Thread by @Mocha_Soul

@billybragg @JeanHatchet @Ecuadorian_Mum @Passie_Kracht @CroneInAMillion You have no idea just how we do, Billy. I'll never believe a fucking word you say about racism when Small Axe - Education has been there for as long as it has to show you and the fucking nation the meaning and difference between separatism and segregation.

@billybragg @JeanHatchet @Ecuadorian_Mum @Passie_Kracht @CroneInAMillion Segregation has always been an exercise of power by a dominant population over another one. That's never been black people NOR women.

@billybragg @JeanHatchet @Ecuadorian_Mum @Passie_Kracht @CroneInAMillion Separatism is a defense mechanism by populations which are discriminated against AND exploited. That is black people and women. We do it so as to fight racism and misogyny away from interruption AND sabotage.

@billybragg @JeanHatchet @Ecuadorian_Mum @Passie_Kracht @CroneInAMillion We do it because in order to be exploited the dominant population (that is white ruling classes and males) cannot get at us as we go about minimising damage to us, providing relief and recovery and organise against both racism and misogyny.

@billybragg @JeanHatchet @Ecuadorian_Mum @Passie_Kracht @CroneInAMillion We do it because for all the weasel words you lot use, liberation is a far away dream to us TODAY regardless of well intentioned patronising and harmful shit of the sort you have uttered there and which posits us as oppressors when we did not create the systems which oppress us.

@billybragg @JeanHatchet @Ecuadorian_Mum @Passie_Kracht @CroneInAMillion And do take note, Billy man, because when I speak of oppression I'm talking of that which enables the fucking class system of which you have been fortunate to escape even if you were born into it.

@billybragg @JeanHatchet @Ecuadorian_Mum @Passie_Kracht @CroneInAMillion We are not so very fortunate. So... in Small Axe -Education you see black people starting schools for black children because institutional fucking racism left children like moi behind which is why though I am right now schooling you I never had the "white privilege" of one.

@billybragg @JeanHatchet @Ecuadorian_Mum @Passie_Kracht @CroneInAMillion I stuck inverted commas in that last tweet because I am making a point in *this* conversation (moi and afropessimism don't get along). Women on the other hand have our spaces too for all sort of shit from moving freely in a society that doesn't care about #MVAWAG to providing...

@billybragg @JeanHatchet @Ecuadorian_Mum @Passie_Kracht @CroneInAMillion ... each other relief, recovery and as much of a good "restart" of our lives because without it we'd be fucked. And black women, knowing of the additional blight of racism in our lives need ours too.

@billybragg @JeanHatchet @Ecuadorian_Mum @Passie_Kracht @CroneInAMillion So... fuck off with that analogy because all you are doing invoking "segregation" to women fighting for our rights, recognition and against violence against us is denying structural misogyny and racism and we are well and truly sick of this shit from white men like you.... sir!

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