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If someone was asked what their race or ethnicity was and they replied "I am the new black!" what would spring to your mind? What would you feel if you yourself were a black person?

During an interview with Oprah, the producer and artist Pharrell Williams said "The new black basically dreams and realises that it's not pigmentation of skin: it's a mentality and it's either going to work for you or it's going to work against you. And you've got to pick the side you're going to be on."

大象传媒 London 94.9鈥檚 Dotun Adebayo hosted a debate on the issue asking is Pharrell right? Is it all about your mentality and nothing to do with race? Or is it easy for Pharrell Williams to say that because of how much money he possesses and the social class that his success has put him in?

In this extract taken from the discussion, one of the panelists Adam Elliott-Cooper defines what he thinks Pharell actually means...