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MY LIFE IN RUGBY - RALPH KNIBBS
THE FORMER ENGLAND, BRISTOL & CLIFTON CENTRE
I spent some of my youth in Knowle West, 30-plus years before Ellis Genge turned up! Back then, we were one of around four or five black families on a white, working class council estate in a community of 12,000, so you can imagine the racism I encountered.
Most black families only lasted about a month but my parents, who had come over to Bristol as part of the Windrush generation, stuck it out and they showed me how to rise above the abuse and turn the other cheek. As a kid, I learnt very quickly, when to run,...

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