Black America is DONE with US Empire. Revolution Ahead | Rasheed Muhammad

## Red Pill Diaries Origins A new voice in American political commentary emerged not simply to amplify breaking headlines but to excavate the deeper, often omitted strands that shape public judgment. The Red Pill Diaries began as an effort to bridge that gap: to move beyond the cycle of sensational news and toward a more forensic look at history, policy, and the habits of power. The project grew out of years of grassroots broadcasting experience and a conviction that the mainstream and even many corners of the alternative media routinely ignore context — the details that would allow ordinary people to make better-informed choices. The program’s founder speaks from the vantage point of lived experience in a nation that has long promoted itself as the world’s moral lodestar. Rather than repeating received narratives, the channel set out to interrogate them. Interviews with former government officials, analysts, and legislators are not mere platforms for spectacle; they are tools to test claims about empire, law, and the distribution of power. The aim is pragmatic: to equip listeners with the background that mainstream coverage omits — treaty obligations, economic levers, and historical patterns of coercion that persist beneath democratic ritual. What distinguishes the Diaries is its insistence on action as evidence. It does not content itself with speeches and declarations; it asks how political actors behave once cameras are off and treaties are unsigned. That orientation leads the show into uncomfortable territory: the contradictions between the United States’ self-image and its global conduct, and the domestic consequences of that dissonance. From geopolitics to race, the program pursues the throughlines others often treat as separate problems. ## Black America And Imperial Power One of the clearest themes to emerge from the conversation is the connection between domestic racial politics and the projection of American power abroad. Far from existing in separate compartments, the treatment of Black Americans and the foreign-policy habits of the state are presented as mirror images. The same institutions that denied justice and land to Black citizens for centuries have also enforced hierarchies internationally—creating a U.S. foreign policy that tolerates double standards and exceptionalism. This linkage helps explain why sections of Black America express a particular sensitivity to foreign injustices. Historical betrayals—like the false promise of “forty acres and a mule” after emancipation—are not framed as isolated wounds but as enduring documents of the way state power operates. Those who were denied reparative justice at home find resonance in the dispossession inflicted on colonized and occupied peoples abroad. Thus, empathy for Palestine or skepticism toward Western narratives on Iran is not just ideological; for many it is analogical, drawn from a long-standing experiential understanding of how power claims universality while practicing exclusion. The conversation also probes the political calculus that has kept significant parts of Black America politically loyal despite this history. Symbolic representation—most notably presidential charisma—can be an effective anesthetic. The insertion of Black faces at the center of institutions that continue harmful policies has, at times, dampened critical scrutiny and delayed a broader political awakening. The argument here is blunt: representation without structural change can function as camouflage for imperial continuity. ## Citizenship Treaties And War Patterns Another recurring strand is how international law and treaty commitments are selectively observed. The diary’s contributors emphasize that formal agreements — on arms control, non-proliferation, and human rights — often serve as rhetorical cover for geopolitical ends. When hegemonic states insist that others must adhere to treaty obligations, yet simultaneously fail to honor their own, the result is not merely hypocrisy but a predictable pattern of coercion. This selective compliance produces a world in which alliances and enmities are shaped less by principle than by interest. Treaties become instruments of leverage rather than mutual constraints. The consequence for smaller states is stark: denial of parity invites embargoes, covert operations, and economic strangulation. When combined with domestic propaganda that frames such measures as moral imperatives, the logic of selective treaty observance becomes self-reinforcing and dangerous. The conversation places this pattern in historical perspective, noticing a repetition of tactics—diplomatic pressure, economic manipulation, and military threat—that accompany moments when the core’s dominance is contested. Observers in marginalized communities can see past the public rhetoric because the tactics echo familiar domestic forms of dispossession: promises unkept, rights withheld, and compensations denied. The result is an erosion of legitimacy both at home and abroad. ## Founding Violence And National Myth A central claim advanced in the discussion is that the United States’ founding mythology obscures the violent processes that created the republic. The canonical narrative of liberty and exceptionalism sits uneasily alongside the literal and legal violence through which territory, labor, and sovereignty were secured. That contradiction is not just an historical curiosity; it is a foundational feature of contemporary politics. Recognizing founding violence reframes many contemporary debates. The myth of benevolent expansion or moral exceptionalism masks the fact that national formation relied on dispossession of indigenous peoples, coerced labor, and racialized legal categories. When these origins are understood honestly, the moral authority the state claims in foreign affairs is shown to be contingent rather than absolute. This unsettling conclusion fuels the argument that American foreign policy cannot be divorced from its domestic racial politics: both are expressions of the same underlying dynamics of control and exclusion. The conversation insists that dismantling myth is not merely retrospective denunciation but a necessary clarity for present-day reform. Only by acknowledging the full, brutal history of state formation can a politics of genuine accountability emerge — one that treats international obligations and domestic justice as interlinked rather than separate portfolios. ## Demolishing The System Toward the close of the exchange, the rhetoric grows urgent: the system as it currently stands is described as unsustainable. When an empire prioritizes prestige and profit over the welfare of both its own population and the wider world, it reaches a tipping point. The argument here is not merely moralizing; it is analytic: when a state will sabotage global supply chains or break treaties to preserve face, it creates conditions for systemic failure. This diagnosis does not produce a singular policy prescription, but it does sharpen the stakes. If legitimacy is eroding among those whom the state once promised to uplift, then the social compact itself is fraying. The implication is not that violence is inevitable, but that nonviolence requires institutional transformation. Demolishing the system, in the sense the conversation uses the phrase, means dismantling the structures that enable hypocrisy — economic arrangements, legal exceptions, and media ecosystems — and rebuilding mechanisms that tether power to accountability. Optimism appears not in faith in elites but in the latent political capacities of those long placed at the margins. The hope is that a revived movement for justice — drawing from historical memory and contemporary solidarity with oppressed peoples abroad — can generate the pressure necessary to force change. That revival would require concerted education, cross-community alliances, and a willingness to confront both domestic injustices and international

Black America is DONE with US Empire | Rasheed Muhammad With every passing day, every new genocide, every atrocity committed by the Washington elite, they are losing more people on the ground. The little guy and girl. Some of whom voted for Trump. Some who didn't. But people who share the disillusionment about the violence America carries into all corners of the world, much as it once carried millions of unwilling subjects to its shores in chains. Some remember, and this is going to be a rude awakening for the elites once the unfinished Civil Rights Movement comes back. Rasheed Muhammad of The Red Pill Diaries joins Pascal to discuss Black America, US empire, Western double standards, civil rights, nuclear hypocrisy, Palestine, Iran, propaganda, the dollar system, and the roots of American power. 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Today, I have a colleague from YouTube with me. I've got Rashid Muhammad from the Red Pill Diaries. Rashid, welcome. #Rasheed Muhammad Thank you, and thank you for having me on the platform today. I really appreciate it. #Pascal Thank you very much for coming online. We had a little bit of a fight with our technology, but I'm glad that we have a working connection in the end. Rashid, maybe let me start by asking you, what made you start your own podcast? You hosted me on your podcast last week. What's behind Red Pill Diaries? Why did you start it? And where are you based, actually? -- 1 of 15 -- #Rasheed Muhammad I'm based in Pensacola, Florida, pretty much on the Florida Panhandle. And what started it is that I used to do a program for about 12 years, a BlogTalk program, and I was trying to get the truth out to people. And so as BlogTalk started going under, I transitioned to trying to do YouTube so that I could talk to the people and address some of the underlying questions and answers that most podcasts either overlook or they don't consider. And I think sometimes when we get to a certain point, I don't think it's always deliberate. I just think that we're more concerned about big news stories instead of the details that more people should be aware of so that they can be informed on how and when they make their decisions. Okay. #Pascal And when did you start your Red Pill Diaries? You've interviewed different people—what kind of subjects have you been working on so far? #Rasheed Muhammad I've interviewed people from the former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, multiple times; Cynthia McKinney, two-time former Congresswoman of the United States. I'm good colleagues with former CIA analyst Larry Johnson. I just did an interview, I think, two or three days ago with Colonel Larry Wilkerson. I've done multiple, multiple interviews with a lot of people, and I've covered things on geopolitical events, economics, race, international law, human law, and all of those things. I try to address the things that are left out of the mainstream media but also left out of the mainstream of alternative media as well. #Pascal So what is it, I mean, for you in the United States, on the ground? And I think your main motivation was basically to find out more about how international relations and politics are working, and not so much, you know, maybe the academic part, but just what's going on. What do you think is missing currently inside the United States when it comes to the entire information environment? #Rasheed Muhammad Well, I think there's a lot of things missing. I think when it comes to information, even with the alternative media, they leave out things that are pertinent to the facts of what led to the January 6th riots or something like that. And I show the double standards. Like when you go to the so-called riots that happened in Oregon because the police killed a few people, and then a few people -- 2 of 15 -- vandalized a few buildings. And then I show the contrast of how they were called thugs and criminals. And then you had people, even though they were dissatisfied with the election, who went and ransacked the congressional Capitol and took people hostage. People died, and they were called patriots and are even being let go from prison. And I show the contrast of that to show people that unless you address these double standards... And I don't think it is done purposely sometimes. I think it is just innately in the heads of a lot of people. But unless they address these double standards, this is one of the main things that is leading to the ineptitude of government and the collapse of the American empire because of the hypocrisy. And it has seeped so deep that it has become so systemic that what Black America was calling out 30, 40 years ago, the entire world is now calling out today—the hypocrisy, the exceptionalism, the intransigence, the disrespect for law, the disrespect for allies and enemies alike. And what I call retractable laws, where the United States, when they talk about Iran's nuclear program and they say that Iran could be getting a nuke. Well, America has thousands of nukes. And America is the only nation that ever used nukes once or twice. And America is a signatory of one of the same treaties that Iran is a signatory to. And according to that treaty, America, Russia, China, Britain, and France are supposed to get rid of their nuclear weapons. So while they say, on one hand, that they need it for national security, they think that everybody else does not have the right to that same thing. So I point out these inconsistencies and the hypocrisy of the global system, which is what we're seeing now—the blow-up from this hypocritical, selfish, self-centered policy of the Western world. #Pascal A very brief intermission because I was recently banned from YouTube. And although I'm back, this can happen anytime again. So please consider subscribing not only here, but to my mailing list on Substack. That's pascallottaz.substack.com. The link's going to be in the description below. And now, back to the video. This is very interesting. Like, when did you start thinking like that? Because, I mean, I share that sentiment 100%. The hypocrisy that nuclear weapon states are using, the hypocrisy in the Iran war, right? Two nuclear weapon states going to war with a non-nuclear weapon state over that non-nuclear weapon state having the right to basically have a peaceful nuclear program. The hypocrisy is through the roof. But when did you start thinking like that? And you used the expression "American empire." When did you start thinking of your country as an empire? And can you maybe also talk a little bit about another term you used, "Black America"? What do you think is different between Black America and, well, the other America? #Rasheed Muhammad -- 3 of 15 -- Well, we'll address the last first, Black America. And I'm not saying this just to be saying it, but Black America are the ones who are the most on the fringe. They are the ones that need the education the most because even though they had access to education, it wasn't the proper education. So this is why their votes can be manipulated. This is why they can be manipulated. This is why the system has not benefited them, in so many words, when we talk about equality. How can you and I be equal when you still control the reins of all power? How can you and I be equal when you control all the economics and the business? How can we be equal when any and every level of power is really controlled by you? Equality is not giving me a job. Equality is educating me properly and helping me to build something for myself. So Black America has been dumbed down the most, even as they cried for justice. They've been dumbed down the most, believing that the system has changed. And I do believe that Barack Obama was that Manchurian candidate to lull Black America back to sleep, because they were awakening the masses to the injustices that are not just done to Black people, but are done to everybody around the world. And what the power structure behind closed doors did, they masked it behind a Black face, you understand, with Obama, because his policies were more detrimental to Black America than a lot of presidents before him. But he was able to bounce a basketball, he was able to talk the street lingo. So he was able to mesmerize Black America and allow the powers that be to go in and reoccupy and destroy Libya, even though Libya was fighting for Africa's independence. But had it been done under George Bush, Black America would have been outraged. But they were not outraged because it was a Black-faced country that was hiding Western imperialism. And so what I was trying to do is inform them that, listen, you have to be more educated on this. You have to look at the actions of people, not just words, but actions. And when you look at actions and you start taking accountability for actions—your own and others as well—then you see things more clearly. And that is the one thing. And once I address that, per se, because they are, I would say, Black America are like on the totem pole, or the lowest on the totem pole, then the message spreads out to everybody else who are in a better economic, socioeconomic, and educational position than Black America. And that's why I separated the two, so that you could understand why I said what I said. #Pascal Do you think that Black America is actually, you know, seeing through this more clearly—like what is happening and how this imperial system is working also on the inside? And, you know, as in, do you see that Black America is maybe also seeing the pain of Iran and the pain of Palestine and the pain of other suppressed nations around the world? Is that something, or is this just my wishful thinking? #Rasheed Muhammad -- 4 of 15 -- No, no, that's actually it. See, for decades, Black America had been calling out these things—the injustice, the hypocrisy, the double standards, the racism, the fascism, all of this stuff. And they masked, the powers that be masked it behind American exceptionalism—that city that sits upon the hill that everybody wanted to flock to. And now what's happening is the system is starting to turn inwardly and eat itself and eat the people whom it was designed to benefit the most. And now people are being forced to wake up. And Black America sympathizes, especially with Iran, because remember during the revolution, when the Iranians took the embassy, they allowed the women and the Black hostages their freedom. They let them go. They said, the Ayatollah said, because Black America has suffered and still suffers under an oppressive system, that he would allow for the women and Black people to, um, go free. And, um, Black America has not forgotten that. And also, um, when it comes to Palestine, Black America is close to Palestine and the rest because of the suffering, because of the injustice. You have to understand that not only