Welsh | Jamaican
My parents were both born in Wales. My Grandma is from Jamaica and she moved here with her Mother when she was around 11 years old. My parents split when I was around 3 years old. There was always a stuck in the middle feeling when growing up. But I love my Mum and Dad and they are so supportive.
I have type 1 diabetes and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). I have received discrimination and ignorance towards my health condition and my race in my full-time employment. I resolved this by writing multiple letters and by having multiple meetings, demanding for equality and diversity training for all staff, as well as type 1 diabetes awareness. My aim was to educate people and give them a chance to learn, to change their perspective. There is far more change needed for me to feel that I am taken seriously by all and for better representation to be implemented. More opportunities are needed for people of ethnic background within Wales in the poetry and rap scene.
Being older I now look back and I can clearly see the 'blind racism' I faced growing up. I just thought it was normal, especially through sport, often being the only person of a different ethnicity. Sport needs to punish racism within its culture. I am more confident and I understand the forms of racism now I am older and I now challenge these views straight away. We as a human race need to stop referring to each other with labels, as they often divide us, rather than define us.
Racism is educated, by past generations, by social groups, but if these people are given the correct education, it can break the chain of the same ideologies being passed down. The world needs to be educated from a young age on racism and inequality. Schools have a responsibility, as much as parents or guardians do, to combat racism and teach equality to children, as well as the correct British and worldwide colonialism throughout. The world needs to offer equal opportunities to everybody, full stop.
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