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The Black culture platforms that push right-wing extremism​

The Shade Room and "No Jumper" are ostensibly designed to reach Black audiences. And both have become hubs of extremist disinformation.


April 10, 2023, 12:07 PM EDT
By Ja'han Jones

Stay woke, y’all.

In a ReidOut Blog from a little over a year ago, I warned of a few blogs and gossip platforms that ostensibly serve Black audiences being used to spread right-wing propaganda.

At the time, I specifically mentioned The Shade Room, Media Take Out and WorldStarHipHop as examples of platforms I’ve found to have spread right-wing talking points meant to discourage Black people from voting, pushed bigoted claims about LGBTQ people, and spread misinformation about Covid-19.

Unfortunately, there are new reports underscoring my point.

Media Matters, the progressive media watchdog, published a report last month about the hip-hop and Black culture podcast “No Jumper” and its creator Adam Grandmaison (also known as Adam22).

Grandmaison, who is white, has built a platform that fuels misogyny and gang culture — usually involving Black youth — through crass interviews and coverage. (To be clear, this has long garnered Grandmaison criticism from Black people.)


But "No Jumper" has apparently taken a more explicitly racist turn.

According to Media Matters:

Over the past year, No Jumper has delved into platforming viral hate figures, including white nationalists, neo-Nazis, misogynists, and notorious antisemites. The show has a massive reach on social media, with over 4.5 million YouTube subscribers, 1.2 million Twitter followers, 3 million Instagram followers, and 2.1 million TikTok followers. Clips from the podcast are also available on Snapchat and the show has a large Discord following. Additionally, clips of viral hate figures’ appearances on the show have been posted on TikTok by various users. ...
Grandmaison, who is white, now invites white supremacists and racists onto a show that has many Black staff members and was born out of covering hip-hop and Black culture. This transitional period for the podcast comes at a time when Grandmaison faces criticism for reports of past predatory behavior.

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You can read about some of that criticism here.

Some of the extremists who've appeared on the "No Jumper" platform include Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist invited to dine with Donald Trump late last year, as well as several Black guests and co-hosts who’ve spread antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Either The Shade Room is woefully ignorant, or it’s willfully piping right-wing conspiracy theories to its followers.

Along with the Media Matters report, I was also made aware of a post published by the gossip outlet The Shade Room this week that quotes right-wing lawmakers verbatim as they pushed unfounded claims similar to the racist “replacement theory.”

In The Shade Room post, the author quotes Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and other right-wingers referring to the “central bank digital currency” conspiracy theory, which essentially claims a global cabal is looking to establish digital currencies to patrol and control their citizens.

The theory plays on a common theme in right-wing disinformation: that a powerful group of nonwhite non-Americans, including Jewish elites, is seeking to undermine the American way of life.

The Shade Room also quoted Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Braun of Indiana and Chuck Grassley of Iowa as they whined about the threat posed by the Biden administration's nonexistent plans to create a "digital dollar."

The idea of these senators — all of whom have blocked voting rights measures and aligned themselves with Trump — pointing elsewhere to highlight alleged dangers to democracy is laughable.

So either The Shade Room is woefully ignorant, or it’s willfully piping right-wing conspiracy theories to its followers (or both).

I’ll leave it to you to guess why it is that a blog focused on Black culture is spewing conspiracy theories from anti-Black lawmakers.

In the meantime, if either of the aforementioned platforms are part of your news diet, I recommend a cleanse.

Ja'han Jones
Ja'han Jones is The ReidOut Blog writer.

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They're really trying to censor and erase our Story from their history books....if your child is in public or private school you should let your voice be heard about the curriculum They're teaching in history and really in all general subjects......!

When people think of eugenics, what most often comes to mind is Hitler’s persecution of Jews during World War II, but the American eugenics movement began significantly before, and served as a major inspiration. Modern eugenics emerged in the 1880s, with the goal of improving people’s genetic character by promoting reproduction by those with suitable characteristics and keeping those deemed unfit from reproducing, warning the unfit would otherwise bring down the entire world.​

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Experts at the time decided that the largest threat was “feeble minded” individuals, which included those with low intelligence, immoral behavioral habits, mental health conditions, and more. They supposedly were increasing in number rapidly, leading 12 states to pass sterilization laws by 1913.​

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In Michigan, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was a leader of the eugenics movement, perceiving it as the only way to save society from disaster. To promote this, Kellogg organized the First National Conference on Race Betterment, held from January 8-12, 1913, at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, which included more than 400 eugenics experts from across the country.​

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To encourage public involvement and support, the conference held “mental and physical perfection contests,” where children and babies were given tests and evaluations for rankings, with the winners receiving medals. The schedule was also published in newspapers, and thousands attended the conference.​

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The core of the conference was a presentation by Harry Laughlin titled “Calculations on the Working Out of a Proposed Program of Sterilization.” He claimed that 15 million sterilizations would be necessary to save the country, as the lowest ten percent of humans were so meagerly endowed that their reproduction constituted a social menace. Laughlin described specific strategies for effective programs, since current regulations were too weak.​

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To further inspire the public to take action on preventing the reproduction of the “feeble minded,” Kellogg wrote a paper titled “Needed – a New Human Race,” where he encouraged all people to become involved in eugenics. This included positive eugenics, where citizens deemed to have beneficial traits were encouraged to have large families.​

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Kellogg’s eugenics support impacted education in Michigan. Colleges began to offer or even require eugenics courses for students. Due largely to close proximity, Battle Creek College defined race betterment through eugenics as the primary and essential job of the college, and all students and staff were expected to support and promote it.​

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Michigan was the first state to propose eugenical sterilization in 1897, although the first sterilization law in the state did not pass until 1923. This law, upheld in court multiple times, led to 3,786 officially documented sterilizations. Seventy-six percent of these were on people deemed mentally deficient, 11% were people considered insane, and the other 13% were sexual deviants, people with epilepsy, or “moral degenerates.” African Americans and poor people were the main targets.​

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In the 1920s, selective breeding through eugenics became an American craze, based largely on the concept of race suicide. This theory posited that middle and upper class white people—the perceived superior race—were being outbred by all other races, and would die out if action was not taken.​

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In 1924 eugenics reached the Supreme Court with the case Buck v. Bell. Carrie Buck was the perfect subject, a member of a family with a large number of “feeble minded” individuals who had given birth out of wedlock. Almost all the evidence presented by the prosecution was false, and the defense did not make any effort to challenge the charges made; the goal of all parties involved was for a eugenical sterilization act to be passed. Virginia’s Ecumenical Sterilization Act was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court by a vote of 8-1. The decision relied heavily on Jacobson v. Massachusetts, a case ruling that children needed a smallpox vaccine, with claims that sterilization was a similar issue—it was necessary to protect the health of the country.​

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Carrie Buck became the first person sterilized in Virginia under the new law. Many states added or updated eugenic sterilization laws after the case, and by January 1935, 21,539 forced sterilizations had occurred across the country. Thirty-three states had statutes at some point in time that overall led to more than 60,000 involuntary sterilizations. The main force ending the movement in America was the association with Nazi Germany. Madison Grant, a prominent American eugenics supporter, even received a letter from Hitler, in which he proclaimed Grant’s book The Passing of the Great Race to be his bible. America did not want to be linked to the Nazis, so support for eugenics waned. However, the Buck v. Bell decision has never actually been overturned, and involuntary sterilizations still occur on rare instances, and they are perfectly legal. Understanding the history of eugenics in the United States is important, and can help us be more vigilant in ensuring that a similar movement does not start in the future.​

These the women all these black athletes and entertainers be wifin’. 😳😱🤢🤮

Does anyone on here have a means of getting in contact with the Mallery Family? I’m referring to Courtney Mallery of El Paso County, Co… Facebook doesn’t seem to be an option.

This dude gotta be related to that Big Koon--I mean Big Groove tether. WTF?

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THE HOOD CNN/ I CAME FOR BATTLE AND I'M SMASHING THE GAS/ LOOK AT THIS

I agree with 5 Star. He's unapologetic and goes at anyone he believes us doing wrong by the people of Houston. Candace has always been suspect to me and Monroe has been on her taco. Now he's saying F peace, I want war.

Also, listen to the person on the phone. These are the people we have in office, on our city councils, patrolling or streets, getting our donations etc. The boule buffer class is in full affect!

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Yo this is inappropriate! I hope it’s a deep fake. If he’s doing this on cam what goes behind the scenes?

I started a new game of Skyrim today and it made me think about my RPG decision-making. I realized, when I first started playing Skyrim, way back on PS3, I always sided with the Stormcloaks even though they were prejudice against non-Nords; because at the end of the day, I felt some kind of way about the Empire telling them what Gods they could and couldn't worship. Freedom of Religion is something I strongly stand by. So I said Fuck The Imperials.

However, after a reality TV Actor was appointed to the Presidency in 2016, I started siding with the Imperials, because the Stormcloaks started to remind me of his supporters and Ulfric started to remind me of the newly appointed president. I can disagree with a person's politics up until that person's politics requires my life and the quality of it be diminished in any capacity. So then I said Fuck The Stormcloaks.

But now, here I am, a year removed from my most recent playthrough, and I'm back to siding with the Stormcloaks, again.
Racist as they may be, the Imperials are forcing the people to accept another group's criteria of what a god is or isn't as normal. All because this other group, the Thalmor, are up in their feelings about who should and shouldn't be considered a Divine. Y'know like how these perverts today, are trying to tell other people what the criteria of Woman and Man are, and letting these people have access to women's restrooms, and sports, and accepting drag shows as "family functions". Meanwhile the government allows it, because they're too afraid to fight back. So again I return to Fuck The Imperials.

Now clearly neither group is good. And really neither group should be supported in real life, but this is a video game and not real life and in that context, I find it a bit interesting that at any given moment, BOTH sides at different points in my life with different events transpiring managed to win the "Lesser of Two Evils" argument for me. For what it's worth, that's....weirdly, pretty neat and oddly impressive given how old this game is. In addition to my many hang-ups with Bethesda, I give them credit for, haphazardly, creating that kind of dichotomy.

Alrighty, that's my thought to ponder for today. Everybody enjoy the rest of your Sunday and Have a great upcoming week this week.

It's obvious this brotha got no older brotha to school him on the game. Part of me feel bad for him, part of me wanna laugh. Maybe some of y'all have been there.

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I'm glad I changed my eating lifestyle because Popeyes at it again! This time it's a strawberry biscuit? You will not catch me bucking my eyes in the parking lot eating a biscuit! 😂

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These are some delicious smoothie recipes from the lovely Miss Lisa Cabrera—

enjoy! 🖤😘

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New Mexico is corrupted to the core. They’re the ones that put the hit out on George Floyd and many others. I realize it's me just talking. But that’s what I’m sticking with.

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It’s blatantly COMICAL, that these people focus on Chicago crime, while Albuquerque New Mexico is the murder capital of the US. Even more hilarious is the fact that New Mexico (in ALL government areas) is run by a greasy criminal mafia (see my next post for further detail).

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The one thing I do support 100 percent is that they don't wear chinese-made clothes. But I have my reservations. Thoughts? Real or cap? I'll reserve my views for now....lol

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