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I think it's REALLY time to start being very clear about the level of racism that exists in Ireland. So, in solidarity with the Ryan's, let me tell you just a few of my family's experiences: 1.Being called a "n&£er lover" "racist to the Irish" "a fucking spanner" on @Twitter 1/
2) getting a long message on @facebook about 4 years ago that told me I married a monkey and my son was an abomination. 3) My son's football coach telling me he didn't trust black people as far as he could throw them & he was glad they had "got me back from that place" (Kenya) 2/
4) A different football coach "joking" that he was going to sell my 9 year old to White Slave Traders. I had to explain slavery to my child that day. 5) Being asked, regularly, if it's true what they say about black men's penis's.
6) being told by another parent that she didn't like the way my 8 year old danced "sexily". He moves as he moves. 7) fighting for over 5 years to get a visa for my son's father, my partner. He eventually left as he couldn't get work. He is a professor in a university in Kenya. 4/
And he was unwilling to stay here and get social welfare after he received visa. Noel Grealish,who has 3 siblings in US as "economic migrants" has just opened the lid to a very full can of worms. The absolute killer for me, from all these people with Irexit & 🇮🇪 flags is this: 5/
You have bought the bullshit that the English monarchy created to make Slavery and Irish colonisation palatable to the British public. They created an image of Africans, particularly men, as savage, over sexed, dangerous creatures. They sold it to the public to be able to 6/
7/ justify enslaving, selling,killing Africans,and stealing their land. And they sold a very similar picture about us. Particularly, as with Africans,our men. You were stupid, barbaric slaves. You were dogs. You were imprisoned,and sent on ships,and starved in the name of the
8/ British crown. And we continue to immigrate for better lives. The absolute,galling, ridiculous attitude of Irish people to buy into this racism,and refuse those wanting to make a better life here is beyond my capacity for understanding. You do not represent 🇮🇪. #notoracism
9/ please, keep coming with your baseless "facts", your insults & inability to put forward intelligent arguments. My family, the Ryan's,and all the others will continue to thrive. And grow. Get used to it . #iamirish #notoracism #standwiththeryans @lidl_ireland @galwayantiRN
