Salil Patel was used to racism in the white, working-class town in England that his family was forced to flee to. This was after Uganda fell under the control of a dictator, and wanted all Indians gone. But after an especially threatening incident, he set his sights on a way out. He shares what he learned on GBH’s Stories from the Stage.
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