A Cork mother has claimed this week that she no longer feels safe in her Glanmire home and that her son now lives in fear, having been the victim of two racially motivated attacks in as many years.
The woman, who moved to Cork from Cameroon over ten years ago, told the Cork Independent this week that her son has been attacked twice in two years at the same Cork city school.
She says that in February 2009, he was the victim of an assault on his school grounds which left him with loose teeth and mild injuries after being punched in the mouth.
Just four weeks ago, on November 11, she received a phone call from her son who has special needs, telling her that he had been assaulted again.
He explained that while he was playing soccer, a group of young boys started calling him “n***er”.
“He told the teacher but the boys denied it,“ she said. She claimed the youths then shouted more insults at him, such as, ‘Show off n***er, why don’t you go and bring more black people with you?’
According to her son, one of the three boys punched him repeatedly in the head leaving him with a fractured jaw which was later operated on at CUH.
The assault has left her son isolated and living in fear.
Racist attacks on special needs boy – News – Cork Independent
(I have edited the N word because it is common for Irish media to publish it unedited).
I have written about racism in Ireland before and how some voices in the African Irish community are calling it “institutionalized” and have been alerting about the alarming raise of hate crimes. Sadly, this is one more incident, this time involving a boy with disabilities.
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