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Micah Richards backs Black Lives Matter campaign as he opens up on lifetime of racism

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Micah Richards was walking down the street near his home in Harrogate when he spotted two elderly women strolling towards him.

What the former Manchester City, Aston Villa and England defender did next made him realise just how deeply he has been scarred by a lifetime of racism. “I crossed over the road so I could walk on the opposite side of the street,” said Richards. “I didn’t want them to feel threatened by seeing a black man walking towards them. “It was an unconscious act.

I didn’t think about it, I just did it. When I actually stopped to think about it, I was baffled. Then I realised maybe I’d been ­programmed to think white people who didn’t know me would feel uncomfortable if I was walking towards them. “How bad is that?” Richar

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