Her father is from Jamaica and her mother is mixed race - "Welsh, Chinese, Barbadian and English to be exact," she said.
"My uncle, who was my surrogate father, gave me so much confidence and talked politics with me when I was quite young."He made me feel that being black was good.""This is who I was. This is what I believed in. I didn't care what other people thought. I was going to be black and proud and say it out loud," she said.
"I'd be stared at, I'd be asked weird questions about what I ate and why my hair was the way it was...She said the questions, "which weren't necessarily hostile", eventually eroded her self-confidence and she became withdrawn. Bilingual musician Edyth Crawford, who grew up in Aberaeron, Ceredigion, said being mixed race in rural Wales was a challenge.
I don't think anyone can care more about skin colour than the bbc
Give it a fcking rest ffs...
Without blacks Wales would be nowt but wattle and daub huts according to the BBC
Who the fuck writes this shit! Who the fuck in their rite minds would even make a comment like 'you can't be from Wales' solely based on skin colour. Honestly the only black Welshman I knew was Ashley Williams but at no point did his colour confuse me! WTF IS GOIN ON?!
Keep stoking BBC, your license fee pot is diminishing as it is.
'you can't be from Wales - you're not from Wales'. Is an expression of sympathy not a racist insult
ffs 2020 just gets madder everyday.
Daily pot stirring from the bbc
I am a white Londoner and loved in Wales for a long time. I used to get those comments all the time. Grow up people I used to have fun in my responses.
What a load of crap, teachers underestimate (and overestimate) kids all the time, it has bugger all to do with skin colour, I know because it happened to me 🤷🏻♂️ more race baiting drivel from the bbc 😴
Problem is you look at people you know are not indigenous and likely know their roots without asking. It is unlikely you look at a black person and automatically think they are from Cardiff!
You think being black and Welsh creates some assumptions? Try being white and Nigerian.
To save yourself the time reading BBC every day, here's a summary of all their 'news' from now until they're defunded and dismantled 🤞: 'Black white black brown gay trans white, conflict racist problem?' The government propaganda mouthpiece, nothing more. defundthebbc
No such thing. The Welsh are their own distinct ethnocultural group.
i've been to cardiff wales it is BEAUTIFUL. they all have very strong voices. melodic friendly i even thought i'd live there but they have a drug problem and a really horrible homeless situation. however the river and gardens are spectacular. but the homeless was appallingHOUSE
The Welsh are an ethnic group, and that ethnic group are white
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How can you be black and Welsh what utter crap
This is a definite ‘You can’t win whatever you do’. 90% of black British know exactly where their roots are from & they are extremely proud of their countries of origin. Let a white Brit ask them where they’re from & suddenly it’s the biggest insult anyone can throw at them.
Give it a rest FFS
I've never heard any assumptions. Why make this up
I'm just going to assume that they're all kinfolk of Shirley Bassey.
Dear You do know that there's more to life than the colour of someone's skin?
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