Friday 14 December 2012

Newport County FC Event

Below is an article about racism and the experience of attending our event that young people have produced and written in school after attending our event with Newport County FC









MILLBROOK MOMENTS

By Logan Johnson.


THREE NEWPORT SCHOOLS GO TO 

SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD



Sycamore class left school at 9:45 am on the 25th October 2012.Three schools went Lliswerry Primary, St Joseph and Sycamore class from Millbrook Primary School. 

We went to Rodney Parade the pitch of Newport County and Newport Gwent Dragons.

There was an event called Show racism the red card. All three schools were put in to different groups. We all were excited about the day. An ex-football player presented it - his name was Christian Roberts. He showed the children videos about racism.
 
He showed us one video before lunch about a boy who got called racist comments, it was so bad he killed him self.This was a sad story it made the children understand how important it is to try and stop racism.

After lunch some Newport County players came in and were questioned
by the children for their school newspaper. Joel O’ Brien from Millbrook won the Goodie Bag for asking the best question.



When they left everyone was really happy because they had a signed poster of Newport County.  

We are all sure the children told their friends back at Millbrook more about racism. 

The message was very important to say.

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MILLBROOK MOMENTS

By Libby Price.


SYCAMORE SHOWS RED CARD TO RACISM


We went to Rodney Parade on Thursday 25th October and met Christian Roberts who is an ex- professional football player. He spoke to us about the bad language of Racism and the different experiences he has had as he follows the religion of Islam.  He gave us numbers so we could sit on different tables and meet new people.

        First of all we met other children from Lliswerry primary and St Joseph’s Primary Schools , that were involved with red card to racism project . Then we made friends with most of them sharing ideas and thoughts.

Christian gave us brain teasers to work out on our own. After a while we started doing group writing and working together. We found out most of the answers to the questions he asked us but they really made us think hard about the different types of racism there can be and made us understand it more clearly.

We watched a clip that showed us other football players from different parts of the world all linked together in football but with one common understanding of racism.

        After lunch six football players from Newport County Football Club arrived and we were able to ask them questions about their own experiences of racism. They told us that some child spat at one of them and their guardian did not do anything about it. Then Christian told us a sad story that made us understand how bad racism can be.

Before we all went back to school one child from each school was given a goodie bag for the best question. Joel in our class had one, because he asked the best question. Then we all had a signed poster of the football players to take home, when we got back to school the class showed everyone their posters.


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Cardiff City FC Event

Below is an article about racism and the experience of attending our event that young people have produced and written in school after attending our event with Cardiff City FC






Show Racism the RED Card

By pupils from Tondu Primary school in Bridgend.

Year 5 went to Cardiff City Stadium to learn about Show Racism the Red Card.

We learned that racism is not just about skin colour it’s about nationality, religion and culture.
Also year 5 watched a dvd about racism and they had some posters at the end. Three people had signed it and two played for Cardiff City and the other person was 1 of Danny Rose’s best friends.

Everyone had a chance to ask some important questions. Cary Thomas and Dionne Tapner were the only ones to ask a question and there was a competition for who had the best question.

One of the children won it and the person who won was Dionne Tapner from Tondu. She won two tickets to see Cardiff City play football live.

Carys Thomas said “I found it interesting when we had to answer questions.”

Siobhan Cundle said “It was interesting how many skin colours there are”.

Shannon Evans said “I found it interesting when they showed us photos”.

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Llanelli AFC Event

Below is an article about racism and the experience of attending our event that young people have produced and written in school after attending our event with Llanelli AFC







SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD

By  Nooer Butt, Oliver and Jonathan Evans. 

On the 15th November, Year 7 pupils from Coedcae Secondary School went to Stebonheath Stadium for an anti-racism conference.
Simon Richards and Chris Stokes gave us different activities which taught us much more about racism and how it affects people’s lives. 
We took part in lots of fun activities with educational messages about how different groups and cultures experience racism. We did many activities such as: similarities between Christianity and Islam, different ways of being racist, people who you can be racist to (e.g. Gypsy travellers, Muslims, Chinese etc.).


Above: Christian Roberts and Matt Jones with Lowri Barbra,the Question & Answer session winner.    
 After watching the “Show Racism the Red Card” DVD we interviewed the guests who were, former professional player Christian Roberts and former Wales, Leeds and Llanelli player Matt Jones. The best asked question received a Show Racism the Red Card goodie bag and match tickets for an upcoming Wales match. Each pupil had a SRTRC Llanelli AFC poster signed by the players.
“It was great fun because we learnt about why racism is so bad and how we can stop it,” Jonathan Evans.
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Wednesday 12 December 2012

Swansea City FC Event


Below are articles about racism that young people have produced and written in school after attending our event with Swansea City FC.



THE TRAETHMELYN 
DAILY SPORT

GET RID OF RACISM FOR REAL!

By Matthew Lewis - Traethmelyn Primary School


Do you believe that racism should go away forever? Do you know that racism has been around for centuries? Why has racism disappeared from Cricket and Rugby, but not Football? How would you feel if you were being bullied in a racist way?


Racism was much worse in the past than it is now. An example of this is Nelson Mandela. He was the first black president of South Africa. However, he was put in jail between 1962 and 1990 for possession of a gun even though this would never have happened to a white person. After his release on 11 February 1990, Mandela led his own party until he was elected in 1994.


Above: Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was another person who fought against black discrimination. On December 1 1955, Rosa Parks sat on a bus seat meant for a white person. She was told to move but she refused. Twelve years before, in 1943, Rosa got on the bus and paid the fare. James Blake, the driver, told her to get off the bus and go through the rear door. She did, but while she was going to the rear door, the bus driver drove away, leaving her in the rain. Oddly enough, James Blake was also driving the bus in 1955, but this time he could not make her move.
           
Sport has had some minor problems with racism in the past. It was banned in Cricket because when South Africa were playing England in 1968, South Africa chose only white players to play against England. However, England refused to go there because the South Africans were discriminating against black players. They lost a lot of money doing this, but now there is no more racism and discrimination in Cricket.

Rugby
has never had a problem with it. Most sports that have had racism in the past have solved it.
 Football, on the other hand has NEVER done anything about it. Could this be because FIFA has never cared about it? Could it be because the fans have caused it? Or do the football teams themselves allow too much discrimination?
           
             Racism is a despicable thing. The Society of Black Lawyers wants a five year ban on any player who is persistently racist. They also want all fines paid to go to the anti-racism association; Kick It Out. Another thing they want is for 20% of all referees, the FA, PFA and football agents to be black. They want guidance for referees to send off players using racist abuse and the power to call of games if the crowd is using racial abuse.

Racism has been around for centuries. Who can do anything about it? Why hasn’t anyone done anything about it in the past? What can be done in the near future?

 Racism needs to be dealt with soon. We need to act now… before it’s too late. Too late, that is, for anyone or anything to do anything about it.

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THE TRAETHMELYN

INJUSTICE IN RACISM

By Emily Corish - Traethmelyn Primary School

Years ago racism was a huge issue, but people have eradicated it from most sports, unfortunately racism is still going on in football, so I went with my class to the Liberty Stadium to find out why racism is still in football.
       
There have been lots of black people standing up for their rights, like Nelson Mandela. He was put into prison for speaking up but 30 years later he became president. There have been black athletes presenting the Olympics, so there isn’t any problems in other sports so why football.
       

Football has lots of racism. I think if there were more black referees there might be less racial abuse. When we were at the liberty I learned lots of interesting things about racism.
       
In conclusion there should be more done about racism and soon it should diminish.



Player’s quotes



Craig Gordon, “everyone has to be accepted, no matter what country they’re from.”

Neil Taylor, “racism is dying and hopefully will continue to diminish.”  


Give racism the red card!!


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TRAETHMELYN SPORT WEEKLY
Boot Racism Out! It’s Not Right

By Morgan Davies - Traethmelyn Primary School



Do you know that racism is a form of discrimination? Do you think that racism has to stop? Why is this happening? Would you like it if someone was bulling you in a racist way? Do you think the fans have provoked racism? Is it the football team that are provoking racism instead of the fans or, is it as the fans as well?

Nelson Mandela was the first black president of South Africa. He was also locked up in a prison cell on Robin Island because he spoke out about racism. They also prosecuted him for thirty years because they found he was in possession of a gun. Do you think they would have prosecuted a white person for thirty years, and put them on an isolated island, if they had a gun? 

Above: Nelson Mandela (first black president)

Rosa Parks was a very noble woman because on December 1st 1995 she did not give up her seat to a white person. This sort of event had already happened to Rosa Parks, in 1943, after paying to travel on the bus she was asked to enter the bus door on the rear end but, when she went to enter the rear door, the bus drove away. What she didn’t realize, is when she did not give up her seat the same bus driver was driving the bus. Why didn’t she give up her seat? Think why.

Football has been around a very long time but, with that comes racism and this has happened for years and is still going on.

You may know about the recent incident about John Terry where he was being racist to Anton Ferdinand, he was fined but the fine was nothing compared to his salary. Just before the FA was going to make him redundant of his captaincy, he resigned. Also, something is happening that SHOULD NOT be happening, but its called monkey chanting. This is a chant when fans make a monkey sounds and monkey actions to black players. This is despicable. Why is this despicable? Think of the players’ point of view.

Cricket hasn’t got a problem with racism now because in 1968 the England cricket team did not go to South Africa as they were not showing the best team players because they were black. England lost thousands of pounds doing this but felt that they should play South Africa’s best players. Do you think that’s why racism has stopped in cricket?

Athletics does not have a problem with racism now. People such as Denise Lewis and Colin Jackson were in the Olympics and they DID NOT have a problem with racism.

Another sport is boxing and again that DOESN’T have a problem with racism. No one was racist against Frank Bruno. So why is racism still in football?

My opinion is if the players are racist they should be banned, The society of black lawyers has agreed with me because they are fighting to put new rules in place so, that if a player is racist, they are banned for 6 months first and if they are racist, a second or third time they will be banned for 5 years. They also want 20% of the FA to be represented by black people.

NOW do you see why racism is taken as a serious offence?


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