If the shoe don’t fit

Too close to home🏠

I recently received some pushback for some of the content of the previous blog post. Sometimes it felt like I was naming people in the details without applying the proper nouns and other times, some of the presumed characters in my narrative could barely recognize the chain of events as they experienced it. All of these are accurate in that, if we don’t t remember it the same way, then we are not talking about the same event.

Pushback and its timing⏰

When we went to help my sister out with the packaging of the items needed to ship abroad, we had a lot of help from friends and family. We kept going at it and had normal conversations as we went along. We shared the meals and had people narrate their political ambitions which was very interesting.

One of the people who was helping us was this caucasian in his early sixties who was very instrumental to the facilitation of the logistical complexities. He was very conversational and he was very fond of my sister. She mentioned several times that he has been very instrumental to the entire shipping adventure

Subtle start 🎬

When I first came, he said he asked what time we were suppose to start work and I told him 8:30 am, and his response was “In African time, 8:30 means the next day”. I laughed reluctantly and even chimed in a bit despite the fact that what he was saying didn’t really sit right with me, but I thought to myself, just take a joke. This guy was just getting warmed up

Joke’s on me 🤡

Next he says if you are hardworking, it does not matter the color of your skin, you get equal opportunities. At this point I am thinking if the disproportionate unemployment in the black community is probably because the black man is not hardworking enough?. He had a lot more to say.

He went on to express his distaste for Megan Markle for her plot to bring disrepute to the throne. He also made mention of the fact that she has days when she choses to be white and other days when she choses to be black according to the narrative she is propagating at the time. At this point I am looking around if anyone has a problem with what he is saying, but everyone seemed to agree with him. I found it really strange. He was already in the mood

BLM 🖤

He went on further to say that the racism was just a political agenda propagated by the black lives movement and enhanced by the media, citing an instant where the head of the black lives matter movement was shot and the media initially blamed racists before an investigation concluded that it was more as a result of gang rivalry.

I had heard too much, and I pushed back after I realized that not only were that people agreeing with his falsehoods, there was no incentive to challenge his blatant lies and ignorance for fear that it might lead to a much longer conversation and probably put a dent on the existing harmony we have enjoyed.

Enough said 🤺

I stepped up to him and asked him what he meant when he said there was no racism. I told him it was disrespectful to dismiss the struggles of an entire group of people he knows nothing about. He had a handful of stereotypes and generalisations to work with, but his ignorance was even louder

On further probing, he revealed to me that his father was racist, but he had travelled enough to understand that we are all human beings. He used extrapolation to come to the conclusion that if his father was racist and he wasn’t, that means that is probably the case for every other household with a similar dynamic. I asked him if he took the whole of England with him on the trips he made to cure everyone of their racism.

My sister kept urging me to abort the conversation, but I was there already and I was passed trying to reason with this guy and was already at the point of shutting him down. I also pointed out the double standards when it came to the the treatment of the Megan and Kate

I expressed my disappointment with everyone who stood around and said nothing while this guy was showing all sorts of disrespect to a whole race of people. One of the people who was present came and told me that this guy came to him personally and told him I was stupid, and I asked him what he said in response. He said he did not want to say anything and I torched him immediately. I made him know that his lack of nuts was actually disappointing to hear. What made it worse if the fact that another guy standing there threw a tiny jab at me at that same moment and I torched him as well immediately.

The calm, or lack thereof 🌪

To put everything in context, there was one white guy and every other person there was a black African. My sister reminded me of the need to pick my battles better as well as the timings and venue.

My thing is, however Megan wants to identify to make her life better, why is it a problem. The answer is, there is actually no problem with this, neither is there any account of her doing this. The blatant racism of the British media has succeeded to convince everyone that she is doing something wrong, and the endorsement of thee falsehoods by the black community, further enables the racists elements who can go on to say, “see, even black people don’t trust her”. I will shoot that shit down if you bring it my way.