{"id":20102,"date":"2012-01-24T19:56:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20102"},"modified":"2012-01-24T19:57:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:57:53","slug":"mixed-race-rose-contestant-snubs-racist-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20102","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-race Rose contestant snubs racist websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.maithu.com\/archive\/article\/2008\/aug\/03\/mixed-race-rose-contestant-snubs-racist-websites\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed-race Rose contestant snubs racist websites<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.maithu.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday Tribune<\/a>, Dublin, Ireland<br \/>\n2008-08-03<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ken Sweeney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A mixed-race contestant who is competing in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rose_of_Tralee_(festival)\" target=\"_blank\">Rose of Tralee<\/a> says she has no fears about travelling to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ireland\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a> to take part in the contest despite a series of racist remarks made against her on a website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a> Rose Belinda Brown (25) has been targeted by users of race hate website <em>Stormfront.org<\/em> since being selected in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cricklewood\" target=\"_blank\">Cricklewood<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>Born in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica<\/a> but raised in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ahoghill\" target=\"_blank\">Ahoghill<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/County_Antrim\" target=\"_blank\">Co Antrim<\/a>, Irish-based racists have questioned Brown&#8217;s right to compete in the beauty pageant because of her mixed-race parentage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This mixed female is indeed no Rose of Tralee,&#8221; posted one member, War Maiden, on the site. &#8220;Last time I checked our women were pale-skinned maidens from our <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emerald_Isle\" target=\"_blank\">Emerald Isle<\/a>, not some mud from London.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another, with the name White Patriot, wrote: &#8220;The London entrant for this year&#8217;s Rose of Tralee is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\">half caste<\/a> mongrel. What the hell are the organisers thinking of? Whites who mix with blacks shouldn&#8217;t be surprised when they get treated like animals themselves. They are traitors to their race, culture and family. We have no sympathy for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>However in an interview with the <em>Sunday Tribune<\/em>, Belinda Brown said she was proud of her mixed-race ancestry and said she had no fears about travelling to <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tralee\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tralee<\/strong><\/a><strong> for the contest which takes place in <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/County_Kerry\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kerry<\/strong><\/a><strong> from 22-26 August&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.maithu.com\/archive\/article\/2008\/aug\/03\/mixed-race-rose-contestant-snubs-racist-websites\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed-race Rose contestant snubs racist websites Sunday Tribune, Dublin, Ireland 2008-08-03 Ken Sweeney A mixed-race contestant who is competing in this year&#8217;s Rose of Tralee says she has no fears about travelling to Ireland to take part in the contest despite a series of racist remarks made against her on a website. London Rose Belinda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,125,8,10,25],"tags":[9346,246,9344,9345],"class_list":["post-20102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-women","tag-belinda-brown","tag-ireland","tag-ken-sweeney","tag-sunday-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}