When Menelik Shabazz, or Thomas Braithwaite as he was then known, arrived in Britain from Barbados in 1961 at the age of five, he suffered both a culture and climate shock. “Going from sunshine to the cold and the fog and the smog was hard,” he recalled. Yet while the absence of a clear blue Caribbean sky disconcerted him, he did his utmost to adapt to the English way of life. You begin subconsciously to want to be white in the things that would make me acceptable,” he said. SponsoredThen at the age of 14 he read Malcolm X’s

Source: The Times July 25, 2021 22:52 UTC