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Prospect Lives: Hope, friendship and prejudice

The Prospect Podcast

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To Be Black in a White World Is an Agony

Roland butcher came to england from barbados in 19 68 when he was 13. He became the first black cricketer to play for england. But if i challenged a black player's doubts about his own fitness, was i subscribing to a racist stereotype? Thackeray davids wrote that to be black in a white world is an agony. We need to do our best to empathize.

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