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I’m not sure I could ever support a team as much as that West Indies side. They meant more to me than Ali. They were activism, style, excellence and heritage. They amplified my parents’ childhood stories. They never minimised, despite criticism. They exposed the fragility of the Empire state of mind. They validated me, my past, my present. They represented a part of me, the heart of me, but not all of me. I was stillborn in England. Still more English than Jamaican. I needed to find the English me, the non-white-defined English me, the something that represented a side of me that my father could never be.
ssss1 John Edgar Wideman is an American writer and professor, and the author of ten novels and five non-fiction books. Wideman was the recipient of the Pen/Faulkner Award in 1990 and an American Book Award in 1991.
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