Jamaican British | Raymond Antrobus | Spoken Word

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Jamaican British | Raymond Antrobus | Spoken Word

Chill Pill Shorts
2015-08-18

Raymond Antrobus, Poet, Lead Educator
Spoken Word Education MA Programme; Co-founder of @ChillPillUK & @KHPoets

A poem by Raymond Antrobus about the many contradictions of a mixed race identity

Some people would deny that I’m Jamaican British.
Angelo nose. Hair straight. No way I can be Jamaican British.

They think I say I’m black when I say Jamaican British
but the English boys at school made me choose Jamaican, British?…

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