Why being mixed race is great

We're smart, sexy and successful. Shame we face prejudice and are not accepted by our communities

Alesha Dixon: possibly the fairest of them all. Photo by Sean Reynolds.

I love being mixed race, and I’m proud of it. Now, it doesn’t really make sense to be proud of something you had zero control over.

But I’m proud of being the product of anti-racism, courage and the flouting of social norms: my parents got together in the late 1970s, when there were v…