Footage of a black child being ignored echoes my own experiences as a girl – and reveals a country in denial, says Guardian columnist Emma Dabiri
but also, as in the junior gymnast’s case, much of it at the hands of adults. By the time I was 14 I had been called the N-word so many times I lost count, I’d been punched and racially abused by a camp counsellor, denied entrance to teen discos on account of being a “black bastard” and prevented from being class captain. A classmate’s mother once
Racism in my childhood was also forcefully denied, its existence completely absent from the public discourse. It is the cumulative effect of the denial of racism that can make it so traumatising for the individual.
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