BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 4, 2024 23:39:00
Had a very dark skin. yes. and they, in their own way, were very racist about that. and you've written very frankly about the difficulties that has presented to you, making sense of that. yeah. and what came home to me much later in life again, stephen, was remembering, as a kid, my mother waking me up in new york, upstairs, looking down into the neighbour's back yard and seeing how white and black kids were playing together, and calling me, "mikey, mikey, come and have a look here." and saying to me, "we have a chance." that was in her brain throughout. i am a kid, i wouldn't even have known ...