I am as Christian as I am British. I was born in London, I have British Citizenship but I don’t possess enough of the characteristics of “British-ness” to fool the natives. When people ask me “where you from?” and I say “London” they say, “No, where you really from?” Similarly people are little taken aback when I tell them I’m a Christian because my “Christian-ness” doesn’t meet their idea of what a Christian is supposed to be. That’s fine. See my name, Danielle, means “God is my judge” so He’s the only one who’s opinion of me I’m truly interested in. In the words of Real House Wife of Atlanta and the reigning Queen of the single greatest read in the history of Bravo- Ms. Phaedra Parks “Only God can judge me and He seems quite impressed.” LOL. Impressed is a strong word. I think God likes me.
Read moreBlackness In The White House : Film Vs Reality
In Zimbabwe, when the TV turned on at 6pm and the newscaster read the news, they spoke of President Robert Mugabe. Blackness in the highest echelons of political office only became a myth when I returned to Britain. Since childhood, I have understood that seeing a black person as the leader of a country in the western world could only be realised in America. Wanna know even as a child I knew? The movies. Yes. Don’t laugh. Movies have long prophesied the coming of what would be. There have obviously been British Prime Ministers in film but they weren’t the films I was watching as a child and they definitely weren’t black.
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