The following thought has not been fully thought-through.

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I'm Black. I love being Black. I take pride in the achievements of other Black people

But being Black is different from all my other identities: Nigerian, British, woke, F1 fan.

Being Black is not an identity I picked for myself or inherited by birth, it's one that was given to me by people who hate me (and those who look like me). I'm Black today cos 400 years ago someone wanted to enslave my ancestors.

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