{"id":90182,"date":"2026-06-03T18:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90182"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:04:52","slug":"how-the-death-of-yves-sakila-exposes-irelands-deeply-rooted-racism-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/03\/how-the-death-of-yves-sakila-exposes-irelands-deeply-rooted-racism-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"How the death of Yves Sakila exposes Ireland\u2019s deeply rooted racism problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA24JOJa.img?w=768&h=614&m=6&x=43&y=116&s=811&d=634\" alt=\"Yves Sakila \u2026 Whose death mirrors that of George Floyd six years ago. Composite: Getty, PA, Reuters\" width=\"660\" height=\"528\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. On a Dublin street two weeks ago, Yves Sakila died. The 35-year-old, who was of Congolese origin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/how-the-death-of-yves-sakila-exposes-ireland-s-deeply-rooted-racism-problem\/ar-AA24JRhq?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a206a42bd5644d3998ce1ffe3b0cbdf&ei=27\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. On a Dublin street two weeks ago, Yves Sakila died. The 35-year-old, who was of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Yves.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90183,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90182\/revisions\/90183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}