There was never any segregation in the UK. Black jazz musicians from the US visiting the UK in the 50s were allowed to eat in the same restaurants, stay in the same hotels. Mixed marriages are way more common in the UK than the US and have been for decades. So in amongst all the racism there is an openness and…

Well, if you’re going to go there - the film made Willie Wonka and every child (pretty much) American. In the book, they’re all British, and it’s set in the UK.

It would never have been used in the UK in the 40s, anyhow. It’s an Americanism. In the UK for a long time the term was ‘coloured’. PoC is only just starting to be used here.

Not really. Mass immigration from the Caribbean / West Indies started in the 1950s, and then from the Indian subcontinent and its diaspora (Uganda) in the 60s and 70s. Before then the UK was overwhelmingly white. Look at any newsreel footage of London crowds in the 1940s. Hardly a black face to be seen. The…

Wow. So vulgar. I guess money can’t buy you taste.

Is he called Marcus, by any chance?