5/19/2023 0 Comments Akala race![]() ![]() This doesn’t excuse her, but she was conditioned in a very particular way. This is a woman who was brought up in the 1930s, at a time when the idea that white people were innately genetically superior and that Britain’s right to colonise the world were self-evident. ![]() She obviously knew I didn’t have problems with English – I was reading The Lord of the Rings at home. My teacher at seven put me in a special needs group for kids who didn’t speak English. ![]() And I found out very early that this offended some teachers’ very sense of identity. “But I went into school too well prepared for school for a child from my ethnic and class backgrounds. I saw probably four pieces of theatre a week for the first ten years of my life. I think I met Angela Davis there, I met this South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela – you couldn’t ask for culturally a better upbringing. My stepdad was a stage manager of a theatre which was probably the most important black-led cultural institution in 1980s Britain. I was from a materially poor but culturally very rich family. “I went into the British school system a nerdy boy who wanted to be an astronaut. ![]()
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