evilduckling:

poc meme: [1/20] celebrities of colour

→ bob morley (actor)

As a child, primary school was unkind to me. Growing up in a small country town where coming from a mixed race family was alien, the racial taunts were abundant and my thick black hair and dark complexion were a dead giveaway that I was different. Let alone my proud Filipino mother. Emotionally too weak to deal with the racial slurs, my body responded and became my savior. I learned to use my physicality as means of defence. I was the kid so puffed up on bravado and aggression yet so full of pain. I carried this peacock posture all the way through high school, making sure I was the biggest, strongest and angriest as a device to ward of the would be tormentors.