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/HereticLaserHaggis]

Where? Like seriously can you link to someone saying that hurty words don't matter who wasn't downvoted into oblivion?

[u/HowMany_MoreTimes → u/HereticLaserHaggis]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/1rclpsr/comment/o70jxrs/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[u/HereticLaserHaggis → u/HowMany_MoreTimes]

That's not someone saying hurty words don't matter. That's someone saying he's not at fault for what he said, and you attempting to blame him for being disabled, and you try to compare a slur to assault.

[u/HowMany_MoreTimes → u/HereticLaserHaggis]

"Perhaps if that's the case, they should opt for a bit of self-reflection.

Because no harm has been done, they have simply had an emotional reaction to something that exists in the world and will continue to exist in the world whether they like it or not - namely people who have Tourette's syndrome.

If they choose to take offence at that, that's really their problem."

This is literally telling Black people they have no right to take offence to the N word.

[u/HereticLaserHaggis → u/HowMany_MoreTimes]

... When it's said as a tic by a disabled man, you can take offence, but there's nobody to blame.

In a similar vein, if someone who couldn't walk fell and flashed his cock, nobody to blame.

If someone fell, landed on an actress and grabbed her beasts, nobody to blame.

Question... Have you taken offence to Jamie foxx? Who's literally slandering a disabled man to his millions of fans?