{"id":8680,"date":"2020-06-26T16:31:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T15:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bisofcolour.home.blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2020-06-26T16:31:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T15:31:05","slug":"bicon-lets-us-down-again-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2020\/06\/bicon-lets-us-down-again-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BiCon lets us down again. Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Image of a member of the Philippine Bisexual Group BiSides<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BiCon Racism Part 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction by Jacq
\nSince posting our previous entry, one of the authors, and Bi\u2019s of Colour as a whole have received threats. If this is what happens when we critique a white bisexual institution, and speak openly about our experiences, then white bisexual people haven\u2019t learned a thing.<\/p>\n

By Nila K<\/p>\n

One last thing about this latest bout of violent BiCon racism.<\/p>\n

I can fight it. we all can. if you didn’t break us in ten years, and by God you tried, then you’re not gonna break us now. ANd that includes those of you who get it now.<\/p>\n

Do you think that the ignorance of those we thought were community was less devastating than the outright hate? You’re wrong. \u00a0Dr King wrote about this in 1963.<\/p>\n

thing is, RIGHT NOW THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE LAST THING ANY OF US NEED.<\/p>\n

We’re finding our places in the Uprising. We’re navigating COVID and extra police powers. We’re dealing with Toryhell. whatever the latest posh yt ‘feminist’ transphobia is . The DWP. The Home Office. etc. etc.<\/p>\n

D’ya not think we’ve got enough to get on with?<\/p>\n

and yet, you think now is the ideal time to push us through this tedious racist violent bullshit again.<\/p>\n

You’re gonna realise one day, how patient we all were.<\/p>\n

But probably only after I stop being patient. And tell it like it is. And set you all on fire. I’m holding my Firey Mother back right now. I’m not gonna do it for long.<\/p>\n

And if this sounds like a threat? It should.<\/p>\n

Taking a lot of inspiration from Brother Malcolm right now. As I have since I was 14.<\/p>\n

“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.<\/p>\n

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”<\/p>\n

and, always from Kwame Toure<\/p>\n

” he only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent has to have a conscience.”<\/p>\n

We gave you a decade to find your conscience. We’re done waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  BiCon Racism Part 2: Introduction by Jacq Since posting our previous entry, one of the authors, and Bi’s of Colour as a whole have received threats. If this is what happens when we critique a white bisexual institution, and speak openly about our experiences, then white bisexual people haven’t learned a thing. By Nila … Continue reading BiCon lets us down again. Part 2<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[836,840,327,9,133,841,63,304,415,842,461,279,843],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-black-lives-matter","category-allies","category-bigotry","category-bisexual","category-bisexuality","category-kwame-toure","category-lgbt","category-lgbtq","category-lgbtqia","category-malcolm-x","category-people-of-colour","category-racism","category-white-supremacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8680"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9385,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680\/revisions\/9385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}