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I think someone has been triggered again.

Beanz, you have admitted to earning 25 pounds some weeks. Your own words. That must be about 1-2 hours of work in those weeks. What on earth are you doing all that time? Is that when you remember to be a full time carer?

It seems you are on the up with the 'big gig' and 'billboards' all over town. Good for you. Seriously. Not jealous though! And if teaching is so boring, which it is not, why would you help in classrooms for half a decade? Surely a year would be enough. As for me, I do love it as you well know and couldn't dream of a more satisfying lifestyle.

Yes, I was honest enough to tell you where I heard that about benefits as I don't think it is a big deal to say who says what. We can be open and manly about it all. I am an obliging sort.

You think you have called me out on racism but I really don't think you have. You have merely jumped on a loose turn of phrase having been asked by a genuine racist 'Why are black people so poor?' It was a fairly transparent response. I would have answered the same if the question was 'Why are white British people so poor?' as indeed many are. And why did you not call out Denilson? It is because your axe is to grind with me. Fine with me too.

People do indeed choose their poverty.
Bullshit. Just like you have now edited and amended the title of the thread ''Why do people choose to be poor?" to "Why do people stay poor?" What you actually said was not "Why are black people so poor?" at all. You said "Why do Black people choose to be poor?".

It comes from the same place as your weird mission to pretend I am as lazy and feckless and rudderless as you are. You are now starting threads about what people have for Breakfast for Christ's sake. Don't assume we are the same, nothing could be further from the truth. I don't pretend you are not a teacher or that you are not sitting in your flat playing video games making cups of tea and reading a book. Why would someone make up a story about being a carer anyway? I know how uncomfortable it makes people but it would be a very strange thing to invent. When we met, my other half was far more independent but her care needs were always going to increase, and that is something i went into the relationship being fully aware of. That is why I would never complain about it. You and Al, the feeble prick, pretend that even mentioning it is moaning, because you are both a bit soft and hyper sensitive but that again is invention on both your parts.

When you are both self employed and a freelancer in the creative industry you have busy weeks and quiet weeks. On the quiet weeks you maintain what you have (client relationships, digital infrastructure, equipment,contacts), chase invoices, work on personal projects, apply for commissions, catalogue and archive and sometimes you maybe working on bigger projects that span more than the little jobs you fit in between. If I have an job for the arts council or the National Lottery or a campaign that is going national sometimes those jobs can take weeks. In those cases I may only sell a couple of prints from passive income whilst working on them, but that £25 will put food on the table.

It doesn't mean I don't have to help dress the Mrs and get her in and out of the bath or do her physio or cook or any of those things as well. That is precisely why most of the work that I do away from home is done at night. You and AL are not acting like men about it at all, you are making stuff up and gossiping like fishwives.

Denilson is not being racist by pointing out the realities of racism just because it makes you both uncomfortable. He may be wrong to think it is the reason for everything that happens to individuals but that does not make him a racist.