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Police diversity: 'Why join a force of people you mistrust?'. Of 6,999 officers serving in Wales, 128 (1.82%) identify as BAME or mixed race, the latest Office for National Statistics figures show: a Thread 1/
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Wales' most racially diverse place is #Cardiff. In #Cardif, 20% of the population are #Black, #Asian or #MinorityEthnic. These are the most recent rates of stop and search according to race in #Cardiff
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#Black people in #SouthWales are stopped and searched at a rate 7.4x times that of #White people in #Wales. Why? 3/ 
Presenting a new ongoing body of work, 'The Dreaming Valleys / Cymoedd yn Breuddwydio'. Instigated by local exploration in lockdown, and the discovery of a landscape that has previously only existed in my memory and imagination, the work is partly an essay on my teenage years
growing up in rural Warwickshire in the 1990s. Subsequently, devouring this environment in stages over the last few months, another theme was suggested though place and atmosphere- within these isolated ancient churches, standing stones and mature oaks, was there a different
South Wales, untouched and unblemished by the Industrial Revolution? To be seen in conjunction with my other project, ’The Allure of Ruins / Atyniad Adfeilion’, which explores the remains of that industrial history and its effects of the landscape, 'The Dreaming Valleys’
Reports of disturbances in #Barry. My dad's sister's second husband's third cousin lives there, and we drink in the same pub. He's gonna keep me in the loop.
#1919RaceRiots #Cardiff1919RaceRiots
#1919RaceRiots #Cardiff1919RaceRiots
The information on Barry is rolling in as we speak. Last night, 50 white men showed up to a fish🐟 and chip🍟 shop on 296 #HoltonRoad, if I recall correctly.
#1919RaceRiots #Barry #SouthWales
#1919RaceRiots #Barry #SouthWales
There seem to have been a few different instigators, a number of arrests were made in #Barry last night. They went to the fish and chip shop owned by #EdithGillespie, who has a husband who is a coloured man
#Barry #RaceRiots #Wales
#Barry #RaceRiots #Wales
1. On Friday 6th June 1919, there was a #RaceRiot in the city of #Newport in #Gwent, #SouthWales. What happened in #Newport had a huge overwhelming effect on #RaceRelations for years to come. Here's a clipping from @nytimes about the #riot
2. As @renireni pointed out in Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race:
"Riots always seem to kick off in the summer." 🔥🔥🔥
In 1919, there were riots in:
🔸#Chicago
🔸#Baltimore
🔸#Omaha
🔸#Newport
🔸#Liverpool
+ and more
#Cymraeg #History #Cymru #Hanes
"Riots always seem to kick off in the summer." 🔥🔥🔥
In 1919, there were riots in:
🔸#Chicago
🔸#Baltimore
🔸#Omaha
🔸#Newport
🔸#Liverpool
+ and more
#Cymraeg #History #Cymru #Hanes
3. According to the #history, a #black man insulted a #white woman in #Newport, which lead to an altercation. It kicked off in #GeorgeStreet [see below], where 3000 white people formed into a mob and attacked the houses of the two black people on the street.
