Ontario’s Anti Racism Educator Responds to “Becky” Over “Woke Black Megalomaniac” Comment

Tonight, I’ve got company. Ontario anti-racism educator Selam Debs is in the studio, and sis is stepping into this moment with the kind of calm, grounded clarity that only a seasoned Black woman who’s been dragged by the internet for simply telling the truth can pull off.

Because let’s get into it: a whole Becky jumped online this week and labeled Selam a “woke Black megalomaniac” all because she dared to advocate for segregation.

Not the Jim Crow remix folks love to panic about, but the intentional, community-based separation Black people have always used to protect our peace, our power, and our progress.

But of course, nuance is a foreign language to the chronically loud and proudly uninformed.

This moment isn’t new, it’s a rerun. Black women advocating for justice get slapped with the same pre-washed, one-size-fits-none labels because it’s easier than admitting the real issue: fear. Fear of losing control. Fear of accountability. Fear that Black folks organizing outside the gaze of whiteness means the old playbook is finally losing power.

Let’s be honest: the backlash is always louder than the truth, but never smarter than it.

What’s wild is how fast some people will sprint to weaponize words they don’t even understand. “Segregation”? Sis, relax. No one is bussing you anywhere. Black folks carving out protected spaces for themselves isn’t oppression,  it’s survival. It’s strategy. It’s centuries overdue. And if that rattles you, maybe the question isn’t “Why are Black people separating?” but “Why do you need access to us so badly?”

Selam points out the pattern, how any pro-Black framework gets recast as extremism, how the public loves the aesthetics of Black liberation but panics when Black people try to structure it. The outrage is less about the idea itself and more about who’s bold enough to articulate it. A confident Black woman? Oh, that’s a threat.

Tonight’s conversation with Selam isn’t just about one insult from a bored internet commenter. It’s a snapshot of the racial climate we’re in, where the minute Black women speak with authority, the backlash tries to drown out the message with noise instead of reflection.

But here’s the twist: the noise isn’t stopping anything. If anything, it’s amplifying the movement. Because every time they try to drag a Black woman into the mud, she rises up cleaner, stronger, and twice as influential. Selam’s voice isn’t going anywhere. Neither is the work. And neither are the spaces Black people are building for themselves, with intention, with strategy, and without apology.

This moment isn’t a scandal. It’s a signal. And the people who get it? They’re tuning in. The rest? Well… they’re just proving the point.

Watch the livestream:

https://www.youtube.com/live/xyiLj8-dTYM?si=4gcnIOmQXR5bYhqS