Don't Call me Me BAME!

 

Among the Palestinians, whether they are from the occupied Palestine or the diaspora, there are those who are pure Palestinian origin and there are who are of mixed race; you will find amongst them a variety of people with brown eyes, just like the colour of the Palestinian soil in the Holy Land, or black like the colour of the darkness of the night, or the blue colour of the sea, or the green colour of the meadows dressed up by the beautiful spring coat.

Some of them have black, brown, red, or blond hair colour. There are who are tall, short, and middle stature. There are Palestinians with a beautiful skin colour, tanned after their skin is kissed by the sun, and those who are either with a darker or lighter beautiful skin colour. We have the heavenly religions, the Abrahamic religions and we do not call ourselves BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic), we do not use categories or labels.

In 2019 I came across the term BAME, and I was not happy about it. I remember growing up thinking the native Indians were brutal people and they just took off the skulls of the good cowboys, and how for the ‘African American’ it was okay for them to be treated badly by the ‘Americans.’ I shared a post on one of the social media platforms that said: “You might agree or disagree with me, but I do not like to be labelled. I prefer you to label my personality or actions or my cause, good, bad, or indifferent, but not my gender or my ethnicity or my religion. When I was a child, I was labelled as a terrorist even though I was the victim, and I was labelled as Sunni, and even some people who called me Palestinian as an insult.

We are equal and we are the same.”

Some people might wonder what I am talking about, well I would like to give a hint that when we label people under a certain category, people become very judgmental towards them, not looking for the truth, or we could say that the vast majority of us will be easily brainwashed, thinking MSM are telling us the truth and the elite and powerful countries are genuine and there are good reasons behind their actions.

I felt it better to express my thoughts and feelings, so I started looking around to see if there is something online might help me understanding this issue, or to see if there is someone sharing my way of thinking about the subject. I came across this title Please, “don't call me BAME or BME!” you can find it at civil service blog at the Government website:

Blog Page HERE!

It is a nice piece of writing and very through and simple to read and to understand, it is explaining how the government is creating new acronyms and initialism on a regular basis, and it is also that acronyms and initialism are not always well thought through and can create problems. And what language we should use and what are the Do’s and Do not.

The conclusion of this article is that it is time to talk and ditch the acronyms, but that it is not an overnight change that we can make, but at least we can start.

So, in conclusion…

There is no ownership of colour, there is no exclusive eye colour that belongs to a person from Palestine or a Palestinian from the diaspora. Everyone has a “colour” so to single out people and label us as BAME or to call us People of Colour (POC) as if those people “without colour” are better? This is all part of the tactics of segregation. This same language of segregation applies to religion. Religion is not a nationality, or a race and it does not belong to a place or a group of people. We are all children of the world, there is no one group, or race, or religion or “chosen people” that are better than any other. So enough of slipping in untruths and enough of believing the lies that divide us.

(Written by T. Al-Mawed 19/5/2022)

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