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

[@robertpearce2244]

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]

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.

[@aden1337]

@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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@sbaby-kg8hn]

​@@callithowiseeit5806just stop

[@englishpatriot9464]

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

[@perihelion7445]

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.

[@JasonCameron774]

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

[@daisychain3007]

The reporter is incredibly handsome.

[@englishpatriot9464]

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

[@sonyablackwood4389]

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

[@DBIVUK]

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

[@boeingbwoy]

safe seat that

[@csabatibortoth3378]

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

[@ajs41]

Peter Abraham is on Twitter: twitter.com/westburyboy

[@saudakylambuka4848]

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

[@paulnwo4256]

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

[@DrasticEvasion]

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

[@samranhussain2440]

Quinty the Legend of St paul's...

[@emeraldsabbath8507]

RIP

[@tnattt5445]

A lot of poorer communities nowadays complained about the last of funding .. if you have the facilities given to you .. Why not organise the people in that community to use them is the best way possible.. It is actually really ungrateful .. at one point old lady scrubed there doorsteps and tuck pride in there streets .. Poor proud people

[@tlmdh]

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]

afro caribbean

[@callithowiseeit5806]

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]

Wow you’re intelligent aren’t you

[@tlmdh]

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

[@englishpatriot9464]

Then get out!

[@tlmdh]

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]

Truth

[@englishpatriot9464]

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

[@tlmdh]

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

[@englishpatriot9464]

@@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]

@@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..

[@k.abenaaa]

Desmond Pierre is good looking is he still in Bristol

[@PLEASANTGIFFT]

🙄

[@utawinkler79]

3:40

[@HistoryHunter3000]

Simply

[@saudakylambuka4848]

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]

Yes that's true

[@christopher-ke9nj]

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

[@riyhana4990]

Quinty!!

[@gazriley624]

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

[@lucius4556]

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]

@@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]

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

[@gazriley624]

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

[@lucius4556]

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

[@ajs41]

Peter Abraham is on Twitter: twitter.com/westburyboy

[@caffeineaddict5124]

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

[@davidjones8651]

Dump

[@paulgardner2180]

Enoch Powell....Please come back

[@PLEASANTGIFFT]

You can go dig up his bones 🦴

[@dominicclarke3206]

Never

[@englishpatriot9464]

​@@dominicclarke3206hahah because he spoke the truth

[@southlondon86]

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

[@annadelgado3631]

​@@southlondon86your sick

[@thomasdavid7364]

Repatriation when

[@bobbyg433]

Always complaining