Willie
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But they seem to have a complete lack of intelligence or knowledge on life, and they just post...
whatever they feel like posting on fake profiles, quite a lot of them.
A lot of them trolled my Facebook profile and a lot of people would know me down here and it was laughable.
I'd have a taken off skin, but it was horrible stuff.
you know, I would hate, I would hate, you know, I found it appalling this being aged, but then we've slipped along, we've slipped this way quite a lot.
But can I just say, she'll be very welcome in Tralee, and she'll enjoy her time in Tralee with her family down here.
It's been a great festival for, I'm going to put, 55 or 60 years, so she'll have a, she will have a great time here, and
Well, that's what really brought me in.
I'm a retired teacher.
I spent my life teaching in London in the 70s and 80s and early 90s, so I'm giving away my age, but it was a time when we had children from all over the world, from Kenya, Uganda, South America, Pakistan, India, you know, and quite often, you know, I'm not using the word native in a derogatory sense, but
There might only be one sort of two white children in the class, you know.
And the whole emphasis was on inclusion.
And the activities in the class were on where it was on inclusion.
And the children didn't find any racism among themselves.
Whatever racism came, came from home quite often.
And
And also the children in the class, if there was a racist child in the class, I found that other children really excluded them, you know.
So it really, the children themselves didn't see the difference.
Well, no, not really, because I was there almost at the end of the 60s and there was from the Caribbean first and then from India.
And so it wasn't the very beginnings.