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Until my sons became young men, I hadn’t realised how much racism is still out there
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telegraph.co.ukBlack Lives Matter protests, a placard made my heart lurch: ‘When did I stop being cute and become a threat to you?’ My mixed-race boys were so cute as toddlers that people would stop me in the street to tell me so.
Adam*, now 22, and Dex*, 18, are smart young men who make me and their dad so proud. Sure, they never do the washing up, but they’re fine, upstanding people.
However, not everyone shares my view.When they were at primary school in our ethnically mixed area of London, racism was never really an issue.
For my British African husband, who grew up in ’70s London, abuse was a grim reality, but being white I never experienced it.
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