{"id":63155,"date":"2022-02-21T02:35:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T02:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63155"},"modified":"2022-02-21T02:36:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T02:36:43","slug":"wishaw-twins-open-up-on-racism-and-urge-people-to-support-black-lives-matter-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63155","title":{"rendered":"Wishaw twins open up on racism and urge people to support Black Lives Matter protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wishaw twins open up on racism and urge people to support Black Lives Matter protest<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Daily Record<\/a>
\nGlasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
\n2020-06-10<\/p>\n

Michael Pringle<\/strong><\/a>, Reporter<\/p>\n

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Wishaw<\/a> twins Aleisha<\/a> and Lauryn Omeike<\/a> (Image: Stuart Vance\/Wishaw Press)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aleisha<\/a> and Lauryn Omeike<\/a> have spoken out about the racism they endured as children and called for better education on the matter in Scottish schools, as the BLM<\/a> movement gathers momentum with protests in cities across the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

Craigneuk<\/a> twins who grew up wishing they were white are urging more people to support the Black Lives Matter<\/a> movement and help change racist attitudes.<\/p>\n

Aleisha and Lauryn Omeike have spoken out about the racism they endured as children and called for better education on the matter in Scottish schools, as the BLM movement gathers momentum with protests in cities across the world.<\/p>\n

The mixed-race 19-year-olds\u2019 dad Steve is Nigerian and their mum Pamela is Scottish.<\/p>\n

They have revealed they wanted to be white so they didn\u2019t have to be different while growing up in Wishaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI blew out my seventh birthday candles and wished to be white so I wouldn\u2019t have to face constant abuse and being attacked because of the colour of my skin,\u201d Lauryn said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just so I wouldn\u2019t be different anymore…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aleisha and Lauryn Omeike have spoken out about the racism they endured as children and called for better education on the matter in Scottish schools, as the BLM movement gathers momentum with protests in cities across the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,23674,10],"tags":[32817,33065,8230,33062,33063,153,33064],"class_list":["post-63155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-uk","tag-aleisha-omeike","tag-craigneuk","tag-daily-record","tag-lauryn-omeike","tag-michael-pringle","tag-scotland","tag-wishaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63155","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=63155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63157,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63155\/revisions\/63157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}