St Paul's Riots | Racial Tension | Bristol | TV Eye | 1980

Just over a week after the riots in the St Paul's area of Bristol, 'TV Eye' speaks to local politicians and community leaders about what caused the events and how they can be prevented in the future.
chaired by Denis Tuohy
First shown: 10/04/1980
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  • @robertpearce2244
    @robertpearce22445 ай бұрын

    I was 11 and living in nearby Easton when the riots kicked off. I lived in a mixed area of white, Jamaican and Pakistani families. Back then we kids just seemed to get along. It wasn’t until I started working that I realised what racism was. I hated it then, and I hate it now. Thanks for sharing this, certainly brought back some memories for me. I now live in New Zealand, and we still face issues of racism today. It seems that little has, or will change to fully eradicate it from society, and that is the real legacy of a programme like this. If only we could just all get along and treat each other as human beings. Kia Kaha St Pauls 🙏💟

  • @AnthonyD-yy2in
    @AnthonyD-yy2in Жыл бұрын

    I was 14 years old in 1980 and living a happy enough life. I was always with my friends then and always outside my house. I lived in the Bristol area but never lived in St Paul's. My part of town wasn't wealthy either. I live in Seattle on the west coast of the United States now.

  • @saudakylambuka4848
    @saudakylambuka48482 жыл бұрын

    Gwan Simba, you look different niw but your voice is the same.

  • @JasonCameron774
    @JasonCameron7744 жыл бұрын

    40 years later and we're in the same spot, @ least it's a conversation about race

  • @daisychain3007

    @daisychain3007

    3 жыл бұрын

    The reporter is incredibly handsome.

  • @englishpatriot9464

    @englishpatriot9464

    10 ай бұрын

    If they don't like our laws, our rules, they should leave

  • @sonyablackwood4389

    @sonyablackwood4389

    3 күн бұрын

    @@englishpatriot9464lol it’s got sod all to do with your rules and laws. It’s to do with racist injustice you ignorant pig!

  • @caffeineaddict5124
    @caffeineaddict512414 күн бұрын

    It’s our own fault for letting them come to begin with

  • @samranhussain2440
    @samranhussain24403 жыл бұрын

    Quinty the Legend of St paul's...

  • @emeraldsabbath8507

    @emeraldsabbath8507

    Жыл бұрын

    RIP

  • @DBIVUK
    @DBIVUK6 жыл бұрын

    Peter Abraham, the Conservative councillor featured in this programme, is still in local politics as a Bristol City Councillor for Stoke Bishop ward.

  • @boeingbwoy

    @boeingbwoy

    5 жыл бұрын

    safe seat that

  • @csabatibortoth3378

    @csabatibortoth3378

    4 жыл бұрын

    Barely any Tories left on councils, but he's clinging on alright.

  • @ajs41

    @ajs41

    3 жыл бұрын

    Peter Abraham is on Twitter: twitter.com/westburyboy

  • @riyhana4990
    @riyhana49904 жыл бұрын

    Quinty!!

  • @saudakylambuka4848
    @saudakylambuka48482 жыл бұрын

    Half of the residents then were black. How many now? Gentrification is evident in Liverpool also. We don't have an area now so no chance of organising.

  • @dominicclarke3206

    @dominicclarke3206

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes that's true

  • @tlmdh
    @tlmdh4 жыл бұрын

    Brother same ting ah gawn... Please note we (black peoples) in this video and others of this era are referred to as black or coloured Never as British.. Hmmmmm member.. Babylon ah use dem brain...TLMDH

  • @CARLIN4737

    @CARLIN4737

    4 жыл бұрын

    afro caribbean

  • @callithowiseeit5806

    @callithowiseeit5806

    4 жыл бұрын

    You call yourself that, no-one cares what colour you are but you cling onto it as a way to never have to face yourself, just keep feeding each generation the myth that the world's got it in for them so they can suckle the teat too, you don't regard yourself british so what do you care? You can go 'home' if you like but I can't, this IS my home, my fathers fathers home, good people, not slavers, humble hardworking men of the land, choose to fit in and you'll feel at home and welcome, choose to stay apart and keep me and you an us and them and you'll always feel unwelcome, your choice

  • @jackjones544

    @jackjones544

    11 ай бұрын

    Wow you’re intelligent aren’t you

  • @tlmdh

    @tlmdh

    11 ай бұрын

    @@jackjones544 Me have fe 😂😂😂..Your clearly the opposite 🤡

  • @englishpatriot9464

    @englishpatriot9464

    10 ай бұрын

    Then get out!

  • @HistoryHunter3000
    @HistoryHunter30002 күн бұрын

    Simply

  • @christopher-ke9nj
    @christopher-ke9nj Жыл бұрын

    Thing is trust do they, to this day ohhhh crap no.

  • @paulnwo4256
    @paulnwo42565 жыл бұрын

    19:15 Seventy young black people registered at the job centre.

  • @HSFrox

    @HSFrox

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dude in hat demands more money at every opportunity he has to open his pie hole yet at this point in the discussion lambasts the idea that no matter how much money is thrown around won't solve the problem 😂 🤯 can't win with these people... People with this false sense of oppression! Young people on employment schemes succeed in getting jobs including back youth but this guy (and others still do) thinks why would people sign up to a scheme which 'they know they won't be able to succeed in'. The other dude says he wants black people in political positions, teachers, youth leaders - people they respect SAYS IT ALL! And attitudes have to change on the whole, we can't see through another 40 years of this identity political situation smh

  • @kkdiazz
    @kkdiazz3 жыл бұрын

    Desmond Pierre is good looking is he still in Bristol

  • @PLEASANTGIFFT

    @PLEASANTGIFFT

    2 жыл бұрын

    🙄

  • @aden1337
    @aden13374 жыл бұрын

    @12:18 he mentions Bristol having fantastic relations with coloured people for hundreds of years. Smh, clearly forgot about slavery then I guess. Absolute disgrace

  • @callithowiseeit5806

    @callithowiseeit5806

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm sure plenty of Bristolians died during the fight to end slavery too, our abolishment is one of England's greatest achievments, are we going to throw them under the bus too?

  • @aden1337

    @aden1337

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@callithowiseeit5806could you please elaborate when did I ever condemn those people? As I was only referring how lob sided his point was. Pointing out a racist events conducted by white people doesn't make every white person a racist.

  • @ajs41

    @ajs41

    3 жыл бұрын

    Slavery hasn't existed for hundreds of years, so that was correct.

  • @sbaby-kg8hn

    @sbaby-kg8hn

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@callithowiseeit5806just stop

  • @englishpatriot9464

    @englishpatriot9464

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@aden1337oh well slavery was normalised back then. Stop crying

  • @utawinkler79
    @utawinkler793 жыл бұрын

    3:40

  • @gazriley624
    @gazriley6244 жыл бұрын

    Toxteth Liverpool was worse! now That's what you call a Riot!!

  • @lucius4556

    @lucius4556

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bristol was first though..how do you compare how it was worse??..by the amount of shops and cars they damaged and trashing their own areas !!

  • @gazriley624

    @gazriley624

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lucius4556 i don't agree with riots or people trashing their own areas but Liverpool Toxteth riot in 1981 was massive! Toxteth still hasn't fully recovered but looks a lot nicer these days the whole of Liverpool has been gentrified now

  • @lucius4556

    @lucius4556

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gazriley624 fair enough..st.pauls has a load of hippies and brown rice and lentil types now..

  • @gazriley624

    @gazriley624

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lucius4556 same here in Liverpool hippies, hipsters & students have taken over south Liverpool

  • @lucius4556

    @lucius4556

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gazriley624 ..a lot of st.pauls and surrounding areas where the Caribbean black people lived has been used to house many somalians now..

  • @tlmdh
    @tlmdh4 жыл бұрын

    Peter Abraham racist Tory councillor is 1980s still in political office today... Wonder if he’s still referring to black people as Coloured ? This is why black peoples need to overstand the system racist people back in 1980s are still in positions of power today.. nearly 40 years on... Don’t let dem fool you zeen... TLMDH

  • @dominicclarke3206

    @dominicclarke3206

    2 жыл бұрын

    Truth

  • @englishpatriot9464

    @englishpatriot9464

    10 ай бұрын

    You are colour ed. What's wrong with that?

  • @tlmdh

    @tlmdh

    10 ай бұрын

    @@englishpatriot9464 Me have fe 😂😂😂…No English patriot your coloured.. Pink,red,orange,blue etc…

  • @englishpatriot9464

    @englishpatriot9464

    10 ай бұрын

    @@tlmdh okay i want to ask; why are you complaining about this country and the system for? You have been here most of your life I presume, so should be grateful that you have the privilege to be here. If you don't like how things work here, you are free to go back home where you can live happily and in peace

  • @tlmdh

    @tlmdh

    10 ай бұрын

    @@englishpatriot9464 Me have fe 😂😂😂.. Ok patriot.. First and foremost I’m born in 🇬🇧… I neither feel grateful or ungrateful for that fact. Being born here means I can voice my opinion on social injustice,no matter the issue. Going back home as you say seems like I’m spoiled for choice 🤔… What about yourself patriot..

  • @perihelion7445
    @perihelion74456 жыл бұрын

    Well, here comes the professional victim @ 9:25 that has every poor illogical argument you could think of instead of taking responsibility for the future.

  • @davidjones8651
    @davidjones86512 жыл бұрын

    Dump

  • @thomasdavid7364
    @thomasdavid73644 жыл бұрын

    Repatriation when

  • @paulgardner2180
    @paulgardner21802 жыл бұрын

    Enoch Powell....Please come back

  • @PLEASANTGIFFT

    @PLEASANTGIFFT

    2 жыл бұрын

    You can go dig up his bones 🦴

  • @dominicclarke3206

    @dominicclarke3206

    2 жыл бұрын

    Never

  • @englishpatriot9464

    @englishpatriot9464

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@dominicclarke3206hahah because he spoke the truth

  • @southlondon86

    @southlondon86

    8 ай бұрын

    Please come back and take us back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Gary Glitter 😢

  • @annadelgado3631

    @annadelgado3631

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@southlondon86your sick

  • @bobbyg433
    @bobbyg4333 жыл бұрын

    Always complaining

  • @ajs41
    @ajs413 жыл бұрын

    Peter Abraham is on Twitter: twitter.com/westburyboy