Growing up as a black person in Britain, you’re only encouraged to be who you want to be if it’s to be a footballer, entertainer, or one of those things expected of us.
You notice early on how the colour of your skin changes the way people treat you. I remember when me and a white boy got sent to the duty room for both forgetting our homework in school, but I had to stay longer than him.
Or even though I was known as the best football player in the team, in a school in Hackney that was predominantly black, it was always a white boy who was chosen to be captain.
This is just as true in comedy, where there seems to be a one in, one out rule when it comes to black comedians on TV. Stephen K Amos famously said he’d have to wait for Lenny Henry
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