Penny Crocker wrote -McQueen was born in London and is of Grenadian and Trinidadian descent.[6][7] He grew up in West London and went to Drayton Manor High School.[8][9] In a 2014 interview, McQueen stated that he had a very bad experience in school, where he had been placed into a class for students believed best suited "for manual labour, more plumbers and builders, stuff like that." Later, the new head of the school would admit that there had been "institutional" racism at the time....Also in the Guardian interview -Like many artists, McQueen experiences the world from a highly singular perspective. As a working-class boy growing up in 1980s suburbia, "there were no examples of artists who were like me. When did you ever see a black man doing what I wanted to do?" His father kept telling him to get a trade; even when his son began to be successful, "he was still taking the piss, saying to my friend, 'Do you understand what Steve does?'" *Which presumably must mean that McQueen's own West Indian father must have been institutionally racist too.Except he presumably wouldn't have allowed his son to stay on to take "A Level" Art as did Drayton Manor. Of his time at school"McQueen was born in west London to Grenadian parents, grew up in leafy Ealing and went to a very multicultural school where he was one of the cool kids, on account of being big and good at football. "It was fun, we laughed all day, I didn't do any homework ever, we just laughed."" I didn't do any homework ever, we just laughed."Funny the effect all this institultionalised racismcan have on some people don't you think ?michael adams* http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/04/steve-mcqueen-my-painful-childhood-shame
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