Monday, February 19, 2018

Coddling the Gun Nut for Country & Corporate



Jesse Ferguson - Read this. Trust me.



Jesse Ferguson - This is where we are.

And the President and Congress wants to do nothing about it.

Ijeoma Oluo - This country. This country has our babies volunteering to die for each other because grownups don't want to give up their assault rifles.

JPemberton‏ - It's Guns > KIDS... America will give it's thoughts & prayers over the death of kids, BUT will fight tooth & nail over the thought of losing their rights to GUNS!

Robert Gajewski‏
- Says an adult who thinks gun free zones for school kids w/o enforcement or defense is aok. Take away citizen's rights is preferable to defending kids lives?

Muhammad Rasheed - Says an adult who believes that manipulative partisan talking points and increasing the wealth of the oligarchs is more important than the lives of our children.

Robert Gajewski
‏ - I speak for myself. You would prefer all citizens be as defenseless as school children in a gun free zone.

Muhammad Rasheed
- If you speak for yourself, then why are you regurgitating the exact same boiler plate GOP political talking point from the exact same hive mind?

Robert Gajewski‏ - Rasheed. You want me as defenseless as school children in a gun free zone. You make no sense for me.

Muhammad Rasheed - Gajewski. I want you and your folk to stop shooting our children. If you can't differentiate that from "Taking away the Right to Bear Arms," then you clearly don't need to be armed.

Ever.

Robert Gajewski - Saying that my opinion is boiler plate does not mean I do not speak truth.

Muhammad Rasheed - You're NOT speaking truth. You're speaking the scripted propaganda tract of a oligarch mouth-piece puppet. Your opinion cares only for enriching corporations at the expense of our children, while pretending you care about US citizen rights.

Muhammad Rasheed - You also give the impression of being a paid Russian Internet troll.

Dallas Herrmann - This cartoon is part of the problem.

I fall into the “law-abiding gun owner” category. I might even own scary assault weapons. Like tens of millions of other law-abiding gun owners, I have never killed or even threatened anyone with a firearm. You’re calling me a murderer, me and millions of others, based on the actions of a handful of deeply disturbed individuals.

I’m more dedicated to stopping the vanishingly small handful of monsters who commit mass murder than the average gun control advocate, since while the realistic threat of being killed in a mass murder is basically nil, there’s a very real chance that this small number of outliers will cause me to lose my rights.

The problem is that you’re setting up a paradigm where I must oppose you.

Literally nobody is advocating “letting mass murder slide.” That’s pure strawman.

While I have numerous points of divergence with your viewpoints, you usually have something valuable to say. There is absolutely nothing of value in this cartoon, except perhaps as a rallying cry for gun owners to oppose you.

Muhammad Rasheed - Dallas wrote: "This cartoon is part of the problem.”

Was a school evacuated in panic & terror when I uploaded it?

Dallas wrote: "You’re calling me a murderer, me and millions of others, based on the actions of a handful of deeply disturbed individuals.”

That’s one way of putting it. Another more accurate way of putting it is that I’m calling for a more efficient vetting process to do a better job keeping weaponry out of the hands of psychopaths.

It hasn’t been lost on me, Dallas, that bubbling within similar responses to yours is the implication that you believe there should be an acceptable body count of innocent Americans as part of the price of allowing you to maintain your pagan gun fetish shrine. You need a better justification.

Dallas wrote: "I’m more dedicated to stopping the vanishingly small handful of monsters who commit mass murder…”

Post the link that provides evidence of this “vanishingly,” please. Here, I’ll prime the pump with these two:

1.) In Rural America, Violent Crime Reaches Highest Level in a Decade

2.) As Crime Falls Nationwide, White, Conservative Rural Areas Fuel A New Prison Boom

Counter them if you’re able.

Dallas wrote: "… there’s a very real chance that this small number of outliers will cause me to lose my rights.”

I don’t want to lose my gun rights either, bud. There are people among us who do not deserve those rights for the sake of innocent lives. It’s ALWAYS the smallest number of unreasonable people that cause the most YUGE/BIGLY problems. I disagree that we should treat these tragedies (and the many that don’t catch the nightly news) as “nil” and “meh” because innocent Americans are worth protecting from threats both foreign AND domestic.

Dallas wrote: "The problem is that you’re setting up a paradigm where I must oppose you.”

Not a problem. I use the battle field to learn new stuff and test the mettle of my ideologies. I will gladly welcome you as a foe if you are worthy of the honor. #ThrowDownYourRod

Dallas wrote: "Literally nobody is advocating ‘letting mass murder slide.’ That’s pure strawman.”

Meanwhile, that’s exactly what your messaging states. You want to let the current status quo ride—literally allowing an acceptable body count of innocent Americans—so you get to maintain and hold nude orgy parties in front of your pagan gun shrine (or whatever y’all do with it). If this ISN’T what your message actually is then by all means, please do a better job of packaging it. There’s no other way I can interpret what y’all’s pushback is about. Cuddling with your pet 50 cal. is more important to you than some jackass shooting into a grade school. That’s unacceptable.

Dallas wrote: "While I have numerous points of divergence with your viewpoints, you usually have something valuable to say.”

I appreciate you saying so, though I suspect that’s only for those times when my personal ideology does cross over into the conservative lane. lol

Dallas wrote: "There is absolutely nothing of value in this cartoon, except perhaps as a rallying cry for gun owners to oppose you.”

Bring it. *jazz fingers*

I got at least one new cartoon idea out of this exchange already. :)

Dallas Herrmann - M. Rasheed wrote: "Was a school evacuated in panic & terror when I uploaded it?"

Not the mass shooting problem, the ideological divide with regards to gun regulation problem.

M. Rasheed wrote: "Post the link that provides evidence of this 'vanishingly,' please."

Mother Jones is a pretty reliable source here. No, There Has Not Been a Mass Shooting Every Day This Year. I tend to break the statistics down into “kinds,” such as suicide, criminal-enterprise-related homicide, homicide perpetrated by normally law-abiding individuals, terrorism-based mass murder, psychosis-based mass murder, and accidental deaths. I read the cartoon as aiming more at mass murders than the more general case, but if you’re talking about the more general case, that also seems to be on the decline: Newly-Released FBI Crime Data Shows Violent Crime Decline in 2017.

M. Rasheed wrote: "I don’t want to lose my gun rights either, bud."

I think we’re probably in semi-agreement here, in general concept if not in policy. Since neither of us has really outlined any specific policies, it’s hard to be more specific. I definitely don’t want a system where the burden is on me to prove that I am fit to bear arms though.

M. Rasheed wrote: "Not a problem. I use the battle field to learn new stuff and test the mettle of my ideologies. I will gladly welcome you as a foe if you are worthy of the honor. #ThrowDownYourRod"

I’m fairly similar myself. I’m definitely on the libertarian conservative end of the field, but I learn a lot from discussing stuff with folks who disagree with me, and I enjoy a good discussion with someone I disagree with. My original observation was more along the general sense though, in the vein that while I’m open to discussing ways in which we can preserve our rights while addressing problems, casting the discussion as “reasonable people being ignored by murderous, psychotic ‘law abiding’ gun owners” is going to lead to reasonable, law-abiding gun owners coming together as a bloc to oppose new gun regulations of any kind.

M. Rasheed wrote: "Meanwhile, that’s exactly what your messaging states."

This point took some serious thinking to parse through, in part because it’s really a strawman that is not that far from a major tenant of the pro-gun-rights argument: namely that the net negative effect of a given regulation will outweigh the positive effects of that regulation, and that the regulation is consequently undesirable. I’m very much a “a gun is a tool that does a job and can be used for good or evil” guy. I do, however, find the essay why the gun is civilization by Marko Kloss to be quite excellent. Actually, the parting line about the .50 is a pretty good example, as the .50 BMG is fairly commonly referred to as “something that civilians have no legitimate reason to own,” yet I’m aware of no instances in which a .50 caliber weapon was used in a suicide, homicide, or mass shooting. In fact, .50 caliber rifles are effective for the purpose of harvesting deer, though in this case it’s typically a lower energy than the redoubtable .50 BMG. The Nifty Fifty isn’t really a practical rifle, but there’s no logical, evidence-based reason why civvies shouldn’t be allowed to own one.

M. Rasheed wrote: "I appreciate you saying so, though I suspect that’s only for those times when my personal ideology does cross over into the conservative lane. lol"

Not as much as you might think. In a lot of cases, I agree with folks on the left that there’s a problem, but disagree on the best way to tackle it or where the problem comes from.

M. Rasheed wrote: "Bring it."

I’d rather work with pro-gun-control folks to develop solutions that address problems without causing unnecessary problems for gun owners.

Muhammad Rasheed - Dallas wrote: “Not the mass shooting problem, the ideological divide with regards to gun regulation problem.”

I disagreed with the position of my ideological opponent, I then illustrated my opinion of their position, and you’re pointing out that my opposing viewpoint represents one of the two sides of the ideological divide. So basically you’re demonstrating your expert-level grasp of the obvious. Impressive.

Dallas wrote: “I read the cartoon as aiming more at mass murders…”

The cartoon is satirizing the pushback from the anti-gun restriction crowd, specifically in how they typically sound in the aftermath of a new shooter tragedy.

Dallas wrote: “…but if you’re talking about the more general case, that also seems to be on the decline”

Yes, that’s exactly what the links I posted said—that violent crime has dropped in general nationwide, but it has increased where all the anti-gun restriction crowd live. You’re supposed to be countering my links, not supporting them. Try harder.

Dallas wrote: “I think we’re probably in semi-agreement here […] I definitely don’t want a system where the burden is on me to prove that I am fit to bear arms though.”

I think we can start by adding some form of reasonable evaluation they have to pass. Group[s] from local areas can provide the required authorization certification. That will cut down on the amount of “whites can perform angry-faced open-carry in Black neighborhoods, but Blacks will get shot/arrested if they did it in white neighborhoods” types of hypocritical discrepancies we deal with today. For example, the GOP holds the exclusive ‘crony capitalist’ contract for administering the vote apparatus every election, and you see they pulled out ALL the vote suppression techniques they could find in the 1870s vault. None of THAT mess needs to repeat, so each area (with its own emphathetic ethnic groups) can control its own people’s gun owner fitness evaluation, with regular, strict audits from the USG for accountability. No cheating.

Dallas wrote: “I’m definitely on the libertarian conservative end of the field…”

I am, too, but from the direction of the original source material of the movement, The Discovery of Freedom (1943), written by Rose Wilder Lane. I don’t care for what the good ole boy network has done with her vision since publication.

Dallas wrote: “…casting the discussion as “reasonable people being ignored by murderous, psychotic ‘law abiding’ gun owners” is going to lead to reasonable, law-abiding gun owners coming together as a bloc to oppose new gun regulations of any kind.”

From my point of view, since I was so kind as to illustrate exactly how that side is actually coming across, I don’t think the burden is on me to soften the impression they are giving; that’s asking for an unreasonable amount of generosity from me on an unbelievably serious topic (people are shooting kids in primary schools, Dallas). The choice is civilization or barbarity. They can either come to the table recognizing there is a problem and let’s in good faith work together in solving it like we are all civilized adults, or they can continue to dismiss the problem, be proudly beholden to the gun manufacturer puppet masters and choose their pagan gun fetish over innocent American lives as dedicated barbarians. If they choose the latter they may expect more cartoons like this one.

Dallas wrote: “…it’s really a strawman that is not that far from a major tenant of the pro-gun-rights argument”

That means it’s not a strawman, Dallas. I’ve expressed your admitted major tenet in its rawest, bluntest form. You just don’t like how it looks without the ultra-colorful and complex plumage of partisan rhetoric to hide the savagery of it, and you SHOULDN’T like it.

Dallas wrote: “I’m very much a ‘a gun is a tool that does a job and can be used for good or evil’ guy.”

A reasonable position to take since that’s literally what it is. The automobile is the exact same. In fact, it makes sense to just mimic the red tape gauntlet we need to clear in order to legally purchase/drive one of those.

Dallas wrote: “Actually, the parting line about the .50 is a pretty good example…”

No, it’s not since I was only satirizing again. To be honest, the partisan back-n-forth regarding which type of guns, etc., is silliness to me. All fire arms are deadly tools that can be used for good or for evil like you pointed out. We don’t squabble over the deadliness potential between the Lamborghini Countach versus the Ford Escort, do we? Yet both can kill the crap out of a mere human in the same way and for the same reasons. Does it ultimately matter if a psychopath killed your 4 yr old with a direct shot to the brain using either a .50 BMG or a Colt revolver? Either way she’s unnecessarily dead. We should focus on whether a given individual is fit to have this arsenal with some kind of basic level vetting similar to what the auto industry uses as a base and then see if these numbers take a dip. We’ll adjust as needed after the data analysis.

Dallas wrote: “In fact, .50 caliber rifles are effective for the purpose of harvesting deer…”

They’re effective for the purpose of killing engine blocks from a million miles away. lol

Dallas wrote: “I’d rather work with pro-gun-control folks to…”

You already BROUGHT IT, bud! #YourMove

Ben Andrews - Alright, you want better vetting. In your own words (I don't like or trust politicians, and I can spot prefabricated talking points) what would your system involve? How will you protect the rights of the roughly 99.99 million gun owners who don't engage in mass murder?

Sell me your plan.

Muhammad Rasheed - I don’t have a plan. I’m asking the partisan tribe with the pagan gun fetish to figure out how to keep your own psychopaths from shooting up children in grade schools. What’s YOUR plan? You whine and complain at the idea of your partisan rivals coming up with a plan for you, then fit it.

FYI — Placing bullet-ridden dead children on the alter of your gun idol deity isn’t making society better, chief.

Aaron Mills - You cant just make generalizing statements like irresponsible gun owners. Most gun owners are law abiding, for some reason people who think like you seem to be ok targeting people who follow the law! That is not how the constitution works you don't get to feel scared and justify violating others rights for acts of a few depraved individuals. Also why ask law abiding gun owners to stop killing their children? Law abiding gun owners last time i checked have not killed anyones children.

Muhammad Rasheed - Aaron wrote: “Most gun owners are law abiding”

So were all of your school shooter psychopaths until the days they decided to go shoot up children in schools. You’re championing the wrong stuff.

Sunday, February 18, 2018

TALES OF THE WATCHER: The Great Citracett's M. Rasheed File



CITATION
Rasheed, Muhammad. "TALES OF THE WATCHER: TheGreatCitracett's M. Rasheed File." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 18 Feb 2018. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.



TheGreatCitracett - So here's a comic I saw the other day being shared around, and naturally I just had to dig deeper:

[TheGreatCitracett's - Artcow Thread] M. Rasheed / Muhammad Rasheed / Second Sight Graphix / mrasheed - Racist comic artist, Islamist, Antisemite, We Wuz Comics 'n Shiet, TRIGGERED SNOWFLAKE

And I found the Facebook of the artist in question. He was spouting bizarre racism, seemingly to himself, because he was triggered as fuck, chimping out and deleting comments and blocking people as soon as they posted. And hilariously enough, insisting that those commenting were the ones triggered! I knew at that moment, I'd found someone threadworthy. The comments in question:



He stopped responding there.

I decided to poke around a bit more and see what he's all about. Most interviews and pages about him, he seems fairly normal and agreeable, I suppose... Well here's a quick bio.



Seems like he might be nice guy. Huh. Well, let's have a peek at his personal blog:

That "Advanced" Kind of Barbarity
Fear of Abandonment: Motivations for the Origins of White Domestic Terror
Weapon of the People: "The Sellout-Coon Compromise Act"

He's got the insane verbosity of Sophie Labelle, and a love of labels second only to Zyklon Ben!

That's pretty much how all whites are portrayed. Well, except for:

Notes While Observing: The Sloppiest Cover-Up of All

Those dang, dirty (((JEWS!))) Yeah, he's antisemitic as all hell too.

Only he knows the PUREST TRUTH!

Going Deep: Learning to Recognize the Truth

And you better believe he's a big believer in Muh Reparashunz!

Weapon of the People: "The Reset"

You can get Reparatin' on Patreon of course:



Aaaand how's that working out for him?



Oh.

So just who is M. Rasheed?



Muhammad Ameen Rasheed
Age:47
Native of Detroit, Michigan
Current resident of Raleigh, North Carolina.
Married father of two daughters.

He's the creator of the "Monsters 101" comic series, as well as "Tales of Sinanju: The Destroyer" and now "Weapon of the People" which seems to be the newest, blatantly hateful, racist stuff he's putting out now. From the sounds of it, he had a fairly normal if not privileged life and upbringing. Loved art, made his own comics and characters and tried getting work at a major studio but was just not quite what they were looking for. So he decided to just strike out on his own and self publish...

...Nah, who am I kidding, he decided to freak the fuck out and blame white people for absolutely anything and everything under the sun!

Are Mainstream Modern Comics Just Racist Propaganda Tracts?

The Flimsy Camouflage of the Alt-Right

Which brings us to where we are today. If you click any of the links, make it this one, I can't even begin to describe it. I really didn't think it was possible for one person to waste so much time just hating people.

Personal Blog (Pure unadulterated Cancer)

He's a Batshit crazy textwaller too!

He's a self proclaimed "Master Cartoonist" and "Award Winner", but the only awards he's won are two Glyph awards back in 2013 for Story of the Year and Best Male Character.

Never heard of the Glyph awards?

It's an award for comics by, for and about black people, and has been around since 2006.

I think that's a decent start, I'll update and add more as I'm able. I'm honestly surprised he hasn't had a thread yet, but he's only now starting to go completely batshit and get noticed.

TheGreatCitracett - This guy is super prolific, I think he's got some serious potential. He's got this major Jekyll/Hyde thing going on too, where if you search his name you basically get tons of interviews where he talks about his love of art and positive black representation, then you see his personal blog and it's all "Kill Whitey! Gas the Jews! Allahu Akbar!"

TheGreatCitracett - Comments on the Jew comic:


For a guy that insists he's for free speech, all the comment threads are mostly just him yelling at comments he deleted from people he blocked... Also, he really loves calling people "triggered" and "snowflake" despite being the very definition of them himself.

TheGreatCitracett - An update on this guy.

Turns out, Facebook doesn't like racists. It's pretty funny to see someone get their ass burned by the censorship they pushed so hard for. Now he's throwing a tantrum.  (Note the tags: "antiracist" hahaha!)

TheGreatCitracett - Cute, huh? Totally not a triggered snowflake victim at all.

In addition, you'll notice that last comic has 168 comments at the time I found it. That's the most attention he's had. Ever.

He's not taking it well...



TheGreatCitracett - I think he's under the impression that snowflake means white person. He clearly doesn't understand what being triggered is, and all his comebacks are basically "No, U!"

I like that he's trying to appeal to Facebook admins while at the same time calling them Nazi klansmen. That's sure to go over well.

This can only get more interesting. I thought he'd stop reacting to the trolls by now but he just keeps chimping...

Just look at this textwall blog post about his side of the incident.

NOT TRIGGERED!

KiwiMisetté - His works would've been relevant if this was being made during slavery.

It's honestly idiotic that people start blaming an entire race just because one person or group of the same race did something bad, whether it's at present or in the past. Then again, we ARE living in an age where calling literally everything racist is a tradition.

Also ew, his smile.

Curt Sibling - He's even worse at drawing hands than Dobson.

BlueSpark - In the comic with the vomiting snake he depicts himself as being very light skinned...  :thinking:

Zaragoza - You afro supremacist! Stop appropriating Arab culture with your surnames!

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Muhammad Rasheed - Oh, look. I found my white supremacist 'Watcher.' (I wonder if he's from France?) 

Too bad the Watchers can't break their strict no-contact rule (Uatu this guy ain't) otherwise he could just ask me stuff (or read my explanations and logic-trains in my blog posts) instead of insisting he knows exactly what I think based on his own racism lens. For example, he keeps insisting that I'm "hateful" and that's not true at all. I hate the White Supremacist Ideology since it's designed to maintain the white racist aristocracy of the West by plundering and oppressing Black people. It's willing supporters are my active enemies. I have no reason to hate whites who don't willingly support systemic racism.

Muhammad Rasheed - TheGreatCitracett wrote: "He was spouting bizarre racism..."

lol It was "bizarre" because it wasn't racism, amirite? 

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...seemingly to himself, because he was triggered as fuck..."

I wasn't triggered. I was delighted at the activity and was more than happy to engage with the new visitors.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...chimping out and deleting comments and blocking people as soon as they posted."

I deleted all of the "WE... WUZ... KANGS" posts as soon as I saw them. Since these were just trash posts designed to muck up the thread by dedicated trolls, I blocked the posters as well. Odd how you would consider that "chimping out" when it was merely good moderating.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "And hilariously enough, insisting that those commenting were the ones triggered!"

They were clearly triggered based solely on all the activity that came to shut me down from those whom you yourself admitted were white conservatives who obviously took my 'Extraterrestrial Rude Awakening' cartoon personally.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "He stopped responding there."

I stopped posting because your friends got me banned from posting in my FB account. The only weapons I was still allowed were those that let me ban and delete. Of course I could also respond to copied comments in a dedicated blog post here. I used all of these tools generously. It is unacceptable to ban me from posting in my own thread while thinking I should allow you to post whatever toxic crap you'd like. I cannot help but consider that attitude part of the white privileged-entitlement you all oddly insist you don't have.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "That's pretty much how all whites are portrayed."

You should take off your 'narrow-mind blinders' then. They are clearly hampering your vision.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "Those dang, dirty (((JEWS!))) Yeah, he's antisemitic as all hell too."

Meanwhile, I'm not 'anti-semitic' at all. I don't hate the Jews. I am interested in how that became your sole take away from that post though. Explain.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "Only he knows the PUREST TRUTH!"

lol In context, the 'purest truth' is the actual revelation of God as preached by the prophets from Adam to Muhammad (peace be upon them all). All the tribal bickering and racist/misogynistic nonsense that people pretend is the religion is merely the taint of foolish men.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "And you better believe he's a big believer in Muh Reparashunz!"

Damn right.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "Aaaand how's that working out for him?  Oh."

*shrug*  I gotta start somewhere.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...and now "Weapon of the People" which seems to be the newest, blatantly hateful, racist stuff he's putting out now."

"Blatantly hateful and racist" in what way exactly, Watcher? Do you even know what those words mean?

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...and tried getting work at a major studio but was just not quite what they were looking for."

I didn't try very long out of college since it really wasn't what I was looking for with my art.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "So he decided to just strike out on his own and self publish..."

It was the very best decision I could have made. The artist's work NEEDS to be freely expressed without the chains of corporate forcing it in a particular direction.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...Nah, who am I kidding..."

That prior line of yours was accurate though.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...he decided to freak the fuck out..."

I echo Ta-Nehisi Coates in that regard, where he said that he didn't start out advocating for pro-Black Reparations. It was his digging into history, and seeing what actually happened in white/Black race relations (as opposed to the mainstream story) that radicalized him. The same happened to me. I got angry once I read the true history of racism in America -- where it came from, what it means, and what it has done.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...and blame white people for absolutely anything and everything under the sun!"

If you mean blaming whites for systemic racism and it's wide-reaching effects, then you would be correct. Please improve.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "I really didn't think it was possible for one person to waste so much time just hating people."

Considering I don't hate people at all, that may explain the source of your confusion. #HateTheGameNotThePlayer

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...then you see his personal blog and it's all "Kill Whitey! Gas the Jews! Allahu Akbar!""

Hm. Please post where I said "Kill Whitey! Gas the Jews!" please, since that is a fiction. And I happen to BE Muslim, so even though I don't particularly remember posting "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is the greatest!"), it wouldn't be out of line at all. lol You have an issue with people expressing the common religious terms from the religion they actually subscribe to then, Watcher?

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "Also, he really loves calling people 'triggered' and 'snowflake' despite being the very definition of them himself."

I'm not triggered just because I choose to engage. These discussions actually fuel my socio-political art, so I actively seek them out. It would seem to me that the act of anonymous-watching so you and your buds can poke fun at people without actively engaging them is absolutely delicate 'snowflake' behavior. It would seem, based on how you have presented me and my arguments in this troll thread of yours, that I would be an easy target for your intended audience. Yet all I see are flip and shallow comments and the making fun of how I draw hands. lol That's weak sauce, son. I thought you lot were supposed to be the proud warrior sons of Woden or whatever? Okay, well bring it. Throw Down Your Rod.  

Or continue watching & giggling from the shadows. It is all one.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "It's pretty funny to see someone get their ass burned by the censorship they pushed so hard for."

I didn't push for any censorship. Are you Watching me or someone else? Pay attention, please.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "(Note the tags: 'antiracist' hahaha!)"

You think I'm a racist because I hate white supremacy? Explain please.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "I think he's under the impression that snowflake means white person."

lol Considering you model the behavior by refusing to allow true equal rights because you are deathly afraid of competing with Blacks on an even playing field, fearing that the balance of power will flip, then 'snowflake' absolutely means "white people." Absolutely. If you truly believe whites really are the superior race and the pinnacle of human evolution, while all the ('inherently primitive-animalistic criminal') shit you've been saying about Black people is real, then why are you so afraid of getting out of our way and just letting us BE? Because you are a coward, snowflake. Accept it. No one is more snowflakey than you. Own it.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "He clearly doesn't understand what being triggered is, and all his comebacks are basically 'No, U!'"

Triggered is the emotional over-reaction, which is what the alt-right legions demonstrated when they 'raided' me and got my FB art page deleted. As I explained, I willingly engage in Internet argument since it fuels my art; that certainly doesn't describe triggered behavior. So when my opponents insist that I'm only responding because I'm being 'emotional' even while they are actually freaking out at the very idea that an advanced alien species would crown my people over whites, "No, U!" is the only proper response. lol

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "This can only get more interesting."

It did get more interesting until they banned me. You may take up that baton if you like. En garde.

Muhammad Rasheed - KiwiMisetté wrote: "His works would've been relevant if this was being made during slavery."

Meanwhile, the systemic racism established during the slave era continued up into the present day. Try again, please. This time use facts.

Muhammad Rasheed - Zaragoza wrote: "You afro supremacist! Stop appropriating Arab culture with your surnames!"
  1. The Africans incorporated Al-Islam into their various cultures. 
  2. The original Arab proselytizers of the religion intended it to be a wildly spread, global message for everyone. 
  3. The enslaved Blacks in America were deliberately cut off from their ethnic roots by the white slave owners.
  4. When Black Americans later converted to Islam, they discarded the European slave names, changed their names by first taking on an "X" representing the unknown name of their pre-enslaved ancestors, and then an Arabic name representing the religion their ancestors most likely subscribed to as a small way of returning "home."

My Arabic name has nothing to do with appropriation. Try harder, please.

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TheGreatCitracett - Well, I honestly forgot about this guy because he seems to be a bit of a one trick pony and his main comic FB got the Zucc for blatant racism, but I figured I'd check in on him anyway. He's not up to anything terribly interesting, but he must at least google himself because he bothered to write a blog entry about me complete with a point-by-point refutation of the OP and a few other posts. Quoted @KiwiMisetté and @Zaragozatoo. Then stopped blogging two days later. Plus I got some sweet fanart which I'm gonna treasure forever.

CWCissey - Congrats on getting noticed!

Come play with us Mo! If you really want to talk that is!

Muhammad Rasheed - TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...because he seems to be a bit of a one trick pony..."

How dare you.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...and his main comic FB got the Zucc for blatant racism..."

uh... no. It got "the Zucc" because a bunch of racists got triggered and got it "Zucc'd." being anti-racism focused doesn't make me a racist. Making cartoons that make fun of racism doesn't make me a racist. Not being able to tell the difference between anti-racism versus an indiscriminate hatred of the descendants of Europe's ethnic tribes makes my Zucc'rs the racists.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "He's not up to anything terribly interesting..."

How dare you.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...but he must at least google himself..."

When I'm on an alien computer, like at a library or Internet café, I'll Google "second sight graphix" to jump on my blog. One day, to my surprise, I found your stalker-ific stalkerings near the top of the search results!

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...he bothered to write a blog entry about me complete with a point-by-point refutation of the OP..."

Anytime you feel like responding. *looks @ watch*

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "Then stopped blogging two days later."

I'm committed to one post per day now for my new editorial cartoon project.

Muhammad Rasheed - CWCissey wrote: "Come play with us Mo! If you really want to talk that is!"

Well, already I see you responded to my "point-by-point refutation" with side stepping, gaslighting, doubling-down on white supremacist support, etc., so I may as well stay over here and talk at you instead. You don't want to have a real discussion anyway, since you're committed to protecting your 'whiteness' narrative you hold so dear. This is clear.

What do you have to offer to entice me to join your stalker group?

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Knojkamarangasan_#4 - How the hell haven’t this thread got more attention yet? This guy is definitely just as exceptional as someone like Sophie Labelle and maybe I’m necroing but this shit deserves more attention.

TheGreatCitracett - I think maybe I'll check back in on him in a bit, I really haven't kept up lately.

The thing I found the most entertaining is the fact he sincerely seems to believe Facebook and especially Zucc himself are überconservative far-right white supremacist nazi rednecks who hate all minorities, particularly blacks and Muslims and are just out to get him.

He was posting super racist stuff with the intent to piss off white rednecks, acted surprised when said rednecks would then chimp the fuck out and mass report him for racism and get him zucced, which he'd then take as proof facebook is white supremacist, and use that as inspiration for his next even more racist strip. It's a vicious cycle.

It's a shame because his non-racist stuff seems like it might be pretty neat.

Beautiful Border - Looking at his website makes me think that he's just trying to get a rise out of people, but no one is going to be offended by his cartoons depicting white people as troglodytes because of how ludicrously over-the-top they are. The fact that he's been mostly ignored must drive him nuts.

I do wonder if he actually believes what he says, but I'm guessing not.

The Un-Clit - Yeah, I am fairly sure he's trolling for attention, to get more views of his 'artwork' and scare up some contracts. That guy's ranting makes "Nat X" from Saturday Night Live look like Uncle Tom ffs. No way it's real.

I like his art style, very European for such a pro-African ranter. Reminds me in many ways of Albert Uderzo's work especially.

LOL I bet he just loved the way the Numidian pirate is drawn.

RyanSlamwheel - For a guy who fancies himself a master cartoonist, M. Rasheed sure is lazy when it comes to coloring. I actually like some of his lineart, but it's ruined by the excessive use of Dodge and Burn. His stuff would be way better if he skipped the shading altogether.

Woke Blue Muslim Queen - Why using Jules when you can go with Django? After all Jules works alongside a whitey.

Broseph Stalin - It seems to be a recurring thing with a lot of Afrocentrist art. At least the lowgrade cartoony shit. Just look up Yahawasi in Google Images or any of the Black Israelite/Egyptian shit and you'll get a plethora of examples.

Muhammad Rasheed - TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...he sincerely seems to believe Facebook and especially Zucc himself are überconservative far-right white supremacist nazi rednecks [...] and are just out to get him."

I don't understand where you are getting that from. My foes were a legion of triggered white supremacists who ganged up to take advantage of FB's weak troll guards to get my art page deleted. what does that have to do with "Zucc himself?"

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "He was posting super racist stuff..."

Like what? What qualified it as "super racist?" because you didn't like it? Experience has should that members of the white racist aristocracy just make up their own fluid, emotion-based definitions of "racist" as they go.

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...acted surprised..."

I'm an anti-racism researcher. Why would I be surprised at any form of white racist mob attack?

TheGreatCitracett wrote: "...and mass report him for racism..."

1.) What racism, Watcher?

2.) The funny part to me is that white conservatives are the ones that pretend to be all about free speech. When they meet someone who really is all about free speech and welcome debate, they can't wait to silence him. #racism

Muhammad Rasheed - Beautiful Border wrote: "Looking at his website makes me think that he's just trying to get a rise out of people..."

I'm an anti-racism researcher using the history of anti-Black systemic racism in America as inspiration for my art. When people who haven't researched the anti-racism activist literature talk about it, they sound like you and your friends here. The world looks very different outside of your Whitopia.

Beautiful Border wrote: "The fact that he's been mostly ignored must drive him nuts."

???  Why would that be? The stuff I'm inspired by happens to be the uncomfortable topic the mainstream and the average Western citizen actively avoid. I'm not surprised at the silence. People are cowards who don't want to do the hard work necessary to end the demonic White Supremacist Ideology and the anti-Black systemic racism for which it stands.

Beautiful Border wrote: "I do wonder if he actually believes what he says, but I'm guessing not."

That's pure ignorance talking. You don't know enough about history to make such comments.

Muhammad Rasheed - The Un-Clit wrote: "No way it's real."

Based on what exactly? The video games you play all day?

The Un-Clit wrote: "I like his art style, very European for such a pro-African ranter."

lol There's have been quite a few "pro-Africans" in Europe since before the rise of white supremacy. The Moors built the still-standing celebrated castles of Europe, remember? Nice catch btw. I love the Belgium school.

The Un-Clit wrote: "I bet he just loved the way the Numidian pirate is drawn."

I'm a Black man in an anti-Black, white supremacist society. There are quite a few problematic issues here outside of the racist works of some of my creative influences.

Muhammad Rasheed - RyanSlamwheel wrote: "For a guy who fancies himself a master cartoonist, M. Rasheed sure is lazy when it comes to coloring."

What does coloring have to do with cartooning? If I stop adding color, will they suddenly stop being cartoons? Note that the interiors of my two graphic novel series are all in black & white.

RyanSlamwheel wrote: "...it's ruined by the excessive use of Dodge and Burn."

I used to use a 30% black layer for darks, but stopped over a year ago.

RyanSlamwheel wrote: "His stuff would be way better if he skipped the shading altogether."

I agree that's why I stopped. Now I just use a 70% white overlay on top of the flat color. That fits me better.

Muhammad Rasheed - Woke Blue Muslim Queen wrote: "Why using Jules when you can go with Django?"

The Jules gag fit with the context of the dialogue the cartoon was illustrating. Plus I didn't care for Django anyway.

Woke Blue Muslim Queen wrote: "After all Jules works alongside a whitey."

Did you even see the Django film?

Muhammad Rasheed - Broseph Stalin wrote: "At least the lowgrade cartoony shit."

Taking butthurt potshots from a hater position because you lack an argument? Sad.

Is that all you have, bud?

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gangweedfan - There are a bunch of new comics by him that have not been posted yet. Here are 2 of my favorites.

Official Harassment by M. Rasheed

Weaponizing the Weak by M. Rasheed

mickey339 - Why Muhammed "Bash the Fags" Rasheed is my favorite cartoonist.






Many of his comics have turned into WORDSWORDSWORDS, often monologues. I think that if you analysed the text walls you could arrange them into categories that each repeat a specific topic of blabber over and over again.







Though he actually goes out of his way to criticize BLM, democrats and other establishment social justice groups. My respects.





Doesn't seem found of newly arrived Africans either.


Yeeb-Renzo said: "Never thought I’d see Pepe be afraid of snakes vomiting snakes, or be in another political cartoon since a couple of months back."

It's from the bible. Moses challenges Egyptian sorceresses by turning his staff into a snake. The sorceress do the same but the staff of Moses eats theirs.

cr1nge - @mickey339... his depictions of grotesque gay men are pretty spot on

Qajinima022 - I will give M.Rasheed props for criticizing BLM and Grifters of politics/Social Justice as well.

Muhammad Rasheed - mickey339 wrote: "Bash the Fags"

I'm not "bashing" anyone, but I am critiquing the LGBT's exploitative tactics to use my ethnic group for our votes to further their agenda[s] while partnering with the leftist/liberal branch of white supremacy to continue to keep my people locked out of the benefits of American citizenship, and all while pretending to be an ally.

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Shidoen - I like to be racist and competitive at that, but I just can't compete with all of that. 

Bioniclelover - Why did he make multiple drawings of aliens turning crackers into trees?


Also the guy looks like he's only quarter-black.

The Great Citracett - He made a bunch of comics a while back where the aliens came to earth and crowned the black people kings and queens of earth while calling whites monkeys or something like that. Wasn't sure where he was going with it. Definitely wasn't expecting trees.

I'm pretty sure by now his strips have been banned by most if not all cringe subreddits for being so easy and obvious that half the subs were just loaded with Rasheed comics every day.

Bioniclelover - He apparently got a new youtube channel two weeks ago or so. You can now listen to him explaining the meaning of his comics and learn why exactly evil wypipo turn into trees or something.


Big White Bwana - I will not complain about his racism, because racism can be beneficial - what I find objectionable is that he is an uppity nigger who needs an application of some stout hessian. Nigger monkies like him should not be allowed to breathe the same air as humans.

Muhammad Rasheed - Big White Bwana wrote: "I will not complain about his racism"

Telling white people to stop being racist to my people is not racism. lol

Big White Bwana wrote: "what I find objectionable is that he is an uppity nigger"

I suggest you get over it. Just relax into it. You'll be alright.

Saturday, February 17, 2018

[MOVIE REVIEW] Black Panther: Welcome to the New Blaxploitation 2.0



Muhammad Rasheed - Back during the golden age of the HeroTalk message boards for the Museum of Black Superheroes, it seemed like every other newly-created thread in the main forum was about the Marvel Comics character Black Panther. In my memory it seemed like the vast majority of those were fanboy movie speculation fantasies, including casting calls. Echoing the most pessimistic naysayers around Candidate Barack Obama’s ambitious chances at the White House, I also remember that nobody thought a BP movie would ever happen in our lifetimes. Certainly not one that would have been worth a damn.

I just saw Ryan Coogler’s film and it blew me away. Even though I wasn’t one of those who felt the movie would NEVER get made, I absolutely thought that if it did, it would look more like the original comic… like Tarzan would have to make an obligatory guest appearance or something similar, complete with the grass skirts, huts, bones-thru-noses and et cetera of the original comic book depictions. I was very pleased to see a Black Panther movie that was far more impressive than what the old HeroTalk members even dared to hope for, with it being an amazing big budgeted, silver screen introduction to high-level Afrofuturism and what it could mean in the future for Black creators and Black genre works.


THE GOOD
  1. The movie was beautiful. I expected it to be this way when I first found out it had a Black director who went all out in making this a “Black movie.” Everything about it was a visual feast. From the casting choices, to the acting, the tech designs… I didn’t want to turn away at any point. The product itself was a proud representation of #BlackExcellence. Bravo.
  2. The movie was very pro-Black. It celebrated the Black people, and didn’t shy away or back down from that at all. The Disney-Marvel mega-corporation allowed pro-Black Black people to drive this product about 98%, Coogler took full advantage of that opportunity and it FELT that way. This was far beyond merely having Black representation in popular mainstream entertainment – this was a tiny glimpse into what having a full-blown Black-owned, multi-billion dollar Black film industry competing with Hollywood could look like. Coogler’s movie did a great job in cultivating that fantasy for this viewer while I watched.  Very well done.
  3. It would appear that Ryan Coogler spent almost every bit of that $200 million dollar budget on Black talent. Not just on the actors, but EVERYTHING. From using a Black-owned ad agency, to filming 80% of Black Panther on Tyler Perry’s new studio lot, this was a perfect demonstration in what right looks like from a Black empowerment standpoint.

THE BAD
  1. The same Black Americans that poured their skills, knowledge, talent, networks and resources into this white-owned intellectual property, could have done the same with a Black-owned product at any time. The uncomfortable feeling that Blacks waited for white Hollywood to give Blacks the space to do what they already had the power to do for their own community empowerment is aggravating.
  2. In order to make the Black Liberation-focused Killmonger the villain of the story, the film caricatured his cause from the perspective of the white supremacist troll community (“Kill whitey!”). This was actually very painful to watch, and served to alienate the Black American ethnic group from the movie they’ve always wanted to see. They did this to the movie's pro-Black Black American – caricatured his cause in the same way racist whites always caricatured Malcolm X’s cause beyond recognition – and killed him with zero effort to save him (and even had the king silently agree that the bottomless pit of the mass incarceration industry would’ve been the best place for him even if he had lived).
  3. They had the white representative of Western intelligence agencies be the brave, loyal friend of the movie’s super Black people. It was Western intelligence agencies that orchestrated the assassinations of the 1960s Black civil rights figures. It was Western intelligence agencies that created COINTELPRO and sabotaged and dismantled all of the Black Empowerment programs like The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense. It was Western intelligence agencies that were directly responsible for the evils white supremacy unleashed into the Black community which forged the man Killmonger became, yet he was the one presented as the unforgivable face of evil, while the actual orchestrator of the very evil that victimized the young Killmonger in the first place was presented as the film’s 'Token White' and squeaky clean friend of all Black people. This point is unacceptable to me, and makes me wonder if this was a result of Disney-Marvel executive meddling in the script, or whether Coogler did it organically within his own writing process. Either way it was a demonic choice and severely mars what would have been otherwise a perfect pro-Black story to me.
  4. In the Marvel Universe, a place where the martial arts function exactly the way they are depicted in everyone's favorite 'chop socky' flicks, I didn't like the close combat scenes between King T'Challa versus Killmonger. Whether he was de-powered or not, the Black Panther's millennia old, traditional close combat system should've enabled him to mop the floor with his cousin's US military fighting style. Just as Daredevil's 'mystic street ninjitsu' + American-style boxing was established as being superior to Frank Castle's USMC Force RECON fighting style, this should have been the very same.

MY FEARS

                           

CITATION
Rasheed, Muhammad. "Black Panther: Welcome to the New Blaxploitation 2.0." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 17 Feb 2018. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.


Muhammad Rasheed - Well, it looks like Hollywood has finally managed to kickstart a new Blaxploitation era.  The original one from the '70s was apparently very lucrative for them otherwise they wouldn't do it, but now after several efforts ranging from the lazy/bare minimum, to the pull-out-all-the-stops Oscar nominee, it looks like they've finally done it again.

What may enable the new Black Panther film to really take off and launch a series of heavily exploitative copycats when so many previous attempts had failed, is that Disney-Marvel handed the white-owned property to an enthusiastic group of pro-Black Black people and just let them drive. The impressive result is that it gives the illusion that this is a "Black Movie" that will empower Black people.

Of course it's not, and it won't. Despite allowing Blacks to lovingly craft it themselves, the property is white-owned, and all the record-breaking, economy-twisting money Blacks will hand over to one of the Hollywood cartel's tentacles will do absolutely nothing for them. It will be very entertaining and fun though. I wish instead that they used that money to fuel their very own Black film industry and make themselves a Black-owned product with the same buzz they gave this one, which they could have done at any time. It's not too late for that, of course, but I wish they would wake up to that sooner rather than later. Disney-Marvel does not deserve this from Black people. Blacks deserve to give it to themselves, and I wish they would. It's time to compete against Hollywood instead of rewarding them for their scraps.

My prediction is based on the previous blaxploitation periods and how they played out, so I will expect some dedicated and brilliant efforts by business-savvy Blacks to capitalize on Black Panther's success, efforts that are eventually overtaken and smothered by thousands and thousands of "Black superhero" cheap knock-offs by deep-pocketed white film makers. The latter will lack the Black empowerment message the community needs, but will instead return to type and be full of the classic 'whiteness' message in the usual fashion. The result will be that the average Black person will rarely see the pro-Black diamonds because they will be overwhelmed by all the exploitative crap, causing Blacks to quickly get tired of of the new 'film genre.' Then all it will take is one major, white studio flop and Hollywood will declare that the age of the Black Superhero film is dead, and they will refuse to finance another. Then we will return to the pre-Black Panther era of wishing there were better Black representations in film.

The solution and best case alternative to re-playing this tired blaxploitation model over and over and over again is for Blacks to do it themselves and support their efforts. Use your talents for your own products, spend your good money on the Black businesses the way Coogler did, and spend your disposable wealth and investment seed on building up a Black entertainment empire. Tell your favorite Black creators what you want to see in formal proposals, get the crowd sourced funds together to pay them to make them. Create your own brand new safe spaces and stop waiting & paying for bigoted whites to do it for you.  Build up your own, and once you do it and are well established in your own mighty Black film industry (or any other industry), then you should collaborate with white businesses and do big crossovers that are lucrative and financially fair to all parties involved.

Please wake up to the fact that the "Integration Era" has never served you and was a white supremacist scam from the very beginning. Your original goal was "desegregation" and involved removing the barriers that prevented your interconnected Black businesses from increasing in wealth and political power through Economic Inclusion into the mainstream. This would have involved Black people being truly equal and free as full citizens of the USA, competing on equal footing with the other ethnic groups you shared the nation with, including the descendants of the former slave owners. The only thing keeping you from being in that place now is YOU. Please rise up and take your rightful spot in this land you helped build.

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MEDIUM: Scanned pen & ink cartoon drawing w/Adobe Photoshop color.

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