It is March 1st, and the annual return of St David’s Day, the national Day of Wales.
One man who may not be breaking out the daffodils to celebrate is Rashaad Thomas, a black American “freelance author and poet” commissioned by the Arizona Republic newspaper to pen a stereotypically victimhood-drenched op-ed article back in 2019, in which he complained about going into a local restaurant and seeing a photo of some white men wearing blackface hanging on the wall. That the photograph showed a group of Welsh coal-miners from Cwmbach in 1910, and that their ‘blackface’ was actually ingrained workplace coaldust, mattered not to Rashaad.
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