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DEAR DEAN<br />
APR. 22, <strong>2024</strong><br />
MAGAZINE<br />
COWBOY<br />
CARTER<br />
CONFRONTING
The Goods<br />
Table of<br />
Contents<br />
03 Welcome From Myron<br />
Dawn of an Era<br />
page 06<br />
10<br />
Cowboy Carter<br />
by Myron J. Clifton<br />
14 Blaming Black People<br />
by Myron J. Clifton<br />
18<br />
Hearing & Confronting<br />
Race Misinformation<br />
by Steven Evangelista<br />
24 The Juice Is No Longer On The Loose<br />
by Myron J. Clifton<br />
30<br />
34<br />
38<br />
42<br />
Myron's HIT or MISS List<br />
Hot Take! x4<br />
My Favorite Things<br />
Streaming Right Now<br />
Our Wedding Day<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<br />
B Y K A T Y A J U L I E T L E R N E R<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 2
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
Welcome<br />
<strong>April</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
<strong>April</strong> Showers bringing more country music,<br />
more championships for Dawn Staley, more<br />
political garbage from cable news, more jobs,<br />
more inflation, more federal taxes, more<br />
Meghan Thee Stallion, and of course, Vice<br />
President Kamala Harris.<br />
Check out our feature stories that include a<br />
review of Cowboy Carter, Beyonce’s country<br />
album that is blowing up music charts,<br />
generating lots of online content, and because<br />
we are in America, surfacing long held contempt<br />
from some people. A sobering look at the reflex<br />
too many Americans have to point fingers after<br />
every disaster, Blaming Black People.<br />
Frequent contributor, Steven Evangelista, is back<br />
with his continuing series confronting racism<br />
with a longtime friend.<br />
All your favorites are here, too, of course. Hot<br />
Takes! What’s Streaming, and books, books,<br />
books!<br />
We publish thought-provoking articles on<br />
government, gender, race, and politics, while<br />
also providing space for movie and television<br />
reviews, poetry, short stories, food, pets, fun,<br />
and a welcoming platform for independent<br />
authors and writers.<br />
And we provide this space for free – because our<br />
motto is and will remain:<br />
Some Art Deserves to be Free.<br />
So don’t be shy – submit your article!<br />
Myron<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 3
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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 />
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<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 4
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
Part 2<br />
Coming<br />
Soon!<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> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 5
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
Feature<br />
DAWN<br />
OF AN<br />
ERA<br />
Dawn Michelle Staley is not new.<br />
Her South Carolina Gamecocks just completed an<br />
undefeated season, going 38-0 and winning the<br />
national championship for the fourth time.<br />
Even though most national media focused on<br />
player of the year Caitlin Clark, and thus missed<br />
the chance to respectfully cover what was the<br />
story of the college basketball season – women or<br />
men.<br />
Dawn Staley is not new.<br />
Staley won three gold medals with the U.S.<br />
Women’s Olympic team as a player, and another<br />
as the coach of the team. And she was selected<br />
with the honor of carrying the American Flag<br />
during the opening ceremony during the 2014<br />
Olympics.<br />
celebrated. It is an event that is watched closer<br />
than any other in every sport where it is<br />
achievable – College Basketball and NFL<br />
Football.<br />
And in leagues where being undefeated isn’t<br />
achievable, the next most celebrated team event<br />
is Win-Loss Record, Winning Streaks, and<br />
Winning Percentage.<br />
The South Carolina Gamecocks have won three<br />
national titles with Dawn Staley as coach, winning<br />
in 2016, 2021, and this year, <strong>2024</strong>.<br />
An undefeated season in any sport is extremely<br />
difficult, extremely rare, and universally<br />
In every case in American sporting history, each<br />
of those are watched and reported on daily, with<br />
the intensity of the reporting coverage<br />
increasing exponentially the closer the team gets<br />
to achieving the nearly impossible record. But<br />
outside of South<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 6
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
Myron J. Clifton<br />
Carolina media that wasn’t the case with run up<br />
to Dawn Staley’s achievement.<br />
Dawn Staley is not new.<br />
As a player Dawn led Virginia to three<br />
consecutive Final Fours. She was a two-time<br />
National Player of the Year, and Most<br />
Outstanding Player of the 1991 Final Four.<br />
After a tough Sweet Sixteen game where they<br />
beat a tough Indiana team by four, Dawn’s team<br />
lit up Oregon State by 12, and NC State by 19.<br />
Then they had to face Iowa, which was led by<br />
college player of the year and college<br />
basketball’s all-time leading scorer, Caitlin Clark.<br />
Most of the media coverage went to Caitlin Clark<br />
and her attempt to end her career with a<br />
national title. She and Iowa had made the finals<br />
last year only to be beaten by LSU and<br />
manufactured rival, Angel Reese.<br />
This year Iowa got revenge, beating LSU and<br />
Angel Reese handily and sending national<br />
media into a tizzy and online racial rivalries<br />
into battle mode and revenge mode.<br />
Because sports media is full of mostly white<br />
men and they decide the narratives that will be<br />
covered the most, the stories that led every<br />
sports and news network was about Caitlin<br />
Clark.<br />
To be clear, Caitlin Clark is a generational<br />
player, a flat out baller who can shoot the lights<br />
out, and the biggest star in college basketball –<br />
men or women. Anyone doubting her skills<br />
simply do not know basketball or just wants to<br />
be contrarian.<br />
Whether she is the best women’s player of alltime<br />
is a fun debate because as respected<br />
national sports journalist and reporter Terry<br />
Biggs writes: “Before y’all get too far with Caitlin<br />
Clark being called the greatest woman’s NCAA<br />
player ever, remember that Breanna Stewart<br />
did the following:<br />
4 straight national championships<br />
3x NCAA tournament Most Outstanding Player<br />
3x National Player of the Year.<br />
148-5 record in college.”<br />
For this year, Caitlin was “that woman” and was<br />
standing between Dawn Staley and another<br />
notch on her championship belt.<br />
Dawn Staley is not new.<br />
After an accomplished career in the WNBA<br />
where Dawn helped push the league forward,<br />
helped keep it afloat, and diligently play games<br />
in near empty or near full stadiums, Dawn was<br />
elected to the hall of fame. If we lived in a<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 7
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Myron J. Clifton<br />
society where women’s sports were covered like<br />
men’s sports Dawn would be celebrated hall of<br />
famers in other sports who upon their<br />
retirement are celebrated, honored with statues,<br />
and who make the rounds of television and<br />
magazine features and interviews.<br />
Dawn went straight to work as a coach at<br />
Temple where her teams went Virginia, setting<br />
the stage for her dominate run at South<br />
Carolina. Her teams won 172 games in eight<br />
years at Temple before she was hired at South<br />
Carolina.<br />
Success at did not come fast but Dawn never<br />
wavered from her commitment to doing the<br />
work honestly and with energy. Just like when<br />
she was a player. She knew that building a<br />
program the right way took time, patience, and<br />
honest recruiting. After losing seasons her first<br />
two seasons, she saw the proof of her methods<br />
in year three with her first winning record. She<br />
has not had a losing record since, and has had<br />
a season with double digit losses only once in<br />
twelve years since.<br />
Dawn Staley is not new.<br />
The first half of the national championship<br />
game was intense, with Iowa jumping out to a<br />
ten-point lead and star Caitlin Clark scoring<br />
eighteen points in the first quarter – the most<br />
ever in the tournament.<br />
Dawn adjusted her defense by shifting Raven<br />
Johnson to guard Caitlin Clark. Raven had been<br />
dismissed by Clark last year because Raven was<br />
not a good outside shooter. Raven worked on<br />
her game and improved her shot, while getting<br />
even better at defense which was always a<br />
strength. Dawn knew Raven wanted the chance<br />
and challenge of guarding Caitlin. A good coach<br />
knows when to challenge a player, when to<br />
protect a player, and when to depend on a<br />
player to step up into the moment.<br />
Dawn’s move proved to be genius as Raven<br />
made four steals against Caitlin, caused her to<br />
miss more shots than normal, and limited her<br />
from taking over the game as fans were used<br />
to, and as Iowa needed.<br />
In the end, South Carolina won the game, 87-<br />
75, winning their third national championship<br />
with Dawn Staley, and causing the national<br />
media to redirect their coverage, belatedly, to<br />
the record-breaking hall of fame coach and her<br />
team.<br />
Dawn Staley isn’t new. She was undersized as a<br />
player in college and the pros, she could not get<br />
across the finish line to win the title as a player,<br />
but she collected accolades and achievements<br />
every step of her incredible journey until finally<br />
reaching the highest heights in her sport.<br />
Americans deserve to know about Dawn Staley<br />
and her career, accomplishments, and her<br />
championship achievements.<br />
She is one of America’s best active coaches, and<br />
she is a great role model for girls, boys, women,<br />
and men. She is a leader and the best that<br />
college sports have to offer.<br />
The coverage next year should meet Dawn and<br />
the Gamecocks where they are – at the top of<br />
the sports mountain because Dawn Staley is not<br />
new, she is the Era.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 8
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
Feature<br />
Cowboy<br />
Carter<br />
Beyonce's latest album is excellent, showcases her<br />
love of southern, country, and "chitlin circuit" music,<br />
instruments, and vocals. Beyonce long ago moved<br />
on from traditional Pop, R&B, Soul, and Global<br />
dance. Moved on, but not left behind.<br />
She has grown.<br />
As most artists, in any genre, will do as they<br />
experience life, love, loss, heartbreak, & success In<br />
that way this album is perfectly experimental,<br />
wonderfully executed, and intricately challenging to<br />
her, the guest stars, and her old and new audience<br />
This album is a challenge. Artists like Stevie, Dylan,<br />
Michael, Prince, Tina, Aretha, Miley, Cher, Diana,<br />
Patty, Taylor, Janet, Lennon, McCarthy, George<br />
Michael, Earth, Wind, Fire, Whitney.. all moved from<br />
industry-designated category to their undefined<br />
category. Beyonce demands and gives more of<br />
herself.<br />
Is it Country? To "me" it is. But it is more as well. It is<br />
southern. It is Texas. It is Houston. It is the sound we<br />
heard our parents listen to, the sounds our<br />
grandparents lamented was lost, & the sound their<br />
parents heard in various southern states in various<br />
degrees of hell.<br />
The names include singers and musicians Tanner<br />
Adell, Willie Jones, Tiera Kennedy, Linda Martell,<br />
Brittney Spencer, Reyna Roberts, Robert Randolph,<br />
and Shaboozey.<br />
There are more, and more samples from The<br />
Beach Boys, Nancy Sinatra, and a favorite of<br />
many already, Paul McCarthy’s Blackbird. There<br />
are so many influences and respectful homages, it<br />
is hard to imagine anyone being upset with<br />
Beyonce’s latest creatively written, produced, sung,<br />
and marketed work of art.<br />
I think Beyonce's 20-year discography is among<br />
the best in music history.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 10
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
Myron J. Clifton<br />
There's always hate when women artists break out<br />
and do what they hell they want, with whomever<br />
they want, and on their own schedule. Beyonce<br />
generates traffic, like Taylor Swift, Mariah Carey,<br />
Janet Jackson, Miley Cyrus, and others before them<br />
including Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Cher,<br />
Karen Carpenter, and Tina Turner.<br />
The industry and critics be damned though.<br />
As is said online, sometimes it is perfectly okay to<br />
just scroll on by. If her music isn’t for you, that’s<br />
fine because not all music is made for every<br />
person. Beyonce and those who appreciate her<br />
creativity, inclusiveness, and artistic growth will be<br />
just fine without you.<br />
If her music isn't for you, ignore it and move on.<br />
That's what Beyonce has done to those trying to<br />
force her into a category: ignoring them and<br />
moving on.<br />
But of course in America that is seldom the road<br />
taken and it is no different than with the<br />
numerous awful hot takes about Beyonce’s<br />
country album.<br />
From the “You’re not really country” to the “Black<br />
people are trying to appropriate country music”<br />
the ready stupidity of bad takes are all over every<br />
social media app.<br />
Never mind that country music – like Jazz, Soul,<br />
Gospel, Rock and Roll, Rhythm and Blues, Hip<br />
Hop, and Disco, all are creations of Black<br />
American culture, and never mind that Beyonce<br />
Knowles is from the South – as most Black<br />
Americans still are, and no matter that she has<br />
dabbled in multiple musical genres since going<br />
out on her own twenty-plus years ago, America<br />
will always America and try desperately try to<br />
confine Black excellence to a small uninteresting<br />
box.<br />
You know who doesn’t have an issue with<br />
Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter? The artists.<br />
She has received praise from Paul McCarthy,<br />
Nancy Sinatra, and of course Dolly Pardon who<br />
loved Beyonce’s re-interpretation of Jolene.<br />
“Wow, I just heard 'Jolene,'” Dolly wrote in a March<br />
29 Instagram post. “Beyoncé is giving that girl<br />
some trouble and she deserves it!”<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 11
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
NEW!<br />
ON SALE<br />
NOW<br />
Sometimes, when you’re at a crossroads, a door will open and what enters will inspire you.<br />
Other times, what enters will make you gag. These stories by a ride-share short-timer might<br />
have the same effect on you. A man, recently laid off from his job and intrigued by the people<br />
he might meet (and the money he might make) decides to drive ride-share while looking for a<br />
new professional management position.<br />
Don’t want to drive drunk? Well, then, by all means, plug in your location and get your friendly<br />
neighborhood ride-share driver to ferry you to your next bar. Need to move but can’t afford<br />
movers? There’s an App for that! Tired of waiting for tricks on the corner? Wait—I’ve got an idea.<br />
. .<br />
The behavior and stories of folks who call on ride-share turned into a unique anthropological<br />
study for one man who decided to drive ride-share while looking for a new professional<br />
management position. Recently laid off from his job and intrigued by the people he might meet<br />
(and the money he might make), the author unwittingly became the anonymous confidant for<br />
men, women, nonbinary people, and children. Unfortunately for him, he also became the<br />
innocent target of people who couldn’t hold their liquor, others who couldn’t hold their temper,<br />
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 view<br />
and tell their stories.<br />
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?<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Mar. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 12
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.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Mar. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 13
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
Feature<br />
BLAMING<br />
Black People<br />
Foreign Cargo ship accidentally crashes into &<br />
collapsing bridge, killing immigrant workers.<br />
None of the crew or workers were Black.<br />
Republicans blame Black Mayor & Governor & DEI<br />
Mass & Social media pushes the message, even<br />
asking Mayor & Governor if DEI caused crash I just...<br />
Disasters happen, there’s a national effort to rally<br />
around the locations affected. The cities, businesses,<br />
states, the people This disaster in Baltimore?<br />
Nah, fuck them, republicans and online mostly WP<br />
loudly yell.<br />
Is there nothing that can happen in proximity to<br />
Black people that WP won’t blame us, ridicule us,<br />
mock us? Why is there a reflex that immediately<br />
turns to “Blame Black People” no matter if it had<br />
nothing to do with them? I know it’s racism... but<br />
goddamn.<br />
Can you imagine always being blamed for<br />
everything wrong with this country? And having<br />
the least amount of power to correct the bullshit<br />
the folk with actual power forces on us? Every<br />
day. All day. Every instance. Then have wealthy<br />
dickheads like Elon Musk join AND encourage<br />
more?<br />
We’re here catching strays for no reason other than<br />
the nearest shore is a city with a Black mayor.<br />
Fucking younger Andrea Mitchell, Dana Bash, had<br />
the white privileged gall to ask the governor if DEI<br />
played a role. What the absolute fuck was that and<br />
why is she still employed?<br />
The daily armor we have to put on just to survive<br />
work, school, online, watching television &<br />
movies, reading books, and worst of all -<br />
watching/reading the news.. Is armor enough to<br />
withstand daily global attacks on our existence.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 14
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
Myron J. Clifton<br />
Yes, global. The Middle East war is blamed on<br />
Black folk by those dumb ass protestors. The<br />
100-border sieve is blamed on VP Harris The<br />
inbred royal Fucking family bullshit is blamed on<br />
Meghan Markle. Donald dumb-dumb Trump<br />
blames Tish James, Fani Willis, and Obama.<br />
And if you have a Black friend or coworker..<br />
or neighbor.. Don’t ask them about the<br />
latest fuckery in this country. They KNOW<br />
and maybe they don’t want to talk about it<br />
with you or anyone. Just let them exist in<br />
peace for the tiny moment you’re around<br />
them.<br />
They’ve earned it.<br />
It’s hard to explain the process of always being<br />
attacked & blamed, rarely being listened to, and<br />
seldom being apologized to when the things we<br />
warned about come true. It’s beyond exhausting.<br />
It’s debilitating. It’s the fuel that creates a villain<br />
origin story.<br />
We don’t do it.<br />
I don’t think it’s studied or written about enough<br />
that part of the reason it’s so hard to get *some<br />
Black people to vote.. is being involved requires<br />
knowing vile details, endlessly being attacked &<br />
mocked, and having to deal with wishy washy<br />
allies. Who wants more of that?<br />
The only way out is voting. Let me get that on this<br />
thread before some chuckleheads scold me.<br />
I wish I could grant Black Americans a break. Just<br />
a month, a week, or even a day. Just a break from<br />
America so we could relax. Let our guards down.<br />
Feel safe. Be safe. Just a moment. We’ve waited<br />
400 years and my god we’re still waiting with no<br />
light in our dark tunnels.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 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> | Mar. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 16
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DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
Feature<br />
Hearing &<br />
Confronting Race<br />
Misinformation<br />
It was time for my weekly video chat with<br />
Premio. His face, usually bright with optimism,<br />
was downcast.<br />
“Hey. What’s wrong?” I asked.<br />
“I was just reading another headline about<br />
DeSantis. They say he’s backtracking. It’s a<br />
shame what they did to this man. He should be<br />
the next president.”<br />
Here we go, I thought.<br />
“Really?” I responded. “And what do you like<br />
about him?”<br />
“Well,” said Premio, “he’s very strong. They tried<br />
to make him look weak, with all these doctored<br />
videos, but he took on Mickey Mouse and won.<br />
And he stopped indoctrination in the schools!<br />
Woke, CRT and all that. Someone has to stand<br />
up.”<br />
“Yeah, it’s making everything about race. It’s saying<br />
that white people today - like you and me! - have to<br />
pay up for the past sins of racists and all the stuff<br />
they did back then. Making little white kids<br />
uncomfortable because they are told racism and<br />
slavery are their fault. When slavery has been over for<br />
hundreds of years!<br />
“And what about me? What about my family? My<br />
ancestors came over here from Italy with nothing. We<br />
didn’t do anything, but we get lumped in with the<br />
plantations. That’s CRT. That’s woke.<br />
“My ancestors earned everything they got, and no one<br />
was handing out anything to them. Where’s my<br />
reparations?”<br />
“So what is CRT?” I knew how to play this game.<br />
“Do you know?”<br />
Premio’s confidence was overwhelming<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 18
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
Steven Evangelista<br />
Where to even start with countering this fusillade<br />
of misinformation? Once again, as in almost<br />
every conversation with him, I wondered<br />
whether presenting facts would even make a<br />
difference.<br />
But I had to try. “That isn’t what CRT is. It’s a<br />
framework for understanding the law and its<br />
impact on society. Not the nonsense you are<br />
describing. And CRT is not being taught in K12,<br />
has never been taught in K12, not even in<br />
college. It’s a law school theory!”<br />
My speech was just beginning, but Premio cut in.<br />
“What do they know about law school in<br />
kindergarten, where they are teaching CRT? They<br />
are making little five-year-old white kids feel bad<br />
about slavery. They had nothing to do with it!<br />
Thank God for Ron DeSantis, and they<br />
demonized him.”<br />
Once again, it seemed hopeless. I didn’t have the<br />
energy to fight this fight this week. And, I<br />
reasoned, DeSantis is out of the picture anyway,<br />
so it would just be wasted effort.<br />
“Pay rent?” Something between a guffaw and a<br />
sneeze escaped Premio’s contorted face.<br />
“Anyways, my mom’s always up in everybody’s<br />
business. She keeps me informed about what’s<br />
going on in the family.<br />
“For example,” he continued officiously, “my<br />
second cousin once removed the other day.<br />
Thank God she had a white baby!”<br />
“What are you talking about?” I asked,<br />
incredulous and intrigued.<br />
“Well, my cousin Annina,” Premio began. “She’s<br />
the one who’s my Aunt Giuseppina’s<br />
granddaughter, not the one in Brooklyn, but the<br />
one who moved out to Ohio because her<br />
mother, Felice, had this whole thing with her<br />
husband. She is dating a Black guy.”<br />
“Ok,” I said, trying to keep up.<br />
“You know, I guess he is lighter skinned, but still,<br />
when they come out, they might come in all<br />
shades of color. And it’s so much harder for<br />
them if their skin is dark than if it’s light.”<br />
“Can we change the subject?” I asked. “I haven’t<br />
asked about your family. Everything alright with<br />
your mom?”<br />
“Oh, she’s just got an attitude,” my new friend<br />
Premio replied. “Always in my business.”<br />
“Well, it is her right, is it not? You are under her<br />
roof and now a fully grown adult. I’ll guess you<br />
don’t even pay rent, but it’s her prerogative to<br />
charge you.” I glared into the phone,<br />
remembering Premio’s lack of employment.<br />
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Steven Evangelista<br />
“So, the cousin, this one is Annina? She had a<br />
baby with her boyfriend,” I clarified. “And you<br />
are happy that he is lighter skinned?”<br />
“Not just lighter skinned,” Premio said. “That<br />
baby is white! I mean, if I didn’t know my cugina<br />
and how devoted she was to this Black guy, I<br />
would say that baby belonged to a white side<br />
piece!” His eyes grew wide.<br />
“But no worry about racism for now,” Premio<br />
continued. “Unless this little baby boy’s skin<br />
changes when he grows - sometimes it’s like<br />
that, you know - he won’t have to deal with all<br />
that shit Black people deal with.”<br />
“So you are aware of the racism that is all over<br />
society?” I asked.<br />
“Oh, there’s racism,” he replied. “Sure, and<br />
there’s anti-white discrimination too. But why<br />
should he have to grow up in a world where he<br />
has to deal with both? At least that’s one thing<br />
off his list of lifelong challenges. I always say,<br />
give me a challenge, but not too much at once!”<br />
“Anti-white discrimination,” I said.<br />
“Oh yeah, you know, affirmative action and all<br />
that shit. It’s almost better to be born Black than<br />
white these days.”<br />
“Almost,” I said.<br />
“Almost,” Premio repeated.<br />
“Thank God for passing!”<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 20
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 />
Marcus A. Banks-Bey, M.Div<br />
Gathered experience and elevation gained from years as an Army & hospital chaplain, mental health worker<br />
and clinical psychology doctoral student, equips Marcus A Banks to aid in journeying the reader to<br />
intelligently question their past belief systems and future creative visions of thought and identity as a<br />
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 />
and understand why nurturing the relationships we have with our Faith, Family, Friends, Fitness and<br />
Finances will support our Purpose, Planning, Patience, and Persistent-Perseverance. This system helps one<br />
establish their own 5×5 Side by Side Guide through life. Dig Deep was written following a series of extremely<br />
challenging life occurrences, including the suicide of the author’s brother, Iverson; divorce; and war<br />
deployment. From this place, the author engaged in the process of self-discovery, self-awareness and<br />
meaning.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 22
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
Looking back on the Before and the events leading up to the After, it was impossible to say precisely<br />
when everything went to shit. Understanding the importance of human connection, a lone trader braves<br />
the Weeps and an emerging cult to unite the survivors of a shattered world. The Before and The After is a<br />
tale of loss, acceptance, and finding one’s truth in a barren future.<br />
Catherine Sequeira<br />
Catherine Sequeira is a veterinarian, author, and teacher. Originally from California, she has lived in<br />
Switzerland, New York, Oklahoma, and Scotland. She is an avid tabletop gamer and was all verklempt the<br />
first time her older son kicked her ass at Lords of Waterdeep. She would live in the garden if she could,<br />
pretending to be Snow White or channeling her inner Poison Ivy. When the weather chases her inside, you<br />
can find her reading sci-fi and fantasy or binging horror shows. She lives in Northern California with her<br />
partner, younger son, cat, and rescue dragon (the bearded kind, that is).<br />
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DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
Feature<br />
The Juice Is No<br />
Longer On The Loose<br />
Nicole Brown Simpson’s<br />
accused murderer is dead.<br />
Orenthal James Simpson, O.J., is dead. O.J. died<br />
on <strong>April</strong> 11 at age 76 from prostate cancer.<br />
O.J. was found “Not Guilty” in the murder of his<br />
ex-wife and Ron Brown in 1994. He was later<br />
found responsible in a civil trial for both<br />
murders.<br />
The divide was seen in colleges, workplaces,<br />
neighborhoods, police stations, courtrooms, and<br />
sports fields, as some Black people celebrated the<br />
not guilty verdict and some white people cried and<br />
blasted Black people for celebrating it.<br />
The trial was “The Trial of the Century, and kicked<br />
off the twenty-four-hour news, true crime TV,<br />
journalists as entertainers, and lawyers as guest<br />
commentators.<br />
The trial and the murders crossed many of the<br />
American racial lines – sports, mixed marriages,<br />
crooked cops, unfair justice system, domestic<br />
abuse, celebrity worship, wealth, white woman<br />
murdered syndrome, and murder as<br />
entertainment.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 24
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
Myron J. Clifton<br />
The verdict and trial weren’t done in a vacuum.<br />
Many Black people saw the trail as a repudiation<br />
of generations of violence and corruption by the<br />
Los Angeles police department who terrorized<br />
Black neighborhoods while unleashing horrific<br />
violence and murder on Black and brown men.<br />
And many saw it as a fuck you to the justice<br />
system that was (is) unfair in how it sentences<br />
Black and brown men. The LAPD horrific and<br />
filmed beating of L.A. resident Rodney King was<br />
still fresh on the minds of Black citizens<br />
everywhere but especially in Los Angeles where the<br />
beating took place in 1991.<br />
All the cops were found innocent which led to<br />
protests that LAPD used as another opportunity<br />
attack citizens, some of whom resorted to rioting.<br />
So it was against that backdrop O.J. the murders,<br />
and the trial takes place.<br />
because then, as now, domestic abuse and<br />
violence is handled by police departments as an<br />
opportunity to protect men, first, last, always.<br />
The racial aspect was complex as well, with Black<br />
husband, white, mixed kids, touching on one of<br />
the most sensitive and foundational racial issues<br />
that the country still grapples with. And within the<br />
Black community, it had long been established<br />
that O.J. “didn’t fuck with us” and he had made<br />
that abundantly clear for most of his adult life<br />
after he became an NFL star. All those competing<br />
issues surfaced again when news of O.J.’s death<br />
hit the airwaves, proving that though we’ve come<br />
far, we still have so far to go.<br />
Perhaps the most important aspect about news<br />
of O.J.’s death is that "Prostate cancer,<br />
unfortunately, is common. It affects one in seven<br />
men, making it the second most common cancer<br />
among men worldwide. The good news is that<br />
prostate cancer can be curable, especially when<br />
identified and treated EARLY."<br />
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer<br />
globally among men, and it is the most treatable<br />
when detected early. Black men are 7 times more<br />
likely to die from prostate cancer, so if there’s<br />
anything Black men specifically take away from<br />
O.J.’s death, is get your prostate checked<br />
annually.<br />
Hopefully Nicole Brown Simpson can rest<br />
peacefully, her kids can live full lives, and America<br />
starts to do better with fairness in the courts and<br />
justice system, police brutality, and of course,<br />
domestic abuse.<br />
But there was more. There was the national<br />
awareness of Domestic Violence – O.J. was an<br />
abuser who escaped accountability because he<br />
was famous and wealthy, but mostly<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 25
EXTRA!<br />
Meghan Thee Stallion<br />
Meghan Thee Stallion unleashed a group of Instagram videos<br />
that gathered tens of millions of views and likes. All she is doing<br />
is dancing. But also, all she is doing is dancing in that way that<br />
only she can.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 26
EXTRA!<br />
EXTRA!<br />
VP Kamala Harris<br />
VP Harris attended multiple formal events over the past few<br />
weeks, here are a few of her looks (She did not take a break<br />
from hosting world leaders, visiting college campuses, fighting<br />
for women’s rights, and campaigning for the November election)<br />
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Coming Soon!<br />
Dr. Josie Harjo is used to cutting up dead bodies. As a veterinary pathologist at a state diagnostic lab, it’s her<br />
job to figure out the cause of death in a never-ending parade of various non-human species. Most cases are<br />
cut-and-dried, and rarely will a carcass roll in that gets her racking her brain.<br />
When a rancher shows up with a dead horse, Josie thinks it’s going to be a typical day at the office. She<br />
quickly learns that this is the third suspicious death in as many days, and the clock is ticking to figure out<br />
what’s going on before any more lives are lost.<br />
The necropsy is frustratingly unremarkable, and Josie is forced to follow all leads no matter how<br />
implausible. Tensions rise as the rancher starts pointing a finger at a disgruntled employee and an assault<br />
charge forces the cops to start asking questions. With a hefty insurance payout on the table, Josie realizes<br />
that she can’t ignore the possibility that the rancher might be involved. As the pathologist leading the case,<br />
Josie has to wonder, is it just coincidence or is there something more nefarious killing horses at JW Ranch?<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 28
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MYRON'S<br />
HIT OR MISS<br />
list<br />
HIT<br />
The eclipse of the sun happened and millions of people in<br />
Mexico and the United States enjoyed the spectacle of<br />
seeing the moon block the sun and sunlight during the<br />
morning and afternoon.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 30
HIT<br />
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
MISS<br />
Despite all the usual religious nuts who predicted<br />
doom, gloom, the rapture, aliens, and worse,<br />
nothing happened as per usual.<br />
Math, physics, and astrophysics were all on<br />
display as people enjoyed the eclipse.<br />
HIT<br />
James and Jennifer Crumbly became the first, and<br />
hopefully not the last, parents to be held criminally<br />
responsible for a mass school shooting committed by<br />
their son, Ethan Crumbley, were each sentenced to 10-15<br />
years in prison. He murdered four students after his<br />
worthless parents ignored his clear mental health issues,<br />
gave him guns and access to more guns, and sent him to<br />
school to murder Hana St. Juliana, 14 Justin Shilling, 17<br />
Tate Myre, 16 Madisyn Baldwin, 17.<br />
MISS<br />
CNN and other media outlets over-focusing on<br />
Iowa’s Caitlin Clark and missing the historic<br />
undefeated season by Dawn Staley’s South<br />
Carolina Gamecocks women’s college basketball<br />
team.<br />
MISS<br />
Emmanuel Acho Ne-Lo, Stephen A. Smith P-Diddy<br />
Larry McKelvey aka Charlamagne the g*d, Kanye,<br />
Killer Mike, Luther Campbell, Byron Donald,<br />
Charles Barkley, Minister Darrell C. Scott, Larry<br />
Elder, and North Carolina gubernatorial<br />
candidate and maga fool, Mark Robinson – Are<br />
the Black men recruited by Steve Bannon to<br />
siphon away Black men away from voting for<br />
Democrats. These dumb dumbs are working<br />
hard to end women’s rights, harm Black folk and<br />
other POC, and to get their place atop a<br />
Christofascist patriarchy.<br />
HIT<br />
University of Connecticut’s men’s basketball team<br />
won the national championship for the second<br />
consecutive year. Congrats to the Huskies from<br />
Storrs, Connecticut.<br />
HIT<br />
Israel’s military methodically bombed World Chef<br />
workers even though the renowned relief workers<br />
were approved and given a specific route to drive to<br />
deliver food. Chef Jose Andres expressed sympathy<br />
for his workers, and anger at the Israeli military for<br />
the devasting attacks.<br />
MISS<br />
Arizona’s Supreme Court decided to re-implement a<br />
160-year-old abortion law that was in effect before<br />
they even became a state. Not to be missed is the law<br />
was in effect in 1864 – one year before the<br />
emancipation proclamation, showing exactly where<br />
republicans want the nation to return to<br />
MISS<br />
Hamas was seen stealing food from relief trucks and<br />
shooting Palestinians who were trying to get too much<br />
needed food and medicine, then Hamas refusing<br />
another ceasefire while admitting they “May not have<br />
enough hostages to negotiate with.” Meaning, they’ve<br />
killed more of them than that have previously<br />
admitted.<br />
MISS<br />
Election year and pre-summer price gouging is going<br />
strong in various industries, especially oil and gas. Gas<br />
prices around the nation are up, and California’s<br />
prices, always among the highest in the nation, are as<br />
high as $5.30 per gallon in some areas.<br />
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#1<br />
Seems like Kate Middleton might have been<br />
raptured because she has all but<br />
disappeared from public life despite the<br />
royal family and British media continually<br />
producing fake photos and videos that<br />
purport to show her.<br />
#2<br />
Another eclipse, another failed rapture. Nothing<br />
but two-thousand years of fearmongering and<br />
disappointment for folk who want to go, and for<br />
folk who want those people to go.<br />
#3 #4<br />
New Jersey and New York had an earthquake, People surprised that Black artists created<br />
and it was a “good size” shaker at 4.8. Enough country music are the same people surprised<br />
so that the tough east coast folk were<br />
that Black people live in rural communities.<br />
momentarily panicked before begrudgingly<br />
That we are farmers. That we are cowboys &<br />
appreciating what Californians have long<br />
cowgirls, that we hunt & fish, that we call, ski,<br />
known – earthquakes are frightening.<br />
ride horses. That we own guns. Turns out, we’re<br />
humans and Americans, too.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 34
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In the not too distant future, the US has been taken over by white nationalists, and the<br />
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S T R E A M I N G N O W<br />
Apple TV - Constellation. A science-fiction drama that<br />
will play tricks with you as you try to figure out what is<br />
going on with an astronaut recently returned from the<br />
International Space Station. One self-contained season.<br />
Netflix - Three Body Problem. From the acclaimed<br />
novel, Netflix tackles a far-reaching story that goes to<br />
the past, explores the now, and contemplates what is<br />
promised to be a very interesting and possibly<br />
frightening future. 8 Episodes and season 2 already in<br />
development, Three Body Problem is worth the watch.<br />
Netflix - Ripley. Limited Series. It is slick, slow, and<br />
eerily creepy watching a loser American man pretend<br />
to be a wealthy son he was tasked with finding in Italy.<br />
Netflix - Physical. Season 2. The Korean show again<br />
brings together 100 people from different professions,<br />
sports, and physical endeavors and tests them in a<br />
variety of extremely physical tasks to determine who<br />
has the “best physique.”<br />
Paramount+/Showtime - Three Body (Chinese<br />
adaptation) is different than the Netflix series. For<br />
one, this adaptation is the full book, so it is 30<br />
episodes. That is presumably what Netflix will do<br />
with multiple seasons. But if you want the entire<br />
thing now, head over to Paramount. The adaptation<br />
is more cerebral than Netflix’s, and the pace takes<br />
some getting used to, but once you’re in it, you’ll<br />
enjoy this different interpretation of the source<br />
material.<br />
Netflix - Blown Away. Another season of the fun show<br />
that showcases glass blowing experts competing is<br />
multiple glass-blowing tasks in hopes of being crowned<br />
the champion. It is fun and fast – the episodes are only<br />
about thirty minutes – and you get to see really cool<br />
artwork.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 39
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S T R E A M I N G N O W<br />
Disney+/Hulu - Iwájú. Another Disney+ animation win<br />
as they continue to showcase artists from around the<br />
world. This series is from Nigeria and is Afrofuturism at<br />
its best. It is set around Lagos and the island just off its<br />
coast where technological advances are common, as<br />
are those who would exploit them and the citizens. The<br />
kids caught in the middle form the heart of the series<br />
and the comedy. It is lighthearted enough for kids 6+,<br />
with enough cool technology and madcap adventures<br />
for older kids.<br />
Disney+/Hulu - Renegade Nell. This is a fun series for<br />
kids and teenagers who like superheroes, medieval<br />
times, and magic. Nelle has powers, sometimes, and<br />
only in given situations, and they are granted by<br />
something or someone special. We find out with Nelle<br />
what is going on and as we do, there’s plenty of action,<br />
danger, comedy, and coming of age adventures for<br />
young Nell.<br />
<strong>Dear</strong> <strong>Dean</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | Apr. 22, <strong>2024</strong> | Page 40
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE<br />
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The Empire Wars<br />
A powerful YA debut set in a world where survival and magic are a deadly mix.<br />
Coa, who was born feral in the North Transatlantic wilds, has just been captured. Now, Coa<br />
is subject to public humiliation and execution in a gruesome spectacle known as The Great<br />
Hunt.<br />
If participators die in the Great Hunt—their entire family will be executed. In front of<br />
everyone. The nationalist regime, known as the Allied Force, will not rest until all foreigners<br />
are exterminated. Her best hope might be Princess Ife, born of privilege, but newly married<br />
into the authoritarian lineage.<br />
Her riskier choice is an alliance with a gorgeous, cunning participator—marked as a traitor<br />
to his militarized nation. Soon, Coa entangles herself with the captivating, deadly young man<br />
who could be her ultimate downfall.<br />
Akana Phenix is a recent Harvard alum who researches<br />
genocide. The Empire Wars comes out on July 30, <strong>2024</strong>. It is now<br />
available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Audible, Apple<br />
Books and more. On social media, she is primarily on Twitter, but<br />
she can also be found on Instagram and TikTok. She is located in<br />
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