Feck me theres some bollocks spouted on hereOriginally Posted by William Treseder
White blokes telling other white blokes that racism isnt a problem in wales despite our main centre of multi culturalism , butetown , being excluded from the rest of the city
Go to mermaid quay and it's all white people sucking on ice cream whilst half a mile away you have one of the country's most deprived communities living in tower blocks
And most people who live there are black , unlike the posters on here who tell us racism isnt a problem
Well, it wouldnt be for them , would it ?
A third of welsh school teachers report racist behaviour in the classroom
There is an excellent article written by sara robinson , a cardiff city fan who used to post on here , published in today's western mail ........its called the truth about racism in wales
In it she states that the physical wall separating butetown from the trendily called bay development kept the people of butetown segregated . The new bay are couldnt be less representative of cardiffs maritime cultural history if it tried .
There is not one statue dedicated to the people who helped build cardiff
Later on sara tells how she was walking in a city park and one of the other people in the park is black , he is stopped by the police .
On welsh Twitter a succession of white people , again fecking ironic , que up to post that racism isnt a problem in wales
Get off your knees, this is not america !
It is staggering arrogance for white welsh people to tell people from ethnic minorities living here that their experience is somehow imagined , exaggerated or invented .
How can white people who have never experienced persecution , racist taunts and jokes presume to be experts on how people who have and do experience it should feel or protest about it ?
The whitewashing of butetown extends to the workplace , our cultural life , our institutions
Black people are 8 times more likely to be stopped that white people
Racism may be less lethal , overt here but to deny it's a problem is to deny gravity , we continue to criminalise and discriminate against people of colour in 2020
We have a lot of work to do in wales before we are in any position to judge or tell protestors they have nothing to protest or that BLM is just a bunch of white middle class rich kids .....footage from the demo in cardiff shows people of all backgrounds and races were represented
An excellent article by sara , she is active on Twitter
As for the white working class none were born racist and your class does not make you a racist .
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