We’ve had the worst of the hatred that Northern Ireland has to give—sectarian and racist—levelled at us and we just can’t take any more.

“We’ve had the worst of the hatred that Northern Ireland has to give – sectarian and racist – levelled at us and we just can’t take any more,” she says.

“We are a mixed race family and don’t always blend in. Growing up we became used to stares and taunts, but that was all we had. Naively I thought that Northern Ireland seemed to be changing, more and more people of colour were coming in and we no longer stood out as much.” —Jayne Olorunda

Stephanie Bell, “I couldn’t cope with seeing Sinn Fein’s new MLA on TV or radio… I’d be thinking all the time: your father killed my father,” The Belfast Telegraph, December 16, 2016. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/i-couldnt-cope-with-seeing-sinn-feins-new-mla-on-tv-or-radio-id-be-thinking-all-the-time-your-father-killed-my-father-35297664.html.

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