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Curtis Davies - Footballer
'Choosing
which room to go into? That's like choosing who to save from a burning
building, your mum or your dad.'
For footballer
Curtis Davies it is important that people acknolwedge all of his racial
identity.
'I'm as much white as I am black,' he says. 'People have got to acknowledge
that. My mum is white and I don't want people to discount that.'
Curtis has an older half-brother who is white. 'Every time we went to football
people couldn't believe we were brothers,' he says. 'They couldn't take
that I could be related to a white person.'
For Curtis Davies having a fluid
identity can also raise difficult questions. 'If I'm walking down the
street with black mates, it's cold and we've got our hoodies up, we are
likely to get name-checked by the police. I've been with my white mates,
same area, same hoodies and it's never happened. The police don't even
look or slow down. I guess that's another aspect about the split in my
race,' he says.
Curtis is aghast at the idea of having to choose. 'Choosing which room
to go into?' he says. 'That's like choosing who to save from a burning
building, your mum or your dad.'
Source:The Observer
