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“A Filipino worker was tied to a chair by a racist colleague in the North while another was locked in a freezer, a community representative has claimed. The allegations emerged as new research found almost half of Filipinos living in the North say they have experienced racial harassment in the workplace.”
Ireland: Report warns of workplace racism | Irish Examiner
I’ve been posting about escalating anti Black racism in Ireland for the past couple of weeks. Now a report by Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities (NICEM) has been released with chilling details of the abuse endured by members of the Filipino community. From the article:
Filipino community representative Jason Braga, 36, who has lived in the North for nine years, said some of his compatriots were frightened to report abuse in case it harmed their chances of staying in the country.
“I was told of a nurse being tied up in a chair and a hotel worker being locked up in a freezer,” he said.
“An eight-year-old Nigerian girl has been injured in a suspected racist attack on her family’s home in Dundonald, which has now been targeted twice in the past week.”
Ireland - Nigerian family targets in ‘racist attack’
The number of racist attacks in Ireland seems to be increasing exponentially on a daily basis. From the link above:
A brick thrown at the home of Charles Awoyelu and his wife Monica in the Brooklands Estate, at around 5.30am on Saturday.
It smashed through a bedroom window where Promise, one of their five children, was sleeping. She was taken to hospital with a head injury.
From the article:
A young couple have said they will not return to their Londonderry home after a gang attacked it with golf clubs in a racist attack.
Police said they are treating the attack on the home of Jonathan Taylor and his Filipino wife as a hate crime and have appealed for witnesses.
“A Cork mother has claimed this week that she no longer feels safe in her Glanmire home and that her son now lives in fear, having been the victim of two racially motivated attacks in as many years.
The woman, who moved to Cork from Cameroon over ten years ago, told the Cork Independent this week that her son has been attacked twice in two years at the same Cork city school.
She says that in February 2009, he was the victim of an assault on his school grounds which left him with loose teeth and mild injuries after being punched in the mouth.
Just four weeks ago, on November 11, she received a phone call from her son who has special needs, telling her that he had been assaulted again.
He explained that while he was playing soccer, a group of young boys started calling him “n***er”.
“He told the teacher but the boys denied it,” she said. She claimed the youths then shouted more insults at him, such as, ‘Show off n***er, why don’t you go and bring more black people with you?’
According to her son, one of the three boys punched him repeatedly in the head leaving him with a fractured jaw which was later operated on at CUH.
The assault has left her son isolated and living in fear.”
Racist attacks on special needs boy - News - Cork Independent
(I have edited the N word because it is common for Irish media to publish it unedited).
I have written about racism in Ireland before and how some voices in the African Irish community are calling it “institutionalized” and have been alerting about the alarming raise of hate crimes. Sadly, this is one more incident, this time involving a boy with disabilities.
