BLM vs WLM

"And in the darkness of misperception." 

Slogan on the wall of a nightclub venue

 at Axiom Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, late 1990s. 

In 2023 I was accused by racists of being BLM. A woman said this to psyche up three of her gimps, one of whom was a plainclothes policeman who had infiltrated the racists and was terrified I might be able to recognise him, which I did, and expose him, which I did not, chased me up the street threatening violence and shouting; "Go back to where you came from" and "You are not from around here." I have lived half a km away from the location where this occurred, for fifteen years. Previous to that I lived 80km further East in the same nation. I was born in its capitol city. My racial heritage is mixed Brythonic, Nordic and Central European Celtic. I consider myself to be a Human being from planet Earth. 

I was fortunate, the racists chased me into a parked police car which perhaps saved me from violence and certainly saved me from further intimidation. The police told me to leave the area while they held the racists off. That's all they did. No arrests were made, probably because they knew and were working with the plainclothes. From my perception a person would have to be very low of intelligence indeed not to have identified the plainclothes immediately. For example, he was wearing police boots, plus all the other signifiers of which there are several obvious ones. 

This month I have been accused of Cultural Appropriation by a black activist. 

She was offended that white people; 

1) have dreadlocks

2) have spiritism (ancestors with whom they communicate)

On the principle that these should be Black people Only things. 

Her issue, nothing to do with me. 

I no longer have dreadlocks, I used to, I believe from archeological evidence that my ancestors did too, for thousands of years. The girl herself does not have dreadlocks either. She does apparently believe she owns other peoples hair and their right to do whatever they want with their own hair-style. 

Having been fed on a recent wave of Afro-American subcultural movement who identify Dreadlocks as symbol of retaliation against Westerners, she unfortunately mouthed off and did not stay around to hear any reply.

The specialist group are from all over the world. We have welcomed her as an equal, given her friendship and support, offered help with her career path with free advice from decades of experience, which she would otherwise have to pay for. 

We watched her behaviour of 'assuming offence', to justify that she could take a moral high ground by attempting to make us feel we should apologise to her. It is a recognisable passive-aggressive, emotional blackmail tactic of self-empowerment reliant on positioning other people to react to the behaviour in a particular way. It sets the person as superior to the people they are insulting, attempting to cause the same people to give them further energy by making them feel bad at having caused upset. It is a form of gas-lighting.

The group is genuinely a very caring community of people, ranging from mature to quite young. We recognised she has mental-emotional issues. She is vulnerable and is being exploited by a cult which, instead of promoting human unification through compassionate understanding, is encouraging young people toward hatred. She is victim to an act of black magic, of hatred, of segregation, of mental slavery to a hostile, fearful, ideology. 

I suspect the racists justify this to themselves for the same reason I was chased up the street by a different group of racists. People like myself who are disenfranchised from their ancient roots more than three generations ago, claiming some heritage which most certainly exists, but unfortunately doing so by hating everyone different and increasing racial tensions, instead of taking stock of where we all are, in this together, in relatable situations, here and now. 

Nobody in the group did anything to purposefully upset her. I apologised for having possibly said anything which might have upset her. She replied, 'no it is okay, it wasn't you'. I offered an olive branch of friendship. That offer will forever stand, a door which will be always open. 

She has recently split up from the boyfriend who encouraged her to focus on her writing and to join writing groups. She got with another guy who resents white people and is encouraging her to do the same. It's her life and she's free to do as she chooses. It's sad to lose a new friend for any reasons. 

Now I would like to sing her praises. 

Her writing, what we have seen of it, is brilliant. 

She has been an inspiration.

Not in any way such as that I plagiarised anything she has written. 

I would never do that. 

She has brought me into a focus to write on some specific topics,

which I feel are important, some more than others.

I have written about the problems with and possibly a need for, the pros and cons, of this thing they call 'cultural appropriation'. HERE. This is about where our global communities are at with unification, monoculture, and preservation of traditions. 

I have finally gotten around to writing an overview of my nearly fifty years of research into a very specific topic of where the region I was born into, which is not where my ancestors originated from, fits into the greater scheme of things based on languages and locations. HERE. This is about Global Spiritism. 

I have got around to researching some evidence that Dreadlocks are not a uniquely African hairstyle reserved only for African people, but are in fact found all over the world in many different civilisations.  As far as archeological evidence goes to prove anything much at all, some of that even predates African use of dreadlocks. It also reveals how different peoples wear dreadlocks for different purposes.  HERE.

That's a triple braid.