morethanoneshow:Alfred Lewis Enoch’s 29th birthday (December 2nd, 1988)But in America, it is precise
morethanoneshow:Alfred Lewis Enoch’s 29th birthday (December 2nd, 1988)But in America, it is precisely your identity as an outsider – as a foreigner and a person of colour – that will give you a new perspective on your ethnicity. You will begin to ask, for the first time, what it is to be black in a predominantly white society. You will be challenged by people dear to you, emboldened by people more desperate than you, and welcomed by people unknown to you. You will begin to see the wood as well as the trees. I now see the uniqueness in my own experience. And although I’m grateful for the fact that it’s served to protect my sense of belonging and identity from those who have sought to marginalise me, I acknowledge too that this has come at a price. As is so often the way, my own privileges blinded me to the difficulties of others. My understanding of the workings of society was from the blinkered perspective of one who had not felt its iniquities. It was America that helped me first to begin to see racial injustice, and then to see my own blindness. All I ask of you is that you open your eyes. -- source link
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