Edward Enninful
Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist
Any time I’ve been racially profiled. The words might be different, but the feeling is the same.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I like you but I wish you looked more like David Beckham.
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Richard Coles
British musician, writer, presenter and priest
“I could never love you like that.”
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Called me the N-word.
Clive Myrie
British journalist, newsreader, and presenter
The usual racist shit.
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View profile →It would be my mum. She was a terrible alcoholic and I spent a lot of my time kind of hating her but, in the past five years, I realised why she did what she did and I could forgive.
When my kids ask, “What happens when we die?” I say, “Do you remember the place you were in before you were born? I think we go back there.”
Big dick energy.
I’ve pooed myself a couple of times.
I am a massive people-pleaser and it brings me nothing but trouble.
The Mona Lisa – I preferred the frame.
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