Windrush: 75 years of impact on Britain's racial landscape.

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Derrick Burton, a member of the Windrush generation, reflects on his experience of racism and discrimination upon arriving in the UK from Jamaica at the age of 11. He was sent to a grammar school where he was the only black student and faced discrimination from both teachers and students. He eventually moved to a secondary modern school where he made friends and excelled in sports. Burton's parents had left him and his siblings in Jamaica to start a new family in the UK, and he reflects on the emotional toll this took on him.
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