“Racism was rife in 1980s Britain – I used to wish I was white and scrub my skin”

For mum-of-two Khaleda Noon, schooldays were ‘a struggle’, with no role models to look up to. “My mum is Scottish, and my father – who I didn’t know – was from Kuwait,” said the 47-year-old. “My mum raised me alone and my half-brother and sister were white. “I grew up in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, during the […]

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