Mixed Up: ‘I have been accepted by black people and distanced by white people’Posted in Articles, Autobiography, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2019-03-29 02:09Z by Steven |
Mixed Up: ‘I have been accepted by black people and distanced by white people’
METRO.co.uk
2019-03-13
Natalie Morris, Senior lifestyle Writer
(Picture by Jerry Syder for Metro.co.uk)
…Elliott Reid is an osteopath with English and Jamaican heritage. He doesn’t believe in the concept of race – he sees it as nothing more than a social construct.
‘Specifically, I descend from the Maroons, the freedom fighters of Jamaica who resided in the eastern mountains of the island,’ explains Elliott.
‘My family names are chiselled into the Emancipation War Monument in Sam Sharpe Square in Montego bay; a monument to all those who fought in the greatest fight for freedom in the British Caribbean, as 60,000 Africans fought the English on Christmas Day, 1831…
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