[quote Cleverpolly3]@Sugarintheplum
“Of course black women responded to you, many are kind and wonderful women. That doesn't really mean it was cool for you to post. “
Wasn’t “cool” for someone to post?
Are you being serious?
I’ve read this thread and I suspect you’ve ironically probably increased what you see as “non permitted” traffic to this board: with statements like the one above perhaps it isn’t a bad thing.
You are actually in more danger of derailing and sabotaging your perceived safe space in on a public discussion forum than many of the posters you fee potentially could or have tried to do so when you write statements such as the one above.[/quote]
My perspective is that it is quite simple.
If you are not a black woman and you post on here it should be to give. Examples would be 'Hi, I am a Consultant Haematologist and I want you all to know there is a cure for sickle cell".
YES PLEASE, HALLELUJAH! Post post post!
It can also be as simple, but helpful, as "here's a great book", but hopefully you see my point.
If it is to take or receive, then you are centering yourself as a person who is not a black woman - this space is categorically NOT for that. Examples abound so far on this thread.
Now, you attempt to demean me by highlighting my use of the word 'cool'. Firstly, this is just how I speak. It's not strange around these parts (London Millenial). Secondly, on reflection, though I wasn't consciously doing it at the time, I was trying to sensitively relate to @Lndnmummy, so I employed colloquial language. I understood that what I was saying could have impacted her feelings, and honestly, i liked her, I empathised with her wanting do the best for her black sons, and I showed her exactly that through my language. The outcome? We came to see things eye to eye. I respect her, she respects me, allllllll good. Progress.
It's different between you and I, because I don't like racists, so I won't treat you that way. In fact, this is what I have to say to you:
You are not wanted on this thread. No one is happy with you here. You have centred yourself by constantly spewing your ignorant comments. I can tell, by the way women are responding to you on here, that they feel they are punching down, and they are right.
Yours is a dying breed. In part, literally, but most definitely ideologically. Even the most elite white people in the world are talking about BLM, the richest companies in the world are falling over themselves to profess their support of BLM and redress their prejudicial and discriminatory ways. Momentum is behind US, it has left you. You know this, you realise your number is diminishing, daily. You see our children playing together, laughing together, living together, heck, making well-rounded and happy babies together and it bites you. You are always looking at us, always fearing us, scared for YOUR existence, as white racist people always have done, for good reason. But black people and lovers of humanity and equality march on.
Yet, with all that looking, you still don't know us. But we know you. We know our enemy and we are overcoming. We are President of the Free World. We are VICE PRESIDENT of the Free World. The White House seemingly cannot shake us, we appear to have set up camp in there! We are even in the Royal Family of the Commonwealth. A beloved Prince of the Commonwealth has given up his title, his family, his country, all life as he knew it, to be with a woman like us. We are all over your streets, your universities, your top jobs, despite all that you and yours are trying to do. We're KILLING IT OUT HERE. You must be finding it hard to sleep at night.
And all we do is look at you through the rear-view mirror, when we can be bothered because we have everything to look forward to.
Now, it's time for me to get back to my pot of scallion, onion, garlic, tomato, and left over lamb from last night's roast, so I can feed my children a good meal, love them, hug them, and put them to bed tonight knowing you and people like you can't touch them.
You can't even upset my mood.
I won't respond to your comments again, because I shall not read them. I'm too busy raising my black beautiful babies.
I wish you the very best in life.