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‘It was only long years after,’ said C L R James, ‘that I understood the limitation on spirit, vision and self-respect which were imposed on us by the fact that our masters, our curriculum, our code of morals, everything began from the basis that Britain was the source of all light and leading, and our business was to admire, wonder, imitate, learn; our criterion of success was to have succeeded in approaching that distant ideal –to attain it of course was impossible.’19
The West Indies cricket team had been the purest sporting experience I had witnessed. It was John Edgar Wideman on ‘race’,ssss1 Serena Williams’ return to Indian Wells after being racially abused by its crowd early in her career, Public Enemy’s ‘Rebel Without a Pause’, the Newham 7. This uprising had been televised. It was legal. Attractive. Brutal. In living black and white. It fractured whiteness (opening the doors for India and Pakistan to follow) and made the rulers the subjects, providing an image of what it would be like if you were us and we were you. England had been colonised. We had been decolonised.