Last week, in the pages of Society Guardian, Laura Smith wrote a deeply personal, heartfelt account of being mixed race. It was a superb piece, a great piece of writing, which deserved plaudits and serious discussion.
However, I did not anticipate the huge response the article received, from all over the world: London, Dubai, Angola, China. The most striking aspect of the responses (some of which we have reproduced in Society Guardian today) was their positive nature. For many respondents, Laura's piece was a revelation; they felt that for the first time they had read something serious about their lives (or that of their children's).
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