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Dear Dean Magazine, Issue 34, October 22, 2024. Digital magazine created by Myron J. Clifton. Subscribe for free at www.deardeanpublishing.com/subscribe.

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DEAR DEAN OCT. 22, <strong>2024</strong><br />

MAGAZINE<br />

MAGA STICKS &<br />

MAGA STONES<br />

THE TRUMP THREAT<br />

IS ALREADY HAPPENING<br />

PLUS! ALL YOUR FAVORITES AND MORE!


The Goods<br />

Welcome<br />

04 Welcome From Myron J. Clifton<br />

06<br />

We Are Not Going Back<br />

by Myron J. Clifton<br />

08 Maga Sticks and Maga Stones<br />

by Myron J. Clifton<br />

14<br />

The Astrology of Kamala Harris<br />

by Mark Lerner<br />

18 The Trump Threat Is Already<br />

Happening<br />

By Myron J. Clifton<br />

24<br />

28<br />

30<br />

30<br />

32<br />

39<br />

Nutti Nuzzi News<br />

by Myron J. Clifton<br />

Sean Combs Doesn’t Deserve Your<br />

Support or Sympathy<br />

by Myron J. Clifton<br />

Hot Take!<br />

Late Term Abortion? Yes!<br />

by Muriel Vieux<br />

The Case For Kamala From A Man<br />

by Myron J. Clifton<br />

Myron's HIT or MISS List<br />

43<br />

My Favorite Things<br />

Streaming Right Now<br />

D E A R D E A N M A G A Z I N E , W E B S I T E ,<br />

B L O G S & B O O K S A R E D E S I G N E D B Y<br />

K A T Y A J U L I E T L E R N E R<br />

15<br />

DAYS!<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 2


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

About Me<br />

Website | Bookshop | Twitter<br />

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

Monuments: A Deadly Day at Jefferson Park; BLM-PD: Revenge was Inevitable; Her Legend Lives<br />

in You: The Untold Story Honoring the Goddess & Our Daughters; and short story collection,<br />

We Couldn’t Be Heroes, and Other Stories. Also check out his weekly podcast, Voice Memos, his<br />

FREE digital magazine, <strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>, and his weekly blog at both Medium and<br />

<strong>Dear</strong><strong>Dean</strong>.com. Myron lives in Sacramento, California, and is an avid Bay Area sports fan. He<br />

likes comic books, telling stories about his late mom to his beloved daughter Leah, and talking<br />

to his friends. BOOKS ON AMAZON<br />

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<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 3


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Welcome!<br />

<strong>October</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />

This is the last issue before the <strong>2024</strong> election and<br />

we have loaded it with campaign updates, the big<br />

topics that are being talked about, news and<br />

highlights from Harris/Walz and their media blitz<br />

which saw them talk to Oprah, Howard Stern,<br />

Dana Bash, Stephanie Ruhle, Univision, Fox News,<br />

the Call Her Daddy and All The Smoke podcasts,<br />

The View, 60 Minutes, The Breakfast Club, Roland<br />

Martin, and more - whew!<br />

We also dive into why it is important for men to<br />

support Kamala and republicans playing<br />

hurricane games while disparaging FEMA after<br />

recently refusing to extend FEMA funding. Check<br />

out Astro-Zone with Astrology from Mark Lerner<br />

on Kamala Harris, and the latest from The Haitian<br />

Poet, plus all your favorites!<br />

I also share the cover for my upcoming book –<br />

be sure to check it out!<br />

Let us advertise for you! Podcasts, Streaming<br />

Services, Apps, Blogs, and Websites – all<br />

advertised for FREE!<br />

If you have something to advertise, please<br />

message us to reserve your space.<br />

We publish thought-provoking articles on government, gender, race, and politics, while also<br />

providing space for movie and television reviews, poetry, short stories, food, pets, fun, and a<br />

welcoming platform for independent authors and writers.<br />

And we provide this space for free – because our motto is and will remain: Some Art Deserves to<br />

be Free.<br />

So don’t be shy – submit your article!<br />

-Myron<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 4


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

NEW BOOK BY<br />

MYRON J. CLIFTON<br />

The sequel to Jamaal’s Incredible<br />

Adventures in the Black Church!


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Feature<br />

WE ARE NOT<br />

GOING BACK<br />

by Myron J. Clifton<br />

What do trump supporters want to see if trump<br />

wins?<br />

They want to see the military deployed<br />

domestically to round up trump enemies,<br />

immigrants, and anyone and everyone perceived<br />

as anti-trump. In many ways they want trump to<br />

fulfil their bloodlust of hatred against every<br />

"other." They want to see him and his henchmen<br />

unleash violence across the nation.<br />

Rounding up 11 million immigrants, jailing<br />

journalists, and summarily executing thousands.<br />

They want to see him televise the executions.<br />

They want modern day lynching picnics streamed<br />

24x7 on TrumpTV.<br />

I'm certain folk who have studied the turn to<br />

fascism and dictators can talk about the<br />

immediacy of the violence they and their followers<br />

unleash on the opposition party and its<br />

supporters.<br />

Just know it is quick, devastating, and broad. It<br />

becomes a virus that spreads fast.<br />

They want him to also unleash violence but also,<br />

to allow THEM to do it, too. Again, like lynching<br />

picnics that were watched by law enforcement<br />

while "good upstanding citizens took justice into<br />

their own hands" and had their wives, pastors,<br />

kids, and pets view their "good deeds."<br />

It is not a fantasy to know that trump followers -<br />

not just his lieutenants-but regular maga rally<br />

folk are waiting to be deputized to put their guns<br />

to use w/out fear of law enforcement because,<br />

ta-daa, law enforcement are maga, too and will<br />

stand aside like they did in the past.<br />

Seems farfetched?<br />

•Giving away covid supplies to Putin<br />

•Loving dictators, giving police full immunity &<br />

the SC giving HIM full immunity<br />

•Make them riot<br />

•Give cops one day of violence<br />

•Death penalty at his discretion<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 6


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Myron J. Clifton<br />

And so many more clear words from him of what<br />

he will do.<br />

He said much the same in 2016... and his base<br />

grew in 2020.<br />

Indictments, lawsuits, SA lawsuits, Epstein, Jan 6,<br />

still refusing to admit he lost... and his base grows.<br />

They want to see him keep the promise of harming<br />

all of us. They are blood lusting and praying for it.<br />

Literally praying. In churches every Sunday -<br />

evangelical, southern Baptist, catholic, and other<br />

Christian denominations are calling upon their<br />

god to give trump the strength via the election so<br />

he can get revenge on his and their enemies.<br />

Praise his holy name, I guess.<br />

Whether democrats and other supporters want to<br />

see or accept it, we are, like many other nations<br />

around the world, find ourselves in a religious war.<br />

Our religion is democracy and the idea of America,<br />

theirs is.. not those at all.<br />

We win, we survive to vote again in 2028.<br />

We don't win, and 2028 voting will be limited to<br />

trump leaders, or there will be no voting at all. We<br />

face the threat of the century, and we must face it<br />

head on.<br />

We can win. But only if we vote.<br />

First time, young folk, left, right, center,<br />

independent, undecideds, and disaffected gop<br />

voters all must do our parts.<br />

I believe we will.<br />

We win by voting in overwhelming numbers for all<br />

democrats. We win by convincing ONE person to<br />

vote.<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 7


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Feature<br />

MAGA STICKS &<br />

MAGA STONES<br />

by Myron J. Clifton<br />

One thing that isn’t discussed enough by media -<br />

the nonstop insults republicans are throwing at<br />

VP Harris are the things they’ve always wanted to<br />

say out loud about Black women.<br />

You have heard all the insults: She’s not smart.<br />

She’s dumb & low intelligence. She forgot her<br />

way to top. She’s a Marxist/communist, she’s not<br />

qualified, her father is a bad man, she’s lazy, she<br />

drinks, she’s afraid of tough men, her laugh is<br />

awful, and so on.<br />

If you’ve worked in corporate and with Black<br />

women you’ve seen the attacks and if you’re<br />

friends with Black women, you’ve heard them<br />

complain about this type of treatment.<br />

We are these colors and these kaleidoscope DNA<br />

because white men did the above.<br />

Black women birthed two nations in America- Black<br />

and mixed, and raised a third-white.<br />

It is common and sadly it starts as children in<br />

The true Founding Mothers.<br />

school where Black girls are the most punished<br />

children.<br />

But they’re forever the shame of white men who<br />

refuse to acknowledge their national motherhoodshow<br />

me statues in DC that acknowledge Black<br />

I’ve written extensively about the opposite<br />

America of Black women and white men. They<br />

women’s contributions to birthing the republic.<br />

are the least and most powerful citizens and<br />

there will never be racial reconciliation without<br />

That’s an undercurrent to their “She just turned<br />

those two doing it first.<br />

Black” nonsense. They attack her blackness as a<br />

way of separating her from Black women’s U.S.<br />

As with everything in this country this all started<br />

history.<br />

w/ and was propagated through chattel slavery<br />

as white men enriched themselves by (raping)<br />

They’re literally trying to segregate her from herself.<br />

forcing Black girls to produce more babies and<br />

free labor.<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 8


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Myron J. Clifton<br />

VP Harris selecting Gov Tim Walz is an act of<br />

radical reconciliation that’s made more powerful<br />

by Gov Tim accepting and respectfully loudly<br />

enjoying being number two specifically to her.<br />

This is a part of the American dream that is a<br />

nightmare to race pushers and supremacists.<br />

When VP Harris and Gov Walz win, they will<br />

represent the most radically dynamic rebuttal<br />

against supremacy.<br />

VP is indeed unburdened by the past.<br />

A new way forward that only she could manifest<br />

and actualize.<br />

The pushback and hatred we see now will multiply<br />

over these next few weeks.<br />

So, I would say to Dems gird yourselves for the<br />

ratcheting up of the full bin of trash they have.<br />

And to Black and brown women I’d say protect<br />

yourselves in mind, spirit, body.<br />

VP Harris and Gov Walz Release New Plan for<br />

Home Healthcare<br />

American families often face difficult decisions<br />

about their loved ones’ care.<br />

My plan will cover home care services for seniors<br />

and those with disabilities—so parents, children,<br />

and loved ones can have peace of mind and<br />

accessible care.<br />

“Such a plan could mean the option of<br />

staying at home, rather than in a nursing<br />

facility, for the millions of seniors and<br />

people with disabilities who need help<br />

with the daily tasks of life.”<br />

“It could also mean physical and financial<br />

relief ― and new opportunities for school<br />

or work outside the home ― for the<br />

millions of working-age Americans who<br />

today provide so much of that care on<br />

their own without much in the way of<br />

outside assistance.”<br />

“If the proposed legislation is enacted,<br />

such a program would represent a<br />

substantial boost in federal support for<br />

caregiving and, by any measure, one of<br />

the largest one-time increases in<br />

American history.”<br />

Source: LINK<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 9


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

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The behavior and stories of folks who call on ride-share turned into a unique<br />

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professional management position. Recently laid off from his job and intrigued by the<br />

people he might meet (and the money he might make), the author unwittingly became the<br />

anonymous confidant for men, women, nonbinary people, and children. Unfortunately for<br />

him, he also became the innocent target of people who couldn’t hold their liquor, others<br />

who couldn’t hold their temper, and at least one who couldn’t keep his hands to himself.<br />

Little did they know they were in the Prius of a writer, who would be able to look in the rear<br />

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

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


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

We Couldn't Be Heroes<br />

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

could control the weather, God called 911, or aliens took our souls? Would we notice?<br />

Would we care?... Enjoy the entire collection, seven stories in all, on earth and in space<br />

and in any order.


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

ASTRO-ZONE<br />

THE ASTROLOGY OF<br />

KAMALA HARRIS<br />

by Mark Lerner<br />

Born: Tuesday, <strong>October</strong> 20, 1964, 9:28 PM<br />

In: Oakland (CA) (United States)<br />

Sun: 27°48' Libra<br />

AS: 24°26' Gemini<br />

Moon: 27°39' Aries<br />

MC: 2°25' Pisces<br />

Chinese Astrology: Wood Dragon<br />

Click here to view Kamala<br />

Harris’s Birth Chart.<br />

On Tuesday February 2, 2021 – just 13 days after<br />

Kamala Harris took the Oath of Office as Vice<br />

President of the United States – I created the<br />

AstroScope podcast #75 entitled The Astrology of<br />

the Rise to Power of Kamala Harris: Part 1. This<br />

podcast contains the Natal and Secondary<br />

Progressed charts for Kamala Harris, her<br />

Relocation chart for Washington, D.C. and World<br />

Map of her key Solar, Lunar and Planetary Lines<br />

of Energy, the USA birth chart for July 4, 1776,<br />

the Inauguration horoscope for Joe Biden and<br />

Kamala Harris on January 20, 2021, and the<br />

Total Solar Eclipse on April 8, <strong>2024</strong>. The<br />

American people have the opportunity to elect<br />

the first woman president of the USA – as a<br />

revolutionary act in sync with our country’s<br />

Declaration of Independence from 248 years<br />

ago – even though the next Inauguration chart<br />

contains a fair number of stressful aspects to go<br />

along with an equal number of inspirational<br />

alignments. I have not wavered in my belief and<br />

understanding that Kamala Harris has just The<br />

Right Stuff to lead our country and the world<br />

into a much more heart-centered, goodwillemanating<br />

and peace-evoking future.<br />

Click to learn more about Mark<br />

Lerner’s Cosmic Kalendar App<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 15


CLICK TO MEET<br />

THE HOSTS!<br />

MYRON<br />

JENN<br />

Two longtime friends have informative, yet<br />

brief discussions about multitudinous topics.<br />

NEW EPISODES ON FRIDAYS!<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 16


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

MYRON J. CLIFTON & JENNIFER VANLAANEN'S PODCAST<br />

VOICE MEMOS REVIEWS<br />

Listen Now!<br />

Stay<br />

Shallow!<br />

Like listening to your BFFs June 2, 2022<br />

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DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Feature<br />

THE TRUMP THREAT<br />

IS ALREADYHAPPENING<br />

by Myron J. Clifton<br />

For every group’s fear of how Trump will harm<br />

them<br />

Black people live your fear. What you think *may<br />

happen, happens to us daily<br />

This execution, Black women dying unable to get<br />

abortion, blocked from voting, powerful white men<br />

attacking and threatening an entire Black<br />

community in Ohio.<br />

Your dystopia is our reality in so many ways<br />

The system is rigged specifically against us. Panels<br />

of almost all white people affirm their wisdom<br />

layer after layer.<br />

Then a court stacked by a traitor and filled with<br />

folk who lied to get job, tell us... nah, you die.<br />

States rights, uh huh.<br />

If you’re not Black I cannot express what it is like<br />

being Black, ever, but especially when facing the<br />

truth of America being forged in our blood that<br />

has never stopped being extracted from each new<br />

generation<br />

I want revenge and violence visited on the real<br />

perpetrators. But that avenue isn’t available and<br />

isn’t sustainable or survivable<br />

But the grace to allow us to dream our anger away<br />

so we can function tomorrow in society is required.<br />

I’m sick of begging republicans for our lives. They<br />

have never and will never value us enough to care.<br />

Fuck them too.<br />

Vote them out. That seems so small now. But a<br />

pebble can start a mudslide and a snowflake an<br />

avalanche.<br />

May both start sooner.<br />

Vote democrats in up and down the ballot. And if<br />

you are in a battleground state, vote early!<br />

Our never-ending genocide, holocaust, chattel<br />

shadow woven in hated.<br />

Our only outlet is within and with ourselves<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 18


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Jamaal's Incredible Adventures in the<br />

Black Church by Myron J. Clifton<br />

Before Jamaal's seventeenth birthday, he’s appointed as his preacher uncle’s designated<br />

driver and unwilling personal confidant. Behind the fine outfits and hats, behind the<br />

delicious cooking, Jamaal is exposed to crazy aunties, sexy church sisters, corrupt<br />

pastors, and predator deacons. A good kid who just wants time to finish his homework<br />

and kiss a girl his own age, Jamaal is dragged through the strange world of the Black<br />

church. You best pray for him.<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 19


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

F e a t u r e d B u s i n e s s<br />

Maurice Woodson<br />

Maurice Woodson Began his career in the publishing Business.<br />

He has written for Right On! <strong>Magazine</strong>, Black Elegance, Class<br />

<strong>Magazine</strong> as well as ran Black Beat and Spice Superposter<br />

music <strong>Magazine</strong>s as Editor N Chief. In the early 200s he owned<br />

The Suburban herald, a small newspaper in upstate New York.<br />

He then ventured into the music industry managing artists and<br />

briefly working as A&R and A&M records. Looking to be more<br />

involved in telling stories he began writing screenplays and<br />

also honed his craft working as a script consultant. His love of<br />

creating and storytelling led to him writing Novels and<br />

children's Books.<br />

Woodson has been studying Black history and true History for<br />

nearly two decades. He believes that if schools won't teach our<br />

stories we must because we need to know how we got here in<br />

order to know where we are going. "We must plant seed in<br />

young minds, inspire. and empower." This has led to the<br />

publishing of children's books including the popular "We Know<br />

The ABCs Of Black History...Do You? and "I love What I See<br />

When I Look At Me."<br />

Woodson is also the owner of upcoming streaming service<br />

NXS Entertainment, which will feature diverse and<br />

inclusive movies, Series, Documentaries and more.<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 21


Vernon L. Andrews<br />

Policing Black Athletes<br />

Racial Disconnect in Sports<br />

O R D E R<br />

T O D A Y !


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

“This is why I continue to surprise people whenever I walk into a space<br />

that wasn’t designed to have room for me.”<br />

Bärí A. Williams<br />

Bärí A. Williams is an attorney, start-up advisor, and DEI practitioner. She currently serves as an advisor to<br />

Vera AI and an attorney for several start-ups. Her primary practice areas include emerging technology<br />

transactions, privacy and data protection, IP licensing, and terms of service. She has bylines in the New York<br />

Times, WIRED, Fortune, and Fast Company. Her previous book, Diversity in the Workplace: Eye-Opening<br />

Interviews to Jumpstart Conversations about Identity, Privilege, and Bias, was published in March 2020.<br />

Fast Company Review


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Feature<br />

NUTTY NUZZI<br />

NEWS<br />

by Myron J. Clifton<br />

Media personalities quiet about Olivia Nuzzi<br />

running a smear campaign and her past racism,<br />

with some even rallying around her because she<br />

is “young.”<br />

These the same folk who went to dinner with<br />

Sarah Huckabee when she stepped down as<br />

spokesperson after she disrespected them for<br />

years.<br />

They are generating news that they promote and<br />

support amongst themselves driving clicks and<br />

views then using that to justify their actions ad<br />

nauseam.<br />

They’ve collectively given in to journalism<br />

capitalism.<br />

These are the same folk, especially men, who<br />

circle the wagons around Maggie Haberman<br />

every couple months.<br />

The same folk who never come to the defense of<br />

any Black women journalists who are attacked by<br />

Trump inc.<br />

Funny how that is, huh?<br />

The business side and editorial sides no longer<br />

exist. Business runs editorial and big media<br />

journalists capitulated without so much as a<br />

whimper or investigation.<br />

Big bucks rule “Editors, tear down that wall.”<br />

And the walls fell, and democracy was harmed<br />

by the 4th estate.<br />

These folk been whining for months about VP<br />

ignoring them when they, she, and us all know<br />

they’ve been carrying Trump’s-stained jock strap<br />

for years.<br />

Presidents Biden and Obama tried different<br />

approaches to media, with the later using logic,<br />

sense, facts, and charm, and the former using<br />

“old man strength” and wisdom.<br />

They’ve extended their carrying service to Vance – Neither worked long term.<br />

a senator who refuses to answer when asked “Did<br />

Trump lose the 2020 election?”<br />

VP took those approaches and, like the great<br />

cook she is, improved the recipe.<br />

It’s more than sanewashing and more than wag<br />

the dog.<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 24


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Myron J. Clifton<br />

She said, I’ll be as shrewd, smart, charming as<br />

Barack, as ruthlessly unbothered and Joseph, and<br />

add in my unique background and intelligence<br />

and go straight to the people.<br />

It has proven the best most effective method for<br />

her.<br />

There’s no need for a Kamala whisperer or filter.<br />

Her supporters been knew: Let Kamala be Kamala<br />

and she will win over folk with her honesty,<br />

forthrightness, joy, laughter, and command of<br />

details and facts.<br />

Now look at her and Walz- on fire because of who<br />

they are AND their approach.<br />

Big media messed up big time.<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 25


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<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 27


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Feature<br />

SEAN COMBS DOESN’T DESERVE<br />

YOUR SUPPORT<br />

OR SYMPATHY<br />

by Myron J. Clifton<br />

Sean Combs arrested for years of vile abuse,<br />

trafficking, drugging girls and women, and<br />

running a multi-state criminal enterprise.<br />

Some folks: but what about because it’s not fair that a<br />

Black man is arrested but not <br />

Tell his victims that.<br />

We men must be better than this.<br />

Precisely because we are men, we either need to<br />

be supportive or be quiet.<br />

There’s no middle because we, us, men are the<br />

primary abusers.<br />

Of course, many of us are also victims of similar<br />

abuses like what Sean Combs and his cohorts<br />

are accused of.<br />

That should make us more empathetic not less.<br />

Sean wasn’t targeted- men are being arrested<br />

every day for abuse, etc., and some of the men<br />

are wealthy others poor.<br />

Just because a Black man who happens to have a<br />

net worth of $800b gets arrested after decades of<br />

abusing girls, boys, women, men, doesn’t mean<br />

somehow, he’s being targeted because he’s Black.<br />

Miss me with that. He’s arrested because like all<br />

such men he thought he was untouchable.<br />

Inequality in the law is awful, real, and absolutely<br />

needs correction - as it has for 400 years.<br />

This case is not the case upon which to push that<br />

fact, thought.<br />

Let’s be serious here.<br />

The law can be worked on while vile men like<br />

Sean meet their long overdue fate.<br />

I stand with the abused, trafficked, mistreated,<br />

drugged, and discarded victims of Sean Combs.<br />

I stand w/them because it’s the right thing to do &<br />

they deserve public support. Not equivocation<br />

based on misplaced fairness under the law<br />

arguments out of sync with his actions and his<br />

charges.<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 28


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Myron J. Clifton<br />

I stand with them as a father of a daughter,<br />

too. Because those girls/women didn’t deserve<br />

what happened to them and I know their<br />

parents/families are as hurt as I would be.<br />

Finally, I stand with them as one who endured<br />

childhood abuse by a parent, and who<br />

witnessed him abuse my mother as well.<br />

Fight the system, change law enforcement, but<br />

my goodness do not use Sean Combs as your<br />

cause. He doesn’t deserve any of it.<br />

The victims do. They always do.<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 29


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Myron's<br />

HOT TAKE<br />

#1<br />

Big Media bros be like… “Kamala should also<br />

interview with Darkseid, Loki, Bellatrix<br />

Lestrange, Joker, Thanos, Hela, Sauron, James<br />

Jonah Jameson, Cersei Lannister, Dolores<br />

Umbridge, Regina George, and Cruella De Vil<br />

because they are fair and have great<br />

reputations.<br />

#2<br />

VP Harris is public every day, meeting with<br />

local media, she sat for interviews with CNN,<br />

the National Association of Black Journalists,<br />

Oprah, MSNBC’s Dana Bash, YouTubers<br />

Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes All The<br />

Smoke show, Alex Cooper’s podcast, Call Her<br />

Daddy, an audience Q&A on Univision, 60<br />

minutes, Howard Stern, and The View, and<br />

other reaching hundreds of millions of<br />

voters. But “traditional” owned by<br />

billionaires and centered in the Beltway are<br />

mad. They can stay mad.<br />

#3<br />

Tim Walz reaffirmed to VP Harris supporters<br />

that she made an excellent choice, after he<br />

solidly won his debate against JD Vance. I<br />

think though there are white male and female<br />

undecided and gop voters who may change<br />

their mind because the Gov spoke TO them.<br />

His manner and style matters to them as<br />

much as VP’s style matters to Black voters.<br />

#4<br />

A few million votes have already been cast and<br />

the early indicators show that democratic<br />

voters are outpacing republicans in both<br />

requested a ballot and returned a ballot.<br />

#5<br />

On the massacre-versary of Hamas murdering concert goers, kidnapping for torture and<br />

sexual assault and then encouraging US citizens and college students to harass, threaten, and<br />

harm Jewish citizens….I’m sending support to Jewish friends. And a hardy f-u to Hamas and<br />

their supporters.<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 30


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Feature<br />

THE CASE FOR<br />

KAMALA FROM<br />

A MAN<br />

by Myron J. Clifton<br />

Some men are happy to support a woman<br />

for president, and those men are probably<br />

supportive of women in all walks of life These<br />

aren’t the men who make excuses for Sean<br />

Combs or who praise faux tough talk from<br />

Trump. These aren’t “alpha-males” or as I call<br />

them, laugh-a-males.<br />

But what remains the overriding issue is a<br />

society of men raised and indoctrinated into<br />

America’s true number 1 religion: Patriarchy.<br />

Deprogramming requires willingness, time,<br />

The men who energetically call women the b<br />

or c words, who criticize sex workers while<br />

being clients. The men mad they are required<br />

and consistency. Unfortunately there isn’t a<br />

12-step program or process for resetting our<br />

men-minds.<br />

to pay child support for their kids. Those men<br />

-hate- women and they are part of every<br />

race, economic group, and religion. And they<br />

are in every business and social sector. They<br />

are in every political party, too.<br />

In fact, the opposite happens every day as we<br />

are inundated with patriarchal reinforcements<br />

in every media and every walk of life. Unless<br />

we’ve trained ourselves to see it know it<br />

These are men who support their<br />

confront it, we’re left to accept it and reinternalize<br />

it.<br />

partner/wife/mistress getting an abortion<br />

because *their reason is legitimate. These<br />

men believe they own their daughter’s<br />

chastity and choice of partner. These are the<br />

pose with gun as they hover over their<br />

The pull of trumpism for believers who are<br />

partakers in the patriarchy is as strong as ever<br />

even as he publicly sinks into dementia and<br />

shits his pants every day on stage.<br />

daughters for prom photos.<br />

If we’re being honest, we need 46 women<br />

And since this conversation starts and ends<br />

with VP Harris we know a part of the men<br />

against her are men who have some type of<br />

violence against women and/or children in<br />

presidents in a row. Like we need 9 woman on<br />

Supreme Court like RBG once said. Tell that<br />

man in your life that. 46 in row = 184 years =<br />

the year 2208? Check my math.<br />

their background.<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 32


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Myron J. Clifton<br />

If that sounds absurd well then we just lived<br />

through the absurd. 45 white men, 1 Black man. 0<br />

women of any race.<br />

We’re fighting for ONE woman president and it’s<br />

hard as hell and for what? Why is that? She’s<br />

running against a person who hates America and<br />

everyone not like him, and hates every ally and<br />

governmental institution. He can’t talk intelligently,<br />

can’t elaborate on any policy, can’t name world<br />

leaders, and most nights he doesn’t even know<br />

what city or state he is in. He’s the bottom of<br />

America’s barrel and there’s lemming-men happy<br />

to follow him.<br />

They even try to shame men who support her,<br />

saying: You’re only voting for her because she’s a<br />

woman. Guess what?<br />

You’re damn right. Cope harder.<br />

I will follow the joyful warrior, the supporter of<br />

women and girls, the top cop, DA, AG, Senator, VP,<br />

Mommala. Wife, bonus mom, chef, her beautiful<br />

family, clothes, laugh, smile and, yes, her silk<br />

pressed hair which is better than every damn<br />

predecessor’s hair and certainly better than that<br />

whisk-broom hair Trump is sporting.<br />

Ain’t no shame in supporting her, only pride. If<br />

you’re a man vote for VP Kamala Devi Harris and<br />

help the nation start to move forward differently.<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 33


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Alert!<br />

PROJECT 2025 AND AGENDA 47<br />

You’ve probably heard about Trump’s Project 25 (or Agenda 47) that he and the Heritage<br />

Foundation put together. It is a blueprint for changing America in horrible ways, including<br />

restricting voting, changing the courts, giving Trump unlimited power, defunding ALL public<br />

schools, closing numerous government agencies including the Department of Education,<br />

ending Obamacare and Social Security, and more and worse. Here is a link to a guide to help<br />

understand Project 2025 and why voters can never allow Donald Trump back in the white<br />

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

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purposeful means to developing their own personal reality for establishing their “true identity.”<br />

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

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<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 37


DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

BLM-PD<br />

BLM-PD<br />

BLM-PD<br />

BLM-PD. BLM-PD. BLM-PD. BLM-PD<br />

BLM-PD<br />

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

institutionalized racism that has underscored the country’s entire history has once<br />

again been codified. California has seceded from the US, and a band of strong women<br />

plan to start the next civil war following the death of their friend at the hands of the<br />

police. This is BLM-PD.


MYRON'S<br />

HIT OR MISSlist<br />

HIT<br />

President Obama, Bill Clinton, and other<br />

democratic delegates deployed by<br />

Harris/Walz to battleground states for the<br />

homestretch of the campaign.<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 39


MISS<br />

Trump holds rally near Coachchella and<br />

attendees are left without late night<br />

transportation leaving thousands stranded in<br />

the desert town until the wee hours of the<br />

night.<br />

HIT<br />

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />

Liz Cheney supporting Harris/Walz and going<br />

on the campaign trail shows that Harris/Walz<br />

are candidates all voters can support. Add in<br />

former Trump cabinet members, retired<br />

generals and military leaders, the intelligence<br />

community, and hundreds of CEOs, and it is<br />

easy to see the truth of their one of their<br />

campaign slogans: For The People.<br />

HIT<br />

Baseball playoffs final four pits the two New<br />

York teams - the Yankees and Mets, taking on<br />

Cleveland and Los Angeles, giving MLB three<br />

big market teams that will draw plenty of<br />

viewers.<br />

MISS<br />

Attempts by republicans to influence the<br />

election by flooding the airwaves with their<br />

own polls that show Trump winning every<br />

battleground state and taking historic<br />

percentages of Black and Latino votes, are<br />

fantasy-football politics for republicans that<br />

have no bearing on reality.<br />

MISS<br />

In 2020, Trump predicted that if Biden won the<br />

country would collapse in all facets. Clearly it<br />

did not, and almost every economic, job, crime,<br />

border, and financial metric is better than<br />

when Biden/Harris got into office.<br />

MISS<br />

Republican congresspeople unanimously<br />

voting against increased funding for FEMA just<br />

a couple of weeks before back to back<br />

hurricanes hit the gulf coast in North Carolina<br />

and Florida.<br />

MISS<br />

Those same republicans immediately taking to<br />

the airwaves and social media to complain<br />

about FEMA and saying that FEMA was denying<br />

aid to republican citizens. The lies spread so<br />

fast that even republican governors had to<br />

publicly disavow the lies and to praise FEMA’s<br />

response.<br />

HIT<br />

HIT<br />

<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 40<br />

VP Harris on MSNBC, with Oprah, Howard<br />

Stern, Call Her Daddy podcast, All the Smoke<br />

podcast, Univision town hall, CNN town hall,<br />

60 Minutes, The View, with the National<br />

Association of Black Journalists, and with<br />

Roland Martin shows that the VP is meeting the<br />

moment and making her case to all voters.<br />

MISS<br />

Elon Musk turning Twitter into a rightwing<br />

propaganda outlet and then looking like a fool at<br />

Trump’s rally jumping up and down like a weirdo<br />

while his Tesla sales tank, his cybertruck is<br />

ridiculed, and his new toaster-looking van is a<br />

laughingstock.<br />

The Stock Market continues to break records<br />

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<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 44


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