Sylvia Wynter's Dream

Topic: Women &Harassment

Here is a link to an interview of a female who have experience harassment.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFybXjGR/

The interview (Felecia): Welcome to Let’s talk. My name is Felecia and today we have a visitor, Selina.

Hi, Selina, how are you doing?

Selena: I am fine and how are you?

Felecia: I’m good. I’m good. Thanks for coming. Alright, so my first question to you is how would you define harassment?

Selena: Well, my definition of harassment would be just having someone in your space where you get annoyed, flustered and being perplexed by an unwanted guest or visitor.

Felecia: Good, good. Alright. So my question B is going to be like have you ever experienced any form of harassment and what kind of harassment did you?

Selena: Experience. Well, most definitely. I have been harassed verbally. That incident took place in 2020. OK, and it began when I went to buy a phone charger, bear in mind I have an iPhone. And this guy was like he was buying a charger as well and he’s like, you can’t buy me a charger. I’m just saying like you should buy me one. And he was saying serious, I’m serious. So he bought me an Android Charger. So if he proceeded to ask me for my number.

Felecia: OK, there was that trick to give me the number, right?

Selena: Umm. After getting home, I realize. The number didn’t rub out.  So he called . He said, oh, it’s the guy who bought the charger and whatever. So I’m like, OK. He then proceeded to ask me information about myself and I was very skeptical, so I told him my name was Tamara and I’m from Kingston, which obviously is not true. I don’t remember his name, so let’s call him Kemar.

Felecia: his name is Kemar!

Selena: After a while, I think I couldn’t talk at the moment, so he had called back and asked me more information. I told him I was 21 because I was. As it was during the COVID periods, I believe it was 2021, OK. No, it was definitely 2020, definitely 2020. That I was 20 at the time, 2020 that was. He told me he was 27 which was unbelievable, because he was very gray and all. He told where he worked and so on. I’m like, OK. He did proceeded to ask me if.

Felecia: But at this time you had no interest.

Selena: No interest? No, none

Felecia: OK OK.

Selena: It was really just to be polite. I had engaged the conversation, OK? He then proceeded to ask questions about my very personal life and relationship was and so on. I told him I was not interested and I have a boyfriend. He then asked if he was a Christian, and I’m like, no, that doesn’t matter though. And if I was married, I’m like, that doesn’t matter. It’s like, Oh well, I don’t want to hear about that.

Selena: At that time, I remember much of the conversation, and I then remembered he called. He’s always calling. And one specific time he was like, it was a babe. And I’m like, no. That’s that’s very uncomfortable and I don’t want you to call me that. He then went to say oh. God had sent him for me, and If I refuse him I would be punished. Right there and then I was very annoyed because. He continued to call bring up that specific argument saying God sent him. For me and I’ll be punished if I continued to reject him as someone rejected him already and she’s now a prostitute and she’s begging him for money and he said not not saying I’ll turn out like that. But I’ll be pl punished in somewhat.

Felecia: ok… so God like preselected his wife, which was you.

Selena: So I’ve became annoyed. Began to get very uncomfortable with the conversation and with Kemar. Because I know he was definitely telling a lie. After rejecting his advances many times, he was like ohh if I know you were like this I wouldn’t buy any card. The card was $350.00. Like me never know you were like that time, blah blah blah. So I eventually blocked the number. And he called on private number all the time. I said. However, you know, some businesses do come on private number, so I realize it was him, did not answer but at some points I did answer. I’m like no, I’m not interested  and end the conversation. I don’t want to be involved with you and decide that he was very persistent, very harassing. I began to declare the number, and then it’s still happening. So I got a friend of mine. I sent him the number, explained the situation to him.