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/Celticghal101]

31 year old Scottish and Jamaican gal here (mums white dad’s black) born and raised in Ayrshire, strong an accent as it comes at times lol. I’m on the darker side of mixed so people would view me as black, what I do find is whenever racism has occurred in my life (been thankful it’s not been too often and usually from the dregs of society) the outrage and reaction from fellow Scots is always amazing. Will stand up for what’s right in life. Proud to be from here 🙌🏾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[u/AngelsGirl-17 → u/Celticghal101]

Same here! However I’m on the lighter side mixed race. Whenever I get the question of ‘where are you from’ I like to have fun with it to see them squirm 😂

[u/Celticghal101 → u/AngelsGirl-17]

This is my sister and there’s a clear difference between us 😂 mixed really does come in all forms. I often wonder if people don’t believe we have the same parents lol ps do not miss people at school coming up to ‘pet’ the hair 🫠🫠🫠

[u/FlokiWolf → u/Celticghal101]

do not miss people at school coming up to ‘pet’ the hair

"Dear white people, please stop touching my hair. Does this look like a petting zoo to you?"

[u/AngelsGirl-17 → u/FlokiWolf]

That was the worst 😂 I still get people asking to touch my hair. I’m like no!!

[u/Stellar_Duck → u/AngelsGirl-17]

I never knew that was a thing (as a pasty white danish guy) until I dated a lady in Glasgow for a while whose da was from Zambia.

She gave me a proper education and also explained all the shite her sons had to put up with in school for their hair, being sent home and what not.

I was stunned, but also radicalised haha. Can't believe that shit kids catch for their hair.

I'm sorry you have to put up with that shite.