{"id":50733,"date":"2016-12-17T20:44:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T20:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50733"},"modified":"2016-12-17T20:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T20:45:38","slug":"weve-had-the-worst-of-the-hatred-that-northern-ireland-has-to-give-sectarian-and-racist-levelled-at-us-and-we-just-cant-take-any-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50733","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve had the worst of the hatred that Northern Ireland has to give\u2014sectarian and racist\u2014levelled at us and we just can\u2019t take any more."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had the worst of the hatred that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northern_Ireland\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Ireland<\/a> has to give &#8211; sectarian and racist &#8211; levelled at us and we just can\u2019t take any more,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a mixed race family and don\u2019t always blend in. Growing up we became used to stares and taunts, but that was all we had. Naively I thought that Northern Ireland seemed to be changing, more and more people of colour were coming in and we no longer stood out as much.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jayne_legacy\" target=\"_blank\">Jayne Olorunda<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stephanie Bell, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50700\" target=\"_blank\">I couldn\u2019t cope with seeing Sinn Fein\u2019s new MLA on TV or radio\u2026 I\u2019d be thinking all the time: your father killed my father<\/a>,&#8221; <em>The Belfast Telegraph<\/em>, December 16, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/northern-ireland\/i-couldnt-cope-with-seeing-sinn-feins-new-mla-on-tv-or-radio-id-be-thinking-all-the-time-your-father-killed-my-father-35297664.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/northern-ireland\/i-couldnt-cope-with-seeing-sinn-feins-new-mla-on-tv-or-radio-id-be-thinking-all-the-time-your-father-killed-my-father-35297664.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had the worst of the hatred that Northern Ireland has to give &#8211; sectarian and racist &#8211; levelled at us and we just can\u2019t take any more,\u201d she says. \u201cWe are a mixed race family and don\u2019t always blend in. Growing up we became used to stares and taunts, but that was all we [&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":[25584,17724,4175,25767,25582],"class_list":["post-50733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-belfast-telegraph","tag-jayne-olorunda","tag-northern-ireland","tag-stephanie-bell","tag-the-belfast-telegraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50733","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=50733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50734,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50733\/revisions\/50734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}