Muhammad Rasheed's Blog, page 94
August 29, 2020
OPERATION: Law & Order®
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "OPERATION: Law & Order®." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 29 Aug 2020. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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Awakening from the Exploitation Nightmare
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August 26, 2020
Final Say
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Final Say." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 27 Aug 2020. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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The Plastic Boasting of the Comically Risk-Adverse
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "The Plastic Boasting of the Comically Risk-Adverse." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 27 Aug 2020. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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The 'Flat Blackness' Smothering Effect
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "The 'Flat Blackness' Smothering Effect." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 26 Aug 2020. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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August 23, 2020
Notes While Observing #17: How Systemic Racism Works
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "How Systemic Racism Works." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 24 Aug 2020. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
Joe Rogan Experience #1512 - Ben Shapiro1.) In this quote from so-called Intellectual Dark Web talking head Ben Shapiro, he's being disengeneous and ridiculous in how he's trying to frame the definition of "systemic racism." He's trying to give the impression that the concept is a fiction because we've had laws (at least since the Civil Rights Act of 1866) that make race-based discrimination illegal.
"If you have a grandfather who went to prison on a particular charge, that leads to poverty for your parents which led to more poverty for you, right? People have histories, those histories are embedded in their life experiences and that’s true for societies as well. All of that is for sure true. Then there’s the question as to whether the institutions TODAY are racist. And that’s not quite the same thing. Right? Because history has consequences is not the same thing as saying that the rules of today are racist. Because the rules of today are NOT racist, actually. The rules of today are quite not racist. […] You fight against the system to make sure that the system has rules that apply to everyone." ~Ben Shapiro
Joe Rogan Experience #1447 - Tom Segura2.) In this quoted dialogue between Joe Rogan and comedian Tom Segura, Joe describes the basic principle behind how systemic racism works in getting around Califormia state animal protection laws in order to get rid of the coyote population in Whitney Cummings' neighborhood.
JOE : “I told her to get a sub-sonic 22 and just start taking them out. ‘PAP!’ It’s like this: ‘PAP! PAP! PAP! PAP!’ Put a little bait out there… [wink wink].”
TOM : “What’s the city rules about taking out a coyote?”
JOE : “The city rules… you keep your fucking mouth shut… yeah. Shoot, shovel and shut up.”
Edge of Darkness (2010)3.) In the film Edge Of Darkness, Mel Gibson's Thomas Craven character is a highly-skilled, tough-as-nails Boston police detective on a single-minded mission to solve a mystery/conspiracy and avenge the murder of his beloved daughter. One of Craven's biggest powers is the multi-generational cartel of ethnic white men who have monopolized the Boston PD for decades in partnership with local and state political cronies. In the film, Craven only uses this powerful network for good in helping him solve the evil conspiracy, but in real life, exactly such a white male dominated force is used to keep the local Black American populace disenfranchised and locked out of access to the wealth building overship class. 
The Historic Danger of the White Male Gatekeeper4.) “The average book will pass through a white agent, a white editor, a white publicist, a white sales team, a white cover artist, and white booksellers. And this process is considered natural and objective.” ~Brit Bennet
Racketeering [WIKI]5.) Systemic racism is no less than the collusion of unscrupulous white racists in partnership with political cronies to enable the group to commit race-based discriminatory crimes against the Black American slave class. Systemic racist criminal activity is in the structured process commonly referred to as racketeering. A racket, is an organized criminal act or activity in which the criminal act or activity is some form of substantial business, or a way to earn illegal money either regularly, or briefly but repeatedly.
Examples of crimes that may be alleged to be part of a pattern of systemic racist racketeering activity include:
Money laundering and other creative accounting practices that are misused in ways to disguise sources of illegal funds.Fraud and embezzlement operations, including: credit card fraud, check fraud, health care fraud, insurance fraud, mail and wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, mortgage fraud, skimming (fraud), electoral fraudBribery and police corruptionPolitical corruption Corporate corruption Bid rigging and price fixing Labor corruption or labor racketeering
Federal Communications Commission 6.) In the United States of America, competition law is known as "antitrust." The point of it is to protect the open free markets our capitalist tradition requires to function from the dangers of "bigness." Bigness is the tendency for a business to do better than its competion, and then the owners will start making moves to monopolize the market usually by merging and acquiring other businesses. Antitrust makes that illegal, and it's the government's job to protect the health flow of multiple businesses competiing fromm that 'bigness' company's greed-fueled ambitions. The biggest danger is the tendency for unscrupulous politicians to give in to their own greed and allow themselves to be bribed by the bigness company's owners to look the other way so they can monopolize that market anyway.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) were specifically created as the enforcement agencies to make sure all US businesses comply with antitrust laws and protect our free open markets. They have both failed abysmally, causing the ushering in of the Second Gilded Age -- a nigh-complete monopolization of the markets of industry by just a handful of mega-corporate entities that hoard 99% of the nation's wealth creating an evil economic imbalance. Today both the FTC and the FCC -- instead of strictly enforcing antitrust to prevent a handful of greedy corporate powers from hoarding all of our wealth -- they contract out antitrust attorneys to corporate to help them figure out flimsy loopholes to get around the law and do whatever they want.
Antitrust violations function as a major tool of systemic racism. The 1866 Civil Rights Act -- recently receiving public spotlight due to Comcast Corporation's attempt to repeal it to prevent from allowing Byron Allen's media company from entering the wealth-building class of his chosen industry -- is the law that enables the Black American former slave class to do business, make contracts and have all of the exact same wealth-building opportunities that whites enjoy. During Reconstruction, the former slave holder class deliberately fanned the flames of poor white resentments to create domestic terror hate groups designed to discourage the Black American freedmen from doing business and building wealth by actively destroying/stealing everything they were able to create and amass. Then the 1% class began monopolizing industries beginning with John D. Rockefeller's monopolization of the petroleum industry. Because this closing of the markets prevented white companies from business wealth, too, the white populists protested and the first antitrust laws were established in 1890. But the damage had already been done -- the 1% class saw that the rest of the white populace were 100% willing to economically oppress a portion of American citizenry to quench their own selfish greed, so the rich had no qualms about expliting this hypocrisy and doing whatever they wanted to do. Despite more and more antitrust laws being put in place by a short succession of white populace free market champions, the rich would push back until eventually the greater population of the country would forget how important preventing the markets from closing really was.
Today, the idea of the American captalist free markets is practically a myth, as the who's who of mega-corporate entities have free monopolist reign to hoard wealth as they like with the very stupid modern population actually applauding them for it: figures like Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, etc., are treated like a modern new gods pantheon instead of the weath hoarding cartel of villains they really are.
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Comcast Corporation and its outside counsel retained Cornerstone Research to work on regulatory and competition issues related to the $30 billion joint venture between Comcast and NBC Universal (NBCU).
The FCC and DOJ approved the joint venture with certain conditions.
Cornerstone Research provided economic analysis during the regulatory review process at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), which focused on the competitive implications of the combination of NBCU’s content with Comcast’s distribution platforms. We worked with two economic experts, Professor Gregory Rosston of Stanford University and Dr. Michael Topper, a vice president of Cornerstone Research, who submitted reports to the reviewing agencies.
Professor Rosston and Dr. Topper analyzed the implications of the transaction for competition in national and local advertising markets; analyzed the likely procompetitive effects of the transaction on the quantity, quality, and convenience of video viewing by consumers; and responded to theories of competitive harm. Cornerstone Research also contributed to several other submissions to and meetings with the FCC and DOJ, and worked with counsel for Comcast and NBCU to respond to economic issues advanced by parties opposing the transaction or seeking the imposition of conditions. After an extensive review process, the FCC and DOJ approved the joint venture with certain conditions.
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"Rather than viewing the history of American capitalism as the unassailable ascent of large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the twentieth century, this widespread fair trade movement borrowed from progressive law and economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness - not only fair prices for consumers but also fair competition among businesses. Proponents of fair trade collaborated with regulators to create codes of fair competition and influenced the administrative state's public-private approach to market regulation. New Deal partnerships in planning borrowed from those efforts to manage competitive markets, yet ultimately discredited the fair trade model by mandating economy-wide trade rules that sharply reduced competition. Laura Phillips Sawyer analyzes how these efforts to reconcile the American tradition of a well-regulated society with the legacy of Gilded Age of laissez-faire capitalism produced the modern American regulatory state." ~Laura Phillips Sawyer; American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890–1940
See Also :
Notes While Observing #16: The Exclusive White Male Homosexual Club
Notes While Observing #15: Playing the Coon Card
Notes While Observing #14: The Toxicity of Unsolicited "Advice"
Notes While Observing #13: Breaking the Chains of Plunder
Notes While Observing #12: The Sloppiest Cover-Up of All
Notes While Observing #11: Driving the Narrative of 'Whiteness'
Notes While Observing #10: The White Establishment's Plan for Profiting From Black Reparations
Notes While Observing #9: The Descendants of Yakub
Notes While Observing #8: The 1972 Gary Convention
Notes While Observing #7: Strategies of the Discrimination Olympics
Notes While Observing #6: The GOP's International War on Black America
Notes While Observing #5: The Case of the Old Switcheroo
Notes While Observing #4: Risk Responses of the Racial Contract Beneficiary
Notes While Observing #3: Pig Blood, Clinton vs Alton, & Black Twitter
Notes While Observing #2: The Crack in the Musical Bedrock
Notes While Observing #1: Stephen King (Carrie) & Barbra Streisand (Yentl Mendel)
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August 20, 2020
A Dubious Grasp of the Politic
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "A Dubious Grasp of the Politic." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 21 Aug 2020. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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August 18, 2020
Champion Policies, Not People
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Champion Policies, Not People." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 19 Aug 2020. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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Cruel Bullying of the Faux-Ally
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Cruel Bullying of the Faux-Ally." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 18 Aug 2020. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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August 15, 2020
High-Level Bi-Partisan Trickery
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "High-Level Bi-Partisan Trickery." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 15 Aug 2020. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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