No tears for me my mother
I remember being told at school that Winston Churchill had once claimed that the ‘British’ stood alone against the might of Hitler’s Germany. What I never realized until I was much older that when Churchill meant ‘British’ he was talking about the whole of the British empire,
The shared history of black and white Britons
It doesn’t make sense to me to talk about Black history as a marginal issue, that we teach kids the history of human and civil rights, but place race as a ‘variable’ that appears towards the end of that account.