Greetings, users.
It has come to my attention that a merry band of misfits have created a racist “movement” to bully and harass me and to attempt to vilify me in the eyes of my great and congregants and friends and I sit here in tears as I write the following:
To begin, I’d like to once again hammer home what the Holy Church of Jamal is: a sanctuary for all and a community for all. Many lies and rumours have been spread about us stating that we are a “cult”, but this is simply not true. I have recruited users from around the site who are likeminded in a sense that they wish to improve the conditions of the site and the individual lobbied on it. My great congregants who have been insulted, kicked from games, and wrongfully accused of inhumane acts just because they choose to be a part of the Church and uphold the values that we all believe are important. While it is true that you needn’t be a part of a group to spread positivity, it is much easier to be a part of a community that supports and stands up for you when you are being attacked by hostile users. To join the Church, you needn’t give up who you are nor tell everyone that you are giving me your undying loyalty — the Holy Church of Jamal is bigger than any one of us. Our mission to eradicate bullying and toxicity in the lobby and replace it with our positivity will not go unheard. The slanderous lies being spread about myself, my congregants, or the Church itself is a form of bullying and this is exactly how these anti-bullying groups form. When they go low, we go high — we will not be deterred.
As you all know, I am a black man who resembles celebrity actor from the hit primetime television drama “Grey’s Anatomy”, and because of the colour of my skin, I often times fall victim to racism. This "movement" that was recently started to bully and harass me is inherently racist and I’m disappointed many of you users would fall victim to their cult-like antics. It is no secret that the history of the seemingly innocent clowns have a negative history behind them. From the 1810s, these "clowns" used blackface to exaggerate and mock some of the characteristics that black people possess and because of this, it is hurtful to know that this "movement" is comparing me to the "clowns" that exaggerate my people's characteristics to hurt them and bully them.
"Now, this award – this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country – the activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do. It’s kind of basic mathematics – the more we learn about who we are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize. Now, this is also in particular for the black women in particular who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and will do better for you. Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to deescalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday. So what’s going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours. Now… I got more y’all – yesterday would have been young Tamir Rice’s 14th birthday so I don’t want to hear anymore about how far we’ve come when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on 12 year old playing alone in the park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going home to make a sandwich. Tell Rekia Boyd how it’s so much better than it is to live in 2012 than it is to live in 1612 or 1712. Tell that toEric Garner. Tell that to Sandra Bland. Tell that to Dorian Hunt. Now the thing is, though, all of us in here getting money – that alone isn’t gonna stop this. Alright, now dedicating our lives, dedicating our lives to getting money just to give it right back for someone’s brand on our body when we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies, and now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies. There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There has been no job we haven’t done. There is no tax they haven’t leveed against us – and we’ve paid all of them. But freedom is somehow always conditional here. “You’re free,” they keep telling us. But she would have been alive if she hadn’t acted so… free. Now, freedom is always coming in the hereafter, but you know what, though, the hereafter is a hustle. We want it now. And let’s get a couple things straight, just a little sidenote – the burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.That’s not our job, alright – stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest, if you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down. We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil – black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is though… the thing is that just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real." -- Jesse Williams, 2016 BET Awards
This villainous group of misfits and their racist movement, akin to that of Make America Great Again, will not be accepted by the Church or any of her colonies. Let it be know than the Church accepts everyone for who they are and there is no reason for you to change. No matter gay, straight, or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, you’re on the right track, user, you were born to survive. No matter black, white or beige, chola or orient made, you’re on the right track, user, you were born to be brave.
So be brave, take my hand and join me:
