{"id":6467,"date":"2017-09-13T15:52:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/13\/we-travellers-must-take-a-stand-against-racism-for-the-sake-of-our-children-patrick-oleary\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T15:52:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:52:46","slug":"we-travellers-must-take-a-stand-against-racism-for-the-sake-of-our-children-patrick-oleary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=6467","title":{"rendered":"We Travellers must take a stand against racism, for the sake of our children | Patrick O\u2019Leary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hate crime, hate speech and discrimination by schools and doctors is still rife, new research out this week has warnedIt is almost 17 years to the day since I won a historic case that established in law that Irish Travellers are an ethnic minority and entitled to the same protections as other ethnic minorities in Britain.After the ruling, I stood on the steps outside the court and said: \u201cFor the first time in our lives we feel we can proudly and publicly tell everyone we are Irish Travellers.\u201d When I said these words, I believed we would finally be free from the discrimination and prejudice that my people had suffered for so long. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/sep\/13\/travellers-racism-hate-speech-discrimination-irish\" target=\"_blank\">We Travellers must take a stand against racism, for the sake of our children | Patrick O\u2019Leary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hate crime, hate speech and discrimination by schools and doctors is still rife, new research out this week has warnedIt is almost 17 years to the day since I won a historic case that established in law that Irish Travellers are an ethnic minority and entitled to the same protections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}