Just Sayin' by Malorie Blackman - Thoughts
Is Malorie Blackman a mindreader?
Just Sayin' (2022) reminded me of my own life journey from school to work to higher education, and then eventually finding my way to my dream career despite multiple misdirections.
As a young person, and later an adult, life was like being a 400m high hurdler when everyone else (mainly the majority of white people I went to school with) were running a 100m flat race on the same track.
Malorie Blackman says things I have longed to say to those who have put numerous obstacles in my path.
Just Sayin' is the familiar template to many British Black women's (and men’s)
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