[sudo-discuss] Re: Temporary Ban of Jake from Omni Commons (fwd)

That's a great question! I believe strongly in anti-racism, so if I did say or do something racist I would want to know about it. Here is what I can guess about the accusations (which were not told to me): At the September 21 Omni Delegates meeting when we were trying to approve TANC for membership, and CLP wanted to block, CLP member Danielle said she was the delegate for BOGSS (a committee created by CLP and approved by Omni) so that they could have two voices, and overcome consensus-minus-one to block TANC. By this point in the meeting, Rafiq of CLP had been openly attacking me directly, and Yar (as facilitator) was allowing it and at this point was still coordinating with Rafiq over Signal on how to get rid of me (see the CLP callout doc for screenshots) Here are the meeting notes: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2023/09/21_Delegates danielle: i feel disheartened how people are talking about bogss. important to improve things, they're not always perfect off the bad. sorry jake but i think the way you're talking about CLP and rafiq in particular jake interrupts: are you a CLP member? so I, acting as Sudoroom delegate, asked a person (on voice in a zoom call), if they were a member of one of the other collectives, because I think it would be appropriate for such a cross-member to recuse themselves from decisions specific to the collective they're a member of when representing BOGSS. At that moment, Rafiq of CLP said in the chat "jake has no respect for black women clearly" and Yar ran with it. In an email to the consensus list, she wrote: I have been in open conflict with Jake for many years over his racist, anti-Black behavior. You can look up many public instances of this. I've also publicly distanced myself from Sudoroom over similar issues, many times. The only thing Jake and I have in common this week, is that we both agree Omni should remove CLP. It's honestly embarrassing for me to be on the same side as him. My conflict with Jake is one reason it took me so long - I did not trust or believe him when he said as early as last year how fascist CLP are. He said it in racist ways, which of course didn't help. "[omni-consensus] Accountability for Anti-Blackness in Sudoroom" https://omnicommons.org/lists/private/consensus/2023-September/004094.html The whole email is interesting, get on the consensus list and read it if you can, I guess you have to ask Yar for access though or I can forward it to you. I asked Yar to name ANY of these "many public instances" and she came up with none. Yar is still invited to elaborate on this, but given Yar's email to this list recently called "Racism at last night's meeting" it seems that asking for a person who expressly represents People's Programs and who is not a part of sudoroom in any way, to not be in our sudoroom meeting, was racist. Also the person I'm talking about berated the sudoroom meeting the previous week, saying that not immediately partnering with People's Programs is racist. https://sudoroom.org/lists/hyperkitty/list/sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org/thread… For more background and context of Yar's collaboration with CLP up until the point of us having to remove them from Omni, you can see their google doc which is still the top link of their linktree. This is as close as I can find to the basis of the movement to remove me personally (I'm named in the doc 18 times). https://linktr.ee/clp_ I also want to say that Jamal (who wrote the letter telling me I'm banned) is now contacting me directly, telling me not to talk about this ban, not to participate in this email thread on the sudoroom list, and threatening that "additional accountability action will be taken where repeat behaviors occur during this ban" This is the person who is trying to be "executive director" of Omni, with Silver as his advisor. Paige voted in favor of this. Do we want this? -jake On Mon, 8 Jan 2024, Autonomous wrote: