Wendy admits her mum didn't approve of her granddaughter's skin colour and would occasionally refer to her as "the white girl", but she ... about having curly hair and being a star black ballerina.
Around my black friends, if I enunciated my words I was asked: "Why do you speak like a white girl?" I went to a school with a mixture of students - Jamaican, Ghanaian, white British - and I ...