Looking for Reparatory Justice in All the Wrong Places
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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Looking for Reparatory Justice in All the Wrong Places." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 00 Date 2024. [cartoon pending] Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
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Andre Owens - It’s amazing that crap like this new Civil Warmovie gets made but we can’t get Reparations made.
Kris Mosby - Huh?
Robert Roach - @Kris... Andre & his writing partner had theproject optioned & in late development just before the pandemic.
Andre Owens - @Robert… We actually sold the script, notjust as an option. But they just won’t make it.
Jeff Carroll - There's a Reparations movie?
Andre Owens - I sold a script called Reparations toSony in 2019.
Jeff Carroll - was about a take over of the government?
Andre Owens - Nah. Itwas a heist movie involving newly found Confederate gold that the leadcharacter is determined to get and use for Reparations.
Jeff Carroll - well Civil War is an Anti war movie.
Andre Owens - Well, I’ll have to take your word for it as Iwon’t be watching. From what Ive read, I wouldn’t like it.
Greg Burnham - I didn't think it was crap. But I agree withthe rest
Kris Mosby - My bad Andre, I thought you were referringto something else. I had forgotten about the title of your script.
Muhammad Rasheed - Andre wrote: "It was a heist movieinvolving newly found Confederate gold that the lead character is determined toget and use for Reparations."
How much gold is the script describing? "Newlyfound" back in the 1800s would make sense if it would match the"40 acres and a mule" levels at the time.
150 years later, and an estimated $20 trillion would just bethe down payment on the robust Reparations program the American Descendants ofSlavery requires to be made whole. Found gold wouldn't do it, not even the Count of Monte Cristo's cache("Zatara, the boat can't hold no more, and there's at least eight moreboat loads down there!")
True Reparations will take no less than the enormousspending power of the US Government to pull off.
Andre Owens - Uh, its called fiction.
Muhammad Rasheed - It's still important. You don't thinkthat the mass media version of fiction isn't capable of influencing society?
Look at it this way: Currently, there's an active Reparations political movement going on, and a vital aspect of it is educating the peoplein what a robust Reparatory Justice claim actually is so we can make informeddecisions at the polls. Unfortunately, some of that education involvesdeprogramming the people from the ignorance of Dave Chappelle's popular skit,that our ideological foes & rivals often weaponize against us, pretendingthe skit's silly, but stupid assumptions were real. We already have idiotsequating Reparations with "school vouchers" or Financial Literacy™night class discounts, and other stupid sh*t like that. We really don't need tohave to deprogram them of believing Reparations will have to wait until we findsome buried treasure somewhere, too.
Being a Woke Creative comes with a certain amount ofsocio-political responsibility.
Muhammad Rasheed - @Andre… Does your movie have a similar flavor to Three Kings (1999),starring George Clooney and Ice Cube?
Andre Owens - Nah, not really. Its more like a MichaelSchultz type film. Although, I could envision Terrence Malick making it.
