{"id":31809,"date":"2013-06-18T16:50:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T16:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31809"},"modified":"2013-06-18T16:50:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T16:50:25","slug":"the-term-%e2%80%98black-welsh%e2%80%99-remains-for-me-a-white-person%e2%80%99s-concept-used-to-deny-me-my-own-experience-of-racial-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31809","title":{"rendered":"The term \u2018black Welsh\u2019 remains for me a white person\u2019s concept used to deny me my own experience of racial oppression&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The term \u2018black Welsh\u2019 remains for me a white person\u2019s concept used to deny me my own experience of racial oppression (the Welsh themselves, are an oppressed and colonised people). \u2018Black Welsh\u2019 is not an identity; on the contrary, it is a duality and a contradiction. Perhaps this explains to some extent the high incidence of schizophrenia among black people. If I claim to be Welsh when everyone can plainly see that I am \u2018foreign\u2019, I must be mad. But if I claim to be black, that has no significance, it\u2019s just like having freckles, and if I claim to be oppressed, I\u2019m playing the race card, demanding special treatment. So to survive, I must be nothing, invisible and above all silent, because my very existence is a reminder that at least one white Welsh woman had sex with a black man, and that is the beginning of the end of the purity of the Welsh people. And without the Language of Heaven, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calon_L%C3%A2n\" target=\"_blank\">Calon L\u00e2n<\/a>, (white heart) the sense of being a chosen, Godly people, what does it mean to be Welsh?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isabel Adonis, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=16744\" target=\"_blank\">Black Welsh Identity: the unspeakable speaks<\/a>,\u201d <em>BBC News,\u00a0North West Wales<\/em>, May 30, 2006.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/isabeladonis.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/18\/black-welsh-identity-the-unspeakable-speaks\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/isabeladonis.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/18\/black-welsh-identity-the-unspeakable-speaks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term \u2018black Welsh\u2019 remains for me a white person\u2019s concept used to deny me my own experience of racial oppression (the Welsh themselves, are an oppressed and colonised people). \u2018Black Welsh\u2019 is not an identity; on the contrary, it is a duality and a contradiction. Perhaps this explains to some extent the high incidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7731],"class_list":["post-31809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-isabel-adonis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31809","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=31809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}