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This is tox Teth Liverpool UK 1986 on Grand Grand B Street with Michael showers Shores Delroy Burris RIP and more Okay, what's this about though documentary film on the Grand B Street frontline of Toxas feature Michael Steven French is in this real field cottage the Grand B Street frontline of the buzzing with people All right, it doesn't matter Let's see. I'll title it myself You know what this is reminding me of right now so far I'm not even a lotty. It's reminding me of an episode of only fools and horses Come on now Don't don't just look like the van, but with four wheels but in black In the summer of 1981 blacks in the Liverpool aid community fought the police with petrol bombs The government responded by appointing cabinet minister Michael Heseltine to generate employment in Merseyside a Task force was set up to this effect Five years later will return to Merseyside to assess what benefits if any came to the black community Liverpool eight we kill the homelands, okay the task force and The Merseyside minister Michael Heseltine is to me It's just one massive joke and it reminds me very much of the old colonial days where when the natives Starts to get very restless or when was problem you sent in your district Counselor and he would go and find out what the natives wanted and he would solve the problem with a few beads and Feathers and blankets and mirrors on in this case the beads were promises of jobs and a few bribes The mentality of every single British government that's ever been formed has been one of pretending black people aren't there There's a great cliche about Liverpool and it's a Everybody's scouses and Liverpool is a multi-racial Society, well, let me correct that because those people talking a load of bullshit The only multi-racial society is here in Liverpool 8 outside of Liverpool 8. It's like pictoria It's controlled by the South African white man because them over there come from here. It's the same people doing the same tricks It wasn't till until 1980, you know Every place has a backstory. It's how you come back from it You get me? one that the word talk stuff Was really head in Liverpool 8 We've always known it as south end that is the south end of the city Or as late But I think one of the reasons why The word talk stuff is used so often now Nevertheless man, Liverpool always remind me of home even more now because it's called the south end when I was at Everston That's what it was called south the south end South end low-end Is that when you pump 30 million into talk stuff? People straight away assume that you're investing into the riot zone to give people a chance for future and all of this is false Yeah, we're just coming now around on to Princess road Princess Boulevard on which a quarter million pound was spelt to renovate for people To pass through somewhere nice on the way home through the ghetto The houses as you can see they are fine old houses where families could have been re-housed after renovation and One of the first things that Heddle time wanted to do when he came to Liverpool was to pull down these buildings to build council estates on either side of this Boulevard as He said to try and keep the community together in the Heddle time had no intention of keeping this community together as far as we're concerned Heddle time came here to destroy In 81 the thing that Heddle time talked about was to get commerce interested in putting money Into small business ventures in which black people could be involved But none of this ever reached fruition Okay, didn't it reach like okay, I get it back then it was a little tougher This was what 40 years ago and 1981 was 40 years ago 44 years 43 years ago 42 something like that, you know my mouth be crazy a long time ago Yeah, well now Honestly 40 years is not that long ago Honestly, how's it? I mean, I'm almost positive Liverpool is a lot greater now You know since I'm an honorary scout some things of that nature. It gotta be right on the Dock Road passing the Albert dock complex, which was one of Heddle time's pet babies This is where he poured most of the millions into So when he talks of Toxteth receiving millions, this is the talks that he's talking about the Toxteth Which is in the city center? Right next door to the law courts the Toxteth Which is next door to the brand-new police station the 45 police station which you see so and that's the Toxteth He's talked so now Liverpool a About it. Not the Toxteth where the riots were I mean in the construction of The dock complex there were no black people involved And now that the thing is in full swing You'll find no black people Involved in it and certainly you'll never see them there in any management positions. Liverpool's not not a city like that Unemployment among young blacks stands at the alarming rate of 85 percent Here an employment agency run by a local community group grapples with the problem South Liverpool personnel has been existent since 1972 It was an initiative that came about due to the high unemployment that was existent in the 70s When people could move from one job to another. I know a lot of people gonna be looking at this video like always old is old is old but like Me coming from the outside looking in it's like how can I get with the new if I don't know the history? You know I'm saying so I always like to go back and look at The history of something that I like enjoys of people that are joy at a time that I like You know I'm saying to see where it's Where it's come from You know I'm saying Yeah, we found that black people still facing discrimination in employment and training and so the agency was set up under the mark with the King Foundation With regard to trying to break down those barriers Regarding black people and employment Since the 70s nothing has really changed. I mean you go to the place where basically this job has been offered And I guess not like you know, they're not looking for what he's actually saying or what experience you have It's like they're looking on your face look at your race Look at what are you dressed? You don't need to see in those kind of aspects about your personality still, you know, even though To maybe extend or still not they're not relevant to the job. You're actually applying for Man it be like that now. That's why I don't work That's why I do not I cannot jog at nine to five where I used to work at the hotel. I Worked there. I'm talking about I was putting their work because I wanted to grow in the company You get I'm saying like I was doing what I was supposed to do But this is the thing I was so good at the job that I was that they didn't want to Elevate me to another position because they would have to find somebody to replace me and I'm a irreplaceable So they bring people from the outside and give them the positions that are way under qualified that they got a train They gotta do this they gotta do that and that's that right there Took me out to work for us completely Took me out the workforce completely. I'm not gonna go in here deal with your politics I'm not gonna go here to look you let have you look me in my face and lie to me every day like it's a wrap It's a dub It's a dub luckily Not luckily silver lining COVID hit I Took started taking YouTube serious and it was up from there because I ain't no way I could have spent another four years In the workforce man, not like that not how they be doing man. They be they be moving crazy. I can't go Well, we're now approaching. I think it's called trans world now what it was at one time Another Hedl time's babies that is the little garden festival I mean the millions that the man pumped into this and the way he spoke about it so lovingly You'd have really thought that was gonna do something for this city I do not know of anybody who has benefited in any way From Hedl time's garden festival I mean we laughed at him literally laughed at him when he came to Liverpool and told us what he intended to do We asked him of what consequence was a garden festival to people who were living in rat infested housing People who were walking the streets and being harassed by police People who are being ignored When it came to jobs People who had very little hope of not just a future for themselves But very little hope of a future for their children Afternoon. Good afternoon. I wanted to try and get into the garden festival You wanted to try and get into yeah, and you're paying Well, do you have to pay to get in here you paid the booth there and you can't drive in You have to walk in What's the cost of getting in four pounds four pounds so you for a family of children? I had come here with my four children. It would cost me 24 pounds my wife and I four children to get in you got four children that is three six nine twelve That is 20 pounds 20 pounds six of us Five years later the efforts of the task force have brought little relief to jobless young blacks We asked the deputy leader of the local council the largest employer in Liverpool about their Responsibility in providing jobs for blacks Well, I mean the irony of course is I mean this Tory government to see Industry after industry after industry closed down in the city This Tory government has seen young people with no future no hope whatsoever This Tory government has robbed over five hundred million pounds in this city that's over half a billion pounds since 1979 And then as a as an alternative to all that they come in they plant trees and they grow shrubs now Whilst nobody's against them planting trees and growing shrubs at the end of the day in terms of permanent jobs in terms of some hope For young people obviously whether it be Liverpool later elsewhere. It provides nothing After 81 I was involved with the black caucus who used to sit down at the city council meetings to try and get things done for black people and Every proposal we put through was nearly always rejected through Tony bain or get a cotton and The clutch came when we applied for a housing grant for elderly housing our quarter of Avondale site the government were prepared to give us a million pounds and The council only had to put 25 percent towards that now right up until We were getting the money at the government's hadn't any and his coronies Supported us the moment the money came through they dropped the project and said we'll put it back two years and the money went somewhere else The other point is whenever there's yeah Corruption, I don't care with nobody frame that as that's that's a leather. That's corruption. Oh Yeah, we fun to fake it to y'all get the money in the end as soon as the money come it's hard That's tough in this community or in any community None of the community is taken on board to do the work They bring in outside contractors from Manchester Birmingham Wolverhampton Wherever to build property in our community while we stand on the sideline now when I put this to John Hamilton The leader of the Labour Party He was telling me all he could do was ask the contractors to take on the local community And what I was saying is that's not good enough if you the city council hold the pair strings You are the one that dictates how the money is spent on where and when it should go But they didn't want to deal with that policy date prepared to back off quite truthfully They don't want to absorb black people within the employment figures I think trade unions have a major role to play or they should have I mean you're like workers of the world Unite unity is strength and all this business to wait in class But when you especially in this city where they have the reputation of being so powerful and so militant and that But the record on equal opportunity is abysmal I mean deal strike and they'll march for more pay for themselves better conditions for themselves But not for more black workers and the other crucial thing about unions is is a lot of them have nomination job right nomination rights So whenever vacancies do arise in their firms, they can nominate who gets the job But it's their sons if they're friends. It's their family. They never go on strike or March say it's politically fueled man Politics of it all is always crazy and something like this More black way situations like these there's more equality and so I feel the trade unions badly let us down We accept our responsibility for that situation It's pointless trying to duck it But we're not the only organization who has been here the city council's been here for a long time The Labour Party's been here a long time and they haven't addressed those problems What we've tried to do over the past few years is recognize Our responsibility for that in the past and with our black members in the black community Start to do things about it. It doesn't mean that everything we do then is right Necessarily, but we're trying to at least make a stop. I know nothing of it. I always figured man I don't like to get political or anything of that touch nature, but you need You need people from the community if you want to change the community and make the right changes You know I'm saying if you've never been down to these communities If you had to grow up in these communities if you don't know what's needed if you don't speak to people in these communities How do you know if the community what's best for the community itself? You get me? They don't make it don't make a sense. You need the community in these positions of power to make change This brother's sister's nephew's nieces, etc. I know nothing about that at all, but I do certainly Accept I think that the majority of trade unions involved would also accept that it is we certainly haven't gone anywhere near far enough here we have a Militant left-wing council ever so socialist and ever so You know equal opportunities regardless of what you want to do and what you want to do Ever so socialist and ever so You know equal opportunities regarding women and black people. I'm already given us they're not giving us nothing Well, there was talk step and there was my side and a lot of other places where the police are doing well There was big stun and there was chapel town and a lot of other places that was burned to the ground Burn to the ground Burn to the ground. It is no mystery. We're making history. It is no mystery It is no mystery we're making history. It is no mystery The Council did set up a race relations unit which at once plunged them into controversy with the local black community Well as far as I'm Them into the council did set up a race relations unit which at once plunged them into controversy with the local black community well as far as I'm concerned The function of the unit, I believe is to serve the community and advise the city council And I believe that the priority for the unit is the question of Unemployment black unemployment. I believe the unit will be judged on its ability to gain employment for the black community if For one moment the majority of the black community Did not support the appointment or did not believe That I should be given a chance To carry out my policies. I wouldn't have been a little bit longer than two weeks. I Believe I've got an overwhelming support. I Spoke with Sam bond this morning. He says Bond He says he's got he's got a lot of support. He says he's got this nice program and policy To make this place a better place to give jobs and all of that What sort of support has he got? Well, I think the support that Sam bond has Shows new things in the city I think the support that Sam bond has Well, I think the support that Sam bond has Shows in the fact that he does not visit the area He's quite free to come here, but he doesn't feel safe come here I mean he is here supposedly to represent the black people of this area and yet see that just it If you're not from these areas, it don't matter what color skin you are if you're not from this area And you don't be over here. How can you get the support of the people? How can you help? You know Sam? He doesn't walk freely on the streets. It could be a it could be a white man European man as long as he be in the community Walking around then he gonna have a support because he down here. He's with us. He sees first hand He not in the office calling shots from above While people relay messages back and forth to him He has a middleman doing all the work. He's in there Just like like like if you and your daughter's life or your kids life, it's a much better for them then for you to be Doing little things here and there getting their hoax up. Oh, I'ma come see you I'ma come just remove yourself completely if you're not gonna be there 100% Same case get out of there. You're not helping you prolonging what's going on you making it I ain't gonna say you making it worse, but you making it longer because you're not really here. You just pretend it He does not come into any of our clubs or anywhere that we socialize It has to walk Anywhere with bodyguards. He has to bribe people Well, I don't blame him for walking with bodyguards, you know, say hey do your thing but be here He's a part of the government allegedly or whatever That's that's irrelevant bodyguards is relevant But everything else he's saying and bully him into a meeting or attempt to bully him into a meeting So I would just say to some bond if you have the support that you say you have if If it is merely a vociferous minority who oppose you Then why aren't you doing a job? So your point about some bond Sam bond did not set up the race unit the black community and its representatives with the ones Who made the drew up the plans and you've got it into motion Sam bond was just plucked out from the Labour Party to take their head post. They wanted somebody who will pull party policy lines, but the actual Job specification was created from within this black community from within the talents within the black people in this community Sam bond on the Labour Party did not create it There is a small I think the human humans are very simple be when speak Be present and execute or show that you're trying to execute Because actions speak louder than words across the board for any race For any creative people for all humans actions speak louder than words It's very simple Group of and I understand that this man right here It's not the all-tell be all like where he's he's he's a he's a puppet He's a puppet. This is what I'm gonna say. He a puppet. He was a puppet They placed that man there just for you know I'm saying for aesthetic purposes And that don't matter apparently it didn't matter It's what I'm watching at least it didn't matter Because the community sees through it Community workers opposed like I was saying he's not the all-tell be all like I understand like his word is not Does not lock something in like he is levels above him that he has to go through to get something done So, you know saying he just a face that but he's just somewhere that people can focus their energy and anger towards instead of Their real people calling shots was in disappointment, you know, I don't really wish to Take up time Discussing their involvement It's obvious and some admits that he doesn't know Liverpool very well I've got about two moments. It's obvious he's a young man He doesn't know Liverpool very well soon as that court topic came up. He was well. I got to get up out of here I've got about two moments. It's obvious is a young man without much experience not not even of race relations even of life How do you how do you square going over the heads of blacks in Liverpool a? Unique area and going all the way to London to import a candidate. You see that is nothing new I mean, I can think of three individuals who've been active in the Liverpool black community over the past few years Who've got who've had jobs in the GLC in Lamberth in Manchester? It's not new for blacks to go to other areas to do a job of work I mean you as a Londoner here in Liverpool now doing a job of work. That is often the case that that no It's not it's not new but it's That's not what the question was you he said y'all outsourced him Instead of looking within the community y'all looked outside the community That's what that's what the question was that's what that's what he said He said nothing about that man looking for a job It's y'all that hired him Goes on but certainly if it was the case that Sam couldn't do the job be from Liverpool or London or Manchester Anyone else I'd be the first person to say bye-bye Sam. No question about it. That's good cat. That's good. I mean my bad That's terrible cat. You're lying Let me ask you one more question Sam have you any political affiliations Hell yeah, that's what he wanted to say no, I remember the Labour Party Has that anything to do with why you were chosen for the job? That's right. They have also said that I'm a Member support of militants. Are you no We are living in the city that is a working museum to racism in modern day Liverpool 8 is actually you could call it we call it the homelands, right to us We are suffering apartheid We're not employed in town. We're not in magistrates. We're not in the police force. We're not even on the city council We are nowhere in town. So from our point of view the system is apartheid against us Now it bond is sincere as he says I say this to him as a black man Stand up and say that this city is racist and some the equivalents of South Africa And that man to be out of that office immediately After the revolt of 1981 the local community sought a political solution I think one of the greatest problems we have in an area such as this is that The people who hold Power want to choose the leaders. It can't happen. Those days are gone We've this is not a communist type situation Imposed rule imposed Government for so long. We're not taking it anymore We're fighting back and we're saying we will choose our own leaders We will not have the sambonds speak for us. We know our problems. This this is our future without these We have no future. They are our future and People say that with any community though. People gotta let them let the people choose their own people of course that are qualified Like any community. It don't matter black white Puerto Rican Mexican. Don't matter People like me Michael and others have been described as very aggressive speakers. Yes We have no choice but to be aggressive speakers. We have two choices be aggressive speakers or be violent reactionary Violent reactionary gets us nowhere only violence wins But if we don't break out of this in a political way these children in five ten years from now They won't be throwing bricks like we did. They'll be talking to people like the IRA I'm on a situation like that happens. There is no stopping it. And so before we can get to that stage We must try and stop it. We must try to prevent it I can talk to you as a man about the problems that I suffer as a black man about the problems that my children and all Black children are going to suffer in the future. I mean, I wish I knew the answers and sadly The only time as I said that they've taken notice of us is when we have risen to violence From the brewers of summer shandy juicy Peach That's tough man. I Know there's a lot of Liverpool people watching pretty sure Liverpool is not this way anymore But let me know in the comments to get a little bit like I'm a subscribe turn you post them go