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cornelius_blackfoot
After your reply to @amey, was going to go back and re-edit my post as I'd grouped all people of colour living in the UK into people of colour living in London. And as you pointed out, there are a number of them who will have grown up in all-white spaces, and their experience and adaptation to it is just as valid, but it's not mine and I find it hard to get my head round it, and I think that's as much to do with being London born and raised as it is to be black caribbean london born and raised.
I've only got my inner city london experience to work from and having studied in newcastle and worked in Manchester, I can live in all white spaces, but I know also that from a purely personal selfish perspective, I don't want to raise kids outside of london in those spaces, even as you've noted people have and continue to do so..
Shit's complicated...
Anyway @Fatberg, nicely written, great insight, looking forward to more..