White is Right!
I’m three jugs of purple rain into the night at ‘Spoons’ when to my luck, all my friends decide to leave for the toilet at the same time, leaving me to man the grounds of a territory I had already lost: a group of middle-aged women decided to take refuge in my booth, where I befriended one of the women. She began to tell me many stories from her past, but the one that struck me was about her daughter attending a primary school in the early 90’s, how she came home one day and told her mum that everyone in class was frightened of the new black kid who’d just transferred into the all-white school. But instead, my attention was left wondering how the black student must’ve felt in that situation. Given that the event did take place in the 90’s, yes, you could argue that the attitude towards people of colour were outdated compared to today’s culture, and that such a situation would not occur similarly in most institutions today, and...