Dear Dean Magazine: May 22, 2024

DEAR DEANMAY. 22, 2024 

MAGAZINE 

VP HARRIS 

IN DETROIT 

THE KAMALA 

HARRIS THREAT 

WHITE MEN

The Goods 

Table of 

Contents 

03 Welcome From Myron 

Happy Mother’s Day 

page 07 

10 

The Kamala Harris Threat 

by Victoria A. Brownworth 

17 Why You Don’t Know You’re Racist 

by Muriel Vieux 

20 

VP Kamala Harris Economic 

Opportunity Tour - Detroit, Michigan 

by Christopher Webb 

26 Why Do White Men Support Trump? 

by Myron J. Clifton 

32 Rep. Jasmine Crocket Claps Back 


35 Why We Speak... 

by Muriel Vieux 

36 

40 

44 

Myron's HIT or MISS List 

Hot Take! x4 

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 & 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 

Dear Dean Magazine | May. 22, 2024 | Page 2

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE 

Welcome 

May 2024 

Dear Readers, 

From now until the November election, your favorite magazine will feature articles that highlight: 

President Biden, VP Kamala Harris, Democrats up and down ballot, accomplishments by elected 

democrats from 2020 to present, and all major issues that are driving the political conversations. 

This issue we are looking at the coverage of VP Harris with feature articles from journalist Victoria 

Brownworth – The Kamala Harris Threat, and from Twitter, Christopher Webb recaps Kamala 

Harris’ Economic Opportunity Tour in Detroit, Michigan. 

And we finish with a comparison between Donald Trump and VP Harris, Why Do White Men Like 

Donald Trump? 

We have not one but two poems this month from the Haitian Poet, and we also celebrate 

Mother’s Day with a feature focused on those who have lost their mother – Happy Mother’s 

Day. 

All your favorites are here, too, of course including Hot Takes and What’s Streaming. 

And as always, please see our advertising sections which have the hottest and latest books, 

Streaming Services, Apps, Blogs, and websites – all advertised for FREE! If you have something 

to advertise, please message us to reserve your space. 

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. 

So don’t be shy – submit your article! 

Myron 



About Me 

Website | Bookshop | Twitter 

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 stories about his late mom to his beloved daughter Leah, and talking 

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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. 



Feature 

HAPPY 

MOTHER’S DAY 

Happy Mother's Day to the mothers, grandmothers, 

aunties, cousins, sisters, and other women who 

raise and care for children. If you've lost your mom 

as I have, I hope you have the day that best fits what 

you need. Some find joy in other mothers; some 

relive the loss. 

I think I go back and forth but I mostly lean into the 

grief, loss, sadness, and longing because that works 

best for my emotions and mental health. I love 

seeing the joy others have in celebrating the day 

with their moms. There's really nothing like it, in my 

opinion. 

I still go with my daughter as she gets things for her 

mother, grandmother, and auntie. It’s cute and 

loving in all the ways. 

I remember doing the same for my mother. From 

making breakfast, cleaning up, and being extra 

sweet on that day while not giving her a second to 

be alone. 

And now I know she wanted alone time more than 

anything after being with her 3 sons who were one 

year apart. She was a teen mom at 16, and I was the 

3rd boy when she was 18. So, by the time we were 

doing Mother’s Day stuff for her she was still only in 

her twenties. Hard to believe. 

After she passed for years I stayed alone, sad, 

angry, on zero. Then I had a daughter and had 

to teach her to honor Mother’s Day and that 

brought me out just a little at a time. I'm okay 

with it. 

And I hope if you've lost your mother that you 

find your path to your own "Okay." 

Mine was lost to colon cancer. She was 

diagnosed at 37 and died at 39. It was 18 

months of living hell for her and us. Get your 

colon checked and all your other stuff because 

cancer kills, and it kills quickly if not detected 

early. 



Myron J. Clifton 

I've written how mothers are God to us at birth, 

in caring for us and keeping us alive, and then 

they launch us into this world despite many of 

us raising so much hell when we have to 

separate for daycare or preschool or moving 

out.... I still raise internal hell about being 

separated from her. 

But now I think I've reached a place where I miss 

her daily and keep that love and longing in a 

special place in my heart so it will remain 

untouched by time, unweakened by space, and 

her light undimmed in my heart. 

I miss my mom, Floy 

Dean, always will. 

I love that about us. 


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Feature 

THE KAMALA 

HARRIS THREAT 

by Victoria A. Brownworth 

Author’s note: I have been reporting on Kamala 

Harris since 2004 when she was San Francisco 

District Attorney and making history by marrying 

same-sex couples at the behest of then-Mayor 

Gavin Newsom. I wrote in 2017 that if Hillary 

Clinton chose not to run again in 2020, Kamala 

Harris was the best candidate the Democrats 

could field, given her resume, executive experience 

as attorney general of the nation’s most populous 

state, age, personal charisma and progressive 

politics. I covered her campaign throughout that 

election cycle for national media until she 

withdrew on Dec. 3, 2019. 

Donald Trump likes to claim no one in the 

United States is more maligned than he is. And 

while many Democrats and even some 

Republicans would argue that would be totally 

justified, given the crimes Trump has been 

found liable for as well as all the crimes he has 

yet to be held accountable for, the most 

maligned person from the executive branch is 

unquestionably Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Harris, who--as Fox News likes to state 

regularly--has historically low approval ratings, 

is representative of layers of change that 

almost no one in America is ready for–not 

even members of her own party. It is, as we 

say colloquially way too often but which is 

applicable here, a lot to unpack. Yet Harris is 

the Democratic party’s greatest strength and 

best interlocutor for the 2024 election–if only 

the media would let her be that, highlight her 

work like the foreign press does when she 

travels abroad and most critically, accept that 

she is the vice president, she’s not going 

anywhere and there’s a chance she could be 

president before 2028. 

If we begin with the simple fact of who Kamala 

Harris is, it explains where the restrictions 

come in. 



Victoria A. Brownworth 

She’s the first female vice president and the 

highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, 

as well as the first Black American and first 

Asian American vice president. Or as the 

MAGA Republicans like to say, a DEI hire. 

When the MAGA cohort say they want to take 

“their” country back, they mean from people 

like the Vice President, who represents and 

embodies all that white supremacy and white 

privilege most fear and resent. 

Replacement theory — the concept that 

Western elites, sometimes manipulated by 

Jews, want to “replace” and disempower 

white Americans — is a prominent conspiracy 

among white conservatives, particularly 

MAGAs. It is this panoply of racist theories 

and their historical foundational legacy that 

underpins so much political discourse in the 

U.S., and it has made Harris a focal point of 

fear, distrust and outrage. 

As a graduate of the iconic Howard 

University, one of the oldest HBCUs, having 

been established immediately after the Civil 

War ended, Harris is not part of the Ivy 

League or Seven Sisters elite. Howard makes 

her too Black, even as some complain she’s 

not Black enough. Harris being a “bison” and 

soror of Alpha Kappa Alpha, further signals 

her Blackness. And it is Harris’s unabashed 

and unashamed Black identity as well as her 

femaleness that have created the miasma of 

bad publicity from white-male-run legacy 

media that regularly obscures her 

accomplishments. 

Misogynoir stalks Harris. Misogynoir is a 

term referring to the combined force of anti- 

Black racism and misogyny directed towards 

Black women. The term was coined by Black 

feminist writer Moya Bailey in 2008 to 

address misogyny directed toward Black 

transgender and cisgender women in 

American visual and popular culture. 

Kamala Harris has been victimized by blatant 

misogynoir throughout her career, which 

points to her resilience as well as her 

achievements. Despite the breadth of the 

racism and sexism she’s faced at every level 

of her professional, political and even 

personal life, as the Maya Angelou poem 

reminds, Harris can say “and still I rise.” 

That’s the thing about Kamala Harris–she 

refuses to fail, despite the force of the 

structural misogyny that crushed Hillary 

Clinton’s presidential aspirations and the 

anti-Blackness that meant Harris has been 

the first Black person or woman or both at 

nearly every achievement of her career. 




Therein lies the threat of Kamala Harris. 

When Joe Biden chose her as his running 

mate she became not just an historic figure 

but the embodiment of all that much of white 

America has feared as the country has gotten 

less white & some states have become 

majority minority. Biden being the oldest 

president in U.S. history meant there was a 

greater likelihood that his vice president 

could succeed him in the presidency. A Black 

woman president is the stuff of political 

thrillers & MAGA nightmares. In 2020 

conservatives were so alarmed by Biden’s 

choice of Harris they tried to deny she was 

Black, claiming that her Jamaican father & 

Indian mother meant she wasn’t really Black. 

For months there has been a relentless 

cavalcade of opinion pieces and cable news 

debates over Biden asking Harris to step out 

as vice president (the last time a president 

did that was when Richard Nixon’s vice 

president Spiro Agnew resigned due to being 

indicted for tax evasion). The mainstream 

mantra–led by both named and unnamed 

Democratic strategists–was that Biden 

needed a white man on the ticket with him, 

like popular Millennial Secretary of 

Transportation Pete Buttigieg who also won 

the first two primaries in 2020, California 

governor Gavin Newsom, or even a white 

woman, like Michigan governor Gretchen 

Whitmer. 

Thus the obverse of what transpired in 2008 

when Barack Obama chose Biden as his 

running mate was realized: while Biden’s age 

and long Senate history brought gravitas 

support to a younger presidential nominee 

with no executive experience and only one 

term in the Senate, Harris’s relative youth, 

Blackness and femaleness scared those not 

ready to envision that much change, even 

though in some respects she was more 

qualified for the presidency than Biden. Yet 

as it was, white America had voted for Donald 

Trump in 2016 in reaction to eight years of a 

Black president–a Black woman president 

was simply a bridge too far. 

Or so we keep hearing. In the constant thrum 

of pundit and media chatter about Biden’s 

age–which is exactly four years older than he 

was when he won more votes than any 

presidential candidate in U.S. history in 2020- 

- is the true underlying concern: the threat of 

a Kamala Harris presidency. 

First, the U.S. is never going to have an allwhite-male 

Democratic ticket again. The last 

one was 2004. Those days are over. Second, 

Biden forcing Harris out would sunder his 

chances with Black voters. Even among Black 

voters who don’t like Harris, such a move 

would be perceived as the zenith of 

disrespect of the Democratic base, which is 

Black women. Yet the debate continues. On 

CNN’s “The Chris Wallace Show” on April 27, 

the panel debated how bad Harris was as a 

vice president. 

The conversation, led by Wallace, editor-atlarge 

of “New York Magazine” and Recode 

founder Kara Swisher and “National Review” 

founder and Los Angeles Times columnist 

Jonah Goldberg, with occasional comments 

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro, “New York Times” 

journalist and host of “The Interview” and 

Eliana Johnson, editor-in-chief of “The 

Washington Free Beacon.” 




This discussion, with only one person of color 

on the panel, epitomized what Harris faces in 

mainstream media and it highlights the 

schism over race and gender that has only 

grown with the invidiousness of Trumpism in 

both the GOP and the nation as a whole. 

Wallace said, “Recent focus groups conducted 

by the super PAC Republican voters against 

Trump found that swing voters don't like 

Harris. And focus groups conducted by the 

Democratic National Committee also found 

Harris rubs some people the wrong way.” 

Wallace then said, “So Jonah, how big a drag 

is Kamala Harris on the ticket?” 

Goldberg responded, “I think she's a pretty 

big drag. I think she was arguably Biden's 

worst political decision of his presidency, to 

pick her in the first place. And one of the 

special reasons that she's a drag is Biden's 

age concerns people. They worry that he 

can't fill a term. They worry that he's not up 

to the job. And so, the vice president matters 

more than they normally do.” 

And there it is: the quiet part out loud. White 

America isn’t ready for a Black woman 

president. Or as is always the case when men 

talk about women in power, this particular 

woman president. In 2016 the argument was 

that people wanted a woman president, just 

not Hillary. In 2020 there were six women, 

including four senators, a House rep and a 

best-selling author running for president and 

none of them came close, putting the lie to 

that claim. 

Goldberg said the Harris problem is she’s in 

a liberal bubble. “I generally think going into 

the future that Democrats really should not 

nominate or front people who come from 

decidedly all blue states unless they're like 

once-in-a-generation talents like Barack 

Obama, because Kamala Harris does not 

know how to talk to the center or to the 

right. She only really knows how to sort of 

speak the language of the base of the party. 

And that's 34 percent.” 

Again, Goldberg is only talking about Black 

people and maybe women, since Hillary was 

from a blue state. 

Whether one believes that or not, the next 

facet of the debate devolved into a 

discussion about how irritating Harris’s voice 

is with Wallace noting focus groups said “one 

of the things that people objected to was her 

voice. They said they found her voice, 

especially her laugh, annoying.” 

Swisher said, “Oh dear” and said succinctly 

that women get graded on their voices all the 

time (she didn’t invoke Hillary, but there 

were dozens of stories about Hillary’s 

“cackle” over the years). Swisher said, “Yes, 

because no one ever writes about women 

and their voices. No one ever writes about 

women smiling or being appealing.” 

Goldberg said Harris’s voice is as irritating as 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s voice. Kennedy has a 

medical condition called spasmodic 

dysphonia, which causes involuntary spasms 

of the vocal cords, and which has 

hospitalized him several times. 




This was less than 10 minutes of the hour, 

but it was a telling segment, and it epitomizes 

the way people talk about Black women in 

power–because that is the issue: Kamala 

Harris is a breath from the presidency and as 

a consequence is the most powerful Black 

woman in America. 

Part of the discourse on the Wallace show 

was that Harris has no political voice, which 

made the conversation about her literal voice 

almost metaphoric. But this is a claim made 

by both sides of the aisle–that Harris flails 

and fails. 

A counter argument against Harris as 

potential president is that she is somehow a 

“cringeworthy lightweight” — despite being 

the sitting vice president and having been 

attorney general and senator of the most 

populous state, as well as district attorney of 

San Francisco. In addition to winning all these 

elections, Harris is known for her hard-hitting 

questioning of right-wing candidates, like 

Brett Kavanaugh, who she grilled over 

Obergefell v. Hodges, demanding to know if 

the potential Supreme Court justice viewed 

same-sex marriage as settled law. She was 

equally harsh with Trump Attorney General 

Bill Barr on Barr’s handling of the special 

counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and 

report. 

Biden the presidency. She has become the 

spokesperson for reproductive rights, one of 

the most critical issues of the 2024 election 

since Trump’s Supreme Court overturned 

Roe v. Wade. 

Harris warned of future rulings by the 

Supreme Court, telling prospective voters, “I 

worry about fundamental freedoms.” 

Harris said, "You could even look at Clarence 

Thomas saying a lot of the quiet part out 

loud. Just look at what he said and then 

maybe that gives us some indication. Just 

look at one of the justices to see where they 

might go next." 

She’s not wrong about this or many other 

issues she’s spoken out about. In April she 

talked to ABC’s Rachel Scott about Israel’s 

planned invasion of Rafah and sounded so 

presidential it felt like she was the president 

in that moment as she said, “I’m looking at all 

the options.” 

Going forward toward the conventions and 

the general election, Harris will become 

more and more critical to this campaign. 

While she’s fine on abortion, Biden and the 

campaign should have her on more issues, 

not fewer. Harris talked about housing and 

infrastructure in Detroit the week before she 

was in Pennsylvania. 

On the left the complaint is “what is she 

doing?” and “where is she?” (Her schedule is 

listed on her administration website daily.) 

On the right it’s that she’s talking too much. 

On May 9 Harris was in Pennsylvania, a 

pivotal swing state and the state that won 

It also would help Biden to be seen with 

Harris, but with her speaking. At 59, Harris 

brings vitality and youthfulness to the fore 

for people nervous about Biden’s age. And 

despite comments about her voice, Harris is 

a strong and dynamic speaker whose natural 

charisma is best displayed to a crowd. 




As a former prosecutor, Harris is also 

uniquely positioned to speak about Donald 

Trump’s ongoing legal problems and what 

they mean for the country. In a New York 

Times interview May 9, Harris spoke about 

GOP corruption from Clarence Thomas to 

Trump. Harris harkened back to Hillary 

Clinton’s warnings in 2016, telling The Times, 

“I don’t want to, at this point, use my voice in 

a way that is alarmist,” she said. “But this 

court has made it very clear that they are 

willing to undo recognized rights.” 

That interview also reminds people that it 

was Harris’s grilling of Brett Kavanaugh 

during his confirmation hearings in 2018 that 

propelled her into the national spotlight. 

Which again puts the lie to claims that Harris 

has no coherent voice. 

This will likely be the tightest election in 

history. It will rest on a half dozen states, not 

one of which is polling in Biden’s favor at 

present. The administration and most 

importantly Biden’s handlers must realign 

their thinking about Harris’s role and stop 

restricting her focus. They should push her 

into the foreground and propel her into 

those must-win states where–Jonah 

Goldberg’s theorizing notwithstanding--she 

has the potential to lure swing voters, 

especially women. Harris also has had a 

powerful impact on an essential demographic 

for Biden–youth voters. Harris should speak 

directly to young voters, who have turned out 

in droves to see her at colleges and at other 

events. She has a natural affinity for these 

voters that resonates. 

Harris is also the progressive voice of the 

administration, with past work as a senator 

with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on 

key issues like the Green New Deal and 

criminal justice reform. 

In many respects, Harris is the one person in 

the administration who has the capability of 

being all things to almost all people. 

Laphonza Butler, president of EMILY’s List 

and the recently appointed senator of 

California, who is also a Black lesbian, told 

CNN last year, “What we have in Vice 

President Harris is a competent, capable, 

intelligent, authentic leader of color.” 

Butler said, “People have to get comfortable 

seeing women, and women of color, in 

places of leadership, period.” 

That’s the most succinct point about a Harris 

presidency. So, part of Harris’s role in these 

next months will be to convince America and 

voters that not only is Biden the candidate 

they want to re-elect, but that she will be just 

as good if not better as a president than 

Biden himself. 



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We Couldn't Be Heroes 

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

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Feature 

Vice President Kamala Harris 

Economic Opportunity Tour 

Detroit, Michigan 

by Christopher Webb 

Over the past three years, the President and I 

have invested trillions of dollars in America's 

infrastructure, in clean energy and a clean energy 

economy, in manufacturing, and in supply chains. 

Our work is also guided by the understanding 

that there are certain communities that have 

faced, historically and currently, profound 

obstacles to acquire that opportunity. 

President Biden and I have invested hundreds of 

billions of dollars to address these disparities. 

ACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR BLACK BUSINESSES 

Black entrepreneurs are three times as likely to 

not apply for a loan, for fear they're going to be 

turned away from a bank. Two years ago, I 

founded the Economic Opportunity Coalition -- a 

group of 31 companies and nonprofits -- 

including, for example, the Bank of America, 

MasterCard, and the Ford Foundation -- that are 

working currently to invest $3 billion in 

community banks -- banks which we know are 

uniquely designed to serve minority and women 

entrepreneurs. 

This work is helping Black businesses receive 

loans not only for thousands of dollars, but for 

millions of dollars. 

INVESTMENT IN AUTO SUPPLY 

COMPANIES 

I'm proud to announce we are investing $100 

million in small- and medium-sized auto 

supply companies, many of which are Blackowned 

and based right here in Michigan. 

These grants will allow businesses to upgrade 

production and production lines to produce 

parts for electric vehicles. 

MATCHING GOVERNMENT BACKED LOANS 

I'm also pleased to announce the launch of a 

new program that will match governmentbacked 

loans with private equity capital to 

help small- and mid-size auto suppliers 

access loans from a quarter million dollars 

to 10 million dollars. 



Christopher Webb 

This investment will help to keep our auto supply 

chains here in America, which strengthens 

America's economy overall. 

MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF 

Black Americans are twice as likely to have 

medical debt and more likely to struggle to 

repay student loan debt. 

EXPANDING ACCESS TO FEDERAL CONTRACTS 

At the beginning of our administration, President 

Joe Biden and I pledged to increase federal 

contracts for minority-owned small businesses 

by 50 percent, knowing that, traditionally and 

historically, folks didn't necessarily have access 

to the relationships to get those contracts. 

And we are on track to meet our goal by the end 

of next year. 

The last administration invested access to tax 

cuts for billionaires. We are investing in access to 

capital for entrepreneurs. 

HELPING 1ST GENERATION HOME BUYERS 

President Biden and I outlined a blueprint to 

provide folks who are first in their family to buy a 

home with $25,000 toward a down payment to 

give families up to $400 a month to help with a 

mortgage; and to build 2 million units of 

affordable housing to lower costs for 

homebuyers and renters. 

ADDRESSING RACIAL BIAS IN HOME 

APPRAISALS 

Today, I'm proud to report that we have made it 

now easier for more homeowners to appeal 

home appraisals. And we have reached a 

commitment that all licensed home appraisers 

be required to complete racial bias training. 

President Biden and I have made debt 

forgiveness a central pillar of our economic 

agenda. And we have already forgiven about 

$500 million of medical debt for hundreds of 

thousands of Americans across the nation. 

And in Wayne County, Michigan, we will 

forgive an additional $700 million of medical 

debt for as many as 300,000 people. 

NEW RULE: MEDICAL DEBT CAN’T BE USED 

TO CALCULATE YOUR CREDIT SCORE 

Which means medical debt cannot be the 

reason someone is denied a car loan, a home 

loan, or a small-business loan. 

On average, more than $30,000 per person and 

$70,000 for our public servants, like nurses, 

firefighters, and teachers -- and God knows we 

don't pay them enough as it is, so it's only right. 

THE BIDEN HARRIS INVESTMENTS IN THE 

COMMUNITY ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE 

Since taking office, we have seen record Black 

small-business growth and we have created 

more than two and a half million new jobs for 

Black workers. And since 2019, Black wealth is 

up 60 percent. 

So, the bottom line is that every family, I believe - 

- every family, whatever their background, their 

race, their geographic location -- has a right to 

the full and fair value of their home. 

Christopher Webb 



F e a t u r e d B u s i n e s s 

Maurice Woodson 

Maurice Woodson Began his career in the publishing Business. 

He has written for Right On! Magazine, Black Elegance, Class 

Magazine as well as ran Black Beat and Spice Superposter 

music Magazines as Editor N Chief. In the early 200s he owned 

The Suburban herald, a small newspaper in upstate New York. 

He then ventured into the music industry managing artists and 

briefly working as A&R and A&M records. Looking to be more 

involved in telling stories he began writing screenplays and 

also honed his craft working as a script consultant. His love of 

creating and storytelling led to him writing Novels and 

children's Books. 

Woodson has been studying Black history and true History for 

nearly two decades. He believes that if schools won't teach our 

stories we must because we need to know how we got here in 

order to know where we are going. "We must plant seed in 

young minds, inspire. and empower." This has led to the 

publishing of children's books including the popular "We Know 

The ABCs Of Black History...Do You? and "I love What I See 

When I Look At Me." 

Woodson is also the owner of upcoming streaming service 

NXS Entertainment, which will feature diverse and 

inclusive movies, Series, Documentaries and more. 



Marcus A. Banks-Bey, M.Div 

Gathered experience and elevation gained from years as an Army & hospital chaplain, mental health worker 

and clinical psychology doctoral student, equips Marcus A Banks to aid in journeying the reader to 

intelligently question their past belief systems and future creative visions of thought and identity as a 

purposeful means to developing their own personal reality for establishing their “true identity.” 

Within Dig Deep lies practical language, developed to help the reader grow the relationship with themselves, 

and understand why nurturing the relationships we have with our Faith, Family, Friends, Fitness and 

Finances will support our Purpose, Planning, Patience, and Persistent-Perseverance. This system helps one 

establish their own 5×5 Side by Side Guide through life. Dig Deep was written following a series of extremely 

challenging life occurrences, including the suicide of the author’s brother, Iverson; divorce; and war 

deployment. From this place, the author engaged in the process of self-discovery, self-awareness and 

meaning. 



Looking back on the Before and the events leading up to the After, it was impossible to say precisely 

when everything went to shit. Understanding the importance of human connection, a lone trader braves 

the Weeps and an emerging cult to unite the survivors of a shattered world. The Before and The After is a 

tale of loss, acceptance, and finding one’s truth in a barren future. 

Catherine Sequeira 

Catherine Sequeira is a veterinarian, author, and teacher. Originally from California, she has lived in 

Switzerland, New York, Oklahoma, and Scotland. She is an avid tabletop gamer and was all verklempt the 

first time her older son kicked her ass at Lords of Waterdeep. She would live in the garden if she could, 

pretending to be Snow White or channeling her inner Poison Ivy. When the weather chases her inside, you 

can find her reading sci-fi and fantasy or binging horror shows. She lives in Northern California with her 

partner, younger son, cat, and rescue dragon (the bearded kind, that is). 



Feature 

Why Do 

White Men 

Support 

Trump? 

I just can't understand how Trump can be 

the republican's choice. 

There must be… 60m eligible white men who 

can vote? 

So maybe half or 30m of them are old 

enough to be president? 

And out of them they decide, whelp, Trump 

is our absolute best man/candidate... again. 

How? 

I personally know a handful of eligible white 

men who are republican who would not only 

be a good candidate, but a good president if 

a miracle happened. 

Yet, there is Trump at the very top of the 

republican tower. 

I don't know why or how white men gave up 

their power to him once and now are about 

to do it again. 

Of course there are bad politicians all over, but in 

this country, none are as bad as Trump and 

various republicans like Boebert, Tuberville, Marge 

Green, Lindsey Graham, et al. 

I think perhaps we non-white men specifically go 

so hard against Trump is that being born/raised 

here and fed education and media that told us 

how heroic white men are. 

How brave, strong, honorable, capable. 

How they look like God, how they speak for god. 

How white men are God incarnate. 

But Trump, lol. That’s what y’all are giving us after 

400 years of brainwashing how y’all are the peak 

evolved humans ever. 




Big LOL. 

It is like those tales of entire cities dying 

from dancing or laughing epidemics - you 

know those weird European tales? 

White men in America seem to be under a 

spell like that. 

*Big old disclaimer for the angry person 

reading this. NOT ALL WHITE MEN. 

Just the 70? 75? Or 80% who vote 

GOP/Trump. 

Calm down. 

Because white men own the media, they 

are working OT (unpaid since they are 

management, lol) to save him, to protect 

him, and to promote him. They are working 

to convince us that his presidency wasn’t 

too bad. 

I think the giving up and letting go of white 

men that the other demographics have done 

and are doing... is partially why all other 

demographics go so hard at white women 

because they seem salvageable. 

We WANT them to be salvageable. But 

gotdamn. 

We can't want it more than white women. 

I'll add that the vitriol directed at VP Harris is 

directly related to the awareness that white 

men have of Trump's ineptness when 

compared specifically to her. 

Not to Biden, or Pete, Gavin, or Gretchen. 

It is and always have been about Kamala Devi 

Harris. 

Because there is no greater power distance in 

America than that between white men and 

Black women. 

. 

There isn’t room enough in this article to list 

why his presidency was a disaster for most 

Americans, the United Nations, and 

countries, the environment, taxes, foreign 

policy, health care, abortion, the Supreme 

Court, and on and on and on all the way to 

millions of citizens dead from Covid. 

No matter the outstanding results of 

President Biden, the historic work of VP 

Harris- benefitting ALL the people... 

They are crying so loudly while uncovering 

the substance of their administration’s 

accomplishments. 




And the fact that the lowest on the power 

balance is a Black woman (mixed to make it 

worse to them - Indian, Jamaican, and all 

that African DNA just burns them so much). 

And the fact that SHE is smarter, more 

accomplished, beloved across the globe, 

and is gorgeous makes Trump and his 

voters ready to destroy the country and 

end American-style democracy for good. 

We’ve been led to believe that American 

democracy is the best thing in the history of 

the world… but only if a white man is in 

charge. Because if he isn’t, then they seem 

to be saying “We will take our democracy 

back and burn this country down. 

The flipping of the power balance is driving 

them insane and even giving democrats in 

the big tent heartburn because that wasn't 

supposed to happen according to them 

who wouldn't even support Hillary... but 

that's another story. 

Anyway, Vote for President Biden and VP 

Harris and let the gop stay mad. 



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what’s going on before any more lives are lost. 

The necropsy is frustratingly unremarkable, and Josie is forced to follow all leads no matter how 

implausible. Tensions rise as the rancher starts pointing a finger at a disgruntled employee and an assault 

charge forces the cops to start asking questions. With a hefty insurance payout on the table, Josie realizes 

that she can’t ignore the possibility that the rancher might be involved. As the pathologist leading the case, 

Josie has to wonder, is it just coincidence or is there something more nefarious killing horses at JW Ranch? 


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Feature 

REPRESENTATIVE 

JASMINE CROCKETT 

CLAPS BACK 

Rep Jasmine Crockett after being verbally 

attacked by Marjorie Taylor Green asks the 

Committee Chairman, “Hypothetically speaking, 

if I say, “Bleach Blond Bad Built Butch Body” 

would that be okay, too, since it was okay for 

Marjorie Taylor Green to insult me?” 

The committee chair blocked her efforts and 

refused to address Rep Taylor Green, allowing 

her to start a fight and then retreat to the 

comfort and safety of the rules she had just 

broken. 

There’s an interesting divide on the Jasmine 

Crockett rebuttal to the unprovoked attack on 

her by Marjorie Taylor Green, and it’s one that 

like most issues in America is divided by race. 

Black women and men side with Rep Crocket, 

especially Black women who are sick of 

attacks on their bodies. Attacks by everyone 

but especially by white women. 

The co-opting of Black women’s body 

“thickness”, full lips, rounded hips and butts, 

hair versatility, and makeup, while 

simultaneously denigrating the same features 

in Black women. 

The laws against Black women’s hair that 

necessitated the Crown Act which is 

designed to protect Black women and their 

hair at work and school. Protect from whom? 

White people - mostly white women. 

And recently we’ve seen attacks by white 

women on Black women because Black 

women said they’d prefer to be in a forest 

with a bear over white women, and in a 

meeting at work, choosing white men over 

white women. White women reacted with 

anger and by doing exactly what white men 

did when told white women prefer being in 

the forest with a bear over being with a white 

man – attacking Black women, refusing to 

listen, accusing them of not being “for 

women.” 

This is really all the stuff we all know but 

seem to forget everything there’s an 

interracial and/or inter-gender flare up. 




But now add what some white gay folk to believe 

is a homophobic element to Rep Jasmine’s 

clapback- Her use of the word “Butch” and the 

complexity of the disagreement deepens for 

some white gay folk. For *me, I haven’t seen any 

similar concerns from Black/POC gay folk. 

I’ve written before how Black language is 

sharper, more direct, extra cutting, and will 

spare no one -whether in humor or anger, or in 

what we call “The Dozens” 

It’s familiar, its church, it’s street, it’s salon, and 

barbershop all combined, and it’s understood 

within our community. 

It’s not for the faint of heart. And it is white 

Americans who are the faint of heart in this 

story. White Americans speak in a different, less 

direct and specific way. 

Black people understand Will Smith saying, 

“Don’t start nothing won’t be nothing.” That’s 

a promise, a threat, a joke, a warning. 

White men especially as American history tells 

us will always rush to defend even the worstbehaving 

white women. 

When white women cry, Black people die. 

And don’t get me started on Conservative 

white men -- Looking at you, Rep Fetterman, 

who blamed “Both Sides” for turning 

Congress into the Jerry Springer show. Never 

mind Rep. Fetterman looks like a washed-up 

unemployed bro who goes to work in 

Congress in a hoodie, regularly wears 

sweatpants even when meeting with the 

president, and once brandished a shotgun at 

an innocent Black man who was minding his 

own business. Rep Fetterman can have a seat 

– preferably at a tailor who can fix his browardrobe. 

But it is how white gay folk are not happy with 

“Butch” being used -I’m of the though as many 

have said, she wanted to use “Bitch” but white 

America would have imploded and she knew 

that. 

White people have “Bless your heart” as one 

example that conveys similar ideas but less 

directly. 

Rep Jasmine didn’t start it, but she finished it. 

That’s Black. 

Marjorie started it but then leaned on the “rules 

of (white) decorum” and (white) power to shut 

down Rep Crockett. 

Then Marjorie sat back and watched more 

people run to her protection than to support 

Rep Crockett from standing her ground. 




supremacist rallies, attacked Sandy Hook kids, 

supports January 6th insurrectionists, asked 

for a pardon, and regularly screams and yells 

at the President at the State of the Union 

Address. 

It is as exhausting as it is predictable. 

The public often says of democrats: “Fight 

Back! And then when one does, here come 

white people saying, “But not like that.” 

I’ve written before that we know that every ally 

has a line with Black folk. 

White gay men side with supremacy with 

depressing frequency. White gay women less so, 

but still depressingly frequent. 

Black LGBTQI are on an island of brutal isolation 

from the community they love and support, but 

which too often won’t protect them. 

I know a straight person using “Butch” can be 

homophobic and I’ll respect folk who take issue 

with it. 

I don’t take issue with Rep Jasmine protecting 

herself from a vile attack by a white woman 

while she was at work on camera. 

I don’t believe Rep Jasmine Crockett is 

homophobic. She’s smart enough to know 

words matter. She’s smart enough to know 

her worth and the worth of Black women and 

girls watching her who are enduring much 

worse every day at home, school, work, and 

online where they are the most attacked 

demographic in the world. 

I’ll end with this. 

LGBTQI folks are necessarily sensitive. Give 

them grace. 

Black women -including LGBTQI Black women 

are necessarily sensitive, defensive, and ready 

to “GO IN” if anyone wants to “Go there.” 

Give them grace. 

And, don’t start nothing, won’t be nothing. 

The ongoing attacks on Rep Crockett about her 

looks, her language, her education, and her hair, 

show that the road for Black women is never 

easy and contains no rest stops. 

That Marjorie Taylor Green is skating by after her 

unprovoked attack shows that even allies will 

derail conversations, center themselves, and 

seek to put Black people back in their place – 

even against a woman who attends white 


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HIT OR MISS 

list 

HIT 

President Biden’s ability to circumvent republicans 

and the supreme court by canceling over $138B in 

debt for 

4 million students. 



MISS 

The Met Gala, always easy to mock and make fun 

of, outdid itself with numerous celebrities wearing 

outrageously ugly outfits. 

HIT 

VP Kamala Harris emphatically launching a F bomb, 

saying women need to “Kick the fucking door down.” As 

they move through life and corporate jobs. 

HIT 

Zendaya and Anuk figured out the assignments 

and slayed the Met Gala. 

MISS 

Anna Wintour had to apologize for giving the 

celebrities complicated dress code instructions 

that included “Timeless Garden” 

MISS 

Miss USA Noelia Voigt, and Miss Teen USA 

UmaSofia Srivastava both quit after saying the 

program was toxic, the workplace hostile, and 

negatively impacted their mental health. 

HIT 

Hit after hit after hit is how to describe the great 

Stevie Wonder who turned 74 this month. Happy 

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century and who continues to inspire artists in 

every musical genre in every part of the world. 

MISS 

The media clutching their collective pearls on their 

fainting sofas after VP Harris dropped an F-bomb 

while they gleefully cover Donald Trump cussing every 

day at one of his poorly attended and desperate 

rallies. 

MISS 

Virginia just voted to reinstate Confederate Names of 

public schools after renaming them in 2020. Really, 

Virginia? 

HIT 

MISS 

Almost every poll that continues to majority sample 

older, white republicans, and so-called 

independents to promote Donald Trump leading vs 

President Biden. IN 2024 the major polls still leave 

out Black, Latino, and Asian voters – in every 

demographic – to push the narrative that makes 

them the most money. 

President Biden talking in studio for over an hour with 

Howard Stern, just days after the New York Times 

whined like big babies that the president would not sit 

with them for an interview. The Times has spent five 

years writing hit-pieces about the president, laughing 

at his stutter, his walking, and his son, while writing 

positive puff pieces about criminal Donald Trump. 


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#1 

Meghan Markle in Africa with her husband 

really shows how badly the British Royal 

family fumbled the bag by attacking her. 

Meghan and Harry were received by 

thousands including four Kings, queens, and 

princess on their successful tour to promote 

the Invictus games. 

#2 

Prince Catherine (Kate) Middleton hasn’t been 

seen in public since December, but the British 

media is more focused on where Meghan Markle 

is. Seems like they might want to check to see if 

Kate is still alive because it sure seems like she 

has left the earth… 

#3 #4 

The WNBA finally started to use Charter 

WNBA superstar Angel Reese is so popular that 

Airplanes for players after years of 

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