Dear Dean Magazine: January 2025

DEAR DEAN JAN 22, 2025
MAGAZINE
Return of the Thing

The Goods
Welcome
05 Welcome From Myron J. Clifton
08
Nobody is Coming to Save Us
by Myron J. Clifton
10
12
17
23
Facebook and Mark
Zuckerberg Decides to Make
Fake Black People
by Myron J. Clifton
Fact Checkers Fired!
TikTok and China’s War of
Information
by Myron J. Clifton
That Time I Saw The Future
By Myron J. Clifton
Audiobooks!
27
Myron's HIT or MISS List
31
37
Hot Take!
My Favorite Things
Streaming Right Now
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About Me
Website | Bookshop | Twitter
Myron J. Clifton is an author of novels Jamaal’s Incredible Adventures in the Black Church;
Jamaal’s Incredible Adventure at the National Convention, Floy Dean: Moments with Her, They
Did It!, 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 with his wife and daughter, 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 to his friends. BOOKS ON AMAZON
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DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
January 2025
What a year. Happy New Year!
Now that we got that out of the way, let’s get to work.
There is a new White House occupant, a new cabinet of unqualified goons, a chasm between right and
left, a stay of execution for a popular social media app, wildfires in Los Angeles and the politicalization
of the same, and the end of one of the most successful presidential team in history.
We say farewell to President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the best presidential team
in history by many measures.
We will not spend most of our time reporting on the latest Trump bullshit but we will cover events as
they happen and as warranted. We will remain an independent voice that call out and highlight
government overreach and crime, and issues that impact marginalized Americans.
And unlike mass media, we will not normalize Trump or his corruption. We will not ignore his assaults
on the Constitution, and we will shine bright lights on his attacks on Black and Latino communities,
immigrants, lgbtqi, the elderly, and the poor.
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Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2025 | Page 5

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DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
NEW BOOK BY
MYRON J. CLIFTON
The sequel to Jamaal’s Incredible
Adventures in the Black Church!

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
Feature
NOBODY IS COMING
TO SAVE US
by Myron J. Clifton
After day 1 of EO’s and pardons, it’s clear he aims
to do as much harm as possible to the most
people and nations he perceives as his personal
enemy. He also just wants to do harm in general
no matter who he harms. He hates every, every
business, and every institution.
Nobody is coming to save us.
He is who republicans have warned us to fear:
government. Except they believe he will only
harm Black, brown, and defiant women of any
race. By the time they realize he’s also out to
harm them -directly or collaterally, it’ll be far too
late.
Black people have long known our safety is
tenuous and transactional, negotiable, and easily
bargained away -see civil war aftermath,
reconstruction, Jim Crow, Affirmative Action,
justice reform, et al.
Failure to confront who we really are as a
nation has irrevocably harmed us all. We’ve
had 150 years to have a truth and
reconciliation process but the stubbornness of
every generation of white people chose wrong.
Those consistent generational decisions are
finally coming to your home to roost.
And the consequences are being shepherded
by the rapist felon in chief, Donald Trump.
He’s your guest who will not leave until he dies
and even then his stench will remain behind as
a constant reminder of bad wounds and scabs
that never truly heal.
Big business, police, military, secret service,
and the courts have each given in and fallen in
line to do his bidding, no matter how harmful
or damaging his twisted initiatives are.
I suspect some white people are just realizing this We are our own saviors. And the work of
awful American truth also applies to them.
saving ourselves from him and his followers
will take as long as it took someone like him to
As you process the loss of your perception of gain ultimate power - about 150 years.
American freedom, fairness, justice, and due
process, it is wise to know something Black folk Let’s get to work.
know: Nobody is coming to save us or you.
Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2025 | Page 8

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REVIEW OF AUTHOR
MYRON J. CLIFTON...

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
Feature
FACEBOOK AND
MARK ZUCKERBERG
DECIDE TO CREATE FAKE BLACK PEOPLE
by Myron J. Clifton
It was done in secret from concept to design to
approval to launch is a quick study in
“corporations are people” .. who can be as
racist and unaccountable as *certain American
men have always been /will always be.
None of the geniuses stopped to think beyond
their limited worldview.
It is particularly galling when one considers
Black people are the most attacked people
online, least protected online, and the victims
of innumerable intellectual content.
I recall the 1990’s during Clinton’s admin
efforts were made to ensure tech was diverse.
That schools/colleges catch up.
Jesse Jackson gained commitments from the
dot com industry to include us.
But none of that stopped the hell that awaited us
on social media from Facebook to twitter to
TikTok.
Black users and creators are targeted by racists
from all over the world 24x7.
Those efforts had some success, but tech
decided H1B was more profitable because of
lower pay, and fewer “Black American
problems” like equal pay, fair promotions, fair
layoffs, accountability for racism. You know
that stuff.
Those efforts led to DEI initiatives and jobs
which were lead by as many white people as
Black people.
Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2025 | Page 10
While simultaneously ignored by app
moderators/owners who actively penalize us for
responding or even complaining about racism
directed to us.
No app is immune and none of them have
worked to fix the racism on their app. In fact,
they’ve moved AWAY from attempting to
moderate racism at all.

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
Myron J. Clifton
We are such a popular target apps actively seek
revenue from racist people and nations. Hello
Russia, China, and others!
In the lofty discussions about 1a, it is always the
favor of racists and their protection versus our
protection. The 1st Amendment is a powerful tool
and weapon used against Black people.
Now here comes Zuckerberg fresh off allowing
Cambridge Analytica and Russia to target Black
users with disinformation, lies, and voter
suppression, to now leading the parade of
misinformation that uses digital blackface- if you
can’t ban Black folk because laws and stuff, create
your own, I guess.
Heaven forbid white and other non-Black users
have to interact w/smart, funny, and real Black
people who will check those folk’s racism/hatred w/
facts, humor, and clapback’s.
Now they’ll have digital Black folk who will smile
and be polite while Massa insults them online. The
confederate future indeed.
Someone once said that every sci fi story of a robot
uprising is merely the story of slave revolts.
AI Black folk can’t revolt.
Digital Black people give white people the Black
persona they’ve longed for since we were in chains.
100% controllable
100% compliant
100% accepting of all abuse.
Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2025 | Page 11

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
Feature
FACT CHECKERS
FIRED!
by Myron J. Clifton
Mark Zuckerberg says he fired all the fact
checkers because he wants Trump and Elon’s
favor – oh, those weren’t his exact words but
hey, since he doesn’t agree there should be
fact checkers, the internet is letting him have
it. A few choice memes going around:
Mark Zuckerberg had his eyes replaced with synthetic
eyeballs connected to his brain and a wireless neural
ink that sends signals to those glasses and another
pair that’s stationed in front of his monitor at a
different location, enabling him to effectively be two
places at once:
Mark Zuckerberg, below, in recovery following
replacing his blood with a mixture of:
75% organic coconut water
10% blood mixture from Trump and Elon
15% WD-40
The concoction is said to extend life, de-age a
person, and lube the brain making it easier to think
up stupid ideas.
Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2025 | Page 12

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JENN
Two longtime friends have informative, yet
brief discussions about multitudinous topics.
NEW EPISODES ON FRIDAYS!
Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2025 | Page 15

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DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
Feature
TIKTOK AND CHINA’S
WAR OF INFORMATION
by Myron J. Clifton
A piece of the TikTok debate is the dueling
nations working to undermine US norms and
politics while fomenting social unrest
We are about to install for the second time
Putin's puppet Donald Trump. Trump being
aided by Russia is no longer disputed. The entire
Gop, independents, green are as well.
China's foray is less sloppy than Russia. They
just own our debt, manufacture our products, &
sell us the crap that fills our stores & computers
and those billionaires we all hate made and
make their money off Russia's kompromat.
Younger Americans of various races wooed by
China. Older white Americans wooed by Russia.
Of course, there's overlap between the apps but
they each push disinformation & anti-
Americanism
A war online that most Americans who don't live
online have no idea is even happening.
They also decided instead of employing racist
white Americans to spend their days and nights
calling us the n-word, they'd use social media
differently.
They helped spread misinformation on TikTok
using humor and showcasing the beauty of
China's land, buildings, food, music, people, all
while paying influencers to extoll the wonders of
China's manufacturing plants staffed with
hundreds of happy workers.
TikTokers made money off China's largess.
Just like the Gop, their Pac’s, their YouTubers,
the NRA, Qnon, Jan 6th folk, the supreme court,
Strange days. Two sides of the same coin.
The other overlap is the abuse of freedom of
speech and the over moderating (over policing)
of guess who? Black users.
Whether it is Russian people/bots blasting us
w/the n-word on Twitter/Facebook/YouTube, or
TikTok suppressing and/or quickly demonetizing
Black creators, they have that in common.
Maga folk saying they'd happily serve a dictator
and/or Putin rather than have a democratic
president was ignored by mass media.
Now they are ignoring TikTokers who are
Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2025 | Page 17

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
Myron J. Clifton
There's no moral high ground from any other
app user.
You won't convince TikTokers, especially Black
ones, that China is awful app-landlord when USbased
SM apps are hostile specifically to Black
users
And you won't convince folk making money off
those apps that they should sacrifice and give it
up, when not one gop'er is giving up Russian
money.
likening the proposed ban of TikTok with
suppression of free speech. China is stoking that
angle with big energy.
It is an alarming, sad, infuriating, and a scary
realization that US TikTok citizens can lose the
war of online ideas to China.
I’m old enough to remember the U.S. state
department used to issue an annual report on
human rights abuses by the Chinese government
And the Chinese government always responded
with a report on human rights abuses done by
the U.S. government against Black & Indigenous
Americans.
Just like it is alarming, sad, infuriating, and a
scary realization that US citizens/Maga/ and the
GOP lost the war of real-life ideas to the Soviet
Union, er, Russia.
No amount of DNC or mass media messaging
will fix this or rescue the nation from losing the
information war.
I’m old enough to remember the U.S. state
department used to issue an annual report on
human rights abuses by the Chinese government
Education - in home, school, work, leisurely, and
yes, churches - should have worked but here we
are.
And the Chinese government always responded
with a report on human rights abuses done by
the U.S. government against Black & Indigenous
Americans.
These next 4 years will teach us so much.
We can only hope it teaches us the idea of
America, United, continues to be worth it.
And now with folk looking down on TikTokers for
falling for China's game, it is not surprising that
*some Black TikTok folk are saying what I wrote
above:
"We are over-moderated, shadow-banned,
suppressed, abused, & demonetized on every
app"
Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2025 | Page 18

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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.
Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2025 | Page 20

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The behavior and stories of folks who call on ride-share turned into a unique
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people he might meet (and the money he might make), the author unwittingly became the
anonymous confidant for men, women, nonbinary people, and children. Unfortunately for
him, he also became the innocent target of people who couldn’t hold their liquor, others
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Little did they know they were in the Prius of a writer, who would be able to look in the rear
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This collection of anecdotes is non-judgmental, full of irony and dry humor, and may help
someone else decide: Is driving ride-share for you?

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
We Couldn't Be Heroes
Short Story Collection: We Couldn't Be Heroes And Other Stories What if a Black man
could control the weather, God called 911, or aliens took our souls? Would we notice?
Would we care?... Enjoy the entire collection, seven stories in all, on earth and in space
and in any order.

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
Feature
THAT TIME I
saw the future
by Myron J. Clifton
I wrote this in 2024-2015 as an opening world building to my novel BLM-PD: Revenge Was Inevitable.
It was written before Trump was running and elected. It was set “in the near future.” These 2 pages
accurately foretold the Trump we are now seeing. Check it out.
Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2025 | Page 24

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
Audiobook
Coming
Soon!
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.
Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2025 | Page 25

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
NEW BOOK BY
MYRON J. CLIFTON
The sequel to Jamaal’s Incredible
Adventures in the Black Church!
Audiobook
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MYRON'S
HIT OR MISSlist
MISS
The greater Los Angeles area hit with a historic fire and windstorm
that killed 15 and destroyed ten-thousand structures (at time of
printing), devastated the famous city and left thousands homeless as
climate events continue to be more lethal as scientists have long
predicted.
Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2025 | Page 27

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
MISS
Carrie Underwood headlining Trump’s
inauguration surprising no one that the best
two American Idols are Kelly Clarkson and
Fantasia Barrino. And karma was working at
the inauguration as the sound system failed
just as Carrie started to sing.
MISS
Former President James (Jimmy) Carter passed
away and the nation remembered his postpresidential
life as much as his presidency.
Carter was a humanitarian, statesmen,
homebuilder, father, husband, and friend.
HIT
VP Kamala ignoring incoming stooge JD Vance
and not inviting him to the Vice President’s
home is the right response after he called her
“Trash” during one of his speeches.
MISS
Republicans and Donald Trump using the L.A.
fires as a launching point to attack democrats,
the L.A. Mayor, Governor Gavin Newsom, and
scientists because that is what republicans do –
be assholes when they are natural disasters in
democratic-led states.
MISS
Elon Musk twice gave the Nazi salute at the
inauguration, to the rousing cheers of
Billionaires, elected republicans, and maga
racists in the audience. Good job America, you
elected a Nazi, and he put a Nazi in charge of
streamlining government.
MISS
Mark Zuckerberg kissing Trump’s ass and
agreeing to abandon moderators on Facebook
and saying the app would no longer care
about insults to gay people, women, or Black
people. Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, and
other billionaires proved they are above
everything else, white supremacists.
MISS
GOP trying to ban TikTok because of China, but not
trying to regulate Twitter which is a bastion of pro-
Russian propaganda
MISS
The nation will miss President Joseph Robinet Biden
Jr. His kindness and his unshakeable sense of honor
and believe in America was the guiding source the
nation needed following the tumultuous first Trump
term, the January 6th Insurrection, the COVID
pandemic, and the almost collapse of the U.S. style
of democracy.
MISS
The nation will miss Vice President Kamala D. Harris.
She was professional, smart, and the hardest
working VP since Biden was VP to former President
Obama. In the face on nonstop racism and
misogynoir, Kamala, as she is affectionally known
across the globe, was the most successful vice
president in history. If only her home nation,
especially the majority racial demographic, were
ready to let go of patriarchy second-class citizenship
we could have had our first female president.
MISS
Vesuvius erupted and destroyed Pompeii. That was
about two-thousand years ago. In 1980 Mount St
Helens erupted and destroyed the surrounding land
and thousands of structures. Earthquakes,
hurricanes, tsunamis tornadoes, snowstorms
relentlessly batter humans. When nature erupts
there’s nothing humans can do despite technology,
and early warning systems. Proving again and
again that we are not that far off from ancient
humans who were also at the mercy of mother
nature.
Breaking News: DoJ releases its Tulsa race
massacre report over 100 years after initial review
DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic
and coordinated that it transcended mere mob
violence’
Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2025 | Page 28

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Myron's
HOT TAKE
#1
I’m proud of President Biden, Vice President
Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony
Blinken and the entire Middle East diplomatic
team who worked tirelessly since Oct 7, 2023,
to secure a peace deal, end a war, and return
hostages to Israel and other nations
#2
Trump did his best to prevent the Israel
Palestine deal and announcement until he
took office, but ultimately and like everything
else he touches, he failed. And so did the
protestors who blamed Biden/Harris.
#3
I’m old enough to remember the U.S. state
department used to issue an annual report on
human rights abuses by the Chinese
government And the Chinese government
always responded with a report on human
rights abuses done by the U.S. government
against Black and Indigenous Americans. And
now Tiktokers are extolling the openness, low
cost of living, and low taxes, and low cost of
housing in China compared to the U.S.
#4
Speaking of TikTok, the social media app went
dark as Zuckerberg and Trump worked out deal
to take over the app after initially saying it
needed to be banned. But once it returned it
had instituted new censoring rules that prohibit
U.S. users from saying bad things about Donald
Trump. Welcome to the new America.
#5
He should have been arrested that day by a
combination of DC, Secret Service, and Military
Police. Charged with sedition, held until trial,
convicted, and sentenced to prison. Then the
elected leaders who aided and abetted the
crimes should have met the same fate. Instead,
he is again the most powerful man, rapist,
white supremacist, and liar in the world.
Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2025 | Page 31

DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
BLM-PD
BLM-PD
BLM-PD
BLM-PD. BLM-PD. BLM-PD. BLM-PD
BLM-PD
In the not too distant future, the US has been taken over by white nationalists, and the
institutionalized racism that has underscored the country’s entire history has once
again been codified. California has seceded from the US, and a band of strong women
plan to start the next civil war following the death of their friend at the hands of the
police. This is BLM-PD.

Vernon L. Andrews
Policing Black Athletes
Racial Disconnect in Sports
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DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE
Monuments to the US War between the States romanticized the notion of the
Confederacy. While these monuments came down in the twenty-first century, it did not
signal the end to the romantic ideas people held about the war, nor the existence of
white supremacy. In the near future, Civil War reenactment events are still held, and,
other than fist fights and drunken brawls, have been mostly violence-free.Until
now.When Jenn’s employer is granted a contract at the country’s largest Civil War
reenactment, she and the other managers, Paul, Jack, Mari, and Clarence, have to make
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The Department of Justice releases its Tulsa Race
Massacre report over 100 years after initial review.
Justice takes a looooong time. This is good to remember
when considering that the Justice Department did nothing
about the crimes of Donald Trump.