![]() ![]() ![]() In the early nineties, many of my countrymen (and women) fled the war. It was only in the late 90s that I noticed that the footballer Edson Arantes do Nascimento better known as Pele was black! And I remember watching him play for the first time in Sweden 1970! It took me thirty years or perhaps, ten years of living in an English-speaking country to think of the great football magician in terms of race. I grew up in Belgrade listening to African American blues musicians such as BB King, Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker and Blind Lemon Jefferson, playing basketball to better the likes of Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson! Through the non-aligned movement, it had many links with third-world countries and we used to call Africans: braća crnci, Black Brothers. I was born in Yugoslavia, the most multicultural country in Europe. It has nothing to do with me.Įxcept that… it has everything to do with me and there is no-one to speak out for me! How did a refugee from war-torn socialist Yugoslavia turned fisherman in the South Pacific become a privileged White male? How come I find myself in this bizarre situation? People in the streets and on television say that Whites should kneel and apologise. In this country I am regarded as White and therefore, privileged – it seems.
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