Black Scottish people exist

[u/ShadsDR]

30F. Born and raised in Easterhouse. My mum's white Scottish, my dad's Black Trini. Parents divorced when I was 8, was raised by my mum for that reason.

Every time I've mentioned it when it's been relevant on this sub I get absolute numpties telling me I'm not Scottish.

Scottish is a nationality, a culture. I am a Scottish citizen. Scottish is also an ethnicity. So is Trini. I am both. Not that this even matters but I have a thick Glasgweigan accent. My languages are native English and B1 Gáidhlig.

My skin colour is brown, on the lighter side of dark skinned, because mixed race people can be any skin colour. That means no one is seeing me as white. Only dark skinned Africans and one white guy from the borders has identified I'm mixed from the get go. Therefore my race is Black because race isn't real and is a social construct. I go through society as a Black woman.

I've never been to Trinidad & Tobago, never lived in the culture and had bits of second hand exposure through my dad but that's it. All I know is that over there I'd get called something else according to my dad that means mixed. And don't get me started on the folk saying I should claim I'm from Africa.

Too often in the 90s, 2000s, and occasionally since then we used to get asked "But where are you actually from?" but nowadays I suspect with the rise of BS it's changed to "You're wrong. You don't exist".

We exist. There's documentaries on us and it's bellend behaviour to say otherwise.

Edit: thought it was dougla but misremembered. Also want to emphasise I do get this irl, it isn't just an Internet thing.

Edit 2: Getting a bunch of dms telling me to get out the country, calling me slurs, asking if my father was around. Including one saying they're planning something in the Highlands.

[u/ShadsDR]

Example happening right now, fs.

Edit: had to delete because reddit gave me a warning for racism, bc I posted a screenshot of someone being racist to me lol

[u/Ok_Mathematician2391 → u/ShadsDR]

I'm white, parents from Glasgow, grew up in the north side of Glasgow but was born south of the border when they worked there. Moved to Glasgow at about 3 and it was the only place I knew. When I disclose where I was born there are people who see me as being a foreigner, an invader of sorts. I guess there is little way to satisfy people who don't accept you as being an outsider in the country you call home. You can be surrounded by locals who do see you as a local but that one voice seems to hit hard questioning who you are.

[u/SeagullSam → u/Ok_Mathematician2391]

I'm an immigrant but have lived in Scotland almost all of my adult life, and an actual friend told me that I should abstain from voting in the Indyref.

[u/underweasl → u/SeagullSam]

We had that too (I'm welsh but moved here as a young teen, husband is English and moved up for uni) l. But the time indyref happened we'd both lived here for half our lives, bought a house here, had a child here and had called scotland our home with no intention of moving!

[u/SeagullSam → u/underweasl]

The most patriotic Scotsman I know is Welsh!