I am indebted to Britain for taking me in 50 years ago, migrants today deserve the same chance

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I am indebted to Britain for taking me in 50 years ago, migrants today deserve the same chance
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White migrants, you see, can do no wrong, whilst we are forever on trial 🖋️ y_alibhai for ipaperviews

‘From a café on the pier in Deal, Kent in early April, I looked out at Dover and the shimmering sea, and thought of the migrants dying, crying, striving to get to our shores,’ writes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown became meaningful and momentous for me in 1993. My only daughter was born on Easter Sunday, just as tulips were bursting out of the ground and kids were scoffing choc eggs.

April is always sweet, sunny, promising, and also gusty, rainy and treacherous. I get contemplative at this time, think about my past and present, ruminate about what the future holds, ask myself searching questions. This year, these keep spinning around my head: why do so many Britons still treat me as a baleful outsider, assume I hate “their” country and enjoin me to go back where I came from?

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