{"id":63569,"date":"2022-03-29T01:39:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T01:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63569"},"modified":"2022-03-29T01:39:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T01:39:33","slug":"racism-in-ireland-i-grew-up-feeling-like-i-was-born-with-some-awful-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63569","title":{"rendered":"Racism in Ireland: “I grew up feeling like I was born with some awful condition”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Racism in Ireland: “I grew up feeling like I was born with some awful condition”<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Her<\/a>
\n2020<\/p>\n

Taryn de Vere<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

From online abuse to comments in the D\u00e1il<\/a>, racism has come to the forefront of the national conversation in recent months. But who is suffering and just how prevalent is it? In a new series, Her asks women living in Ireland<\/a> to tell us about their real life experiences…<\/em><\/p>\n

“No one should want to bleach their hair or hide their skin because they’ve been told the way they were born looks ‘ghetto'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Vanessa Ifediora<\/a> says that growing up black in Northern Ireland<\/a> was difficult. “Bullying was rife, mostly instigated by the parents who sent their kids into school with a script of what to say to me,” says the Belfast<\/a> woman. “Children that young only parrot what their parents teach them.<\/p>\n

“When I was 16, the manager at my part-time job showed me a picture of some blonde haired baby whose mother was mixed race, and told me: ‘Keep your chin up, when you marry a white guy nobody will even know your children are black.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Moving away from her home city as an adult didn’t put an end to these experiences. Vanessa was also subjected to blatant racism while living in Cork<\/a>.”It was only seven years ago \u2013 I don’t know what it’s like now \u2013 but, then, \u00a0in Cork people would openly walk right up to me and insult me…<\/p>\n

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

Vanessa Ifediora says that growing up black in Northern Ireland was difficult. “Bullying was rife, mostly instigated by the parents who sent their kids into school with a script of what to say to me,” says the Belfast woman. “Children that young only parrot what their parents teach them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,8,23674,10],"tags":[24627,33343,33344,246,4175,33341,33342],"class_list":["post-63569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-uk","tag-cork","tag-her","tag-her-ie","tag-ireland","tag-northern-ireland","tag-taryn-de-vere","tag-vanessa-ifediora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63569","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=63569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63571,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63569\/revisions\/63571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}