Author: Frederique

This is unacceptable !

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Stand up for your rights and the future generations, we deserve better!
Below is a complaint sent to DWP regarding the Universal credit lack of efficacy , the current inflation that is creating more financial hardship for the poorest and the housing market bubble which will eventually explode. 
Please feel free to share with friends and family.  
This is the email that I sent to 1 letting agent :
Dear, 
I am contacting you today because I need to find a flat for no more than £850/month in the Preston Park area for my 18 years old son and myself. I am a universal credit recipient hence I need to make sure that the landlord is fine with it also we will need to stay in the flat for a minimum of 5 years (8 years would be the ideal) as my son (BAs) and myself (Masters + PHD) are studying at the nearby university.  We need stability. 
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BUT I found it unacceptable to receive so little whilst I am disabled and unable to work full-time due to my disability. 
The inflation means that everything went up but the money received from the horrible universal credit did not. 
Disabled people need the money not because they do not want to work but because of the way in which the marketplace works. It is not adapted for them. Thus I suggest you review the benefit system and scrap it because I currently have a bill of more than £600 for my electricity and the maximum given for the rent is not enough for me to find a suitable place to live decently.
Having a warm place and a roof under your head is a human right not a luxury.
Having nutritious food and access to health care is a human right, this tory government is all about cutting where people need the most, discrimination, racism and keeping privilege people at the top whilst the less able are suffering and do not have a voice in parliament. 
This is not fair, this is not smart, this is criminal !
Enough is enough!!!
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Below is an email sent to my local political representative : 
I have been living in the flat I am currently renting for less than 3 years and I have to move AGAIN!!!Not because I want to but because my landlord has decided to. However, the flat is not even in good condition due to a leak in the roof which creates mold and there is no fire safety as required by law.
This costs me too much, indeed, as a disabled person I cannot save any money for this type of event. Furthermore, my anxiety and depression worsened when under such unnecessary pressure. I have been living in the UK for the past 14 years and I had to move 6 times. Landlords are putting me and my family in financial and emotional hardship every time they ask us to move out of their properties.
This is unacceptable and I do not know why I should be forced to move out after less than 3years whilst my son is completing his college years. It is a human right to be safely housed. 
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Thanks,
Frederique

 

Say it out loud

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This post is dedicated to Tamron Hall, a beautiful and inspiring black woman. 

I was in my bed trying to brush the feelings of loneliness away with entertaining videos about relationships and Youtube algorithm created a list of videos for me which I started watching without a care in the world.

There it was, a message of hope. A kind of bright light in a very dark place where only my inner voice was echoing. Or, perhaps it sounded like a welcoming chant made to encourage others to look beyond their fears of loneliness and rejection. Either way, I listened carefully and full heartedly as if I had found a precious piece of art. 

This is what I heard in a poetry form: 

It took many trials to get me to a place where I belong
At some point, it seemed impossible to reach this old dream of mine
I thought it was a lost cause, like an unreadable book from another era 
A distant relative who has been away to an unknown dimension 
unexpectedly, it came back to me with a surprise 
I took it all, I embrace it all and this without any fear
and said : Welcome home dearest! 

Feel free to watch the video here : Tamron Hall on Dating and Moving In With Husband After 3 Weeks | Jemele Hill is Unbothered – YouTube

Thanks for reading, 

Frederique 😊

 

Reference 

www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Tamron Hall on Dating and Moving In With Husband After 3 Weeks | Jemele Hill is Unbothered. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiaMza10vbk&list=TLPQMjMxMDIwMjEri2VNUUWpbQ&index=4 [Accessed 23 Oct. 2021].

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www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Tamron Hall Show – YouTube. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/c/TamronHallShow [Accessed 23 Oct. 2021].

 

 

Amazing black women

Posted on by Frederique

 

 

 

Listening to Lord Jamar on VladTV exploring the everlasting nonsense about Dark skin women against light skin females was mind blowing. 

Lord Jamar agreed that white women or light skin young females are preferred by black men and that “it says something psychological about them”(ref.1).  
This type of dating preference is a sort of discrimination and “creates resentment for the ones” who are constantly rejected by black men. Lord Jamar adds that this is the direct consequence of black men’s perception of beauty that has been corrupted (ref.1).

 

If we further dismantle the psychological patterns that put light skin women on the forefront of black men preference, it is realistic to say that no matter what the white or light skin female brings on the table, financially, on an education level, mentally, spiritually and culturally she still is the prize to go for in the eyes of a black man. 

Therefore , if she (the light skin/ white female) behaves like an uneducated, mean, narcissistic, dishonest, low life human being who will never change her ways, black men are still going to think that light skin women boost their ego. An ego that is craving for acceptance from the white supremacists. 

Dr Joy Degruy says that there is no way to come out of 400 years of slavery without deep emotional and psychological scars that need to be healed for both black men and females (2. Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary: Post Traumatic Slave Disorder, 2016). 

But how can black women accept and forgive those who abused and are still abusing them physically, psychologically and mentally?  

So maybe, just maybe, black women should wake up and love themselves even more than they already do. 

Indeed, black women do not need a black male or any man for that matter to feel good about themselves. 
We do not need Snoop Dogg to tell us that we have to protect our viginas until we meet the “right” person 

(3.www.youtube.com , n.d.). As if Mr. Right can be found at the shop next door !!!

 

Black females do not need to be in overly sexualised video clips which have a propaganda undertone that dismisses black females ability to love and to be loved (4. www.youtube.com, n.d.). 

It seems that humanity forgot that Black women were considered as goddesses in Ancient Egypt and had access to political and spiritual powers which included the command of an army. I am not talking about Nefertiti (as many people love her hat and only see this character as a sign of power). I am referring to Hatshepsut who was a Pharaoh who possessed all the political powers on her OWN (5. Tyldesley, J. (2018)!!!   

To get further into inspirational facts, in the indigenous cultures, women were  “builders, warriors, farmers, and craftswomen. Their strength was essential to the survival of the tribes”(6.www.indians.org, n.d.).

NEVER forget that without a black women there won’t be any black men because we gave birth to you !!! 

This post is not for you, Black men though! But for my sisters who think that there is something wrong with them. 

Be proud!!!

If you want to know more about Hatshepsut have a look at the below documentaries: 

Egypt’s Dark Age: To The Brink Of Annihilation | Immortal Egypt | Odyssey – YouTube (@38 min – Hatshepsut is mentioned) 

Hatshepsut: Secrets of Egypt’s Lost Queen – YouTube ( I found the documentary not as interesting as the first because of the way it has been directed. But there are not so many chronicles done about Hatshepsut on Youtube)  

Finally, a big thank you to Harriet for her well put together video about the subject which you must watch :  Chris Brown and the Men Who Think We’re Ugly (How Black Men Benefit from Colorism) – YouTube) , the same goes for Adella Afadi  Let’s Talk Beauty Standards – YouTube , Lexus Exodus : The Genocide of Black Women w/ @BlackFemicideAmerica – YouTube, Intelexual Media: Black Femicide and Intimate Partner Violence: A History – YouTube, Tee Noir : The Market of Humiliating Black Women – YouTube and Mahogani Pink : The False Promise of Black Love (Part 1) – YouTube. 

Frederique 

 

Reference

1. www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Lord Jamar: Light-Skinned Woman Are Placed on a Pedestal. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLum0crtdB0&list=TLPQMjMxMTIwMjGWErCKxb7vfA&index=8 [Accessed 23 Nov. 2021].

2. Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary: Post Traumatic Slave Disorder. (2016). YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGjSday7f_8.

3. www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Snoop Dogg Doesn’t Like “WAP.” [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze68YzIjvbg&list=TLPQMjMxMTIwMjGWErCKxb7vfA&index=10 [Accessed 23 Nov. 2021].

4.www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Confessions of A Video Vixen: The Rise and Fall of an Era. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZTCNok6N7I [Accessed 6 Dec. 2021].

5. Tyldesley, J. (2018). Hatshepsut | Biography, Reign, & Facts. In: Encyclopædia Britannica. [online] Available at: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hatshepsut.

6. www.indians.org. (n.d.). The important role of Native American women. [online] Available at: http://www.indians.org/articles/native-american-women.html.

 

 

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