'Racism is the knee on our neck, making it hard to breathe'

Diane Ihirwe ELEVEN YEARS AGO, I went into hospital to give birth to my first child – the first of three sons .“Black people are strong. They don’t feel pain as much as the rest of us,” she said.

We’ve been silenced for so long that speaking up doesn’t seem to make sense anymore. A lot of black people have accepted this fate. It’s a defence mechanism – to just let the remarks, the actions, and the attacks disappear through adopting a forget-about-it attitude. Everyone was with me. So in a way, I was given permission to not just be angry, but to also express my anger because white people were feeling it too. They had joined us in our emotions. And in a way, just like everything else in life, they gave us permission to grieve.They gave me permission to acknowledge that what happened that day in Minneapolis was wrong.

I can recall that conversation I had in college when I was asked why black migrant communities aren’t as welcoming as Polish ones. About how I queried if the white person blaming me had ever made any attempt to include his black neighbours. Her mother said she was always being told to go back to Africa even though she was Irish. She let us know that people would make monkey faces and noises at her teenage daughter. Where were the protests? Why didn’t you want to listen? Why didn’t you want to dig deeper? Why wouldn’t you sit with those uncomfortable truths?

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Diane_Ihirwe News media should all be ashamed. You add fuel to the fire with with these radical twisted stories. People of all colors are suffering here in US today. We should be united not divided but you media don’t want us to be united. It doesn’t suit your narrative Fk off.

Diane_Ihirwe Btw This NYC lawyer was released on bail by an associate of Obama, your golden Irish boy. She threw a Molotov cocktail into a police van.

Diane_Ihirwe I'll just leave this here

Diane_Ihirwe The families of these dead American are very angry too.

Diane_Ihirwe Why on earth are we importing these people?

Diane_Ihirwe Let's hope the movement doesn't turn into organised violence anytime soon

I'm a ginger beeen happening mé for years. Some say we have no souls too. 🤔😂

Ireland is not immune to racism.

Ireland is not a racist country, let's be honest.

It’s not just them, I’m a yank that lived/studied in Ireland for years. I got it too, cause my skins not white. I also saw how bad the Polish and Asians were treated. Sure Its not everyone, I love the Irish people 🍻

Everyone one down on one knee 👍🏻

Europeans have got the pathological altruism virus. Its spread by the media, Hollywood and Universities. It leads to delirious smugness, population replacement and population replacement denial.

Cancel the country

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