![]() ![]() I’d get asked about my views on 9/11, whether I supported the Taliban, did I have a bomb on me. If we did ever see anyone who ‘looked like me’ on the way to school or on the TV, the usual questions of “is that your uncle?” would come rolling in, as predictable as you’d expect. Growing up in a Northern market town there weren’t many people that ‘looked like me’. My thick hair, uncomfortably placed on my face, my Arabic name that no one ever bothered to pronounce correctly, my brown complexion. Too young to understand the intent behind the word and too young to have been aware of the difference between us. ![]() I was three years old when I was first called a p*ki. Roxana Khan-Williams is Campaigns Organiser at HOPE not hate, the UK’s leading antifascism and antiracism campaign group
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