Warning: Seven Rules for Surviving A Kemi Badenoch Victory
Today the most prominent member of white supremacy's Black collaborator class (in Britain) is likely to be made leader of the Conservative Party. Here are some handy tips for surviving the immediate surge of Badenochism (i.e. white supremacy in Blackface):
1. Don’t allow yourself to be gaslit. Of course, a victory for Badenoch is an obvious, unprecedented and once inconceivable victory for racism. Yet for legitimacy and national blush-saving purposes, it will be portrayed as anything but. Hence the Black & Brown voices invited to speak about a Badenoch victory in the media will likely be carefully selected. Expect a lot of Sunder Katwala and Trevor Phillips types, but not much from anyone else. Certainly not knowledgeable objectors.
2. Don't feed the trolls: avoid the inevitable avalanche of “whatever your politics” rhetoric. E.g. “Whatever your politics, you must acknowledge how great and progressive the Conservative Party is now that a Blackface of white supremacy has broken the glass ceiling for all Black people…” and “Whatever your politics, Black children finally have a great role model to look up to”.
3. Don’t get arrested Pt. I: As that free speech championing entity known as the British state would say: be careful what you post. The police scour this app for "offensive" material and they take immense glee in weaponising laws designed to protect ethnic minorities against ethnic minorities.
4. Don’t get arrested Pt. II: The police don't do nuance, and they conveniently refuse to understand Black & Brown intra-communal language or forms of critique, satire or compliment (e.g. coconut, Uncle Tom, Aunt Kemi, house negro, choc ice, etc).
5. Don’t get arrested Pt. III: In pursuit of "protecting" the feelings and political positions of ethnic minority politicians (with far-right sensibilities), the police and CPS will do everything conceivably possible to legally and psychologically destroy you.
6. Don’t get arrested Pt. IV: Look up The Emoji Trial and The Coconut Trial for more information on how quickly proprietary Black & Brown intellectual tradition, thought or language can land you in a British police cell.
7. Remember White supremacy’s silver linings: they always discard their tools. Always. Yes, this will be a painful and shameful period. Our various politics and very standing in Britain and as British people will be seriously compromised by a Badenoch victory. Yet rest assured: painful as it may be for Black & Brown people – history teaches us that Badenochism will end even worse for Kemi Badenoch.
"Amen" said the church.
Good luck!
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The story and treatment of Marieha Hussain is one of the most alarming, ludicrous and unbelievable I’ve ever witnessed. It is a story of eye-wateringly blatant state racism, media complicity in that racism, police manipulation and cultural incompetence. And it is a story that must now end with the resignation of Stephen Parkinson, the current Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). His position is untenable as he has turned the @CPSUK into a free-speech threatening laughing stock.
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On the 11th of November 2023 Marieha Hussain went on a pro-Palestinian march with her husband, young children and other family members. She carried the now-famous British free speech symbol, the coconut placard. Not seen however, is that on the other side of the placard is a cartoon of Suella Braverman as Cruella de Vil (The Hundred and One Dalmatians cartoon villain). It has the slogan “Cruella Braverman”. The satirical intent was always obvious. Her poster elicited nothing but laughter and fanfare throughout the day.
At one point during the rally, an unidentified male voice shouted out “Can I take a picture of your placard”. Marieha happily obliged and held up the "Cruella Braverman" side of the poster. The man then asked her for the other side of the placard, to wit she happily turned the placard around to reveal the Braverman/Sunak coconuts image. The man then took a picture of Marieha with the coconut image.
We still don’t know who took the picture, however, the picture swiftly ended up on the Twitter account of Harry’s Place, described in court (by Marieha’s barrister) as a “secretive political blog headquartered in Washington DC that has a particular interest in opposing any criticism of the Israeli state”.
Harry’s Place published the picture on Twitter, they labelled it racist and tagged in the Met Police. Within six minutes of Harry’s Place publishing the picture, the Met Police (via "Senior Media and Communications Manager" Chris Humphrys – who said in court that he knew Harry's Place was an "anonymous political blog”) responded. Not long after (and while Marieha was still on the march) they issued the life-destroying tweet below – which quickly racked up over 4 million views on Twitter. It decimated Marieha’s life, ensured she lost her job, opened her up to enormous racist abuse and led to the media harassment of both her and her parents.
Side bar: To this day we don’t know what the parents of any of Britain’s bluechip actual racists do/did for a living. Yet thanks to the Daily Mail and others we know the names, professions, ethnic origins, house location, house price, etc of Marieha’s parents.
Some insight: Marieha’s father (who I will not name) was at the trial throughout but couldn’t stay to witness his nine-month pregnant daughter’s exoneration as he left to go and fulfil an appointment for one of his medical patients. Let that sink in.
Marieha Hussain and her family are pillars of the community – a literal homelessness-to-success British immigration story we should all be proud and appreciative of. Yet they were torn down for engaging in that most British of the elements of humour: satire.
Thread on one of the most egregious episodes of the "Emoji Trials": Marieha Mohsin Hussain.
In November 2023 Marieha Hussain went on a peace in Palestine march with a clearly satirical placard depicting the PM and then Home Secretary as coconuts. The placard was a mild intra-communal version of the political satire you’d see in British newspapers on any given day. Nevertheless, responding to clearly offence-hungry politically motivated social media outrage - not the law - the @metpoliceuk:
1. Shared Marieha's image to their 1.3m followers (within minutes and while she was still on the march) indicating that she may have committed a crime. They also conflated Marieha’s placard with that of a woman carrying a Swastika-themed placard. This facilitated Marieha’s sacking from her job.
2. Aggressively questioned her under caution. By this I mean that the questioning officer shouted and behaved in a manner that would petrify anyone, let alone a woman being questioned by an authority figure for holding a placard.
3. Used the social media posts of prominent ethnic minorities (mainly @sundersays) as proof that her placard was racist – ignoring the vast majority of ethnic minorities who said it was not.
Imagine thinking it is intelligent & authoritative to separate, say, Nigerians and Jamaicans (both established Black communities in the UK). And then lumping, say, Nigerians & Somalis together into a group, even though only one group is established. Colonial-level analysis.
Of course, Tony Sewell cannot put the plight of African-Caribbean people in historical context, he would have to speak truth to racism if he did. That would be bad for business. So in one breath he makes an implicitly pro-reparations argument and then makes an explicit anti-reparations argument in the next.
Anyway, as opposed to naming the elephant in the room, Sewell chalks performance discrepancies to “single-parent households”…which itself has a dark historical backdrop that he dares not name.
One thing you’ll notice is that people such as (Lord) Tony Sewell, (Sir) Trevor Phillips, (The Right Honourable) Kemi Badenoch etc – are never ever platformed alongside strong anti-racist Black voices. To do so would be to risk guaranteed exposure.
I spent the last three days in court witnessing a brilliant and compassionate young Black man be dragged through the system for using a racoon emoji during an exchange (on Chris Kaba's killing) with a hard right wing Black Tory.
Not murder, assault or rape but an Emoji Trial.
The young man lost jobs, his house was raided, was held in a cell for 10 hours, placed in a police car, interviewed under caution, searched, had his electronic communication devices seized, arrested, charged. All over the word 'coons' (from one Black person to another) and 🦝.
On the first day of the trial the arresting police officer privately apologised to the young man.
Thankfully the jury had more sense than the police and CPS. Not guilty on both charges.
“Nigeria” like “Africa” or “Black people” is not a monolith. It's a complex white supremacist (colonial) construct consisting of hundreds of ethnic groups. Many/most of them resisted and went to war with each other over slavery.
The Times’ opinion page regularly publishes articles that are openly hostile to Black people, often using Black writers to do the dirty work. Intellectual rigour & historical accuracy are forgone in favour of inflaming readers and spreading white supremacist talking points.