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by Handytinge 1560 days ago
> I also remember from many years ago an American interviewer trying to interview a black British athlete what it was like for him as an "African American". He corrected her that he's British, and she corrected to "African American Brit".

Ah this is an old internet rumour. Either a) no footage of it survived to be on the internet or b) it was always a rumour.

Here's some discussions respectively from 2015 (trying to find it) and 2000 (stating a slightly different version of it):

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2bf9fw/black_peo...

https://everything2.com/user/iain/writeups/Why+I+don%2527t+u...

If you can find a video source of it, I'd be curious to see it.

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It probably stems from before Youtube. Not everything on TV ends up on Youtube.

I've been googling this a bit, and I found a lot of people remembering seeing it on TV (but that's not conclusive either, because we can create fake memories about this sort of thing), but no link to a video. Best we can probably hope for is a confirmation or denial from Kriss Akabusi himself, but then someone has to ask him.