those were the ones that were literally the exact opposite to what God said about the subject, which would make you the devil's imp. Congratulations. You made it. lol
Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "...and you have stated your personal beliefs on this topic...which I get."
I said that I prefer to believe what God revealed over what you and your mysterious 'church elder' cult said. 
Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "...now you may understand somewhat my reactions to people who constantly pronounce their religion in public...and how I perceive that...if you ask or not."
Yes. People are not used to strong arguments over those topics, and they make them uncomfortable. Their gut reaction is to scream for everyone to just shut up talking about it. The feeling is called "cognitive dissonance" when the discomfort comes from the argument shaking your flimsy belief system and you don't have a way to respond. Burying your head in the sand is actually typical. I'm a bit disappointed because I hold you in high regard as a pillar in the professional community I love, but I'm not surprised at this stance of yours. Over the years I've only encountered one true religious scholar who actually gave me a run for my money. I'm still on my quest to find another. 
Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "i do see that action as being satanic..."
lol It doesn't matter.
Jerry Lee Brice wrote: "...as it only causes public discourse and division..."
I cannot help those who are repulsed by the Word of God. I respect and support those who courageously embrace those concepts that challenge their intellect and make them uncomfortable, because doing so makes you level up by knowing yourself better. Cowardly running from new ideas that sting isn't worth coddling. 
From anybody.
Jerry Lee Brice - Muhammad,..there are many versions of the Christian bible...which one are you quoting text from, as opposed to the one I follow?
Muhammad Rasheed - Tell me the one you prefer and I'll post the bible's commands to proselytize from THAT one. Easy.
Muhammad Rasheed - I always use the King James Version by default, but I have them all at my disposal. Which one does your 'church elder' cult use?
Muhammad Rasheed - Please tell me the 'church elders' didn't write their own damn bible... grumpy emoticon
Jerry Lee Brice - I don't talk publicly about my personal religious beliefs, other than to rarely mention that i do have them...as i believe that to Prosthelytize is satanic.Arguing this point the way you seem to want to do, in my view is satanic.
Muhammad Rasheed - Stop calling God's instructions "satanic" for the sake of your own soul, please. Thanks.
Jerry Lee Brice - LOL..an ad hominem disparaging my personal religious belief's!LOl...okay man!LOl..
Muhammad Rasheed - You don't have to tell me about your beliefs, just tell me which translation you like to use.
Muhammad Rasheed - (why is this so damn difficult...?)
Muhammad Rasheed - YOU'RE A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS!!!!!!
Muhammad Rasheed - NO WONDER YOU'RE TRIPPIN'!!!
Jerry Lee Brice - ..going down that path will ultimately end up as i stated at the beginning of this, all it will do is divide me from you.   At this point, all i can say is that I respect your personal choices, and if you disrespect mine, that's on you.I will not join you in that sentiment...
Muhammad Rasheed - Me: "What's the big deal about telling me what translation he prefers... OMG!! Because he uses an unusual one!! Which means...!"
Muhammad Rasheed - lol I'm not going to disrespect you. I'm just going to comb through your book and quote God's commands to proselytize so you'll feel low. That's all.
Jerry Lee Brice - I see...
Muhammad Rasheed - Seriously. You can take it.
Muhammad Rasheed - You're tough. You live in CA and actually rooted for Pacquiao to win like a dummy.
Jerry Lee Brice - When i was younger, the muslims used to come in front of our church and prrotest the artwork we had inside of our church..so, i see nothings changed with ya'll...so, it is what it is...
Muhammad Rasheed - If you can live through THAT bullshit you can survive a discussion with M. Rasheed.
Muhammad Rasheed - Jerry, I'm an artist. You read my books! Stop trippin' and tell me which translation you use.
Muhammad Rasheed - STOP STALLING!! hahaha
Jerry Lee Brice - ...all we did was serve them water, and if they accepted, lemonade from our church kitchen.
Muhammad Rasheed - I promise I won't make fun of it. I swear.
Muhammad Rasheed - Dude, I LOVE lemonade! See we're practically kin!
Muhammad Rasheed - Just tell me!
Muhammad Rasheed - It's that Mormon book, isn't it?
Jerry Lee Brice - Oh, i'm not stalling, i am just not going to participate in arguing a religious belief with any man in public, as it goes against my religious beliefs, practices, and teachings...as I have stated above a couple of times... Muhammad Rasheed - (i'm pretty sure they're allowed to proselytize tho)
Jerry Lee Brice - No, we are not, as that is viewed as satanic.We look at that as praying and singing praise3s to satan.
Muhammad Rasheed - Okay fine. we don't have to have a discussion about it, just tell me which translation you like so I can admonish you with it, and then we can go home.
Muhammad Rasheed - That's all.
Muhammad Rasheed - YOU SAID "WE!!!!" YOU'RE A DAMN MORMON!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Muhammad Rasheed - HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Muhammad Rasheed - did you vote for romney? you had to, didn't you?
Muhammad Rasheed - OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JERRY'S A MORMON!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Muhammad Rasheed - IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Muhammad Rasheed - hahahha I'm just kidding.
Muhammad Rasheed - You can be a Mormon, bro. It's cool.
Muhammad Rasheed - [whispers]holy shit!!![/whispers]
Jerry Lee Brice - I mentioned it at this point in our relationship, because you seem to not undrrstand that I do in fact hold relgious belief's that you may not be familiar with, who knows.nd thought FYI. you might like to know how I perceieve you or any man of any racetrying to argue and preach your own religous beliefs to other people...I just see that as satanic,that is what i was taught, and more importantly thatn that, it is what I truly belive to be so.
Muhammad Rasheed - I heard you the first time. I don't believe it for myself because it conflicts with God's command, but if that's your thing then we're good. At first I thought you just made it up and was going to continue to clown you, but now that I know it's actually your doctrine, i'll let it go (until I find out it says different in your mormon book).
Muhammad Rasheed - (then the clowning will commence because you lied to me)
Muhammad Rasheed - (you better not)
Jerry Lee Brice - LOl!...if you clown me or not, I always have my hand extended to you my brother...and bottom line, if your religious belief's make you happy and are working for you in your life, then I am happy for you.Because you are my brother.
Muhammad Rasheed - Okay, I'm coming across a lot of contradictory info regarding Mormons and proselytizing. Are you in a sub-group that doesn't allow it?
Jerry Lee Brice - I am not a mormon...
Muhammad Rasheed - YOU SUCK!!!
I was all excited! lol
Muhammad Rasheed - I was totally going to bag & tag you to add to my collection...
Muhammad Rasheed - I KNOW you're not a Witness because everybody in the universe knows THEY proselytize. You can't lie to me on that one.
Muhammad Rasheed - Tell me what your thing is. Pleeeease!
Muhammad Rasheed - I'll be good. I promise.
Muhammad Rasheed - PLEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!
Muhammad Rasheed - California... defending super-liberal white people... 
...cartoonist... worked for Disney... frowns upon proselyz...!
Muhammad Rasheed - HOLY SHIT YOU'RE A JEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Muhammad Rasheed - ADMIT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Muhammad Rasheed - OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!
Muhammad Rasheed - JERRY'S A JEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Muhammad Rasheed - ::faints::
Muhammad Rasheed - Meh. I already have Jews in my collection. At least eight of 'em.
Muhammad Rasheed - *throws jerry back in the water*
Muhammad Rasheed - Hm. I don't have any BLACK Jews though.
You can stay.
Muhammad Rasheed - *tries to remember if you 'Liked' any of my Sammy Davis, Jr. posts*
Muhammad Rasheed - Okay! That was exciting & interesting!
Speculation time!
Muhammad Rasheed - Why would a Jew frown upon proselytizing? hmmm... the answer is obvious. In fact, they actually try to discourage folk from joining. A Jew converting to another religion is probably also highly frowned upon... probably as serious as it is in Islam... so of course to witness people proselytizing would be bad to them (the work of "satan"). "Church elders" would be the rabbis, who have a special authority outside of the Torah and their Talmud, so it also makes sense why Jerry would lean towards what they say over what the Book says. The modern Muslim community tends to do that over the "scholars" and sheikhs, too, so I'm already familiar with that mindset. 
Now how would Jerry be a Jew? He's been in the high-level cartooning community his whole life. He's actually a prodigy. The Jewish culture values those traits a great deal, and with Jerry's high-level talent and work ethic, honed at one of the best art schools in the world, they wouldn't have a problem inviting him into their close-knit fold.
Muhammad Rasheed - #solvedIt
Jerry Lee Brice - LOl!..that was some funny sh-t man!You are crazy!?!LOl..
Muhammad Rasheed - Elementary, Watson.
Clifton Hatchett - Fard Muhammad immediately came to mind.
Muhammad Rasheed - I don't think Fard did the 'Black Like Me' routine. He just used a front man.
Clifton Hatchett - 


Radi Lewis - Hey she was like "shit! im doing so much for the black community, why not be black?!" Most folks called Bill CLinton the first black president and all he had to do is smoke some weed and play some jazz.
Muhammad Rasheed - Radi Lewis wrote: "Hey she was like 'shit! im doing so much for the black community...'"
Like WHAT?
Radi Lewis - Like pretending to be black. I don't know if you know but this shit is exhausting.
Muhammad Rasheed - hahahaha

The Women Proposing to Men Trend

Muhammad Rasheed - I don't think women proposing to men is a good idea in general, just like I don't think men having multiple wives is a good idea in general. Sure there are situations, or the right couple, that can make it work, but I personally suspect that the two genders are hardwired for the man to go after the woman and prove to her that he wants her and will fight for her. I think -- in general, psychologically -- they BOTH need that. If the guy doesn't go after her in that way, and doesn't go through the work to earn her, and bring her into his life through our cultural rituals, then he will have a higher chance of taking her for granted and cheating on her. In certain fundamental situations, it is absolutely not a good idea to hand something valuable to someone without them making SOME effort in proving that they deserve it. This is definitely one of those situations. And really the last thing men need is to have their culturally pre-programmed, patriarchal society sense of entitlement cultivated further by getting this handed to them for free on a silver platter.
As examples, I present Halle Berry's first two marriages. In both cases, it was Halle who went after David Justice and Eric Benét. She said she was a big fan and thought they should be together and the guys agreed. The problem with that is that, during the time period, Halle Berry was one of the It Girls™ of her generation, so her initiative did nothing more than blow these guys' heads up and make them think they were God's Gifts to women on earth. And they promptly acted accordingly, thus, double divorce. That's not to say that women shouldn't praise their men, or let their man know that she thinks he's attractive and such, but there's a way it needs to be done. If you approach some guy in a way that basically amounts to you performing like a lowly handmaiden begging for the attentions of a monarch, you will get your feelings hurt.
Now it's possible that the women proposing to men trend, in catching on, can possibly change the way we are hardwired, and it actually becomes normal. But I think there will be a lot of crushed and broken hearts along the way as the pioneering women use their own lives to change that paradigm.
Lionell D. Parish - Agreed
Akil Fahd - I don't think the two issues should be conflated
Muhammad Rasheed - which two?
Akil Fahd - women proposing to men and men having multiple wives
Muhammad Rasheed - I'm not saying they are the same, just that neither represent an ideal situation. God said it is best to only have one wife, so obviously multiple wives is not the best situation. Women proposing to men isn't a sin, or inherently wrong, I just don't think it is the ideal situation for a desired long-term commitment.
Muhammad Rasheed - Now that you mention it, I suppose it is possible – despite God point blank telling us that one wife is the best situation – that there are many "scholars" and sheikhs and what have you, who love the idea of having multiple wives so much, that they use their abusive religious authority to convince a generation of Muslimahs that it really is a good thing to be a 'sister wife,' creating a bunch of women who go around proposing/begging to be part of some dude's broke harem. If this is the case, which I'm starting to suspect it is, then the two items actually should be conflated and addressed on the same platform.
Akil Fahd - LOL

Jay Mac - The second wises man to ever walk planet earth had 100's and 100's of wives and concubines. And in the end, he came to the conclusion that it was all meaniningless.

He regret that he didn't obey his God...

Muhammad Rasheed - Who was the first wisest?

Jay Mac - Yashua........

Muhammad Rasheed - Why do you think King Solomon the Wise (peace be upon him) didn't obey his Lord?

Jay Mac - He was warned not to get involved with all of those foreign women. He was warned that they would turn his heart away from God. And the more he indulged, the MORE he indulged.

Solomon said that he tried everything under the sun. I don't exactly know what that entails, but I can imagine that there was no sin he didn't try.

LOL!

Muhammad Rasheed - The Qur'an gives a very different account of Solomon's character, and says that he was an upright man of integrity, whose impeccable reputation for high wisdom came directly from his obedience to his Lord. What you describe sounds more like the gossip from rival tribe scribes that made its way into the book.

Jay Mac - Naaaaa.

God blessed Solomon with great wisdom, but even the most wise amoung us can fall prey to sinful desires...

Muhammad Rasheed - Jay Mac wrote: "Naaaaa."

Saying "naaaaa" is like saying "naaaaa" to Yeshua's message confirming and fulfilling the message of Moses before him.

The prophets demonstrated to mankind that it is possible to stick to the path of God and live righteously. Those who follow the doctrine of 'original sin' are the ones who believe in the tales that the prophets did all kinds of filthy sins. The Qur'an came to set the matter straight. The prophets upheld their end of their covenant with God and were righteous examples for us all. I must reject your tale of Solomon as a falsehood. It's true that he could have fell prey to the temptations that affect us all, but God said he remained steadfast, and chose to stick to the Path. Therein is much wisdom for those who believe.

Jay Mac - So you're saying that you don't believe that Solomon practiced sin and did all the things that was written in the Ecclesiastics?

Muhammad Rasheed - No. God said that Solomon was upright and the most righteous, and was why He bestowed upon him the special favors He did.

The people in the rival tribes of Israel, just as people do in the modern day, invented all kinds on nonsense gossip that they said the king did, without any certain knowledge, and that gossip was passed along with the bible tales as if it was fact. When the book was finally written down by the scribes, all of that nonsense made its way in, too. It conflicts with God's final message and thus, I reject it out of hand.

Jay Mac - Well I guess we have two different accounts of what happened to Solomon.

According to my interpretation (2 Chronicles 1:7-11, YHWH blessed Solomon with wisdom because he asked for it in order to be a better leader to Israel. It had nothing to with how righteous Solomon may or may not have been...

Muhammad Rasheed - Do you think He would've gave it to him if the prophet-king WASN'T obedient and on the righteous path as he was required to be for his station?

Muhammad Rasheed - How could he be a "better leader" by not being righteous?

Muhammad Rasheed - Can the prophet-king of Israel be wise and not be righteous by way of following the commands of the One God of Israel?

Jay Mac - Yeah, he was obedient at the time that wisdom was bestowed upon him. Sure?

I mean, David slept with Uriah's wife and then had Uriah killed to cover up his sin. Did YHWH NOT know that David would sin BEFORE he made David king of Israel?

Muhammad Rasheed - Did you not hear me when I said I reject that foolishness? lol

Jay Mac - Ok.

Well I guess there's no need to go any further.

LOL!

Muhammad Rasheed - In the Qur'an, God clears His messengers of the falsehoods the People of the Book subscribe to them in their corrupted scripture.

Muhammad Rasheed - Especially the one where they claimed the messenger was God's son.

Muhammad Rasheed - The Final Message sets everything to right.

Karla Holland - The women proposing to men seems to only be happening among black women and the loser men too loser to propose to them. Even feminists expect a guy to propose. The multiple wives thing, I'll get back to that.

Marc Keelan-Bishop - My wife proposed to me. 13 years and going strong. I think it depends on the mental maturity of those involved.

Marc Keelan-Bishop - I'd say it's just as likely that these marriages last longer because they start from a position of surprise and not taking things for granted. In the absence of stats, we're both guessing. (I also hyphenated and took my wife's name)

Muhammad Rasheed - I think in many cases, the guys were taking things for granted, based on the "I get all the milk I want, so why should I buy the cow?" concept. This is why the woman felt she HAD to propose in order to get what she wanted, because she was tired of hinting, asking and telling.

Marc Keelan-Bishop - Perhaps. Some day someone will do a statistical comparison.

Jay Mac - Yo!

Very interesting commentary, doc.

Very interesting...

The Worst Racist Attack

Muhammad Rasheed - Every Serena Williams win comes with a side of disgusting racism and sexism
Muhammad Rasheed - I find it personally difficult not to hate when I read this stuff under normal situations. These kind of attacks on Serena (and my FLOTUS) make me feel hatred far worse than over the white cop killings. I have zero desire to reel it in. Fuck those racist assholes. And that Whitlock guy I would cheerfully set the fuck on fire and dump in a grave full of his own piss and tears...
"Integration," huh? Yeah, okay.
Muhammad Rasheed - [finds myself actually thankful that there were no comments under this article i would've been masochistically compelled to read, which no doubt would've inflamed my rage into joining ISIS, or some other batshit crazy group]
Muhammad Rasheed - 

Rick Drew - They should be banned. They are too damn good. Nobody else has a chance.  :P
Muhammad Rasheed - *lights a match under rick*
Ricky Mujica - Probably the best female player of all time and all they talk about is her looks? So stupid and silly.  Personally, I think she's beautiful! Muhammad Rasheed, he's not so pretty. Lol!
Tony Steed - Lol that end of racism tho...>.>
Tony Steed - Muhammad Rasheed wrote: "I find it personally difficult not to hate when I read this stuff under normal situations. These kind of attacks on Serena (and my FLOTUS) make me feel hatred far worse than over the cop killings. I have zero desire to reel it in. Fuck those racist assholes. And that Whitlock guy I would cheerfully set the fuck on fire and dump in a grave full of his own piss and tears...  ‘Integration,’ huh? Yeah, okay."
 I agree.
Christopher Kuhn - I remember they used to accuse Navratilova of being secretly a man or being too manish. Some men are just intimidated by women with athletic prowess.
Ricky Mujica - That was the Eastern European woman stereotype. I remember that too. They used to call any Eastern European woman a man.
Chris Rullestad - I can't think of any US athlete going back forty years who makes me more proud
Muhammad Rasheed - 

Cortney C. Warner - Muhammad Rasheed...you the real MVP!!!!
M. Kate Sutter - I hate Whitlock.
Muhammad Rasheed - That was my first encounter with him. My face was screwed up the whole time I read that part...
M. Kate Sutter - Check this article. It's long but detailed. 
How Jason Whitlock Is Poisoning ESPN's "Black Grantland"
Muhammad Rasheed - Whitlock: “Some black people are far more comfortable answering to a white person than a black person no matter how black they like to pass themselves off to be."
Ironic, considering how much his toxic Serena opinion came straight from the dripping stankin' rectum of the most diehard white racist.
Jay Mac - Wow?!
Jay Mac - Serena's got way too many black men that are crazy about her, to pay attention to some lonely, self loving, neanderthal racist troll.....
Muhammad Rasheed - I would never consider a black man that would make such comments to be "self loving."
EVER.  Fuck Stephen.
Jay Mac - Stephen?
Stephen who? And what did he say?
Muhammad Rasheed - Sam Jackson's character in Django was named "Stephen."
Jay Mac - LOL!
Ok, gotcha...