Emeli Sande: I was five when I became conscious of being judged for my skin colour
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standard.co.ukEmeli Sande has spoken of her own experience of racism, saying it “seeps into the consciousness of its victims”.The 33-year-old singer told Radio Times magazine of the “first time I became conscious that my skin colour can determine how people judge me”.She said she was “five and in the playground at primary school in Scotland, and two boys shouted ‘Monkey’ at me”.“I was upset and didn’t know what to do because, if you’re already different from everybody else, you don’t want to cause a bigger problem.
But my friend told the headteacher, who then told my parents.” Sande’s parents told her afterwards: “Sadly, this is how the world works.”“That was the beginning of my version of ‘the Talk’, the conversation many black and mixed-race parents –.
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