‘I was shocked and confused and everyone was looking at me. It was like I was a fish in a fishbowl on display. Afterwards I cried and cried and cried.'
Mum-of-two Elizabeth Boudreaux was ‘shocked and confused’ when derogatory racist remarks were made in front of her was after her memory was wiped in a car crash in 1999.
Unfortunately the mum-of-two from Swansea, south Wales, also had to re-discover what racism was after she became the victim of it while studying at college to become a counsellor. Elizabeth had to get to know her two daughters all over again after losing her memory in a 1999 car crash ‘I was shocked and confused and everyone was looking at me. It was like I was a fish in a fishbowl on display. Afterwards I cried and cried and cried to my mother, who is originally from Nigeria.‘She explained to me that this is racism and that it has always been around. When I experienced this disgusting behaviour I was in extreme shock I had no idea humans were so cruel to one another.
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