At high school graduation I gave a speech in the same auditorium where #Apple first launched the Mac.
Wrote it in the final hour, and what came out was an embarrassingly earnest and heartfelt pæan, clutching a small black-and-white photo of my grandparents.
He recalls the Smethwick campaign—“If you want a n— for a neighbour, vote Labour”—exhumed 65 years later by T••••. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smethwick_in_the_1964_general_election
His mom changed clothes to cook because of nonstop “curry” jibes. Dad had cigarette butts flicked at him. Grandpa framed for factory theft by racist coworkers.
He pronounces things right: the “kh” in “Khan” in the Urdu fashion, “Gujarati,” “Ramila.”
Starts off tipping his hat to “Goodness Gracious Me,” which made his grandparents laugh. Their immigrant arc from textile mill to comedy.
Manish Vij
