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World Service,2 mins

The police wouldn’t believe me I was Mexican

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Black Mexican singer-songwriter Chogo, from the state of Oaxaca in the south of the country was stopped by the police when he travelled to Mexico City. They said he was too dark to be Mexican, and made him sing the national anthem three times to prove his nationality.

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