Michael Holding on racism: I don’t think I would be alive if I grew up in UK, says fast bowling great

Former West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding says he never experienced racism while growing up in Jamaica; he only experienced it when he left Jamaica. Michael Holding's new book on racism, 'Why We Kneel, How We Rise', is soon released.

Former West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding, a strong advocate of the Black Lives Matter movement, feels fieriness in his youth would have cost him his life if he grew up in England. “I don’t think I would be alive today. As a young man I was a bit fiery. I kicked a stump out of the ground in New Zealand (1980) so can you imagine me going through what Ebony went through,” Holding told The Telegraph. Holding's new book on racism "Why We Kneel, How We Rise" is soon to be released.