July Dean Magazine: July 2023

DEAR DEAN 

M A G A Z I N E 

Featured Contributor: Joshua Doss 

THE GREAT RE-SEGREGATION: 

ARE DEMOCRATS TOO EDUCATED 

FOR WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE? 

V O L . 1 9 | J U L Y . 2 2 , 2 0 2 3 

+ INDEPENDENCE FROM 

BLACK JOY 

+ 

+ 

PREMIO DIDN'T VOTE 

THE MARRIAGE OF 

THE SUPREME COURT 

AND MOMS FOR 

LIBERTY 

Plus! 

Myron's Hit or Miss List 

New Movie Reviews 

What I'm Streaming Right Now 

Hot Takes 

HOT APP 

SUMMER 

+ Mental Health in the 

Age of Malarkey

THE GOODS 

03 Welcome From Myron 

06 

The Great Re-Segregation: 

Are Democrats too Educated for 

Working-Class People? 

by Joshua Doss 

10 Mental Health in the Age of Malarkey 

by Tracey Ferraro 

16 Hot App Summer 

by Myron J. Clifton 

22 

Premio Didn't Vote 

by Steven Evangelista 

26 

The Marriage of the Supreme Court 

and Moms For Liberty 


30 Independence From Black Joy 


34 

36 

38 

Myron's HIT or MISS List 

Hot Take! x2 

Movie Reviews / My Favorite 

Things Streaming Right Now 

D E A R D E A N M A G A Z I N E , W E B S I T E , 

B L O G S A N D B O O K S A R E D E S I G N E D 

B Y K A T Y A J U L I E T L E R N E R

Welcome! 

Social Media wars heat up as Mark Zuckerberg’s 

Meta launches Threads and Elon Musk accelerates 

the destruction of Twitter. Spoutible, spunky and cando 

app that continues to grow and surprise its 

competitors. Spill is another new social app that is 

looking attract mega-users known as “Black Twitter” 

while capitalizing, along with new competitor 

Spoutible, users who have long complained of being 

targets on Twitter. The summer of Apps is here and 

there will be fierce battles for users, features, and 

advertisers. 

Take a joyful walk with us as we look at America’s 

missing connection to Black joy, the unfortunate 

connection between the Supreme Court and hate 

group Moms For Liberty. 

We have excellent articles from contributors every 

month and this month is no different. 

We pause for a moment to hear from contributor 

Tracey Ferraro who writes about mental health, and 

frequent contributor Steven Evangelista who shares a 

conversation about politics and race in a unique way 

that we know you will enjoy. 

There’s a lot here and we hope you enjoy it all, share 

it all, and let us know your thoughts & feelings on 

social media. 

We publish thought-provoking articles on 

government, gender, race, and politics, while also 

providing space for movie and television reviews, 

poetry, short stories, food, pets, fun, and a 

welcoming platform for independent authors and 

writers. 

And we provide this space for free – because our 

motto is and will remain: Some Art Deserves to be 

Free. 

Enjoy this month’s issue, please support the writers 

and the authors whose books we advertise for free. 

We appreciate you as a reader and we thank you for 

sharing the magazine to your social media network, 

friends, and family. 

Threads 

Spoutible 

Spills 

Twitter 

All your favorites are here – movie and television 

reviews, Hot Takes, Hit/Miss, and don’t miss our latest 

book advertisements from our readers. 

Finally, our featured contributor this month is Joshua 

Doss -- a Political Research and Communications 

consultant from Chicago. He specializes in economic 

policy communications and has worked in politics at 

the state and federal level as a polling/message 

development strategist. We are excited to welcome 

him as a new contributor to Dear Dean and hope you 

enjoy this month's feature, The Great Re-Segregation: 

Are Democrats too Educated for Working-Class People? 

And we look forward to seeing YOUR contribution 

soon. 

Myron 

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | July 2023 | p.3

About Me 

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Myron J. Clifton is an author of novels Jamaal’s Incredible Adventures in the Black Church; 

Monuments: A Deadly Day at Jefferson Park; BLM-PD: Revenge was Inevitable; Her Legend Lives in 

You: The Untold Story Honoring the Goddess & Our Daughters; and short story collection, We 

Couldn’t Be Heroes, and Other Stories. Also check out his weekly podcast, Voice Memos, his FREE 

digital magazine, Dear Dean Magazine, and his weekly blog at both Medium and DearDean.com. 

Myron lives in Sacramento, California, and is an avid Bay Area sports fan. He likes comic books, telling 

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F E A T U R E D B O O K 

The intimate and heartbreaking story of a Black undercover police officer who famously kneeled by the 

assassinated Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr--and a daughter's quest for the truth about her father. 

In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's 

Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound 

with a borrowed towel. 

This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days 

leading up to the murder. But he also had another identity: an undercover Memphis police officer reporting 

on the activities of this group, which was thought to be possibly dangerous and potentially violent. This 

kneeling man is Leta McCollough Seletzky's father.. 

Marrell McCollough was a Black man working secretly with the white power structure, a spy. This was so 

far from her understanding of what it meant to be Black in America, of everything she eventually devoted 

her life and career to, that she set out to learn what she could about his life, his actions and motivations. 

But with that decision came risk. What would she uncover about her father, who went on to a career at the 

CIA, and did she want to bear the weight of knowing? 


THE GREAT RE-SEGREGATION: 

Are Democrats too Educated for 

Working-Class People? 

F E A T U R E D C O N T R I B U T O R 

Joshua Doss 

In 2020, polling data showed that 52% of voters with a 

college degree support Democrats. Are we surprised? 

Surviving an institution that requires you to work 

alongside strangers far from the echo-chamber of your 

hometown and back up your thoughts with a peerreviewed 

source, may push you away from the party 

drunk on conspiracy and contradiction. But as 

Democratic majorities across the country become 

increasingly dependent on college-educated voters, the 

left is creating an enormous blind spot that even the 

strategists may be missing. 

Much like the 1932 political realignment that replaced 

the populist-era with new-deal liberalism and modern 

conservatism, we are watching a historic realignment of 

voters in front of our very eyes. And while the 

Democratic party is becoming whiter, richer, and more 

educated, America is not. This bifurcation was on full 

display during the 2022 House midterms, when 

Democrats were asked about what their political 

priorities are. White Democrats were nearly three 

times as likely (34%) as non-white Democrats (11%) to 

say post-material issues like “climate change,” whereas 

non-white Democrats were nearly twice as likely (44%) 

than white Democrats (25%) to say economic issues 

like inflation, wages, and cost of living. Locked inside 

the pyramid of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, throwing 

silent punches, white and non-white Democrats are 

fighting for the priorities of the Democratic party. 

Meanwhile, Republicans are quietly building a 

multiracial coalition of non-college-educated, workingclass 

voters, with inflation as an accelerant. 

Though the growing presence of white educated voters 

in the Democratic party is occasionally discussed, the 

discourse is often missing a key appendage that could 

make this new identity catastrophic. At the same time 

America is desegregating racially, we are resegregating 

along educational lines. Almost 90% of all college grads 

live in urban and suburban counties with more than 

60% of them living in large metros. These migrations 

are increasing non-college-educated people’s voting 

power and geographical dominance in downstate 

elections. This should be terrifying news to the 


F E A T U R E D : J O S H U A D O S S 

Democratic party, an entity that saw its support from noncollege-educated 

voters drop 20 points from 2012 to 

2020. And as the Democratic party continues to ignore its 

glaring inability to connect and communicate to noncollege-educated/working-class 

voters, it insists upon 

leaving progressive governing majorities on the state level 

at risk. 

For the last 2 years I’ve been working on an economic 

narrative project called the Winning Jobs Narrative. With 

this team, we have conducted more than 90,000 voter 

conversations with the goal of bringing non-collegeeducated 

voters back toward the party that is fighting for 

worker benefits, higher wages, and lower barriers to 

economic well-being. This project has crafted a framework 

for how to reach voters—particularly non-collegeeducated 

voters who comprised 65% of the voting 

electorate in 2020. 

Despite this, the Winning Jobs Narrative research 

shows that leaning into hard work is actually more 

effective for Democrats than Republicans. Because 

hard work is a love language to non-collegeeducated/working 

class, when we frame our policies 

only as ones that “give to the needy,” we effectively 

dispossess their agency and tell them their sacrifices 

have no room in our story. 

Hidden somewhere in the ivory tower, Oxfordapproved, 

six-syllable madness that is the Democratic 

party’s messaging, there are clear distinctions from 

the right that would positively impact working 

people's lives forever. It’s time progressives meet 

working people where they are instead of forcing 

them to fit in the “progressive narrative.” By centering 

working people in our narrative and showing our 

shared value for hard work, we can reclaim the 

escaping working class. 

So, how do we reconnect with these working-class 

voters? We must begin by highlighting all the ways our 

policies respect and reward hard work and contribution. 

Democrats have been terrified to talk about “hard work,” 

due to the outstanding job Republicans have done 

radicalizing the conversation. For years, Republicans have 

tried to make hard work about competitive individualism, 

zero sum games, and bootstrapism, all while creating tax 

cuts that allow the richest Americans to compound their 

wealth by extracting from working class labor. 

Joshua Doss is a Political Research and Communications 

consultant from Chicago. He specializes in economic policy 

communications and has worked in politics at the state and 

federal level as a polling/message development strategist. 

Using social media as a direct and unfiltered way to 

connect with voters, Joshua has amassed well over 15 

million views and 140k subscribers to his platform. 

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Jamaal's Incredible Adventures in the 

Black Church by Myron J. Clifton 

Before Jamaal's seventeenth birthday, he’s appointed as his preacher uncle’s 

designated driver and unwilling personal confidant. Behind the fine outfits and 

hats, behind the delicious cooking, Jamaal is exposed to crazy aunties, sexy church 

sisters, corrupt pastors, and predator deacons. A good kid who just wants time to 

finish his homework and kiss a girl his own age, Jamaal is dragged through the 

strange world of the Black church. You best pray for him. 


We Couldn't Be Heroes 

Short Story Collection: We Couldn't Be Heroes And Other Stories What if a Black 

man could control the weather, God called 911, or aliens took our souls? Would 

we notice? Would we care?... Enjoy the entire collection, seven stories in all, on 

earth and in space and in any order. 


F E A T U R E D S P O T L I G H T 

by Tracey Ferraro 

We are living in the age of Malarkey. While the GOP has 

citizens without (further) harming our mental health? 

played fast and loose with honesty and integrity 

throughout history, after 2016, lying pretty much became 

the air Republicans breathe: Russian-backed disinfo Ops 

via social media to help elect TFG; Trump himself lying 

16,000+ times over the course of his Presidency; the 

politicization of a public health emergency; and then, of 

course, “The Big Lie” that spawned an insurrection--just 

to name a few. Are we now living in a Post-truth society 

where those who scream “Debate me!” the loudest are an 

apathetic MSM’s arbiters of truth? And don’t get me 

started on the Very Online Left–a collection of grifters 

and their feckless acolytes more intent on hating 

Democrats and arguing disingenuously, than focusing 

Self-care is key, but that means different things to 

different people. For me, self care is innately connected 

to writing. From the lock-and-key secrets of my 

childhood diary, to stopping and starting a few different 

blogs over the years, writing has gotten me through 

some of my darkest, most broken, moments. Nowadays, 

I’ve mostly moved my writing to Twitter–while it’s still 

here–in order to hash out my emotions and stop my 

thoughts and fears from roiling and festering inside. An 

added benefit of tweeting through it is when a good 

venting session goes (semi)-viral, the dopamine hit of 

knowing I’m not alone in my feelings helps, too. 

their ire at the party fully intent on bringing Fascism to 

our collective shores. 

But sometimes venting alone can’t fix everything. On 

days like this past June 30th, when an illegitimate 

With the almost-daily assault on people of consciences’ 

psyches since that traumatic election night in 2016, how 

have we handled our collective mental health? From the 

death by 1,000 atrocities of the Trump years, to the 

isolation of COVID lockdowns, to how Clinton’s most 

devout supporters have seen, like the doomed Cassandra 

of Greek myth, their prophecies of a hyper-partisan 

SCOTUS declared that discrimination was legal again, I 

had to take a break from Twitter and screaming at 

Leftists and literally go touch grass for fear that if I 

didn’t, I would collapse under the weight of my rage. It 

helped a little–but not enough. The angry tears 

wouldn’t stop, and my thoughts were a whirlwind of 

fury and pain. 

SCOTUS play out in real time, it’s been a Hell of a time for 

everyone–not just Highly Sensitive People like myself. 

The hits just keep coming, with no foreseeable end in 

sight. 

So I called up the next trick in my rolodex of Mental 

Health antidotes; I got off my butt and volunteered to 

help my fellow (hu)man. My husband and I spent that 

next Saturday morning at our local food bank working 

So how do we remain an informed and active global 

and watching the food we prepped go out the door and 


T R A C E Y F E R R A R O 

into peoples’ cars; knowing that because of the part we 

played, our clients would have a large, nutritious, and 

delicious meal that day to enjoy with their families. 

Working at the food bank is always a boon for me 

because not only does it consciously and effectively 

remind me of the several layers of privilege I’m 

cocooned in, but it gives me the chance to make a 

difference in my little corner of the world. Not only that, 

but the constant push and pull, bend and lift, sort and 

pack, with a team of like-minded people, fulfills both my 

need for exercise and community. Doing good for others 

gets me out of my head and into the present and 

reminds me that even when the world seems to be just 

too much, there are still good people out there striving 

to make it a better place for all. 

And it helped. Although I was stiff and sore the next day, 

the miasma of my rage had lifted, and I was once again 

centered and–to borrow a phrase from the late 

Honorable John Lewis – ready to make good trouble. In 

light of SCOTUS’s civil rights setbacks, I’m now, more 

than ever, determined to work to get out the vote in the 

truly Purple state of Texas. Not only to locally beat back 

the partisan machinations of Gregg Abbott, Ken Paxton 

and their bigoted ilk, but because sooner or later, we’re 

gonna flip this State Blue at a National level, too, (Watch 

out, Ted Cruz!) and we’ll be one step closer to righting 

the wrongs of both the near and distant past. 

So take a break, regroup, reset, and remember–as the 

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said– “The arc 

of the moral universe is long, but it eventually bends 

towards justice.” We must allow ourselves grace to rest 

and fight again another day. We must remember that 

we are not alone–although it may feel like it at times– 

and that we are stronger together. Caring for ourselves 

and remembering our connections is how we can 

protect our peace, and our mental health, in this Age of 

Malarkey. 

Nowadays, Tracey’s life is approximately 4 to 7 chronic 

aches and pains in a trench coat. When she’s feeling well 

enough to function, she volunteers in her local 

community, goes thrifting, writes, and cares for her 

menagerie of furballs. When she isn’t feeling well 

enough to function, she drinks a lot of coffee and yells at 

people on Twitter. You can find her @TeeEmEff on both 

Twitter and Spoutible. 



In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, Catherine 

Prendergast draws on a combination of insights from legal studies and literacy studies to interrogate 

contemporary multicultural literacy initiatives, thus providing a sound historical basis that informs current 

debates over affirmative action, school vouchers, reparations, and high-stakes standardized testing. 

As a result of Brown and subsequent crucial civil rights court cases, literacy and racial justice are firmly 

enmeshed in the American imagination—so much so that it is difficult to discuss one without referencing 

the other. Breaking with the accepted wisdom that the Brown decision was an unambiguous victory for the 

betterment of race relations, Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of 

Education finds that the ruling reinforced traditional conceptions of literacy as primarily white property to 

be controlled and disseminated by an empowered majority. Prendergast examines civil rights era Supreme 

Court rulings and immigration cases spanning a century of racial injustice to challenge the myth of 

assimilation through literacy. Advancing from Ways with Words, Shirley Brice Heath’s landmark study of 

desegregated communities, Prendergast argues that it is a shared understanding of literacy as white 

property which continues to impact problematic classroom dynamics and education practices. 

To offer a positive model for reimagining literacy instruction that is truly in the service of racial justice, 

Prendergast presents a naturalistic study of an alternative public secondary school. Outlining new 

directions and priorities for inclusive literacy scholarship in America, Literacy and Racial Justice concludes 

that a literate citizen is one who can engage rather than overlook longstanding legacies of racial strife. 



Motorcycling in California's 

Central Valley 

The heart of California's Central Valley--from Lodi, Stockton, and Tracy through Modesto, Oakdale, and 

Turlock--embraced motorcycling from the beginning of the sport and lifestyle. Eleven riders from the region 

are in the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) Hall of Fame, spanning every decade from the 1900s. 

The popularity of bicycling in the 1890s led to early motorcycle shops, riders, and champion racers 

in the 1900-1910s. 

Area motorcycle club recreational rides and field meets started in 1914. Central Valley police departments 

were among the first to develop motorcycle traffic units in the 1920s, before the California Highway Patrol. 

Early racing venues such as repurposed bicycle velodromes, college stadiums, and horse tracks were 

expanded when the Lodi Cycle Bowl was developed in the 1950s; it gave newcomers such as Modesto's 

Kenny Roberts and Stockton's Alex Jorgensen, Chris Carr, and Fred Merkel--all now AMA Hall of Famers--a 

track at which to compete weekly. 


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HOT APP SUMMER 


The App wars are heating up as millions of people are 

signing up for a new group of social media apps which are 

all trying to fill the void created when Elon Musk bought 

Twitter and decided to turn it into an incel, nazi, and white 

supremacist sewer. 

Twitter has shedded millions of users, advertisers and 

revenue. And when Elon decided to charge for verification 

— blue check marks — and allowed hate, racism, 

antisemitism, homophobia, and foreign disinformation 

and misinformation to thrive on the app he and his Saudi 

backers purchased for a whopping — and vastly 

overpriced — $46 billion dollars, things quickly got worse. 

The pace of the fall and decline of Twitter left users 

confused and angry. 

Some reports say revenues are down by as much as 40% 

since the misnamed “genius” took over the app from 

perpetually weird and faux zen Jack Dorsey. Jack even has 

a new app to compete with Twitter because I guess his 

non-compete clause expired or something. 

Jack’s app, like his brand of new-age mumbo-jumbo, is 

garbage, thus proving again that lightning does not 

strike twice. 

But Jack isn’t the only one trying to cash in on Musk’s 

disastrous foray into social media. Musk’s Twitter is 

crashing and burning faster than his Tesla’s on autopilot. 

There were a couple of new apps who sought to quickly 

capitalize on Musk’s nonsense — Post, which launched 

in April 2023, and which is owned by Noam Bardin, and 

Mastodon, owned by Eugen Rochko, which launched in 

2016. Each app has limited reach and appeal, and even 

less general awareness. 

Both apps are clunky, limiting, and not very inviting to 

the general public. They are also each virtually absent 

from the most influential twitter network — Black 

Twitter. And from reading comments about the apps 

from Twitter users, they’ll never be the go-to place for 

Black social media users. 


M Y R O N J . C L I F T O N 

Both apps seem to be okay with that since neither has 

made an effort to reach out to Black users or to advertise 

themselves as an alternative to the hate that is commonly 

directed at Black social users on Twitter. 

Conversely, two other new apps expressly presented 

themselves as safe places for Black users and other 

marginalized users, including the LGBTQ and Jewish 

communities, both also frequent targets of online hate 

that Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey allowed and at times 

seemed to encourage. 

enhancements including: joint threads, ability to include 

up to 10 photos per post, auto-numbered threads, and of 

course better security features that users control. Bouzy 

also pledged to prevent cross-platform harassment — 

get blocked and banned on Twitter for harassing 

someone? Spoutible will see to it the block follows the 

users. Spoutible also made migrating verified accounts 

easy for users as well and that helped spread the word to 

key national media users, reporters and writers, and 

social media marketing users. 

The first of these new apps is Spoutible which launched in 

January 2023 and is owned by Christopher Bouzy, the 

owner of the popular Bot Sentinel program that is used 

by journalists and researchers. Spoutible, which I wrote 

about here: 

Spoutible is smartly growing while fending off non stop 

attacks from bots and foreign (and maybe domestic) bad 

actors who have repeatedly launched attacks at the app. 

The general consensus from users of Spoutible is the 

attacks are presumably because it is Black owned and it is 

powered by Bot Sentinel which is loathed by.. makers of 

bots and single purpose harassment accounts of the types 

that relentless attack famous Black women like Meghan 

Markle and Michelle Obama. 

The recent launch of the app for Android users is being 

touted as positive but the launch also has IOS users more 

impatient than ever. Bouzy says the IOS app, which is in 

beta testing now with selected users, will launch soon. 

He recently shared a screenshot of the IOS app that 

received positive feedback from those who viewed it. 

Taking an idea from Spoutible to another level, SPILL 

launched a week ago to wild excitement as the app 

specifically said it was *for Black people. And Black social 

media users went wild and Spill quickly reached top of 

trends as the most vociferous and motivated user group 

spread the word that there was a safe and exciting place 

for the unique social presence of Black users. 

Spoutible’s launch was slow as it was at first only web 

based, something social media users pretty much 

universally loathe. The reasoning made sense — managed 

growth to ensure the best security for the communities 

Bouzy said he was determined to protect. 

Spoutible recreated much of the functionality of Twitter, 

but added some much needed and asked for 



D R . M Y R O N J . C L I F T O N 

Spill was founded and is owned by Alphonzo “Phonz” 

Terrell and DeVaris Brown. Spill, with a team of former 

Twitter employees, directed their marketing efforts and 

key influencers square into the middle of Black Twitter by 

using the language and phrases familiar to Black people — 

Visual Conversation at the Speed of Culture. 

that have different menus, different decor, different 

atmospheres, different clientele, and different prices. 

You will visit both as the mood hits, and you’ll enjoy both 

differently. 

What will undoubtedly have the biggest impact and 

dominate the Hot App Summer though is Threads, from 

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta. 

Even their functionality is culture-based and instead of a 

Tweet or a Spout, there’s Tea and Brewing your Tea. And 

the app allowed videos, memes, and gifs at launch, 

recognizing that their user base creates and uses the 

functionality more than any other users. 

Like Spoutible, Spill had a limited launch, going with the 

“Invitation only” route and only on IOS initially. The 

exclusivity helped drive early demand as users searched 

social media looking and asking for the elusive Invite 

Codes. It was a necessary tactic as the Spill team ramps up 

capacity and finishes testing, and they handled it in a way 

that created demand and word of mouth even though they 

could not initially meet the demand. 

The media frenzy exceeded that of Spoutbile (and 

Post/Mastodon) which was more methodical, but as or 

even more effective for growth. 

The public got to witness in real time two different 

marketing strategies, each with varying degrees of success 

and stumbles. 

Threads was launched July 7th and within an hour there 

were 5 million users. By the next morning there were 70 

million as of day 3. And the march to a billion is on, which, 

at its current rate they will hit by the end of the year, if not 

sooner. 

Threads had a built-in advantage though, since Mark 

Zuckerberg also owns Meta/Facebook/Instagram, whose 

combined user base is almost 4 BILLION — or half the 

world’s population. 

Seeing those numbers makes it easy to realize that 

reaching a billion users is a done deal. 

Zuckerberg hired workers Musk fired and already 

humiliated. And many of the workers say they were 

cheated out of severance. Twitter employees were also 

asked (some say forced) to sleep on floors, clean their own 

restrooms, and endure other degrading treatment by 

Musk before being fired. 

Zuckerberg and Musk have mutual dislike so there’s no 

doubt Zuckerberg is enjoying the collapse of Twitter as 

much as he’s enjoying the accelerated ramp up of Threads. 

Though I have used Spoutbile since launch and have more 

experience with it and I’ve only used Spill for a few days, I 

believe there is room for both apps in the social media 

landscape as their approaches are different, the user base 

is generally different — though certainly there will be 

crossover users as I am — and their growth strategies 

different. Think of them like two very good restaurants 




Musk threatened to sue Zuckerberg for hiring his ex 

employees, and for allegedly stealing trade secrets. Musk is 

the current laughingstock across social media and because 

of it his famous petulance is raging and lashing out. He 

suspended Spoutible’s and Bot Sentinel’s accounts, and his 

law team’s letter to Meta/Zuckerberg is making the round 

on Twitter and Threads — as the butt of all the jokes, of 

course. 

Imagine being so hated that people flee to another 

Zuckerberg app. Elon Musk unlocked that level of scorn in 

record time. But when you pal around with folk like the 

Saudi’s and Jared Kushner, encourage Nazi’s, and side with 

white supremacists, dictators, Russia, and the worst trolls 

and insurrectionists… what do you expect normal humans 

with moral guidance to do? 

The functionality of Threads is similar to Twitter — gifs are 

funky, and users are warned that if they delete Threads 

they will be deleting Instagram. 

Zuckerberg gonna Zuckerberg. 

It is good to remember that Threads has a built in user 

base and though the numbers are impressive, that is to be 

expected when you literally have 4 Billion users across 

your platforms. 

Zuckerberg leveraged having everyone’s information 

already to make joining Threads easier than the sign-up 

processes of the other new apps. 

Users just just needed to make a few keystrokes and 

Threads would automatically import all their information 

from Instagram — bios and links, and then it would autofollow 

any other Instagram user who you were already 

following and who had also opted in. 

It took me about five minutes to activate and start 

Threading. 

There’s no doubt Threads will also have incremental growth 

— new users who were not previously on Instagram or 

Facebook — because there remains social media 

opportunities for the apps that can create — recreate that 

is, the global town square that Twitter had dominated 

outside of the Facebook/Instagram apps. 

There may also be consolidation soon as the overlap 

creates opportunities for the capitalists to do what 

capitalists do. 

The good news is that social media users have a choice on 

where to spend their valuable and limited online time. 




We have seen the maturing of social media over the past 

twenty years or so and it is following the same trajectory as 

all other industries, just a lot quicker. 

The social media landscape of the past — AOL Instant 

Messenger (AIM), MySpace, Aimster, Google Wave, Yik 

Yak, Vine, Google +, ITunes Ping, SnapChat and others — 

gave way to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok, and 

now Threads, Spill, and Spoutible. 

The summer of hot apps is just heating up and the battle for 

users, popularity, and trend-setting hot takes will be fun to 

watch — and participate in as users and advertisers. 

What will be most critical though will be how the apps 

function during the presidential campaign. 

Will they be slow to respond to foreign interference again? 

Will they allow insurrections to be planned in the open on 

their apps? 

Will they allow foreign and domestic shadowy 

organizations to spread misinformation and 

disinformation? 

Will they allow more single-purpose hate accounts to again 

thrive? Will they allow Russians to buy ads, create fake 

accounts, and use those accounts and the advertising 

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The power of social media is proven and will only gain 

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Premio Didn't Vote 

by Steven Evangelista 

“What do you mean, you didn’t vote last year? You have so 

many strong opinions.” 

to the voters who will turn out, especially those who are 

undecided.” 

It was hard to make out through video chat whether 

Premio’s face really shifted at my comment, but I thought I 

saw his mouth contort uncomfortably. Perhaps it was 

confusion. 

Premio shrugged. “What difference does it make if they 

care about me? The politicians are all liars anyway; I see 

other people getting all these phone calls and mailings, 

and I don’t have to deal with that bullshit.” 

“I don’t know, maybe I did,” he said. “I don’t remember. The 

election isn’t until next year, I thought. That’s all Trump 

keeps talking about, 2024, 2024.” 

It was one of those moments of a flash decision, which 

seemed to happen frequently in my now-weekly video chats 

with Premio. His bringing up Trump reminded me that if I 

encouraged him to vote, I would be hurting my own cause. 

But if I didn’t engage him in genuine conversation about his 

civic duty, I would have no chance of changing his mind. 

I chose to dive in. 

“You know,” I started. “You’re the type of citizen that the 

campaigns don’t even care about. If they think you aren’t 

going to vote, they will lump you in with people they can 

ignore. Their time and money are limited so they will cater 

After a pause, he went on the offensive. “Why do you 

waste your time with this crap?” 

“People died for the right to vote,” I said. “And like you, I 

have ideas for how my community, and my country, 

should work. If I don’t vote, I don’t have a say. That’s the 

essence of democracy. 

If you don’t get to the polls, you have no right to 

complain about the Pledge of Allegiance not being 

required in schools, or taxes being too high, or ‘In God 

We Trust’ coming off the currency, or any of the other 

crazy conspiracy theories you’ve told me about.” 

And as I registered my own flustered tone, I realized 

that, yet again, while I thought I would be pushing his 

buttons, Premio was riling me up instead. 


S T E V E N E V A N G E L I S T A 

Premio shrugged once more. “No one ever took away my 

right to vote. You are always talking about that guy, the 

one who died, and Black people and women and all that. 

Well, they always had the right to vote for white men like 

me. I’m fine, I’ll use my vote when I want to. I am too busy 

chasing girls and getting good at barbecue now that I am in 

the South. And I still don’t see how it makes any difference 

for things I care about. One and one don’t make three, and 

voting doesn’t matter to me. They won’t even know 

whether I vote or not.” 

“Do you mean John Lewis, the ‘guy who died’? That was a 

great man. And yes, he wanted expanded access to the 

ballot for all Americans.” I wasn’t getting anywhere with 

self-interest, but he mentioned race and gender! Maybe I 

could find a shred of empathy for others. 

“If you aren’t engaged in the political process,” I asked as I 

looked at the screen directly in Premio’s eyes, “how can 

you use your safe and secure voice for the voiceless? There 

are Black people across the country, probably in your state 

too, who have only one polling site in their district, who 

have to wait online for hours to vote. In Georgia–that’s 

right next to your new state, you know–you can’t even 

bring someone a bottle of water in that heat while they 

wait!” 

my voting or not voting is not part of it. They want 

barbecue, girls and beer just like me.” 

“That’s not what that one Black friend trope is about. It’s 

used by white people who want to prove they aren’t 

racist, when in fact they live their lives indifferent to the 

common good, which inevitably hurts Black and brown 

people, or they are overtly racist. But they have managed 

to find one Black person who will overlook their 

indiscretions. Proximity to whiteness can be intoxicating 

for striving, marginalized people.” 

“I would never get a person drunk against their will, Black 

or otherwise. No roofies here neither. In fact, I’m afraid of 

Black people. I think it would be even worse if they were 

drunk. Do you see all that shooting in Chicago?” 

At this point I was lost in the sea of Premio’s confusion. 

“There’s no map to get out of your brain, is there?” I 

asked. 

“What do you mean?” he replied. 

“Maybe,” I told Premio before ending the call, “it’s best if 

you just don’t vote.” 

“What does water have to do with it?” Premio said. “And I 

have one Black friend, I know what those people want and 

Steven Evangelista, a lifelong New York City resident and 

a product of New York City public schools, is a father of 

two living in Manhattan. After teaching various elementary 

school grades in Upper Manhattan, he co-founded and coled 

Harlem Link Charter School for 17 years. 


Vernon L. Andrews 

Policing Black Athletes 

Racial Disconnect in Sports 

O R D E R 

T O D A Y !

BLM-PD 

BLM-PD 

BLM-PD 

BLM-PD. BLM-PD. BLM-PD. BLM-PD 

BLM-PD 

In the not too distant future, the US has been taken over by white nationalists, and 

the institutionalized racism that has underscored the country’s entire history has 

once again been codified. California has seceded from the US, and a band of strong 

women plan to start the next civil war following the death of their friend at the hands 

of the police. This is BLM-PD.


THE MARRIAGE OF THE SUPREME 

COURT AND MOMS FOR LIBERTY 


The Supreme Court struck down Harvard’s and University 

of North Carolina’s affirmative action efforts 6–3, 

continuing the Robert’s court deep efforts to undo civil 

rights gains won over the past 60 years. 

Every justice on the supreme court benefited from 

affirmative action to get into and through university, and 

into every post law school job, and finally onto the very job 

that allows them to undue civil rights gains our parents and 

grandparents protested, fought, died, were beaten, and 

voted for. 

Just like with women’s right to an abortion, the Supreme 

Court is upholding and reinforcing both the patriarch and 

white supremacy. 

American history made it illegal for Black people to learn. It 

was illegal to read, to have a school, and of course to attend 

university, unless we were building them, being sold to pay 

school debts, or cleaning and maintaining them. The story of 

Georgetown is one of many examples of a school 

recognizing its role in enslavement and white supremacy. 

Georgetown Reflects on Slavery, Memory, and 

Reconciliation - Georgetown University 

Home Georgetown Reflects on Slavery, Memory, and 

Reconciliation Georgetown Reflects on Slavery, Memory, 

and…www.georgetown.edu 

But Black folk were not to be stopped. Our ancestors (many 

still living) created their own schools, trained their own 

teachers, and taught their children the value of 

education as a way to liberation and better lives. 

My own grandparents attended school in the south that 

was K-12 — in one room with two teachers. 

It is worth noting that schools that primarily serve Black 

students are underfunded by billions of dollars even 

now. 

Legacy of Jim Crow still affects funding for public 

schools 

The Brown v. Board of Education decision framed racial 

segregation as the cause of educational inequality. 

Brown's…sc.edu 

The ruling doesn’t end affirmative action — that is only 

half the truth. 

The ruling ends affirmative action for Black people. It 

keeps intact affirmative action for white people which is 

why the court didn’t invalidate legacy, donor, employee 

families and special recommendations which are still 

allowed and are almost exclusively utilized by white 

students. 

It is also important to note that affirmative action 

benefits white women the most and that about 70% of 

white women support ending affirmative action as this 



excerpt from @teenvogue explains: 

“Despite these impressive gains for white women, 

approximately 70% of them somewhat or strongly oppose 

affirmative action, according to the 2014 Cooperative 

Congressional Election Study. Many scholars, myself 

included, argue this opposition is clearly related to right-wing 

anti-affirmative action campaigns that have successfully 

focused national attention on race-based affirmative action.” 

The only way to change the system is to vote for 

Democrats in every local and national election. No 

republican running for any office will work to ensure 

equality, equity, inclusion, or diversity. None will 

advocate for fair public-school funding. None will work to 

dismantle white supremacy, unfair college admissions, or 

student debt relief. 

Folk won’t be complaining about student debt when you 

can’t get into universities in the first place. 

All voting is local and also all voting is national. 

White Women Benefit Most From Affirmative Action 

White women benefit most from affirmative action. It's 

not an accident that conversations about affirmative 

action tend…www.teenvogue.com 

While the Supreme Court upholds white supremacy for 

universities, at the K-12 schools, the Moms for Liberty 

are furiously working to end all teaching about Black 

history and to ban books from Black and other POC 

authors. 

The marriage and alignment of the Supreme Court and 

Moms for Liberty will have devastating consequences for 

education in America for everyone, not just Black folk. 

In the 2016 presidential election Hillary Clinton 

prophesied that if Trump wins he could reshape the 

supreme court by appointing 4 justices: 

“In a speech in Wisconsin, Clinton put the future of the 

Supreme Court at the center of the election debate, 

cautioning that any Trump-appointed justices would be likely 

to roll back workers’ and abortion rights and “demolish pillars 

of the progressive movement.” 

Hillary Clinton, March 28th, 2016 

MOMS FOR LIBERTY ARE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS 

Does that headline bother you? Do you think it is 

extreme or hyperbole? Or maybe you think the headline 

is clickbait…myronclifton.medium.com 

Black Americans are fighting wars on multiple fronts 

trying to stem the ever-present tide of dirty water that is 

educational white supremacy, and we can’t do it alone. 

We need the rest of the democrats so-called big tent to 

help us out, especially but not exclusively, white women. 

The same folk who benefit the most from affirmative 

action have by majority voted against democratic 

presidential candidates since the 1960’s. 

With the 2024 election on the horizon the ruling by the 

supreme court will galvanize republican voters who are 

feeling victory today. They will want to preserve the 

ruling, preserve the ban on abortion, and preserve 

patriarchal white supremacy.. 

Make that make sense. 



Democratic voters must be more motivated to change 

the course the nation is headed in. 

The message from republicans is clear and the 

message from democrats, in the form of overwhelming 

voting responses must be clearer still: We are not going 

backwards, the rights of everyone will be respected, our 

full history will be taught, and we will continue to work to 

unravel the remaining vestiges of racism in all its forms 

and wherever it reaches. 


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INDEPENDENCE 

FROM BLACK JOY 


Many Americans will celebrate Independence Day 

today/tomorrow in celebration and honor of the nation 

breaking away from England’s rule. 

All that freedom talk and posturing in support of being 

free while upholding and expanding the institution of 

chattel slavery remains one of the most hypocritical acts 

by American men regarded as champions of freedom, 

democracy, and inalienable rights. 

Something else those men — known to some as founding 

fathers — got independence from? Black Joy. 

In their work to build a nation free from tyranny and 

freedom while still owning Black people, early white 

Americans separated themselves from Black Joy. 

Though they worked nonstop to keep our ancestors in a 

constant state of fear and pain, and without hope, they 

failed miserably in small and large ways. 

The didn’t stop our ancestors from finding internal joy, 

sharing joy among themselves, and figuring out how to 

imagine and hope for a future for their descendants that 

would be safe for us to loudly express our joy in ways they 

could not. 

And now we do. 

In music, theatre, movies, television, books, and in our 

homes, offices, churches, and parks. And we do it on 

social media with such energy and enthusiasm, and in 

such overwhelming numbers, that every social app’s 

most popular trends, memes, gifs, comments, tweets, 

Spouts, Spills, photos, and videos/TikToks, are most 

often created and shared by Black users. 

And no matter how racists, magas, Russians and other 

foreign and domestic trolls and haters try to attack 

Black users, and no matter how Twitter, TikTok, and 

Facebook allow Black users to be the most attacked 

groups on social media, Black joy online remains 

undefeated. 



Black words light up social media and generate laughs 

across the globe and causes various other communities 

to come together to laugh with us. 

Black humor recognizes no boundaries or limits and has 

disregard for tact, style, grace, unwritten and written 

rules, and your sensibilities. 

In short, Black online humor is the continuation of what 

Black folk have long done at home and on the streets: 

Cappin,’ Rankin,” Shootin’ the shit, Dissin’, 

Throwin’ Shade, Spillin’ Tea, Droppin’ dimes, 

And one of the oldest, The Dozens. 

The Black diaspora (African, Caribbean, American, 

European, the Americas) and Irish Twitter and TikTok 

came together in harmony when British royals started 

dying. 

Black Twitter will make insults about the twitter owner, 

Elon Musk, trend: 

The joy Black people experience and express in words 

and on video is the standard and trendsetter for other 

entertainment industries. And also, that joy is expressed 

within Black family and friend groups, work associates, 

and even with strangers. With just a look Black folk will 

communicate “All the things” without saying a word. 

And when dumb billionaires started sinking in homemade 

bathtub submarines. 

Famously, one of the greatest “speeches” in Black 

history is simply Chadwick Boseman’s look back at his 

friend, Michael B. Jordan, upon hearing that his movie 

The Black Panther, did not win Best Picture at the 

Oscars, losing to the travesty that was the white savior 

movie, The Green Book. 

Every Black person understood Chadwick’s visual 

sermon. 

And the thing is, Black people willingly share our joy with 

the world and most of the world reacts appropriately 

and some even join in. 



And of course when so many white people were so upset 

that a fictional mermaid was Black. 

Because Black humor is the humor of community, family, 

and of the need and ability to cut to the heart of any issue, 

controversy, or even death, and then extract humor that 

touches funny bones, hearts, emotions, and minds. 

It is too bad that so many white Americans decided to 

hate Black people so much that they’d declare 

independence from the healing abilities of Black 

Americans’ humor. 

With so much hatred, racism, insurrections, racial 

violence, and taking away rights, some may question how 

and why Black people can continue to find humor in this 

nation. 

But how can we not? 

The fact is that Black joy and humor has no limits and no 

restrictions. It cannot be contained or stopped by “Terms 

and Conditions” because it is part of our DNA and part of 

the fuel that helped our ancestors survive and our more 

recent ancestors to thrive. 

Our humor is the chitlin circuit. 

And it is Mom’s Mabley, Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, Eddie 

Murphy, Wanda Sykes, Mo’nique, the Wayans family, Flip 

Wilson, Paul Mooney, Arsenio Hall, Nipsey Russell, Issa 

Rae, Quinta Brunson, Kenan Thompson, Rudy Frank 

Moore/Dolemite, Bernie Mac, and so many other women 

and men who set the standards followed and co-opted 

and plagiarized by mainstream media and entertainment. 

As bad as America is and has been to Black people, this 

generations struggles, like past horrors, provide nonstop 

fuel for Black content and humor because without humor 

things would not be as pleasant for the purveyors of hate 

directed at us. 

The next time you laugh at or use a meme, gif, video, or 

comment from a Black person on any of the social media 

sites, just know that there’s plenty more where that 

comes from but to get access to it, you need to exit your 

silo of whiteness, your gated community, and all-white 

schools and neighborhoods to access it. 

Independence from Black Joy was never a good choice 

and those who continue to segregate themselves from us, 

our humanity, and our humor and joy, continue to pay the 

price that comes with disregarding the best part of 

America. 

White America loves to consume our humor but long ago 

declared independence from the culture out of which our 

humor is born and nurtured. 

And that is too bad because Black humor could be the 

magnet that attracts community and the glue that holds 

disparate communities together. 


MYRON'S 

HIT OR MISS 

list 

President Biden and VP Harris announced 

another $39b in student debt relief. 

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | June 2023 | p.34

MISS 

President Biden didn’t wear socks one day and 

conservative media lost their minds. 

MISS 

Republicans bastardized the latest military budget by 

forcing in restrictions on diversity, gender, and access to 

abortions. 

HIT 

President Biden uses Marjorie Taylor Green’s own 

words to make wonderful campaign video. 

MISS 

Country singer Jason Aldean makes song celebrating sundown 

towns and lynching then gets mad when he’s called out. 

HIT 

The Women’s World Cup starts and the US Women’s 

team are expected to .. maybe win it all! 

MISS 

Marjorie Taylor Green uses Hunter Biden nude 

photos at congressional hearings that had nothing 

to do with hunter Biden. 

HIT 

Hollywood writers and actors are on strike seeking 

better pay, residuals, healthcare, and guarantees 

against Automated Intelligence – AI. 

MISS 

Hollywood CEOs with salaries ranging from 

$20M to over $200m per year, gleefully 

declaring they will starve writers/actors and 

hold out until they start losing 

apartments/housing. 


HOT TAKE 

#1 

Elon Musk is a terrible businessman and that 

may be his *best quality, as he is also racist, 

antisemitic, homophobic, and transphobic. 

#2 

Mark Zuckerberg isn’t a hero for taking on and 

defeating Elon Musk and Twitter. His issues from 

selling data, allowing misinformation and 

disinformation to thrive across his platforms, and 

his profiting from paid ads directing hate to Black 

users will never be forgiven. He is though, useful in 

taking on and hopefully taking down Elon Musk. 


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A cup of coffee or tea paired with interesting company is an unbeatable combination. We learn 

and share so much through this simple social ritual. Nuanced origin stories. Brow-raising 

secrets. Good news. Bad news. Hopes and dreams, insecurities and fears. Sip by sip, we do 

business, catch up, plan our lives, and discover common ground. 

To gain a better understanding of his friends, Myron went on a mission to try their favorite 

drinks. He was struck by the complex flavors and simple pleasures that characterized their 

personalities. Sweet. Spicy. Bold. Bewitching. Optimistic. Ostentatious. Practical. Perfectionist. 

In Coffee, Grounded, Myron reviews these drinks and brews up a perfect blend of culture and 

caffeine. He examines the history of various ingredients and coffee-growing regions, painting a 

vivid picture of faraway lands and hometown haunts. 

Pour yourself a cup and curl up with this tasty collection of stories steeped in friendship and fun. 

Order & Indulge! 


MOVIE 

REVIEWS 


The Flash and Avatar: The Way of Water 

It was a bad movie that was too long. The plot was dumb, the 

acting mediocre, and there were so many plot holes there 

was unintended humor. The movie was 5 years overdue and 

would have been bad even then because the director clearly 

didn’t get or listen to feedback on how to make the movie 

better. 

Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny 

Indiana Jones is a fun movie that completes the Indiana 

journey. He’s his same adventurous cranky self. There’s 

horses in NYC subways, motor chases in Morocco, 

planes, trains, and wars that Professor Indy teaches 

and love so much. If you love Indiana Jones the 

character, then you’ll love the nonstop action and older 

Indy at his best. 


MOVIE 

REVIEWS 

Nimona / Netflix 

It’s a fun movie kids 4 and up will enjoy. It’s a cute story with surprising turns and interesting look at 

legends and mythologies societies lies tell themselves and build their self-indulgent lies upon. The 

animated movie looks great, has great action, cute protagonists and antagonists’ kids will identify 

with and love. The story has a few twists and heartfelt turns that older kids and adults will love. This 

movie deserves a wider audience so hopefully it’ll get one on streaming. It is a great movie kids can 

watch many times over. 


MY FAVORITE THINGS 

streaming right 

now...

S T R E A M I N G N O W 

PEACOCK – Polite Society 

A delightful and fun movie about sisters who are at 

odds over the older sister getting engaged to 

gentlemen from a high society family. The younger 

sister has a vivid imagination – she wants to be a 

stuntwomen despite her parent’s protestation. She 

uses her wit, silliness, and imagination to both plan her 

future, disappoint her parents, and plot a scheme to 

disrupt her older sister’s engagement. There are plot 

twists, surprises, humor, highbrow and low brow 

comedy, and plenty of action, and fun. The movie is 

funny, slick, snappy, and will surprise with the 

choreographed fights and humor. 

Apple+ TV: Platonic – Season 1 

Best friends reconnect and help but also disrupt each 

other’s relationships, careers, and their own lives. It’s 

funny with some unscripted dialogue, a good cast of side 

characters who are equally quirky, pleasant, weird, and 

fun to watch. 

Disney+ Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire: Season 1 

A first for Disney, this pan-African Disney+ original 

animated series showcases different artists and art styles 

for the series highlighting different legends, mythology, and 

Afro-futurism. Each animated feature is ten to fifteen 

minutes, and the stories and art are fantastic. Kids and 

adults will love the series. 


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Sometimes, when you’re at a crossroads, a door will open and what enters will inspire you. Other 

times, what enters will make you gag. These stories by a ride-share short-timer might have the 

same effect on you. A man, recently laid off from his job and intrigued by the people he might 

meet (and the money he might make) decides to drive ride-share while looking for a new 

professional management position. 

Don’t want to drive drunk? Well, then, by all means, plug in your location and get your friendly 

neighborhood ride-share driver to ferry you to your next bar. Need to move but can’t afford 

movers? There’s an App for that! Tired of waiting for tricks on the corner? Wait—I’ve got an idea. . 

. 

The behavior and stories of folks who call on ride-share turned into a unique anthropological 

study for one man who decided to drive ride-share while looking for a new professional 

management position. Recently laid off from his job and intrigued by the people he might meet 

(and the money he might make), the author unwittingly became the anonymous confidant for 

men, women, nonbinary people, and children. Unfortunately for him, he also became the innocent 

target of people who couldn’t hold their liquor, others who couldn’t hold their temper, and at 

least one who couldn’t keep his hands to himself. 

Little did they know they were in the Prius of a writer, who would be able to look in the rear view 

and tell their stories. 

This collection of anecdotes is non-judgmental, full of irony and dry humor, and may help 

someone else decide: Is driving ride-share for you? 


Robin Martin, Editorial 

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