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An Obama-ish moment
Part of a friendly conversation in the hotel lobby with an inquisitive journalist from Botswana:
In a way, as I jokingly explained, it was a little like being cross-examined by a Seventies skinhead. But her questions made perfect sense really.SHE: So what are you, then? You're not black and you're not white.ME: No, my father was Jamaican and my mother was British.
SHE: [Pointing to another member of our party] Yes, but he could say his father was Jamaican and his mother was British, and he's still white. What are you?
ME: I'm me, I suppose.
SHE: Yes, but what are you?
ME: I'm mixed-race. That's what we say in Britain.
SHE: No, you are not mixed. A cow is mixed. You are biracial.
ME: Well, that's more of an American word. It hasn't caught on as much in the UK.
SHE: Well, you are biracial in Africa. Here, we call you Coloured.
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