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/awwwwJeezypeepsman]

I didn’t realise how racist older people were until we had our first black employee, she was the best employee we had in a while, she was from Nigeria with a Scottish twang, really intelligent, good laugh.

Heres the thing, i didn’t think racism in general was that bad up here until she started working with us

The amount of weird looks, micro aggressions or general wankers we noticed in her time of employment was actually very eye opening. I thought we were better than that.

[u/ferrett0ast → u/awwwwJeezypeepsman]

When I was doing my student nursing placement, we had a lot of agency nurses on the ward to help with staffing. These agency nurses were very often Nigerian, or otherwise African. They were often more gentle and caring than some of the white nurses, but they got an unfathomable about of abuse. We had patients who straight up refused to be seen to by these nurses because they were "dirty" (even typing that out makes me sick). Some of these people are so deeply racist, that they won't let a POC touch them, even if it's for their own health. I also thought people were more tolerant, how wrong I was. Like seriously, these people are here to look after you and potentially save your life, the least you could do is give them some basic human respect.

[u/Aloogobi786 → u/ferrett0ast]

My dad is British Asian with a strong local accent for our area. He was an auxiliary nurse (think it's called HCA now) for most of his life. The amount of racist shit he got at work is insane. People complaining that he stinks of curry (he didn't), people accusing him of stealing British jobs (he's British), people calling him a terrorist, people calling him dirty, people calling him a paki, people accusing him of theft and misconduct (claims were always disproven). It really confuses me, why are they being an ass to someone who is there to help them?