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Rich Watson - Review of Monsters 101, Book One

 

April 6, 2008
Monsters 101, Book One: From Bully to Monster
M. Rasheed, story and art
Second Sight Graphix

Review by Rich Watson

A grade school bully gets recruited by a clan of monsters to lure kids to them for food, but one girl who sees the potential for good inside the bully makes him question his self-worth. This was a submission in this year’s Glyph Comics Awards that didn’t make the final cut, a reprint of a collection originally published in 2004. The creator, M. Rasheed, is a regular at the BlackSuperhero.com forums. It looks like it was originally done in installments, either pamphlets or maybe online. It’s 150 pages, so you’re getting a good amount of story here.

Monsters 101 is hella violent. Now my generation grew up with Tom & Jerry and Road Runner reruns on Saturday mornings; however, we also had GI Joe, where elite American soldiers and international terrorists constantly took shots at each other and never got hurt; and sanitized Japanese imports like Battle of the Planets (AKA Gatchaman) that didn’t have anywhere near the level of violence as their original incarnations. Generally, I believe kids can handle cartoon violence, especially when the victim is someone who deserves it (Elmer Fudd, Sylvester, Wile E. Coyote, etc.). That’s not the case here. In this book, horrible things happen to kids who don’t deserve it, and we get to see it on-panel. Now, some of it is the kind of violence that defines characters in important ways, like the pivotal scene between Pugg and Katina about two-thirds of the way in. It’s shocking, but at the same time it’s necessary to see. (It’s also difficult to talk about without giving away spoilers.)

I question, however, whether we need to see an innocent kid get ripped apart by two hungry monsters who proceed to eat him. From the get-go, we know these monsters want to eat little children. Does it serve the story better to actually see that happen on-panel, or is it better to imply the act – say, have the monsters drag the kid off-panel and cut to reaction shots of Pugg and Katina as they see the deed done? Bad things do happen to good people in kiddie stories sometimes (Bambi’s mom, Simba’s dad, etc.), but I believe creators of all-ages stories have a responsibility to remember their audience when they craft scenes like this, even when it involves fantastic, unreal elements like monsters. And if I were a parent and I saw this scene, where we see the kid’s blood and intestines spill out all over the place (NO JOKE), no way am I letting my kid read this book.

In addition to the violence, the language in Monsters 101 is inappropriate. More than a few “damns” and “hells,” some “bastards,” at least one “son of a b*tch,” and “frig/frag/frik” is a little too close to the f-word for my tastes (Pugg says “motherfragger” at least once). This is a particular shame because there’s a decent, if familiar, beauty-and-the-beast-style redemption tale underneath the profanity, although it ends with the death of a character I didn’t want to see die – especially since this book is the first in a series.

The design of Pugg and the way Rasheed depicts him throughout the story is wonderful. (Pugg reminded me most of a kiddie version of Sal Buscema’s Hulk! Seriously!) From the way he lumbers through the school halls, to the way he grimaces at schoolteachers and scowls at opponents, and especially to his protective and genuinely affectionate manner towards Katina, Pugg visually comes across as a fully formed, three-dimensional character, and I give the creator props for that. One can quite easily determine his state of mind from the pictures alone. The design of the three monsters falls somewhere between Maurice Sendak’s Wild Things and Pixar’s Mike and Sully – goofy and slightly eerie without being really scary. I think Rasheed overdoes it on the shadows, though. In places it looks like nothing more than a scribble of the brush to indicate light and dark without making any sense, and it doesn’t look professional. And why isn’t Katina on the cover, especially given her pivotal and proactive role in the third act?

I wish I could recommend this book, but the liberal use of profanity, couple with certain scenes of gratuitous violence (did I mention Pugg’s six-page, no holds barred fight scene that ends with Pugg bashing his opponent’s head in with a rock?), plus several misspellings in the second half, leads me to conclude that this isn’t the best book for kids to read. C

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Son of Batey

 

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Q: Why are African-Americans treated differently in the US?
Truth And Common Sense Warrior - You assume in the question that black americans are treated differently. They are treated like everyone, according to the content of their character. It's no one's fault if they wish to follow their gangsta lifestyle, get arrested, then play the victim. We all know who commits the highest amount of violent crime and racist hate crimes. Even devil Farrakhan knows that,’ cause he promotes and incites it.
Muhammad Rasheed - Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “You assume in the question that black americans are treated differently.”
Your profile name says you are a “truth warrior,” yet the well-documented truths of Black Americans being discriminated against and economically excluded from society seems to have missed you. The obvious question is why did you respond to this question when you possessed such a clear knowledge deficit and were not qualified to speak on it at all?
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “They are treated like everyone, according to the content of their character.”
Not so. The dominant political identity group routinely economically discriminates against Black Americans, continuing the tradition started at the beginning of the slave era when the enslaved Africans were permanently, and unfairly delegated to a hereditary chattel bondsman class by law, continuing the discrimination through the jim crow period up to now in the era of mass incarceration. The “content of their character” line ironically references a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose brutal assassination is what signaled the end of the Civil Rights Movement, not any enlightenment by the white populace. In fact, their behavior only got worse, even on the liberal side.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “It's no one's fault if they wish to follow their gangsta lifestyle, get arrested, then play the victim.”
The so-called “gangsta lifestyle” was established by the CIA when, on the orders of president Ronald Reagan, pumped crack into the Black American community and radicalized the youth into hyper-violent trafficking gangs in order to siphon out the little bit of manufacturing wealth to fund the Contras war. Blaming the artificially-impoverished victims for the effects of a multi-billion dollar U.S. government long-con is evil and on-brand for your group.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “We all know who commits the highest amount of violent crime and racist hate crimes.”
Do we? I know I do (hint: racketeering corrupt white businessmen, white politicians & their blue collar lackeys), but your true knowledge is covered up by your partisan-flavored, propagandist nonsense.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “Even devil Farrakhan knows that,’ cause he promotes and incites it.”
Despite his personal flaws, and the treacherous flaws of his organization, Farrakhan’s efforts to call out the evils of white supremacy neither promotes nor incites the crime our own complicit US gov established.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior - You also assume that it’s okay to follow the example of a sexually perverted pedophile ( muhammed the prophet of islam, or the drug dealer Fard Muhammed) tyrant whose message continues to promote murder and rape of non- muslims. Your name is his name. Your ghetto mentality is why you addressed me with your lies. Suddenly the cia has domination of the actions of individual people? That has got to be the most low iq bs I have heard in years. ( how much crack did you smoke before professing pisslam?) How did you get to that level of stupid? Sounds like your mind perversion is condoned by a race baiting degenerate named devil Farrakhan. Just send your islamic white killing spaceships (1500 of them plus a mothership🤣🤣)to come and get me. My god, you people are the propietors of a sadistic joke. When will people wake up? You can match me on any level because I can tear you to pieces in a debate. I know who you are and how you think. I also can debunk your crack pipe fairy tales. I come from the school of Anton Batey, a decent black person that helped debunk your racist ghetto cult. With me you have no chance of winning in a debate. Zero!!!
Muhammad Rasheed - Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “You also assume that it’s okay to follow the example of a sexually perverted pedophile ( muhammed the prophet of islam”
You obviously don’t know anything at all about the religion of Al-Islam. You used the term “debate” at the end of your juvenile, profane tirade, which is comical. Is this how you flex your “truth & common sense” powers? I find both your warrior’s heart and your intellect lacking.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “or the drug dealer Fard Muhammed)”
I’m not in the NOI. Never have been.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “tyrant”
Where’s your evidence that the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was a “tyrant?” Do you even know what a tyrant is?
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “whose message continues to promote murder and rape of non- muslims.”
lol In what way does Islam promote that exactly? Let’s see your evidence. Throw down your rod.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “Your name is his name.”
Proudly.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “Your ghetto mentality”
lol And just where did I exhibit a ghetto mentality? Copy/paste it so we can analyze your claim together.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “is why you addressed me with your lies.”
Again, at the end of your tirade above, you curiously used the word “debate.” Be so kind as to provide your evidence that objectively proves that the historical events I referenced were “lies,” if you please.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “Suddenly the cia has domination of the actions of individual people?”
This is a strawman effigy fallacy. The Reagan administration directed the CIA to attack and economically oppress the entire group—not just the individual—the same way they radicalized youth in foreign lands to destabilize sovereign nations on behalf of megacorporate. That they did this to U.S. citizens is a disgrace and clear treason, but people like you dismiss the evil because you are an anti-Black American racist. Shame on you. You didn’t even ask for my proof, you just defaulted to childish name-calling and calling the claims “lies” without any kind of intelligent query. Please note that neither ‘truth’ nor ‘common sense’ work like that, “warrior.”
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “That has got to be the most low iq bs I have heard in years.”
Should I be surprised that you are unaware that the so-called intelligence quotient was debunked and proven fraudulent by scientists? I’m not.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “( how much crack did you smoke before professing pisslam?) How did you get to that level of stupid?”
So far, you haven’t typed anything that suggests you are intelligent on any level. I have noted that you are racist, xenophobic, willfully ignorant, uncouth and profane. This is demonstrably the sum total of your claimed “truth and common sense.” I haven’t given up on you though. You may just be having a bad day. I’ll give you a chance to bring your A-Game.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “Sounds like your mind perversion”
Apparently, you believe my mind is perverted for no other reason than because I don’t blindly parrot biased, partisan-flavored rhetoric like you. Is that supposed to mean something to me? You’ll need to present verifiable facts to fill your shallow and delicate “truth” title you wear—which appears to be made of tissue paper. lol
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “is condoned by a race baiting degenerate named devil Farrakhan.”
I’m not in the NOI and I’m not a fan, but if you’re suggesting that Farrakhan is somehow a lower human being than any random money-worshiping, politically corrupt, filthy celebrity name on your side of the ideological aisle, then you must be mentally ill. You just don’t like the idea of ANYONE sticking up for the Black American former slave class ethnic group, whom you despise.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “Just send your islamic white killing spaceships (1500 of them plus a mothership🤣🤣)to come and get me. My god, you people are the propietors of a sadistic joke. When will people wake up?”
None of this means anything to me. I’m an orthodox Muslim who follows the Qur’an and the way of the prophet (pbuh). That means I claim no divergent sects of any kind.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “You can match me on any level because I can tear you to pieces in a debate.”
Can or can’t? I’ve frankly seen nothing yet to suggest you even know what a debate actually is. I’ll give you the chance to prove yourself though. En garde.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “I know who you are and how you think.”
lol Clearly not. But you’ll find out soon enough if you can at least manage to not be a coward.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “I also can debunk your crack pipe fairy tales.”
No, you can’t. So far, you’ve only blindly vomited political talking points that aren’t backed by anything of substance.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “I come from the school of Anton Batey, a decent black person that helped debunk your racist ghetto cult.”
Really? You mean this clown here whom I destroyed in a 2017 debate, shamed him into deleting his “Proof the Fard/Einstein Debate is Fake” video on YouTube and posted his trouncing up on my trophy wall:
[DEBATE] W.D. Fard Muhammad vs Albert Einstein | Followed by M. Rasheed vs Anton Batey
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “With me you have no chance of winning in a debate. Zero!!!”
Well, if you’re supposed to be Batey’s protégé or whatever, be so kind as to read through our battle and pick up where your slain mentor left off…
…if you’re able. ;)
Truth And Common Sense Warrior - You’re blatant ignorance assumes too much. The racist ghetto cult you are in is bashing what little brain you have left. Get your real name back, not the one of a goat screwing pedophile. You exposed yourself big time when you called yourself Muhammed Rasheed. I knew you were NOI right away. You people ignorant beyond all logic, and hideously evil to boot. You don’t know the freedom you could have by dumping that worthless cult. As if islam weren’t bad enough, you subscribe to a racist ghetto cult which is a second generation cult of the original cult. All of it is BULLSHIT. I lived in the middle east for 3 years. Had you taken a little time to do your homework instead of becoming a ghetto forged bigot of a racist cult, perhaps you wouldn’t have had waste yoyr life in the street selling the “final call”. What a fucking joke that is. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Gotta be a true mindless twit to fall for that bullshit. Next thing you’re going to tell me that a black scientist created the moon by placing high explosives in the earth 66 trillion years ago. Dude, you are a joke by choice. You choose to surround yourself with narccisstic numbskulls who don’t know anything but how to mentally masturbate yourself into the most idiotic cult in America. Come back with something more orginal, not that programmed sissified bs they feed you in that phony ass mosque. What is your real name?
Muhammad Rasheed - Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “You’re blatant ignorance assumes too much.”
I’m not ignorant on this topic at all. I did notice that you didn’t counter any of my points. You just posted another emotional, profane tantrum. Is this all you have?
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “The racist ghetto cult you are in is bashing what little brain you have left.”
I’m unconvinced you know what ‘racist,’ ‘ghetto,’ or ‘cult’ mean. I’m starting to suspect you’re just typing all the words you’ve heard before…
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “Get your real name back, not the one of a goat screwing pedophile.”
You realize you’re insulting the messenger of the One God of Abraham, right? You also realize that hell is eternal torment, right?
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “You exposed yourself big time when you called yourself Muhammed Rasheed.”
lol Meanwhile, I’ve never called myself that. I’m amused that you can’t spell even when you’re looking directly at the word, but you had the nerve to call me “low iq.” smh
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “I knew you were NOI right away.”
Meanwhile, I’ve never been in the NOI. I’m an orthodox Muslim. I guess we can add poor reading comprehension to your list of offenses.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “You people ignorant beyond all logic, and hideously evil to boot.”
You think the NOI are “evil?” In what way?
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “You don’t know the freedom you could have by dumping that worthless cult.”
You’re a white man in Catalonia who is completely ignorant about U.S. race relations saying this to me. How can you lecture someone when you don’t know anything? You know who else does this bit outside of you white supremacists? Four year olds. When they do it, they’re just mimicking the cadence of adults. When you do it, you think I’m supposed to just believe your empty, hateful rhetoric for no other reason than because an ignorant, hateful white person is saying it.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “As if islam weren’t bad enough”
“Bad” in what way?
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “you subscribe to a racist ghetto cult which is a second generation cult of the original cult. All of it is BULLSHIT.”
I’m not in the NOI. lol
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “I lived in the middle east for 3 years.”
So? Just because you stole money from the USG by being a lazy d*ck on a defense contract somewhere doesn’t mean you bothered to learn anything about Islam — which you could’ve done back home on the Internet at anytime. Plus, there’s a 100% chance that all you did was traffick booze from the U.S. Embassy (or Spanish embassy?) and rent Filipina & Ethiopian prostitutes, like every other white guy contracting in the Middle East. How does that make you an expert on Islam again? I’m confident it doesn’t. lol Y’all just say anything.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “Had you taken a little time to do your homework”
Anytime you wanna start the debate and demonstrate you’re an expert on the subject — waitin’ on you, bud. Are you going to yap or fight? Maybe you’re stalling while you wait for Anton to show up and save you. lol
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “instead of becoming a ghetto forged bigot of a racist cult , perhaps you wouldn’t have had waste yoyr life in the street selling the ‘final call.’”
I’m not in the NOI. Never have been.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “What a fucking joke that is. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Gotta be a true mindless twit to fall for that bullshit. Next thing you’re going to tell me that a black scientist created the moon by placing high explosives in the earth 66 trillion years ago. Dude, you are a joke by choice. You choose to surround yourself with narccisstic numbskulls who don’t know anything but how to mentally masturbate yourself into the most idiotic cult in America.”
I guess this counts as a particularly elaborate version of the strawman effigy logical fallacy, performed so you can pretend to be half-illiterate & crazy so you don’t have to actually accept this duel challenge and epically lose face like Batey did.
Truth And Common Sense Warrior wrote: “Come back with something more orginal”
How about re-read my last post and respond to it appropriately instead of being a coward? Let’s try that.



See Also : [DEBATE] W.D. Fard Muhammad vs Albert Einstein | Followed by M. Rasheed vs Anton Batey

The Greatest Slave of All

 

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Q: What made Uncle Tom's Cabin controversial?
Jean-Marie Valheur - [Linked Answer on Quora] 
Muhammad Rasheed - Jean-Marie wrote: “Uncle Tom eventually has the good fortune of being owned by a”
*cringe*
Are you a Filipino, Jean-Marie?
Jean-Marie wrote: “I know that, in later years, it has become controversial because African Americans dislike the forgiving nature of Uncle Tom”
You admit later in your Answer that the work would became a distorted caricature through the numerous remakes across different media. Do you not think it is much more likely that’s the reason that modern Black Americans have come to flinch away from the story? The Black American former slave class has always been a primarily forgiving group who just want to be economically included in our own country and have the endless discrimination and exploitations cease.
It’s painful reading an outsider’s opinions presented as definitive truths, but that has been the tradition in Black America’s relationship with our foes & rivals.
Slack-Man - I agree that being an outsider to the issue can be a curse & blessing, though France had some parallel experiences.
Nevertheless, his approach was to examine the impact the original story had on the US when it was written.
Muhammad Rasheed - Yes, the off-putting part is the tradition where the outsider treats their opinion of the matter as the default truth and often any pushback or alternative analysis from the actual group depicted in the fiction will get you muted or blocked for daring to pushback on the outsider’s opinion. Apparently, only members of that outsiders own identity group are allowed to challenge his/hers opinion of U.S. race relations history.
This has been my experience on Quora especially.
Muhammad Rasheed - For example, literally EVERYTHING about this post found below in this thread is “problematic” —


— but if I label it what it really it, it would probably get my comment deleted and the comments section closed.
Slack-Man - I agree that being an outsider to the issue can be a curse & blessing, though France had some parallel experiences.
Nevertheless, his approach was to examine the impact the original story had on the US when it was written.
Muhammad Rasheed - Yes, the off-putting part is the tradition where the outsider treats their opinion of the matter as the default truth and often any pushback or alternative analysis from the actual group depicted in the fiction will get you muted or blocked for daring to pushback on the outsider’s opinion. Apparently, only members of that outsiders own identity group are allowed to challenge his/hers opinion of U.S. race relations history.
This has been my experience on Quora especially.
Slack-Man - Well, I was just blocked by someone who I was have a rather civil conversation with, though we were in disagreement.
Look, you can disagree with me all day long as long as you are polite. Everyone has the right to be wrong, including me.
Muhammad Rasheed - You and I have always had civil discussions when our paths crossed. I do remember having a discussion with someone on one of your threads related to the Dilbert controversy with someone else that turned ugly out of the blue and the discussion was missing afterwards, which shocked you as much as it did me.
Muhammad Rasheed - Apparently, some folks are actually seething behind a barely-holding-on faux-civil façade when it comes to certain topics…
Muhammad Rasheed - I think a big part of the problem is that some topics are so controversial, that people have a tendency to want to FORCE a certain narrative to be true without the discomfort of doing any actual research into it. Their forced narrative makes them feel better about it in a shallow way, and they feel validated when the people who think exactly the way they do about the topic and are just as uninformed, high-five and agree with their forced narrative.
That’s why they kneejerk react so negatively at pushback derived from the historical sources they pointedly avoided to keep from feeling bad.
Karen Fowler - The author is not presenting them as truths. What would you prefer — that he preface every single sentence with “I think” or “in my opinion?” The post would soon become unreadable.
Everything anyone says on here is opinion unless it’s cited to be from someone else or is expressing some known mathematical or scientific truth.
In this particular case, we’re discussing the interpretation of a work of literature. By definition there is no absolute objective truth of the matter.
And, last but not least — don’t read painful stuff if it bothers you to that extent.
Muhammad Rasheed - Karen wrote: “The author is not presenting them as truths.”
Sure he(?) is. You can tell by how that second line I quoted begins (“I know”).
Karen wrote: “What would you prefer”
Freedom from anti-Black racism in all of its forms — which includes the passive-aggressive gaslighty ones popular in Quora threads, “Karen.”
Karen wrote: “that he preface every single sentence with ‘I think’ or ‘in my opinion?’”
Placed once at the top of his rant would suffice, thank you.
Karen wrote: “The post would soon become unreadable.”
Obviously, we hold radically different views over what’s subjectively readable or not. I thought it was trash to begin with, but you lot all came to congratulate him and high-five him for supporting a long-running agreed upon narrative, or whatever.
Karen wrote: “Everything anyone says on here is opinion unless it’s cited to be from someone else or is expressing some known mathematical or scientific truth.”
Or unless a particular demographic is expressing the opinion with their penchant for wanting to force it down the throats of those not in their demographic and pretend it’s a truth, which is a common (and insufferable) trait of a particular demographic.
Karen wrote: “In this particular case, we’re discussing the interpretation of a work of literature. By definition there is no absolute objective truth of the matter.”
By a normal and reasonable definition, sure. lol Unfortunately, “normal & reasonable” rarely come into play during U.S. race relations encounters.
Karen wrote: “And, last but not least”
lol Who are you again?
Karen wrote: “don’t read painful stuff if it bothers you to that extent.”
TRANSLATION: “Don't read stuff written about or that references your ethnic group because your opinion about what we make up about you is not welcome.”
Yeah, thanks for confirming my point.
Karen Fowler - In the words of Sgt Hulka, “lighten up, Francis.” No one’s shoving anything down your throat. It’s his analysis of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. You have your own unique take on it, which, from your comments I think is absolutely wrong, but OK…that’s what makes horse racing, as the saying goes.
And no, when I said “painful” that’s exactly what I meant — not the nonsense you “translated” it to. No one in this discussion made up anything about black people (except you, perhaps). Your opinion is as welcome or unwelcome as anyone else’s, irrespective of subject matter or race. In this case, your opinion on Uncle Tom’s Cabin is irrelevant to me; I’m not seeing how you have any special insight into things that happened almost two centuries ago.
Muhammad Rasheed - lol at Karen taking away her ‘Reply’ button after posting her snippy tripe at me. #Classic
Karen wrote: “In the words of Sgt Hulka, ‘lighten up, Francis.’”
No thanks. People I don’t know trying to police how I respond to stuff is unwelcome, “Karen.”
Karen wrote: “No one’s shoving anything down your throat.”
Sure, they are. It’s normal in the U.S. race relations for the dominant political identity group to try to force their opinions of literally anything down everyone else’s throat, especially mine.
Also notice that you literally posted your unsolicited opinion at me and then took away your ‘Reply’ button to keep me from responding. lol What else would that mean other than you want your white woman word to a Black man to be the FINAL WORD. hahaha 
Karen wrote: “which, from your comments I think is absolutely wrong”
lol Based on what?
Karen wrote: “And no, when I said ‘painful’ that’s exactly what I meant”
I don’t believe you.
Karen wrote: “not the nonsense you ‘translated’ it to.”
My translation fit the ‘Karen-ish’ and snippy response of your first post. Like a petty and intrusive Ally McBeal character.
Karen wrote: “No one in this discussion made up anything about black people”
Sure, they did. In fact, literally all of them.
Karen wrote: “(except you, perhaps)”
TRANSLATION: You don’t know your own people and we know them better than you do.
lol You are very on-brand, “Karen.”
Karen wrote: “Your opinion is as welcome or unwelcome as anyone else’s”
lol Sure. Because that fits so well with your opinion that you know my people better than I do.
Karen wrote: “irrespective of subject matter or race.”
I guess that explains your snippy effort to control how I respond to my ethnic group’s traditional rivals making up nonsense about us and expecting me to be alright with it like it’s no big deal — as if that very concept didn’t lead directly to slavery and jim crow. smh
Karen wrote: “In this case, your opinion on Uncle Tom’s Cabin is irrelevant to me”
*gasp!*
Karen wrote: “I’m not seeing how you have any special insight into things that happened almost two centuries ago.”
Well, considering your demographic is the literal exact one fighting to keep the negative aspects of U.S. race relations from being taught in our schools to prevent you from having any kind of political disadvantage, my insight into the matter would be one of informed truth versus your own willful ignorance.
Jim Whitney - Thank you for enlightening us on the story of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. Now I can see why a person I admired growing up, Martin Luther King has been called an “Uncle Tom” because his message was a peaceful one, verses todays BLM message.
Muhammad Rasheed - Dr. King was assassinated by his political foes and so was Malcolm X, who believed in the right to bear arms and defend hearth & home from attacks both foreign and domestic. They were both killed for their pro-Black American views within a few years of one another. Obviously the point had nothing to do with whether they were peaceful in their protest method or not.
By the way, ‘BLM’ turned out to be an LGBT front organization that exploited Black trauma to raise funds for our political rivals.
Rigby Parr - Malcom X was murdered by the nation of islam
Muhammad Rasheed - Malcolm X was murdered by Hoover’s infiltration plants within the NOI.
Preventing the rise of a 'messiah'
Jeffrey Dubiel - I wonder how many people who use the term “Uncle Tom” disparagingly have even read the book.
Muhammad Rasheed - Even if they did, do you believe they would automatically agree with the ‘turning the other cheek’ doctrine and allowing the bad guy of the tale to win?
Jeffrey Dubiel - No, I wouldn’t expect that turning the other cheek would be an especially popular viewpoint. It never has been. But that’s not the point. What Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel does is to meet slavery on its own ground and expose its moral bankruptcy. American slavers, remember, justified their position by saying they were improving the lot of the black man, teaching him Christianity and guiding him on the right path. Some may have even believed it. But Uncle Tom’s Cabin demonstrates with unmistakable clarity what an outrageous lie that was. The only ones who benefited from slavery were the slavers. There’s plenty of room for the men of action, the Nat Turners and John Browns, in the fight against slavery. What Harriet Beecher Stowe did was to give the Abolitionist movement a moral foundation that anyone in that religious age could grasp.
Muhammad Rasheed - Jeffrey wrote: “No, I wouldn’t expect that turning the other cheek would be an especially popular viewpoint.”
I don’t think “popular” would be the correct term or action here. I think we’re looking for “appropriate.” If you’re in the middle of an active war against a ferociously hostile enemy, would the Christ’s “turn the other cheek” message be appropriate? Of course not. There’s a time and a place for everything.
Jeffrey wrote: “It never has been.”
Has any tenet of high-level righteousness (“goody-two-shoes”) ever been “popular?” It doesn’t seem likely.
Jeffrey wrote: “But that’s not the point. What Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel does is to meet slavery on its own ground and expose its moral bankruptcy.”
Literally everyone knew that slavery was morally bankrupt from the beginning. The argument wasn’t new. The problem with America’s “peculiar” institution was 1) the uniqueness of building a permanent, hereditary chattel system that specifically targeted racial phenotype, and 2) the rank hypocrisy of a free slave labor economy in the “land of the free.” The abolitionist movement was a Christian church movement, and conflicting the slave holders through their religion was their core tactic.
Jeffrey wrote: “American slavers, remember, justified their position by saying they were improving the lot of the black man”
lol No, the people knew better. There were quite enough free Blacks around to keep anyone from believing that silliness. The rhetoric you’re talking about was invented later, pretending that Africa was a land of tree-dwelling savages to prevent the new generations of slave from wanting to go back—rhetoric that carried over into the modern day.
Jeffrey wrote: “teaching him Christianity and guiding him on the right path.”
Meanwhile, Charles Colcock Jones, Jr., in his enlightening ‘The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States (1842)’ pointed out that none of his fellows among the slave holder class wanted to give the enslaved Blacks their religion (Part III - Objections to the Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the Slave States) because they recognized it as an inherently empowering message. What they ended up doing, because they knew slavery was very wrong and feared for their souls in the afterlife, was to cobble together just enough of the Word and religion to enable the slave to be saved, but without the empowering part (and tellingly without the Exodus story).
Jeffrey wrote: “Some may have even believed it.”
Nah.
Jeffrey wrote: “But Uncle Tom’s Cabin demonstrates with unmistakable clarity what an outrageous lie that was.”
It demonstrated it from an angle or two, but it by no means represented the full picture. You needed to read it from the actual slave narratives, too, to get the rest.
Jeffrey wrote: “The only ones who benefited from slavery were the slavers.”
lol No. Under a free slave labor economy, quite a few people benefited from it. Just like there’s a quite a few people here in these times who benefit from keeping the minimum wage low. Insurance fraud was also huge back then.
Jeffrey wrote: “There’s plenty of room for the men of action, the Nat Turners and John Browns, in the fight against slavery.”
Uprisings were a never-ending cycle that kept the dominant identity group in a state of tension. It was also normal considering the general brutality of the system. Notice how the common tactic for keeping slave uprising down (savage domestic terror by the proto-police force) is no different from how modern cops keep today’s civil unrest by Black American’s controlled (see: LDJ’s response to the Kerner Commission report findings).
Jeffrey wrote: “What Harriet Beecher Stowe did was to give the Abolitionist movement a moral foundation that anyone in that religious age could grasp.”
No, she didn’t. The abolitionist movement was a Christian movement which drove the national discussion from a moral/ethic conviction. If anything, Stowe drew directly from it during her author planning stage and you see a little of it reflected from her novel in the usual “art reflects life” dance, not vice-versa.
Helmut Worle - Your critique of Jeffrey Dubiel’s comment seems too harsh and completely misses the point of the novel. You apparently would have preferred a violent screed against slavery, which would fit our modern sensibilities on the subject of slavery. What Ms Stowe achieved, however, was to persuade millions of people to her abolitionist view, something John Brown or Nate Turner were not able to do.
Muhammad Rasheed - Helmut wrote: “Your critique of Jeffrey Dubiel’s comment seems too harsh”
The USA’s history of systemic racism against my people has been harsh.
Helmut wrote: “and completely misses the point of the novel.”
Does it?
Helmut wrote: “You apparently would have preferred a violent screed against slavery”
I only prefer the truth.
Helmut wrote: “which would fit our modern sensibilities on the subject of slavery.”
The continuous threat of violent slave uprisings that maintained an atmospheric tension over the time period reveals that it reflected that era’s sensibility, too.
Helmut wrote: “What Ms Stowe achieved, however, was to persuade millions of people to her abolitionist view”
If that were true, then how come it wasn’t the turned hearts of all of these converted pro-abolitionist whites you speak of that freed my enslaved ancestors, but I had to do it myself when the president said we’d be freed if he allowed us to fight in the losing Union’s cause?
I’m not surprised to find that you hold this over-generous fictional high opinion of the morality & ethics of your identity group, I just find it unreasonable that you expect me—the abused victim of the reality of your morality & ethics—to share it.
Randy Carter - I’ll add that Harriet Beecher Stowe was accused of exaggerating the stories of the cruelties of slave owners - only to provide documentation for the examples she had cribbed from. The stories of slaveowner cruelty were just slightly modified versions of the ones told to her by freed and escaped slaves.
Muhammad Rasheed - The folks who wish that America was “great” again, often falsely claim that slavery wasn’t that bad for the people forced by law to live its inherent cruelties. Perhaps they would like to try being permanent hereditary chattel for 250 yrs (followed by another 150 yrs of economic exclusion 2nd class citizenry) and see how they like it?
Neal Lowrey - I never understood the disdain for Uncle Tom. All I can figure is he was not aggressive enough and didn’t put a pick ax in Legree’s head to suit BLM and their Black Panther predecessors. The Roots re wrote woke version where Kunta was killing Americans with the British is more their style. Tom showed plenty courage and resolve helping the girl and her family to escape to Liberia paradise.
Muhammad Rasheed - Neal wrote: “I never understood the disdain for Uncle Tom.”
It seems to be common sense that the real life ethnic group that the ‘Uncle Tom’ character is supposed to represent would take offense to a piece of propaganda written when America was “great” that depicted the Ideal Slave as one that worked super-hard without complaint, bent over backwards to make sure white people were looked after, and ‘turned the other cheek’ without pushback to whatever sociopathic cruelties the evil whites of the story felt like dishing out. After 400 yrs of continuous nonsense, why would a Black American audience not have disdain for such a character written by a white author?
Neal wrote: “All I can figure is he was not aggressive enough and didn’t put a pick ax in Legree’s head”
Would any of your TOP TEN favorite literary or screen-media protagonists put up with any of what ‘Uncle Tom’ allowed? Why are you suggesting that we should accept this over-submissive white-created “black” character as our hero by default?
Neal wrote: “BLM and their Black Panther predecessors”
‘BLM’ is an LGBT front organization that exploited Black trauma to raise funds for our political rivals. They had nothing to do with the Black Panthers. For their part, the Panthers believed in the right to bear arms and defend hearth & home from attacks both foreign and domestic. Why are you suggesting they were violent terrorists?
Neal wrote: “The Roots re wrote woke version where Kunta was killing Americans with the British is more their style.”
That 2016 remake was written and directed by white Jewish creatives and primarily produced by the white Jewish company ‘The Wolper Organization’ that still owned the screen-media rights from 1977. Since that’s the identity group known for pushing the violent communist revolutions, perhaps you mean it’s actually their style?
Jerry Mc Kenna - In a very Christian country Tom was the most Christlike character. Nobody would write it this way today, but at that time it made sense.
Muhammad Rasheed - Amused at the idea that a country that was built upon delegating a whole group to a permanent bondsman class based on racial phenotype would be considered “very Christian.”
Are you actively campaigning to have the Christ rebuke you as someone he doesn’t know on Judgment Day? You may wish to do a deep-dive on exactly what being a “Christian” is supposed to mean.
Jerry Mc Kenna - I am not saying their Christianity was a good version but the people all thought they were Christian,
Muhammad Rasheed - I know, I was just busting your chops to see how you would respond. They were Christian, and that fact is actually what drove the national abolitionist discussion which genuinely conflicted the slave holder to a degree. It just didn’t conflict him enough to willingly want to give up all that free slave labor wealth. His love of money significantly trumped his love of God.
David Shumate - the story still makes sense today brother. its much easier for people to hate each other than to love others as tho they have more value than yourself thats the entire point of the story…it revealed the evil and the love in the hearts of white slave owners and their slaves and today it reveals the vitriol and latent hatred in the hearts of both black an white people today…
but MOST importantly… Uncle Tom was Christlike in his approach to life. in the face of incredible abuse and neglect, he refused to adopt the hatred of his abusers and retaliate or sabotage…instead he demonstrated love and grace at every opportunity.
i have to see him as a brother believer because of the fruit of his life.
and the US was founded and established on purely Christian principles, our founding documents prove that in writing. if someone says otherwise, they are a fool and a liar…and they probably say that the moon landings were entirely staged too…
Theo N - @Muhammad... Your venomous response shows what an ignorant two dimensional shallow human you are
Muhammad Rasheed - What’s “venomous” about my response? That I didn’t blindly parrot support for this white woman’s ideal submissive slave character with my hat in my hand while staring at the floor?
Theo N - That you were not accepting of anothers thoughts and chose to attack them
Stowe's work was socially as well as politically inciteful. It motivated the abolitionist movement and helped to eliminate slavery. What difference does it make what color the author was?
Uncle Tom was not a sellout. Stowe poignantly portrayed him as a martyr to engender support for the abolition of slavery. Had she made him a warrior leading a violent resistance she would have set the battle to end slavery back by years
You could say she helped set the standard for modern peaceful resistance that Ghandi and Martin Luther King would use to accomplish great things.
Islam recognizes a prophet that led the original revolution of peaceful resistance…..
Muhammad Rasheed - Theo wrote: “That you were not accepting of anothers thoughts and chose to attack them”
There’s a difference between “attacking” versus “disagreeing with,” Theo. I accept the other’s right to express their opinions as they like, just as I accept my own right to critique those opinions as I like. I find it odd that you consider it “venomous” to merely have a difference of opinion in the land lauded for its Freedom of Speech. Would it be reasonable to consider this opinion of yours to be a race-based double-standard? Do you believe America’s rights are exclusively for you and not for me?
Theo wrote: “Stowe's work was socially as well as politically inciteful.”
Agreed.
Theo wrote: “It motivated the abolitionist movement”
To a very limited degree. It seemed to do a better job stimulating whites in the national discussion than the slave narratives did, but I would consider that a cultural trait, since the brutality experienced by real life people for the most part inspired yet more apathy for Black people in the white American populace, while a fictional narrative of their own Ideal Slave archetype, broke all publishing records and STILL didn’t make any meaningful changes to the social structure.
Theo wrote: “and helped to eliminate slavery.”
You lot keep saying this, but it’s not even remotely true. Of note, 250 yrs of passionately discussing the issue on the national stage did not free me. Only Lincoln’s desperate battle strategies during a war he was losing led to the abolishment of the slave institution, and even in the 150 yrs after, the ‘venom’ is found in how the dominant political identity group resentfully feels about the former slave class even in this very thread.
Theo wrote: “What difference does it make what color the author was?”
Her “color” is the physical badge descriptor for her economic high-caste position in a country designed around racial politics as the legacy of the free slave labor era “when America was ‘Great.’” How whites talk about the issue among themselves is different from how they talk about it among the former slave class, and how the former slave class talks about it among ourselves. Even between the two of us, it was considered “venomous” for me even to have a difference of opinion with my identity group rivals and how they choose to see a character that’s supposed to represent me written by one of their own. My opinion is considered that of the hostile outsider as if I have zero say in the matter. Historically, that exact same scenario led to both the establishment of the anti-Black slave institution, as well as the establishment of the anti-Black forced jim crow segregation. I likewise had no say in either of them, and my difference of opinion as to whether my group should be economically excluded and oppressed was considered “venomous” for the same reason, i.e., how dare I suggest that whites shouldn’t oppress Black people for their own exclusive benefit?
Now, ironically, I find a member of that group who established & benefited from those laws against me asking what difference does this author’s color make, as if I was the one who invented racial-politics.
Theo wrote: “Uncle Tom was not a sellout.”
Correct. The character represented the Ideal Slave, who allowed his inhumane white masters to inflict all kinds of cruelties upon him without complaint and without it affecting his own pride in a job well done. I can feel the spirit of the ole slave master practically salivating over my description. The term ‘uncle tom’ came to refer to the treacherous Black sellout figure later. The contrary is not any argument I’ve ever tried to make and in fact, this sub-topic part of the discussion lacks interest to me. This is more in line with how words/language change over time and that sort of thing, and is for the most part divorced from the political stuff that currently has my attention.
Theo wrote: “Stowe poignantly portrayed him as a martyr to engender support for the abolition of slavery.”
Meanwhile, the Southern planters and even the cruel racists in the North thought she was full of crap, preachy and arrogant. For their part, the slave holders responded with the “Uncle Remus” type of archetype and pretended the slaves adored their lot in life.
Theo wrote: “Had she made him a warrior leading a violent resistance she would have set the battle to end slavery back by years”
lol Slavery ended because Lincoln was losing the war and he told the slave that if they helped him fight he would set them free. So, I walked out of the cotton field, picked up a rifle for the very first time, received lackluster & resentful training from white Union soldiers who disagreed with Lincoln’s plan, and went on to win the rudimentary freedoms I possess today as a warrior in the bloodiest war in American history.
Because of this fact, a reasonable person may assume that a proliferation of Black badass slave warriors saturating the markets would have inspired an earlier end to the slave institution.
Theo wrote: “You could say she helped set the standard for modern peaceful resistance that Ghandi and Martin Luther King would use to accomplish great things.”
If I was both simple-minded and ignorant of the history of U.S. race relations, then perhaps I could say such foolishness.
Theo wrote: “Islam recognizes a prophet that led the original revolution of peaceful resistance…”
The Christ Jesus (peace be upon him) held the same position about war & violence used as needed in his Lord’s cause as any of the other prophets. Any attempts to pretend he was unique among them are only the result of corruptions in the message by after-the-fact theologians who were influenced by monarchal agendas and quasi-pagan ideologies.
Muhammad Rasheed - David wrote: “the story still makes sense today brother.”
Said the white guy about the story written by a white woman. Should I be surprised at this demonstration of unlimited support for your own political identity group member? Such unification is the secret to your group’s success after-all.
David wrote: “its much easier for people to hate each other than to love others as tho they have more value than yourself thats the entire point of the story…”
This story was written during the most brutal slave institution that ever existed by a member of the group that benefited from that same brutal system, who wrote the protagonist as an ideal slave for the dominant identity group (see: self-serving, conceited, egomaniacal).
David wrote: “it revealed the evil and the love in the hearts of white slave owners”
If there was love in the hearts of the white slave owners, then the U.S. slave institution would have ended by whites demanding it end because it was the right thing to do. It wouldn’t have taken a desperate battle strategy during the bloodiest war in American history to force it to end, would it?
David wrote: “and today it reveals the vitriol and latent hatred in the hearts of both black an white people today…”
lol The vitriol and hatred comes from the resentful former slave holder class (& lackeys), who lament the loss of their free slave labor gravy train (when America was “great”) even now.
David wrote: “but MOST importantly…”
lol Please do tell.
David wrote: “Uncle Tom was Christlike in his approach to life.”
Can we at least agree this was a fictional character written by a slavery era white woman to be the Ideal Slave archetype? I hold hope that in our managing to remain standing soberly upon the facts, you could eventually curb your suspiciously over-giddy excitement about the dude. smh He’s not real and not available for purchase. Relax.
David wrote: “in the face of incredible abuse and neglect, he refused to adopt the hatred of his abusers and retaliate or sabotage…instead he demonstrated love and grace at every opportunity.”
That also sounds like the caricature you all created around Dr. Martine Luther King, Jr., too (after you murdered him, of course). Imagine a slave that meekly allowed you to beat the crap out of him AND still picked more cotton than everyone else AND went out of his way to cater to every over-the-top whim of white folks AND even allowed you to kill him without complaint… Gosh. When I type it out loud like that, I too find myself getting excited from pure sociopathic greed at all of that potential plantation money. ♪ Ch-CHING! ♫ I think I’m changing my mind about the evils of slavery. Maybe we SHOULD bring it back...? [roll eyes]
David wrote: “i have to see him as a brother believer because of the fruit of his life.”
You mean cotton profits?
David wrote: “and the US was founded and established on purely Christian principles, our founding documents prove that in writing.”
You think the obscene wealth amassed from a brutal hereditary chattel institution is “pure Christian principles,” do you? Have you ever bothered to actually read the bible, or were you afraid of the cognitive dissonance brain-freeze it would be sure to generate in you?
David wrote: “if someone says otherwise, they are a fool and a liar…”
Tell me, how many slaves did the Christ have exactly?
David wrote: “and they probably say that the moon landings were entirely staged too…”
One is a matter of faith, the other a matter of 20th century science. You must confuse yourself a lot, Dave.
Thomas Snider - Back then, what choice did Blacks (or Mulattos even) Have? Either be like Tom or Nat Turner.
Muhammad Rasheed - Thomas wrote: “Blacks (or Mulattos even)”
A curious separation considering why the “one-drop rule” was created after the Trans-Atlantic voyages were outlawed.
Thomas Snider - Interesting.
Christopher Welsh - Except her version is still the better.
The mass revenge never works at establishing lasting peace or change.
The angry black man goes on a rampage robbing stores, burning buildings, and chanting hate whitey? Well a LOT of white people are going to do whatever they can to make sure that guy is kept far away, locked up, etc.
The black man that helps the little old white lady across the street, whose kids play on the community soccer team, and who helps clean the park on weekends? Who cares about skin color, I want him as my neighbor and friend.
Uncle Tom's cabin showed that slaves were PEOPLE. Often kind, loving, and skilled (eg literate). Skin color should not have mattered.
Seeing each other as people, not separated based on skin color, is how things get fixed.
Muhammad Rasheed - I would agree the original novel is objectively better, for one because they wrote better in those days. For two, there’s usually a degradation in quality when translating from novels to other media. Jean-Marie pointed out that the characters devolved into wretched political caricatures of even more offensive archetypes.
But the idea that the novel was better only because the Black ‘uncle tom’ character was willingly self-sacrificing for whites, and accepted the cruelties inflicted upon him without complaint or retaliation is an objectively terrible take.
That’s the way white people write their ideal ‘black’ characters and you think it’s “better.” Better for whom? A casual glance at you all’s list of top fan-favorite white characters shows a whole bunch of military badasses taking blood-thirsty revenge over made up foolishness (“They killed his little dog — now he’s out for BLOOD!”), but I can’t have the same type of badass Black characters for REAL LIFE EVIL inflicted upon me. lol
Muhammad Rasheed - Christopher wrote: “Seeing each other as people, not separated based on skin color, is how things get fixed.”
You know, your demographic actually invented “race politics” as we know it, right? After the Bacon Rebellion of the 1600s, the light-skinned descendants of the European ethnic tribes colluded across all socio-political class lines and agreed that the enslaved Africans of North American would be permanently delegated to the chattel bondsman class and you would solely benefit from this new and ‘peculiar’ racial phenotype caste system.
YOU invented the legal concept of separating us based on skin color for purely self-serving reasons, so who are you supposed to be lecturing here?
Christopher Welsh - No I was commenting generally on the post, not the book, in that a desire for the Django unchained or revenge trope stands very little chance at bringing reconciliation.
Instead a christ like approach of loving our neighbors will.
Which was stowes point as well.
Muhammad Rasheed - So, the group with the bullwhips and amassed free slave labor legacy fortunes get Dirty Harry Callahan and John Wick, while the group living with the negative effects of the ‘Black Codes’ and Sundown Town warnings get Uncle Tom.
That sounds like you believe in a mass media propaganda designed to maintain the power structure first established when Stowe’s book was published. What kind of “reconciliation” maintains that same lopsided power dynamic?
Muhammad Rasheed - The actual righteous option, Chris, is just to do right by my people. A robust Reparatory Justice program designed to close the racial wealth gap, pull the American descendants of slavery up out of the artificial impoverishment pit we were forced into for the last 150 yrs, and economically include us into a wealth-building ownership protected class. The Black American as a fully-free, competitive equal in the open free markets, sharing in the wealth of the nation without further political grifts, exploitation & plunder from your team (and friends).
That’s what the only possible foundation to a true reconciliation between our groups would look like. Then we could be truly alright with each other, yes? And I can have all of my own versions of Jack Reacher and Walker Texas Ranger type badasses, too, without you getting nervous about it — it would just be entertaining fun.
What’s wrong with just doing it the right way, for once, and not this crazy “let’s keep it the same but pretend it’s better” stuff you’re talking about?
Doug Hansen - Great synopsis of an important book. Jesus v. Barabbas might company into play as biblical analogy.
Muhammad Rasheed - “Great” in what way? Clear & readable?
David Shumate - @Jean-Marie... Sir, id like to thank you for your well written post. your description of the book and the background was wonderful.
i didnt see that book in school..late 60s to mid 70s. id heard of it but never sought it out. my perspective of the book has always been based on what others have said, which led to no interest in reading…im 63, and im only now, through your post, learning just how wonderful the book is and think it should have been cherished over they decades rather than spurned. i believe role models and books like Uncle Tom, if it hadnt been buried and missrepresented, could have ultimately prevented 90% of the racial tension in the US today.
of course, i also believe that the fed govt and organizations like kkk and blm have been and still are culpable for stirring and fanning the flames of hatred, intentionally fomenting hatred and distrust between the races…
my last word…if all men and women and children emmulated Uncle Tom, this would be a pretty wonderful world to live in…
heavy sigh…
Muhammad Rasheed - David wrote: “…if all men and women and children emmulated Uncle Tom, this would be a pretty wonderful world to live in…”
If everybody just meekly allowed everybody else to exploit & abuse their persons without complaint, it would make this world wonderful to live in? How would that be?
David Shumate - @Muhammad... im thrilled that you took the time to ask that particular question sir! you actually took a little longer than i expected…lol
to your question:
the answer is absolutely YES! if EVERYBODY were meek and forgiving, there would be nobody to abuse anyone. there would be no people harboring resentment over presumed offenses because EVERYONE would be at peace with everyone.
Jesus demonstrated that sort of meekness as an example for everyone. even back then, He realized that there would be many people, of all races that would reject the Love that He came to teach…He realized that those who decided to reject His way would torment and abuse those that chose to love and forgive…it has been like that since the beginning.
but, even with the misery and suffering that those with a meek heart must suffer at the hands of those that dont believe, their suffering and ultimately their death is eternally worth the cost because Jesus promises eternal life rather than damnation.
it is unspeakably sad, but the truth is that those that think they have all the answers and all the co;ntrol will ultimately find that they have neither…and an eternity to spend in regret and despair as a direct result…
Muhammad Rasheed - David wrote: “im thrilled that you took the time to ask that particular question sir!”
Next time try directing an intended query towards the intended target. Passive-aggressiveness from men can come across kind of fruity and/or serial killer-ish. FYI.
David wrote: “you actually took a little longer than i expected…lol”
Although it may not seem like it, I do have duties I have to attend outside of social media. The 5 Daily Prayers pillar of my religion is kinda famous, for example.
David wrote: “the answer is absolutely YES! if EVERYBODY were meek and forgiving, there would be nobody to abuse anyone.”
lol I see. The problem with this concept is reflected within the way the historical record reads. Traditionally, when members of your political identity group say such things, they never actually mean “everybody.” They always mean everybody except white people. For that reason, it’s impossible to take your pseudo-philosophical rants seriously. U.S. race relations are known to be “peculiar” for a reason—and that reason is of the hypocritical/double-standard variety.
David wrote: “Jesus demonstrated that sort of meekness”
Are we talking about the same “Jesus” who raged out in the Temple and flipped the tables of the usurious money-changers? The one who told his apostles to fetch swords in anticipation of troubles while he prayed at Gethsemane? Forgive me, but I find it likewise difficult to take your offensively-caricatured version of the One God’s messenger seriously, too.
David wrote: “of all races that would reject the Love that He came to teach…”
lol An ironic statement considering the Chris Jesus, son of Mary (peace be upon the prophet) came to instruct the hard-hearted children of Israel specifically in their own religion that they had strayed from. His message is repeated in a fuller form as revealed to the prophesized Comforter after him, which I follow with full submission. Only the children of Israel rejected the Christ’s message, not me.
David wrote: “but, even with the misery and suffering that those with a meek heart must suffer at the hands of those that dont believe, their suffering and ultimately their death is eternally worth the cost because Jesus promises eternal life rather than damnation”
This is literally the same self-servingly twisted version of the faith that the slave holders of old used to give to my ancestors. Should I be surprised to find it resurfacing in an* Uncle Tom’s Cabin* thread? lol Did I not tell you that the word “everybody” had a completely different meaning when your demographic uses it for my demographic? (see: ‘The Black Codes’). smh The more things change, the more they stay the same, I see. Tsk.
David wrote: “but the truth is that those that think they have all the answers and all the co;ntrol will ultimately find that they have neither…”
I’ll admit that does rather accurately describe how my ancestors joined the Civil War, defeated the Confederates and won our freedom finally after 250 yrs. It was starting to seem impossible before that, right?
Arthur Sera - The inspiration for Uncle Tom was a man named Josiah Henson. Look up his story. He was a heroic figure who helped a lot slaves make new lives by inviting them to the lands he had bought in Canada and gifting them a parcel to farm for themselves at no charge.
Mr. Henson negotiated with his owner to buy his freedom and that of his family. The owner freed him as agreed, but refused to free his family as agreed to earlier. Mr. Henson earned more money and then bought their freedom from the craven owner.
Josiah Henson’s little one room cabin is now a historic site on Old Georgetown Rd. In Bethesda, MD, just outside of Washington, DC.
Muhammad Rasheed - He sounds VERY different than the fictional character who meekly allowed a savage white dude to beat him to death that everyone in this thread considers the ideal Black person/slave figure they wish we all would emulate.
Arthur Sera - I am certain that the Harriet Beecher Stowe character for Uncle Tom was written to minimize the blow-back from the slave owning populace for telling an abolitionist tale. The slaver mentality of the times was extremely prone to anger and violence. Unlike Josiah Henson, Uncle Tom’s death was intended to generate more criticism of slavery. Josiah Henson avoided death through superior intelligence and planning.
Anybody that casts the name “Uncle Tom” as an insult to someone of color to criticize their weary good intentions does not know the heroic stature of Mr. Henson. A man who managed to accomplish so much in spite of the injustices that society heaped upon him…
Muhammad Rasheed - Arthur wrote: “Uncle Tom’s death was intended to generate more criticism of slavery”
If this was true, then Stowe was preaching to the choir, since the routine cruelties inflicted upon the slave class were no secret to anyone.
Arthur wrote: “The slaver mentality of the times was extremely prone to anger and violence”
It certainly wasn’t confined to the slavers, since merely the hint of talk about Reparations instantly conjures that same level of anger/violence in not only their descendants, but even in foreign whites who happen to read a Question about it on Quora.

There's Always a Bigger Fish

 

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Crazy Clips (@crazyclipsonly) - [VIDEO LINK] Woman records herself shooting at random houses and posts it on Instagram
Maya Black (@maya_blackkk) - lol... the great USA ofc
Spike (@ProllySpike) - 



Muhammad Rasheed - 



Spike (@ProllySpike) - Let me just present you with the situation. A drunk idiot does random drive bys. Almost kills a sleeping child. OF girl makes a divisive statement probably copied to generate traffic to her page. We should be mad.
Muhammad Rasheed - Here's the situation: You saw someone you considered weak that you could use your troll platform to bully, which revealed you as a weak target for my own trolling bullying. 
It's okay. It's the circle of life. Close your eyes, sit back and relax ALLLL your muscles...
Spike (@ProllySpike) - Idk I honestly laughed but am letting you know why we should be dunking on these OF girls
Muhammad Rasheed - You should tend to the beam in your own eye instead of judgmentally badgering people for the speck in theirs. That red pill stuff is only a symptom of the greater problem.

The Anti-Black Practice of Character Race-Swapping

Superman in blackface

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Robert Underhill - The other day there was a post about MCU having Galactus in the next phase or when after the new Fantastic Four movie arrives, someone commented with a suggestion that MCU's Galactus should be a female character, supposedly to line up with the new phase with Marvel female superheroes agenda, I was angry at that suggestion. 
I believe Galactus, whatever the version MCU/Disney may produce, should remain and always as the male being. 
Here's why: Galactus was very much a creation of Jack Kirby. He also created the herald Silver Surfer. Stan Lee approved them and wrote them for the FF #48 The Coming of Galactus. 
In my opinion, should MCU/Disney produces a cinematic version of Galactus, at least they should put in digitally a part of Jack Kirby's face - the area around his nose, mouth, cheeks and chin - into Galactus, as a nice homage to Jack Kirby.
In 1983, I bought this special Marvel edition about the origin of Galactus and I loved that story, as I understand was a reprint of an earlier origin story from Marvel's Thor #169 (and retconned and added with new artwork by John Byrne and Ron Wilson).
Why I believe Jack Kirby's face should be in the cinematic version of Galactus. Well, Michael Golden did a nice rendering of Jack Kirby as Galactus a few years back, with a cigar. Lol (of course, Galactus won't have a cigar in the MCU phase). In another image, the close-up face of Kirby's rendering of Galactus made me suspected that Kirby drew in part of his own face on the Big G.Kevin Feige, are you reading this?
Don G. Heick - All this gender and race swapping is lazy and wrong.
Muhammad Rasheed - It's just strategy to get around antitrust violations, pretending to be market inclusive by painting white characters (who are owned by white companies) brown and even filling monopolies full of "faux-diversity" hires with the dubious Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) programs. Functionally, it continues to lock Black Americans(ADOS) out of the ownership side of industry while pretending to be progressive. It's why affirmative action itself was a failed program, because it was just more anti-Black racism pretending to be otherwise.

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Muhammad Rasheed - "Throwback to what Frederick Douglass said about Back-to-Africa movements"

Ashanti Ghania - Can we at least invest in it?
Muhammad Rasheed - I think the Biden administration is already doing that for you.


Ashanti Ghania - I would like investment in Mali. I love university towns, so of course I would like a safe and comfortable passage to Timbuktu and Gao.
Muhammad Rasheed - I would like the US gov to invest in the American people, and for other sovereign nations to invest in themselves.
Ashanti Ghania - It already does. I just spend a year and half in a Title IX school loaded with cash, but the most of the students were too lazy to take advantage of the resources. The investment is there.
Now, for an investment that will pay off much sooner in the form of tourist dollars, I wanna safe Gao and Timbuktu. I tramp all around Europe visiting Western Civ historical sites. Now, I want see where my lineage comes from and I want it happy and well.
Muhammad Rasheed - Ashanti wrote: "a Title IX school loaded with cash"
What was this program?
Ashanti wrote: "Now, for an investment that will pay off much sooner in the form of tourist dollars"
Pay off for whom?
Muhammad Rasheed - Know Your Rights: Title IX Prohibits Sexual Harassment1 and Sexual Violence Where You Go to School
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”), 20 U.S.C. §1681 et seq., is a Federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities. All public and private elementary and secondary schools, school districts, colleges, and universities (hereinafter “schools”) receiving any Federal funds must comply with Title IX. Under Title IX, discrimination on the basis of sex can include sexual harassment or sexual violence, such as rape, sexual assault, sexual battery, and sexual coercion.
***Rescinded: This document has been formally rescinded by the U.S. Department of Education and remains available on the web for historical purposes only.***
Ashanti Ghania - Title IX schools are schools with low income and low performing students.
Ashanti Ghania - Pay off: self actualization. That’s worth more to me than money.
Muhammad Rasheed - Ashanti wrote: "Title IX schools are schools with"
The Department of Ed says that the "Title IX" part specifically references prohibition discrimination based on sex.
Ashanti wrote: "low income"
So, where does the "loaded with cash" part come in? There appears to be a discrepancy.
Ashanti wrote: "and low performing students."
You called them "lazy?" 🤔🤨
Muhammad Rasheed - It seems odd to link the individual's personal fulfillment of self-actualization to a multi-billion dollar program drawing resources away from US citizens to enrich the high-caste leadership of foreign nations.
Ashanti Ghania - They are lazy! I just spend a year and a half in one! All of that money for only 10-15 diamonds in the tough to emerge out of a sea of 1100+ losers? No investor in their right mind would place their money against these odds in the private sector. It was disturbing to see. I just couldn’t take it any more, so I left.
Ashanti Ghania - Many AA have identity problems. Teaching Mali’s medieval history would help with self esteem and behavior issues in school.
Muhammad Rasheed - How will teaching them the history of alien foreign people help with the identity problems of a group whose country freaks out at teaching their actual history?
Muhammad Rasheed - Ashanti wrote: "They are lazy!"
What keeps the high-performing students in the schools with unlimited funds from being "lazy?"
Muhammad Rasheed - This thread is very problematic...
Ashanti Ghania - So they’ll know that weren’t always slaves. As my art teacher told my class: slaves are a conquered people, so look for a fallen empire.
That statement made art make sense to those us who never saw themselves in a high school art history curriculum.
Ashanti Ghania - Strict parents and more examples of high achievers in their culture among other things.
Muhammad Rasheed - Ashanti wrote: "So they’ll know that weren’t always slaves."
With an equally straight face, we can just say we are the children of Adam & Eve. We know our deep origins go beyond the Middle Passage event, but that's the event that defines the origins of this particular ethnic group.
Ashanti wrote: "As my art teacher told my class"
Who was this person?
Ashanti wrote: "That statement made art make sense to those us who never saw themselves in a high school art history curriculum"
There's a bigger story here. The American descendants of slavery ethnic group built the most powerful, richest nation on earth that literally everyone else wants to come to. Our foes have been trying to get us to hate our country and relinquish our citizenship out of a misplaced shame. Notice that the Jewish community—the most successful ethnic group in the world—has zero problems embracing the history of both their people's triumphs and challenges without shame.
Muhammad Rasheed - Ashanti wrote: "Strict parents and more examples of high achievers in their culture among other things."
The conspicuously ambiguous "among other things" part is what stands out here. They used generations of political machinations and the enormous spending power of the USG to put themselves in that spot that they currently jealously guard and maintain with their "strict parenting" nepotism.
Ashanti Ghania - I want to know more about my pre-colonial history.
My high school art teacher, Marsha Pannone. She was great.
I am not ashamed. Every culture has been enslaved. However, ADOS were the only ones to lose our identities along with it. I didn’t we were from Mali until years ago and I’ve been searching since my freshman year in college—-over thirty years ago. It should not have been that hard, Muhammad and not by chance from a Youtube video.
Ashanti Ghania - We can work on the ambiguity and solutions to the “other things variable”. Are you in California? Your quest sound like a person who lives outside of the state.
Muhammad Rasheed - Ashanti wrote: "I want to know more about my pre-colonial history."
Okay.
Ashanti wrote: "My high school art teacher, Marsha Pannone. She was great."
From what you've shared here, she sounds like an anti-Black asshole. Maybe she was strictly a great instructor of art techniques based on your own skills though.
Ashanti wrote: "I am not ashamed."
Meanwhile, your every other post reflects the textbook self-hatred of the politically unconscious American Negro who only has toxic white liberal friends surrounding her.
Ashanti wrote: "Every culture has been enslaved. However, ADOS were the only ones to lose our identities along with it."
We've since built a brand new ethnic identity that is 400 yrs old now. Note that literally everyone else mimics it at every level and even performs their impression of us when they want to express personal confidence and "cool." My story is one of ASCENSION — not shame — to reach its ultimate triumph when I get my Reparations program shortly, Insha'Allah.
Ashanti wrote: "I didn’t we were from Mali until years ago"
"We?"
Muhammad Rasheed - Ashanti wrote: "We can work on the ambiguity and solutions to the 'other things variable.'"
You sound like you are already checked out and are over-eager to pretend to be the identity of someone other than who you are... a representation of the typical unawakened American Negro neurosis. You are better than this, Ma'am.
Ashanti wrote: "Are you in California? Your quest sound like a person who lives outside of the state."
I'm an informed activist. I know all about the re-segregation of our schools and the anti-Black rhetoric to blame the problem on "lazy kids." smdh
Ashanti Ghania - How can my art teacher be perceived that way. She was trying to keep us believing the political rhetoric of the time that we were slaves because we were sub-human. Pat Buchanan was having a field day against many groups with a book of statistics called The Bell Curve. Please don’t misjudge my teacher due to my typos and clumsy rebuttal.
No self hatred here. However, I prefer more funding for pre-colonial history taught in schools as an after school program to your quest for reparations.
The Chinese community has an after school program for this purpose. I think it would be great if ADOS had one too. Plus, it helps working parents.
African-Americans are from the fallen empire of Mali.
Ashanti Ghania - M. Rasheed wrote: "I'm an informed activist. I know all about the re-segregation of our schools and the anti-Black rhetoric to blame the problem on 'lazy kids.' smdh"
There are plenty of black kids in charter schools and private schools.
Those lazy-assed kids at that Title IX school where I taught broke my heart. $80k in computers and a pre-CalArts curriculum wasted. I hope the exemplars do well, but the rest will do nothing but eat, swim and make little sharks. A wasted investment.
Muhammad Rasheed - Ashanti wrote: "How can my art teacher be perceived that way."
Mostly because of your associating being from a formerly enslaved people with shame and the fact that you keep calling the most disenfranchised and abused kids in US history "lazy."
Ashanti wrote: "She was trying to keep us believing the political rhetoric of the time that we were slaves because we were sub-human."
This group knows we are owed our Reparations for the last 150 yrs and were just as active in preventing it as our conservative foes. Your teacher was a red commie spy who hated your guts, who played those "you're special and not like these lazy others!" racist liberal games.
Ashanti wrote: "Pat Buchanan was having a field day against many groups with a book of statistics called The Bell Curve."
The statistics weren't the problem; it was the confused and racist summery that Murray & Herrnstein concluded the book with that was at odds with the statistics which the press ran with. That confusion is what created the shitstorm that the book is famous for -- the carefully compiled statistics themselves demonstrate something else entirely.
Ashanti wrote: "Please don’t misjudge my teacher"
I haven't. This is my century-old foe that I know all too well.
Ashanti wrote: "due to my typos and clumsy rebuttal."
Please stop pushing your own people away and learn more. Take the time to learn who YOU are before you go chasing after someone who unapologetically rolls around in the compounded cash they received from selling you.
Ashanti wrote: "No self hatred here."
I know the signs.
Ashanti wrote: "However"
See?
Ashanti wrote: "I prefer more funding for pre-colonial history taught in schools as an after school program to your quest for reparations."
[TRANSLATION] "I prefer we give the centuries of stolen inheritance wealth our complicit government owes us over to the motherf*ckers who sold us to the Dutch East India Trading Company."
Ma'am. That's literally what "self-hatred" sounds like. In every way.
Ashanti wrote: "The Chinese community has an after school program for this purpose."
So? That's an immigrant community. I'm not an immigrant.
Ashanti wrote: "I think it would be great if ADOS had one too."
smdh
Ashanti wrote: "Plus, it helps working parents."
To do what?
Ashanti wrote: "African-Americans are from the fallen empire of Mali."
I'm sure a portion of our very eclectic ethnic group were, but so what?
Muhammad Rasheed - Ashanti wrote: "There are plenty of black kids in charter schools and private schools."
What does "plenty" mean? lol The white liberal schools have a very strict population limit in their schools for what percentage of Black kids they allow. What percentage of those are immigrant Blacks?
Ashanti wrote: "Those lazy-assed kids at that Title IX school where I taught broke my heart. $80k in computers and a pre-CalArts curriculum wasted. I hope the exemplars do well, but the rest will do nothing but eat, swim and make little sharks. A wasted investment."
That's not how to invest in our communities, by dumping equipment and a high-level college curriculum on people who were under performing due to lack of resources to get them prepared for that stuff. Obama's Common Core program, and before that the so-called "New Math" programs, were specifically designed to get underprivileged inner-city kids and American children as a whole prepared for college by the time they graduated HS. A bipartisan white racist effort attacked and demolished both of those programs using a myriad of jackass excuses for why ultimately, the dominant group doesn't want to compete with ADOS and why they refused to comply with the Brown v Board of Education SCOTUS decision in the first place.
Stop calling my kids lazy.
Ashanti Ghania - Eh, no. She wasn’t. If I seem entitled, that’s on me, not my teacher. I am very competitive and so always aware of hierarchies in achievement. O was disenfranchised too, but I did not waste public money and did well in school.
Muhammad Rasheed - Ashanti wrote: "Eh, no. She wasn’t."
Yes, she was.
Muhammad Rasheed - Ashanti wrote: "I am very competitive and so always aware of hierarchies in achievement."
Targeting and grooming the brightest and Über-talented among us to assimilate into 'whiteness' so they make the best agents to publicly repeat the white liberal version of anti-Black racist tropes is a thing. lol That's the exact group that came after the ADOS movement also parroting the self-hatred rhetoric of disagreeing with our Reparations. lol (see: the relationship between Mike Tyson and his white handlers Cus D'Amato and Jim Jacobs, for example). White people received unlimited support and unlimited resources — a huge chunk plundered directly from my community — but you don't think I should have my Reparations, only continue to be exploited and abused while the 'talented tenth' f*ck off to Mali.
Muhammad Rasheed - You need to be debriefed and cured of this mess. I hate your teacher. 😒
Muhammad Rasheed - Where's her grave so I can go punch it?
Muhammad Rasheed - #fieldtrip
Muhammad Rasheed - #Route66
Ashanti Ghania - I hate your hatred of my teacher.
Those who do well in school of any race have always done well in this capitalist system. My teacher did not give me preferential treatment and often coached me to resent Affirmative Action, which I felt was a kick in my intellectual ego or resent my ethnicity based scholarships. My teacher is not to blame here and I will fight you in defense of her and every other teacher who helped me on to my career path and purpose in life.
Muhammad Rasheed - Ashanti wrote: "I hate your hatred of my teacher."
Psh.


Ashanti Ghania - The first two years of CalArts in story and first semester in everything else was taught. I fought against trying to teach rigging and full body modeling to kids who barely have a computer at home. My successor is battling against the rest of the impossible standards the idiots on the school board wrote and then she is continuing modify the standards to a high school level. High school kids can paint simple BGs in Photoshop and animate simple characters. I could at that age. So could the go-getters of my class. They actually drew as a passion. The go-getter aren't in my class just to be able to play basketball and attract girls.
Muhammad Rasheed - You're only supporting my point and don't realize it...
Ashanti Ghania - Those kids were lazy. All they cared about was sex and relationships. Animation is a geek metier. Get outta my class!
Muhammad Rasheed - Ashanti wrote: "Those who do well in school of any race have always done well in this capitalist system."
You don't know enough about the topic. The ones who do well who even get the opportunity are outliers from the main group. By design.
Ashanti wrote: "My teacher did not give me preferential treatment"
Of COURSE she did. 🙄 That's literally what you are describing. She sounds like the white liberal female version of "Crazy" Joe Clark and John Keating.
Ashanti wrote: "and often coached me to resent Affirmative Action, which I felt was a kick in my intellectual ego or resent my ethnicity based scholarships."
Affirmative action was one of a few programs which were the sabotage of early attempts to get me my Reparations, but were instead turned into universal "programs for the poor" that white women took more advantage of than anyone. You repeating partisan "boot straps" rhetoric about the subject means no less than you need to learn more about being an American before you run off to dig around in old Timbuktu catacombs.
Ashanti wrote: "My teacher is not to blame here"
She was part of a cell of red agents unleashed upon my community to indoctrinate proto-DEI Black professionals to sound exactly like you do in this thread. Give me the address of her grave site, please.
Ashanti wrote: "and I will fight you in defense of her"
Psh. Ma'am, I'm USMC. Your arms are too little.
Ashanti wrote: "and every other teacher who helped me on to my career path and purpose in life."
Do we need to recap what you think your "purpose in life" sounds like to the Woke?
Muhammad Rasheed - Ashanti wrote: "Those kids were lazy."
Those kids were neglected and unprepared and needed the unlimited compassion & patience that their white counterparts get.
Ashanti Ghania - M. Rasheed wrote: "Do we need to recap what you think your 'purpose in life' sounds like to the Woke?"
I like my purpose. It suits me. One size does not fit all, and that is fine. School and white liberals aren't all that is behind my demeanor. I grew up as a Buddhist with a Japanese work ethic called "Ichinen". It stresses that one pushes themselves beyond what is expected of them. Hence, my competitive nature which work well in a hyper-captalist society.
You live your way, I'll live mine.
Muhammad Rasheed - Saying "You live your way, I'll live mine," is one thing.
Saying you want to take my Reparations and give it to the descendants of my Mali enslavers as tourist trap money is fightin' woids. 😠
Ashanti Ghania - I'll give my portion. How about that?
Muhammad Rasheed - NO! 😠
You can play around in Mali & whatnot on your own time.
In the meanwhile, you're going to be a proud ADOS and like it. 😠
It's time for you to be debriefed from being a white liberal commie agent stooge. 😠 I can't do too many more threads like this. I think I had at least two heart attacks from trying to suppress my psycho side. You're welcome btw. 😠
Ashanti Ghania - You sound like my dad. G'nite, "dad".
Muhammad Rasheed -  😠
Muhammad Rasheed - Whatever...
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Tony Isabella - If bigotry is part of your "Christian faith," you're doing it wrong
Tony Isabella - I have a problem with "holy books" from any faith. They were all written by men, men more likely to be pushing their own agendas than to have been inspired by their deity. They can be useful guides for living a decent life, but they should not be worshiped.
Muhammad Rasheed - @Tony... No one is worshiping the books.
Tony Isabella - @Muhammad... I beg to differ. It's their go-to when they try to justify their vile actions.
Bob Hughes - @Muhammad... People are not supposed to "worship" the books. But depending on which denomination you find yourself mixed up in the attitude runs from "interesting" to "infallible" to "dictated word for word directly by God to King James himself." Then you add in people burning each other's books and it gets majorly bonkers really quickly.
James Babbo - @Muhammad... The entire evangelical movement preaches that the stories in the Bible are meant to be taken literally which is antithetical to the purpose of them.


Muhammad Rasheed - Tony wrote: "I beg to differ."
The religious topic is very thick and complex. Like any other field of study, it requires effort to understand it. Just because people are very passionate and even frustrated about the topic, it doesn't mean their off-the-cuff opinions are true.
Tony wrote: "It's their go-to when they try to justify their vile actions."
Yes, but people use all ideologies to twist to fit whatever agenda they are trying to push. Religion is the only one of those ideologies that people think that 'twist' is accurately reflected in the source material. This reflects a knowledge deficit underlying verbose and unchecked opinion.
Muhammad Rasheed - Bob wrote: "People are not supposed to 'worship' the books."
Worship means a very specific thing. A theist can acknowledge that the sacred scripture of their faith is very important and even crucial to their belief system without actually "worshiping" it. This may be confusing to those on the outside who believe their disapproving atheist passion against the topic gives them some form of magical insight into a complex topic they've never studied.
Bob wrote: "But depending on which denomination you find yourself mixed up in the attitude runs from 'interesting' to 'infallible' to "dictated word for word directly by God to King James himself."
People's attitudes can vary even inside of a specific sect, but that doesn't mean there isn't a difference between respectful reverence versus "worship."
Bob wrote: "Then you add in people burning each other's books and it gets majorly bonkers really quickly."
Irrelevant. People usually attack symbols that their perceived rivals & foes revere because they know it will get under their skin. For example, none of the terrorists who shot up the Charlie Hebdo Magazine offices worshiped the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) even though they were clearly very offended and pissed.
Muhammad Rasheed - James wrote: "The entire evangelical movement preaches that the stories in the Bible are meant to be taken literally which is antithetical to the purpose of them."
1.) The tales of the prophets themselves are based on true events.
2.) The purpose of sacred scripture is to both guide humankind onto the Straight Way of God and to demonstrate how to do so with the examples of the prophet-messengers.
3.) The Christians didn't start pretending that their texts were also the "literal Word of God" until they started having their epic debates with the Muslims. Here they were just mimicking the language due to esteem issues, and the clergy class had to chance tactics or risk losing their entire flock to the rising new faith.


James Babbo - 1) M.Rasheed wrote: "The tales of the prophets themselves are based on true events."
That's highly debatable. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
2) Many religious studies experts (& common sense) claim the true purpose of scripture is to provide moral & community guidelines - laws about food prep, property, judicial conflicts, etc. That's why Noah's Flood is a morality tale for example & not real.
3) Orthodox worshippers are not limited to Christians.
Muhammad Rasheed - James wrote: "1) That's highly debatable."
Meh.
James wrote: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
What's "extraordinary" about ancient oral traditions later scribed into ancient texts referencing the lives of ancient peoples? How do we know about anything that happened in the past? Perhaps the comfort of your own personal lifestyle may be hinged upon the claims of the revealed scripture not being true, but what does that have to do with the science of archeology or whatever?
James wrote: "2) Many religious studies experts"
How would YOU know? 🤨
James wrote: "(& common sense)"
Your personal subjective biases against the material are magically considered "common sense" now? To whom?
James wrote: "claim the true purpose of scripture is to provide moral & community guidelines - laws about food prep, property, judicial conflicts, etc."
There is some of that in certain select Old Testament books, but they stand out as being inserted by the later scribes as being part of the old oral teachings that do not align to the greater moral religious instruction. That's why portions of the Book of Leviticus can be so jarring and out-of-place seeming.
James wrote: "That's why Noah's Flood is a morality tale for example & not real."
You're out of the loop spewing outdated material. Look up the Younger Dryas impact theory, which turned out to be the smoking gun for the Great Deluge of legend.
James wrote: "3) Orthodox worshippers are not limited to Christians."
Did I not reference Islam at least a couple of times?

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Summer King - The same men villanizing Steve Harvey idolize Kevin Samuels 😂 and Go! I’ve got time today !!
Muhammad Rasheed - Harvey deserved to be vilified after that infamous interview with Mo'Nique. He revealed himself as anything but manly.
Samuels was harsh in tone, but he was battling the same forces that destroyed the sacred Black American Family that wielded mass media weaponry much bigger than his platform, so he needed to be.
Summer King - @Muhammad... Like telling women that they were undesirable because they were overweight…. Some of his statements were factual but some of his remarks came from a place of bitterness. Overall his delivery was insensitive and in poor taste.
Muhammad Rasheed - Summer wrote: "like telling women that they were undesirable because they were overweight…"
This was a very important message on his platform, because the average woman has been casually indoctrinated in the idea that she can get any man she wants. There is a portion of truth here, since the average-level woman has the sexual pull of a male celebrity... but that's only in the sexual marketplace where marriage isn't on the table.
The problem is that the type of male (6 ft+, wealthy, handsome) that most women say they want to marry them is only a fraction of the male populace, and that type of guy is VERY picky. The type of guy that all women say they want—who is a literal statistical rarity—absolutely personally believes that overweight women are undesirable. Pointing that out is not being mean, but provides some of the basic info you need to be aware of if you intended to compete with all the other women who also want that guy to marry them. Getting upset and calling everybody names because you need to achieve and maintain a certain level of physical fitness if you reasonably expect to get anywhere near close to the goal you said that you want, will not help you.
Summer wrote: "Some of his statements were factual but some of his remarks came from a place of bitterness."
This is a very subjective opinion that doesn't actually match Samuel's body of material. It's much more likely that the women who discover that in order to attract the attention of the type of male they want to marry, they would have to work harder in the social relations sphere than they have ever worked in their lives to compete for that guy, and they found the hard truth a bitter pill to swallow and decided to blame Samuels himself for their disappointments.
Summer wrote: "Overall his delivery was insensitive and in poor taste."
Granted, but the chances are that women who had priced themselves out of the marriage marketplace for the type of guy they want by presenting with: 
over the age of peak fertilityhigh body countschildren from previous relationshipsoverweightmasculine qualities developed from a successful working career 
...all the traits that the type of guy you want to attract DOESN'T like — you would have responded with a brat tantrum no matter how that message was delivered because you've been unfairly brainwashed into believing everyone should just bow down to your whims because of #BlackGirlMagic fantasies. 
That's not how reality works, ma'am. The sexual revolution may have worked out great for the corporate paymasters and certain slimeball, partisan political figures, but it has failed the family. If you want to be happy, you're going to have to return to a portion of the old traditional values system. 
***SUMMER KING BLOCKED ME***
Radi Lewis - Yep... you pretty much nailed it.
Muhammad Rasheed - I packaged that discussion up and posted it on my blog because, despite all of her "I got time!" and "These guys don't want no smoke!" talk, she Blocked me before the argument even got good. 😒
So now I'm soliciting for debate partners made of sterner stuff that I may test out my mastery of this new material.
Radi Lewis - I think that would be a very interesting back and forth. From what I hear from the folks who don't like him is his tone. While I don't agree with everything I think more of what he says should be taken at face value.
Muhammad Rasheed - Radi wrote: "From what I hear from the folks who don't like him is his tone."
TRANSLATION: "He didn't tell me what I want to hear and he made sense with his uncomfortable truths, so he needs to just shut up!"
Samuels was not their man and was under zero obligation to rub their backs and coo into their ears when he explained why they were 100% wrong. The 'tone police' response is a worthless fallacy and personally irritates me just as much as it does when my white racist ideological foes use it. The only thing that matters here is whether these women went to the gym or not after they heard Samuels' message, or settled for a guy at their same average level, or lower if they were a high-income earner. If they aren't trying to win and only want to continue to complain because the universe doesn't bend to BlackGirlMagic in real life, then there's no need to keep talking about it with them. I'll just smh and change the subject.
Radi wrote: "While I don't agree with everything"
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Why is Modern 'Progress' Indistinguishable From Regular Ole Self-Serving White Supremacy?" Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 28 Apr 2023. Permanent marker w/Adobe Photoshop color.

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