I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be
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''I''m black, so you don''t have to be,'' Colin Grant''s uncle Castus used to tell him. For Colin, born in Britain to Jamaican parents, things were supposed to be different. If he worked hard and became a doctor, he was told, his race would become invisible; he would shake off the burden he believed his parents'' generation had carried. The reality turned out to be very d...
Brought to you by Penguin.
''I''m black, so you don''t have to be,'' Colin Grant''s uncle Castus used to tell him. For Colin, born in Britain to Jamaican parents, things were supposed to be different. If he worked hard and became a doctor, he was told, his race would become invisible; he would shake off the burden he believed his parents'' generation had carried. The reality turned out to be very d...
