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What does an American look like?
What does someone from Brooklyn look like?
She is a Black Irish Woman. What is the issue?
My name is Rhasidat Adeleke. I’m 17 years old. I’m a 100m/200m sprinter.
I was born and raised in Dublin, and my parents are Nigerian.
Growing up I knew that in many scenarios I would be treated unfairly because of the colour of my skin. I’ve endured many different acts of racism since I was a child. Over the years I got used to it and kind of accepted it was something I’ll just have to face throughout my life.
In my early teens, I thought that racism in Ireland had significantly decreased until I started representing Ireland internationally. Each year I found that racist remarks would flood the comment section under posts of my international success. 2017 was the first time I experienced it, at the age of 14, I wasn’t sure how to react.
It became a topic I never really liked to talk about, so each year I’d always brush it off and act as if I never saw them. The positive comments definitely outweighed the negative, so I turned my focus on those. However the various ongoing movement’s have been a huge eye opener for me and I feel it’s important for people to speak up about racial inequality. Our success shouldn’t be discredited because of our background or the colour of our skin.
My main achievements in athletics are my international medals. 2019 European Youth Olympic double Gold medalist (100m & 200m). 2018 European u18 200m Gold medalist. 2017 European Youth Olympic 200m silver medalist and 4x100m Bronze.
I hope our current generation speak up and become advocates against racial injustice. I hope we pave a way for a future where all ethnicity’s and races are rightfully accepted.
In a racist society it’s not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist. - Angela Davis
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she's not black irish.. she's not Afro-Irish...she's Nigerian-Irish. Nationality and ethnicity are not the same or interchangeable. Her Nigerian HERITAGE should NOT be homogenized into just a skin color designation if she knows where her people comes from specifically. And her parents come from some real place in the world.