A Nigerian man hounded from his new home after it was covered in ‘Locals only’ banners has suffered more racial abuse. Michael Abiona (34) abandoned plans to move into a bungalow in East Belfast after finding protestors outside and banners that read ‘Local houses for local people’.
Now the charity worker has been subjected to racist abuse at a second Housing Executive property in the area. He was showing a Nigerian friend his new home on Holywood Road when a woman got out of a taxi and repeatedly shouted “black bastard” and told them to leave the area.
Mr Abiona said “The way things are, you are watching your back whenever you’re walking the street. You’re scared that people will come and attack you. But I’m not going to allow it affect me.”
Victim of locals-only protest rehoused but suffers yet more racist abuse (Brendan Hughes, Irish News) (not currently available online)
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Haters Gonna Hat
Northern scum.
what an assh*le
One good reason why he’s in Belfast?
Ah ya he just went there to piss of the locals.
@Mikefex
That is a good enough reason for me.
He likes Taig women
He’s a charity worker. Been in Belfast lately?
the locals won’t do charity work in case they get their hands dirty helpig someone they’re not related to. so charity workers are imported.
East Belfast in “being a bunch of racists” shocker!
“it’s ar kulture” etc. etc.
I wish I could say that I’m certain it wouldn’t happen down here.
There aren’t enough loyalist scumbags south of the border.
Thats asyptomatic (or however its spelt) of Loyalist culture up North.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/jan/10/northernireland.race
And that was 2004… how brazen are these scumbags now….
2004 – “Northern Ireland, which is 99% white, is fast becoming the race-hate capital of Europe. It holds the UK’s record for the highest rate of racist attacks: spitting and stoning in the street, human excrement on doorsteps, swastikas on walls, pipe bombs, arson, the ransacking of houses with baseball bats and crow bars, and white supremacist leaflets nailed to front doors”
It’s enough to make ya weep.
Thanks for the link. Interesting, but terrifying, reading.
Its amazing when we do visit NI, its like a throwback to the sixties. Religious intolerance, racial attacks, open homophobia in parliament. The loyalists should invoke the poltergeist of Senator Mc Carthy…
ah now fluffy, you don’t have to look to hard to see racism, homophobia and religious intolerance down here. but our northern cousins do have a particularly odious brand of it all the same.
The fact that they see themselves as superior to other Irish people, those of us who aren’t Protestant/Unionist, doesn’t leave much room for the rest of the World to be accepted.
How do the good people of Britain feel about having these ‘loyalists’ as their countrymen?
If Michael tells them that he is Israeli, starts flying the Israeli flag, will they accept him then?
@scottser I agree with you but the loyalists make it a speciality…
Oh the liberal irony
Palestinians can run Jews from Israel yet Nordies can’t run Africans from Nordyland
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Palestinians live in Palestine and their country has been robbed from them by immigrants.
Nigerians have absolutely no connection to Ireland of reason to be here besides government incompetence, and scum like Ronat Lentin.
Jaysus Baz…. what the fupp, that’s terrible trolling. Or maybe you haven’t engaged your brain yet.
jaysus baz, them jackboots are a little tight. they’re affecting the blood flow to your brain!!
Baz…did you think you were on politics.ie?
Stay with me on this one.
I know that in Australia, the Irish Catholics were considered the outsiders, the excluded, in Australia for a long time. Only when people who were even more ‘foreign’ than the Irish started arriving, that being WWII refugees, from central, eastern and southern Europe, were the Irish accepted as being equal to the Aussies of British descent (excuse the over-simplifcation and generalisation).
So, in Norn Iron, give the racists/sectarianists something to think about. Bring in lots of actual foreigners, so that the Taigs start being accepted, seen as equal to our masters.