n English girl who had a Jamacian best friend in the 70s... | |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 83765404 United Kingdom 09/03/2022 12:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In the 60s the fashist governments thought they would dilute our culture by tipping Africans into England. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83765404 But I was a young 10 yrs old when the scheme was in force. Thye shipped peole from the West INdies to England for little money. These poor people thoght they were comming to a land of milk and honey.. lol if only they know it was a poverty striken shit hole city life created by them... just like now. To cut a long story short, I befriended a black boy and his younger sister who were very bewildred to land in a street full of back to back houses. Not my area but my cousin lived there and I stayed there in the 6 weeks summer holidays. The black father was very hard working and got a job as a bus driver. The parents were very strct and regularly beat the kids. I felt really bad for them. Once they reached 16, they were told not to play with me again.. and they never did. But moving on, the Jamacian culture music in particular had reached England and had a great musical influence on me. I was brought up listening to 'black listed' Jamacian music which was great.. only in England. I was privvy to some great raw music from the Jamacian islands, which most blacks and musicians have not heard to this day. But I as a musician can remember, it was ace. I wish they would be a revival of this music.Anyway just my Saturday afternoon musing.. Sorry for the grammar, had a glass of wine. |