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Do you want the reality for POC in our sector?
Lets get down to some details. All based on my own observations:
"Look at how bad you made us all feel!" bunch of white people in response to my thread discussing my lived experiences of rural racism. 🧵
#AzeemRafiq
Lets get down to some details. All based on my own observations:
"Look at how bad you made us all feel!" bunch of white people in response to my thread discussing my lived experiences of rural racism. 🧵
#AzeemRafiq
"People like you don't move to places like this" when I mused over why the sector is still so white & why after 15 years I was still the only Brown face in the room. No recognition or understanding of a sectoral wide problem.
"You don't need to explain the words (hostility, isolation, otherness) to me, I understand what they mean", white person in response to my attempt to explain my lived experiences of rural racism.
Azeem Rafiq has told MPs that the word P**i was used constantly in Yorkshire’s dressing room when he joined the club and senior players and staff did not stamp out the practice thetimes.co.uk/article/azeem-…
The club’s former off spinner, giving evidence to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee, also said that his team-mate Gary Ballance used that racist phrase to him on numerous occasions
Rafiq, a Muslim, also disclosed that when he was 15 he had red wine “poured down his throat” at his local club by a Yorkshire cricketer
#BREAKING Ex-player Azeem Rafiq tells UK lawmakers racism is institutional in cricket 
#UPDATE Former Yorkshire cricketer Azeem Rafiq tells a committee of British lawmakers he felt "isolated and humiliated" by the racist treatment he received while playing for the club
#UPDATE Former Yorkshire cricketer Azeem Rafiq fought back tears as he told a committee of British lawmakers he felt "isolated and humiliated" by the racist treatment he received while playing for the club
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