Former Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs has disclosed to the public for the first time that he felt different because of his mixed-race background.
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Giggs described that his father Danny Wilson is black and his mother Lynne Giggs, is white. Although he has a black father, he easily passed for a white kid so he did not realize the skin colour of his father till he moved from Cardiff to Manchester.
In his own words “I didn’t experience anything in Cardiff. I was seven, so I can’t remember a lot before that. It wasn’t until I moved to Manchester,” he told ITV Wales.
“Where I lived, my dad was very well known, because he was such a good player. He was probably the best player in the team in that town.
“As you can guess, to look at me, you wouldn’t think my dad was black.
“But obviously everyone knowing that was my dad, and my dad quite clearly being black, that’s really when I sort of experienced the first time. Which was a bit weird, because I’d never experienced that before.”
“It was weird because when I was in Manchester there was no black people at my school. One or two. And obviously when I go back home I’m just surrounded by my dad’s family.
“I loved it. There used to be a carnival every year down the docks, and I used to love going to that. It was just normal for me. It was great for me to have that diversity.”
