Michael Harriot

Jordan Peele has a documentary called High Horse: The Black Cowboy on Peacock and you should watch it. My experience has only been a Bass Reeves bio and my best friend growing up’s Dad was a Black Cowboy but I only got to see him a handful of times. (He was so friggin cool)

Pharrell's Comments on Politics and DEI Upset the Internet. I Asked Him About It. I saw what he said, so I asked him what he meant.

ContrabandCamp spoke to Pharrell about his recent comments on DEI, Black excellence and politics.

It’s here!

Check out the 3-part series High Horse: The Black Cowboy streaming on Peacock now!

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

www.propublica.org/article/andr...

Calling Donald Trump the “throat goat” is very disrespectful to Nancy Reagan’s legacy

How Does It Feel? Marjorie Taylor Greene is just one of the marginalized MAGA American activists who are concerned because Trump is doing exactly what they elected him to do.

What's the difference between a "welfare queen" & a food-insecure SNAP recipient?
inner-city clinics & rural hospitals
gov't handouts & "aid to struggling farmers?"
COINTELPRO & weaponizing the DOJ?
overpolicing & military occupation?
A Fascist & Trump?

Nothing...

We told y'all

A Republican spokesperson just released an official statement explaining why they can’t release the Epstein Files

In the entire world, do you think there are more underwear or socks?

This has not gotten much attention, but it should.

Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.

Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

Exclusive: Watch the Trailer for Jordan Peele's New Black Cowboy Doc Produced by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions, "High Horse: The Black Cowboy" dismantles the whitewashed mythology of the American cowboy.

I can't wait for y'all to see the unwhitewashed story behind one of America's favorite cultural icons.

Don’t miss "High Horse: The Black Cowboy" streaming on
Peacock on Nov 20.

Read more and watch the full trailer at ContrabandCamp!

American Society of Mikeys just updated their power rankings.

Congratulations on NJ Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill for coming in at #2 behind Mutant Ninja Turtle Emeritus Mikey L Angelo

I still can’t believe people voted for an inexperienced, unAmerican, anti-capitalist, Marxist terrorist sympathizer who won’t condemn “Radical Islamic Jihadists” & wasn’t even born here

Just don’t pretend they didn’t warn us about electing that “radical leftist” socialist Muslim…

Barack Obama

“Tonight shows that Dems need to run more progressive candidates who use #2 guards on their beards & talk like spoken word poets. Of course, I’m just extrapolating the results from 1 race in the most unique city in the world & applying it broadly! I’m a TV “political analyst!”

- Literally, everyone

Even when people point out that there are more white people on welfare...

They might not realize how right they are.

It's the unattractive Oregoners and the 3-toothed MAGA Mississippians and the Minnesota congressman complaining about free lunch and complaining about the welfare state and championing capitalism.

America has ALWAYS BEEN a welfare state...

For white people.

Those WIC vouchers that you demonize, purchase the products that white farmers produce.

Who's getting the government assistance here?

It's the 5th-generation farmer in alabama are the "welfare queens."
It's the people living in their grandpappy's house bought with a GI bill

Welfare is why the average white household has 9x more wealth than the average white family.

When the govt started giving out mortgages and building whites-only suburbs after WW2, it worked.

Welfare did that

Conversely, there hasn't been a SECOND that Black homeownership reached 50%

USDA Data: Nearly All Pandemic Bailout Funds Went to White Farmers Nearly all of the billions of dollars in federal farm bailouts to offset the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic went to white farmers, newly revealed Department of Agriculture data show.

According to the federal government, about 1-in-3 Americans are descended from Homesteaders. Black people didn't get that welfare...

In 1910, Black people owned 14 million acres. Today, it's 1.1 million

White farmers are still getting all the welfare.

Now the fact that the average billionaire pays a 4-6% lower tax rate than the average American could be considered welfare.

Or that corporations received $275 billion in subsidies between 2018-2022

Or fossil fuel companies getting $31 BILLION in subsidies/yr

But not me. I BELIEVE in welfare.

The Secret Life of Government Cheese - Offrange Deep in Missouri caves, millions of pounds of cheese reveal how federal dairy policies shaped our diets, food aid, and ideas of government waste.

But white farmers were still making those subsidized dairy products.

So in the 1970s the y created WIC so you could give that shit to babies. In the 80s, Ronald Regan found a way to get rid of all of that surplus buried underground:

Behold, government cheese

But we were still buying up all this cheese and other BS. So in the 1940s, the USDA came up with a brilliant marketing plan:

1. They taught kids the "basic food groups" – stuff white farmers produced (to be fair, I might die without butter)

2. Congress passed a law REQUIRING schools to serve milk

Technically, Krystals started the boom in 1932 but they served sandwiches and sodas and even chicken. But before the price of beef fell, hamburgers were a novelty. And NO ONE put cheese on them.

But thanks to government subsidies, we got the Big Mac

They had so much beef, sugar & dairy products, the government built refrigerated underground bunkers to store the cheese. They were regulating the price of beef and milk which created an entirely new industry:

Fast food.

This was also the beginning of farm subsidies. The USDA gave farmers money to mechanize farms & bought everything they produced. They bought so much dairy products, the government set milk prices. So even farmers who DON'T sell to the govt. technically get government assistance.

But it wasn't just homebuyers. Many of the all-white suburbs were built on land cleared by New Deal workers and used utilities paid for by New Deal projects that essentially employed any white worker who needed a paycheck. It created a new economic category they called "the middle class."

Welfare

But how was a bank or a mortgage lender supposed to know if negroes were around?

The used color-coded maps of approved neighborhoods. While housing segregation existed before "Redlining," the US GOVERNMENT certified the racist idea that Black people existing devalued home values

After the Great Depression, FDR created the biggest welfare program in history. It guaranteed low-interest loans to purchase homes. Then it gave developers low interest guaranteed loans to BUILD the homes in areas that became known as "suburbs." There was one catch

No Black people

We know 40 Acres & a Mule, but what about the 80 acres?

After the Civil War, Congress took 46 million acres that was re-re-repossessed from Natives to be given to freedmen and Union veterans in 80-acre parcels. It SPECIFICALLY excluded Confederates

Guess who got it?

The welfare Kings.