Dear Dean Magazine: October 2024
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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
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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 />
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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 />
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<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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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 />
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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
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<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 16
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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 !
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“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
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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
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
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<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 27
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Oct. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 37
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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 />
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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 />
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The Stock Market continues to break records<br />
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