On the racism that she experienced in her former job as an engineer in “The Daily Show’s Gina Yashere: ‘In England, I’d still be the token black face on Mock the Week’” in The Guardian (11 Jun 2017)
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I was more qualified than most of the guys I was working with, which they hated. I’d come into work and there’d be a banana skin stuck to my overalls or a picture of a monkey on my coat.
— Gina Yashere
What It Means
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About Gina Yashere
Gina Obedapo Iyashere (born April 6, 1974) is a British comedian.
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