Lemn Sissay @ The Lyric Theatre
Poet and performer talks truth about his latest show, Why I Don’t Hate White People.
“Awe-struck and slightly suspicious,” was Norman Mark Greenwood’s reaction to seeing his first black person. He was 10 years old, growing up in suburban Lancashire and alreadyaware of the ‘battalio of phrases’ white people used when confronted with race.
‘We’re all colour-blind here; we’re all the same,’ his foster parents would say, but Norman started to ask himself why they were denying his difference. “These phrases were hiding something, and that something was me,” Norman, who has since discovered his real name, says…
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