Wait, I'm Black?!
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Podcast Overview
<p><b>Wait, I’m Black?! </b>is a podcast about the moments when race stops being abstract and starts to matter.</p><p></p><p>It’s a reflective space with warmth, humour, and honest conversations that make visible how race shows up in everyday life – sometimes quietly, sometimes suddenly, and sometimes only understood years later.</p><p> </p><p>Hosted by Michael Buraimoh, the series centres on the moment, or series of moments, when race shifts from a neutral descriptor to something consequential: when it begins to shape how one is perceived, treated, or afforded opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>While grounded in the host’s experience as a Black person, the podcast intentionally creates space for voices across racially minoritised communities, recognising both shared patterns and important differences in how race is lived and felt.</p><p> </p><p>Episodes prioritise lived experience over theory, and reflection over prescription. If you or someone you know has a “Wait, I’m Black?!” moment you’d like to talk about on the podcast, you are welcome to reach out.</p>
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Publishing Since
4/9/2026
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Recent Episodes
June 11, 2026
Forget Sticks and Stones. The N-Word Can Break Bones.
<p>In this episode of <i>Wait, I’m Black?!</i>, Michael sits in conversation with Grace Mosuro – inclusion specialist, speaker and advocate – about moving to the UK as a child, and the experiences that transformed her understanding of race, identity and belonging.</p><p> </p><p>Grace reflects on being called the N-word for the first time. Her first reaction was not outrage, but confusion, only gradually realising it was directed at her.</p><p> </p><p>They explore what happens when the way you see yourself collides with the way the world sees you, and discuss identity, belonging, exclusion, representation, and the subtle ways people learn where they are – and are not – expected to fit. Grace also reflects on how these experiences have informed her work and her commitment to helping create environments where people feel seen, valued and able to thrive.</p><p> </p><p>This is a thoughtful conversation about race, self-discovery, and the moments that can fundamentally change how we understand ourselves and our place in the world.</p><p> </p><p>If you would like to follow the journey, you can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or follow us on Instagram (@wibpodcast). And if you – or someone you know – has a “Wait, I’m Black?!” moment you’d like to share, you are welcome to reach out.</p>
May 28, 2026
Learning To Occupy Spaces Without Representation
<p>In this episode of Wait, I’m Black?!, Michael sits in conversation with Christine Kinnear – award-winning Founder and CEO of With Insight Education – about growing up Black in the UK, the lasting impact of early racial experiences, and the quiet ways underrepresentation shapes what people, especially young people, believe is possible for them.<br /><br />Christine reflects on encountering racism at a painfully young age. But this conversation also explores something less obvious: the impact of what isn’t present – the absence of representation, visibility, and affirmation in the spaces young people grow up within.<br /><br />They discuss how children absorb messages about belonging, value, and potential long before they fully understand race, and why seeing yourself reflected in positions of possibility matters more than many realise.<br /></p><p>This is a thoughtful conversation about identity, aspiration, and the subtle ways the world teaches people where they do, or do not, belong.<br /><br />If you would like to follow the journey, you can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or follow us on Instagram (@wibpodcast). And if you – or someone you know – has a “Wait, I’m Black?!” moment you’d like to share, you are welcome to reach out.</p>
May 14, 2026
Learning to Take Up Space: How I Stopped Making Myself Smaller to Fit In
<p><b>In this episode of Wait, I’m Black?!, Michael sits in conversation with Fizza Qureshi – CEO of a migration charity, campaigner, and mother of two.</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p>Growing up as a Pakistani girl in a predominantly white working-class area in the UK, Fizza reflects on the subtle and overt ways race shaped her childhood long before she had language for it.</p><p> </p><p>From school experiences and neighbourhood hostility to feeling pressure to hide parts of her identity in order to fit in, she explores what it means to grow up learning how not to stand out.</p><p> </p><p>This conversation touches on belonging, racialisation, assimilation, and the journey of reclaiming identity – not only for yourself, but for the next generation.</p><p> </p><p>If you would like to follow the journey, you can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or follow us on Instagram (@wibpodcast). And if you – or someone you know – has a “Wait, I’m Black?!” moment you’d like to share, you are welcome to reach out.</p>
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- What is Wait, I'm Black?!?
<p><b>Wait, I’m Black?! </b>is a podcast about the moments when race stops being abstract and starts to matter.</p><p></p><p>It’s a reflective space with warmth, humour, and honest conversations that make visible how race shows up in everyday life – sometimes quietly, sometimes suddenly, and sometimes only understood years later.</p><p> </p><p>Hosted by Michael Buraimoh, the series centres on the moment, or series of moments, when race shifts from a neutral descriptor to something consequential: when it begins to shape how one is perceived, treated, or afforded opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>While grounded in the host’s experience as a Black person, the podcast intentionally creates space for voices across racially minoritised communities, recognising both shared patterns and important differences in how race is lived and felt.</p><p> </p><p>Episodes prioritise lived experience over theory, and reflection over prescription. If you or someone you know has a “Wait, I’m Black?!” moment you’d like to talk about on the podcast, you are welcome to reach out.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
- Where can I listen to this podcast?
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- Does this podcast accept guests?
Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.
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