Racial Tension |Liverpool | 1972

[@southlondon86]

This is great video quality for 1972! When you look back at footage on the streets from the early 1970s they are usually very low quality.

[@garymay799]

OROMO KUSH yes it would you dirty man we know your game

[@danw1374]

Probably been stored properly so the film hasnt deteriorated over time.

[@spidyman8853]

Very good quality. Guessing a lot of work went into it to make video of a decent quality.

[@Xerbraski]

You can still hear the Irish twang in those accents, you tend not to hear that anymore

[@sarahhhhhhhh569]

Xerbraski is it not just a Scouse accent

[@mattybold5065]

Sar Barr scouse accent is influenced by Irish

[@rawdog314]

Can hear just as much Welsh

[@rawdog314]

@@mattybold5065 amongst others

[@simonyip5978]

The man on the balcony at around 14:01 and the older man at about 17:20 definitely an Irish influence in their way of speaking. A lot of the others do as well, but these 2 men stand out a bit more.

[@JohnThomas-yo1no]

I love the Scouse, sternness of the black woman who is 32. Very intelligent, no nonsense lady.

[@isaz597]

Wow she'd be 80 today. Yes she was no nonsense

[@spidyman8853]

@@isaz597 Yep, she'd be 80 bless her.

[@MichaelJ44]

19:47

[@michaelwalls4346]

I love the class/ethnic solidarity. The lady at the end really puts things into perspective. Growing up on a British housing estate myself, I remember a lot of this. A friend of mine at the time, whose mother was Afro-Caribbean, noticed a palpable shift in treatment around the late 1970s. As we all did actually. I am half-Irish and on occasion that could cause problems for us due to the conflict in Northern Ireland at the time.

[@phantompage4304]

Could You elaborate please?

[@moabsmithbey9583]

Those afro are epic.

[@emil_rainbow]

If that’s all you’re taking from this doc then mre fool you.

[@MaskedMenace94]

@@emil_rainbow if you don’t understand how powerful those Afros were then stop. Black Brits adopted the stylized fro from Black American movements of the 70s as a way of showing Black Pride. That’s not just an “Afro”

[@emil_rainbow]

@@MaskedMenace94 You’re right, their significance cannot be understated. Thanks for the heads up.

[@MaskedMenace94]

@@emil_rainbow Respect bro. Yea the presentation of them were a statement. It was as much as a political statement as it was a nice style.

[@emil_rainbow]

@@MaskedMenace94 It’s easy to look back on those times and marvel at the styles while completely missing the radical intent.

[@jimmyonebomb]

Sad really as they are just two sets of working class people facing the same problems in many respects.

[@kylejohnson5764]

one thing your missing is, black people are subject to racial oppression on top of the economic inequities. There's this false narrative that working class whites go through what black people go through who live in the same areas.. demonstrably false.

[@jimmyonebomb]

@@kylejohnson5764 Yes mate im aware working class black people face the added barrier of racism, something working class white people dont face. I said as working class people they "face the same problems in MANY RESPECTS", not all, and that its sad to see racism and issues of race dividing them. I stand by that

[@kylejohnson5764]

@@jimmyonebomb respect sir

[@PhilipCampbell-cv5lu]

I knew a lot of those lads on both sides, seems like only yesterday.

[@TruthMattersAlways]

@@PhilipCampbell-cv5lu Why were people so against the Granby St community?

[@simonyip5978]

The Scouse accent seems to be a lot stronger nowadays compared to even 4 decades ago, which is not that long ago when you think about it. I've heard how the Beatles, Tony Booth, Cilla Black, Tom O'Connor and the other famous Liverpool people from the 1960's and the 1970's, but when you listen to a group of younger people speaking together it's probably hard for someone who is not used to the accent to understand them. Some modern day Liverpool people have such strong accents that they almost sound like they are Liverpool people trying to impersonate themselves.

[@philcosgrove6823]

The south end of Liverpool has always had a more softly spoken accent than the rest of Liverpool. The Scouse accent is always changing over time

[@2455-x7f]

its because they are the people from the suberbs have a stronger accsent

[@simonyip5978]

huyton traveller I've got scouse relatives on both sides of my family and I've noticed that the younger generation sound a lot different. I normally have no problem understanding any English accent but about 2-3 years ago, I was asked for directions to somewhere called 'Way Heaven Street' and I had to ask several times before I realised he was saying 'Worthing Street'. That was one of the few times that I have ever had trouble trying to understand a scouser.. hahaha 😆

[@philcosgrove6823]

@@simonyip5978 If you look up the history of the Scouse dialect you will find it changes with time. It seems to be developing all the time we like to change words older people in Liverpool won't understand certain words it's like fashion changing all the time. You will get people who seem to exaggerate the accents when around mates so it's harder to understand. I work all over the world an when I talk to none scousers people understand me fine but when other scousers are there nobody understands us lol.

[@jonathanbonner8867]

That's because nowadays younger people compete over who's more scouse. As a result they put on a stronger accent. No one wants to be labelled a 'wool', i always seen it as a defence mechanism from people takin the piss.

[@tkay999]

I love the woman with the gold tooth. Seems like she was raised right and is fair-minded

[@TrooperLFC]

skinheads? they got longer hair than Mick Jagger

[@baxterstanley]

They are and were not skinheads, DICKHEADS more like

[@oldtimer5283]

@@baxterstanley boot boys you clown..

[@newjerseyyouth4853]

Boneheads

[@finolaomurchu8217]

The Liverpool people had soft Irish accents, mixed in with the Liverpool. Fantastic people 🇮🇪

[@shush9116]

not anymore where all scally’s now

[@jcshy]

It’s an Irish accent mixed with a Lancashire accent, probably made up of a bit more but mostly them two are it’s roots

[@harryf1ashman]

accents like IQs and personalities are in terminal decline

[@lennon1482]

@@jcshy and north wales

[@jesusislord8895]

Nar scouse is Scouse

[@thelouisfanclub]

My dad came from Nigeria to Liverpool around this time - not the most peaceful moment it seems!

[@salkola1967sk]

Fantastic memories I wonder if any of these guys on both sides ever watched this footage again Most of them must be in there 60s Crickey where has time gone

[@enskeez6815]

Crickey? Is that Australian?

[@johnmorgan5495]

Great film, brilliant people all of them and all living in difficult social circumstances.

[@thecreativemillenial]

for people who call themselves skinheads, they sure have a lot of hair

[@ItsNotRealLife]

They aren't the skinheads. They didn't call themselves skinheads. The skins were the ones causing the trouble not these lads

[@montygemma]

@@ItsNotRealLife Well these lads have certainly been fighting. The one skinhead there has cuts under his eye and one of the long haired ones has a plaster above his eye.

[@montygemma]

@@ItsNotRealLife Oh and another plaster at 3:15.

[@ItsNotRealLife]

syd Well yknow people do fight

[@elgee6202]

8:52: It's amazing that as long ago as 1972 there were _fourth_ generation Blacks in Liverpool. This is at a time when most English people outside cities would've barely seen any immigrants, let alone known any. I know someone born after that who didn't see a Black person until she was 8 (in the 1980s). Liverpool has the oldest established Black community in the UK and the oldest Chinese community in Europe. South Shields in Newcastle has had a long-standing Arab (Yemeni) community and Cardiff a lot of Africans, especially Somalis. In Limehouse in east London there used to be local newspapers complaining of Chinese opium dens and drunken brawls between Scandinavian seamen as long back as 1922. Port towns really are demographically and culturally distinct from the rest of the country. Liverpool might have been the least English (given that the Whites there are largely of Irish and Welsh stock) for the longest time. And historically the most left-wing.

[@bigfletch8]

I lived in Tiber Street, off Lodge Lane. A great mix of people moved there after their houses were bombed. My parents lived by Aintree racecourse. I was born in 1950 and there was just one black guy in the neighbourhood. I even remember his name " Ollie"...and one Chinese family running the laundry. The race mixing had an amazing growth, where there was little undertsanding back then. No wonder there was conflict.

[@angusmeigh5141]

I am sure this video is not from 1972. It looks more like 1978 or 1979.

[@lennon1482]

@@angusmeigh5141 in 78 everyone had wedge cuts and adidas

[@godsson7787]

@@angusmeigh5141 made me think when he was talking about skinhead tension.

[@ultimatemagic2125]

I can relate to this. I was born in 1979 raised in Plymouth, I didnt see a black person until I was at school when I was 5 and he was bullied relentlessly. He was my mate. Never seen another black person for years after he left school. The 80's in Plymouth was 99% white with occasional Chinese and Indian. Now, with the uni, it's extremely diverse. I cant imagine people growing up now would understand what it was like to never see a black person for the first maybe decade of your life.

[@ihussain999]

You can clearly hear the Irish twang in their accent...the stereotypical “scouse” sounding nasal and squeaky-ness is non-existent. Amazing how accents can change over 40-50 years

[@oreank]

In UK, the local dialects are dissapearing?

[@rawdog314]

I can hear Welsh just as much as irish

[@emil_rainbow]

North Wales accent too.

[@jcshy]

It would have been at one point a mostly thick Lancastrian accent but with the prevalence of the docks people from the north of Wales & families affected by the famine in Ireland all migrated to Liverpool and it marked the birth of the scouse accent

[@tripleq7888]

My mum is mixed raced and was born in Liverpool in 1970 no wonder she moved to London when she was 6 lol

[@jethrookoh1218]

I'm black and still in Liverpool I'm 20 it's ok now not great like

[@Chillmax]

I love Rachel Tension, she's my favourite drag performer ;-)

[@Chillmax]

@YSWG1 Thank you, thank you very much, I'm here all week & my merchandise is available in the lobby ;-)

[@truetothegame2928]

@23:21 all these lad are in their late 60's - respect to vince, trevs, spikey (rip), mason, wons !

[@janettemohan7739]

IMHO, there was an air of xenophobia about Liverpool in the 1970s and 1980s. Even people from Bootle weren't considered "one of us, la". Wirral had it even worse. And the Liverpool-b(i)ased Merseyside Constabulary put St. Helens police on the front line at the beginning of the Toxteth riots.

[@Aly_jaf]

Definitely. John Barnes was racially abused by his own fans and the Everton games at several games in the 1980s

[@thomasbeattie2257]

I remember some of these guys i used to run Outcrowd Scooter boys and a few guys like (Mad) Mick Blaney from Myrtle Gardens and a few more were members but strangely never had a problem with the black young guys our age. I remember hanging with Real Thing when they were just starting out in L8. Still i have great memories of the times. (Tommy Haggis)

[@thomasbeattie2257]

Dorian Graye He is pure Scouse from Myrtle Gardens.

[@thomasbeattie2257]

@Bas Lomhorst We sure did! Happy days.

[@baxterstanley]

Back then these flats were well built but like the woman said 7 people in it was overcrowded, why didn't the council decide as people vacated a property, they could and should have knocked two flats into one, so plenty of space and rooms for the whole family to live in without providing a house for them, to many of these buildings were torn down and replaced by inadequate houses, and so it goes on. A place in Huyton where I lived the flats were crap (1981-85), but the council to them over (2005) and made them open plan flats, they look beautiful now , if we plan things correctly it works, but back then it was throw them up and sod them. As for the troubles, the same lady was right, the kids back then had no jobs, no where to play, and no future hence the trouble.

[@antonbless]

Pool man had it rough back then! That’s why rate them man was in pen with a good few back in the early 90s Shower brothers had it on lock 🔐 then!! Warren was linked to Leeds to big C..🔐

[@truthbtoldwright6411]

@dominic clarke Lol, says the red skin boy. At least they know their history and who they are related to. Irish and Black's have been mixing since the 18th century in Liverpool.

[@SniffMyDeadwax]

Barbara, get me an interpreter.

[@mic_derin]

They sound like they are from Dublin

[@simonyip5978]

The man on the balcony at around 14.00 does especially.

[@bloodboughtbigphilr8266]

Always thought the same myself. A massive ingredient in the Scouse accent along with North Wales and a bit of native Lancastrian. Travel a few miles out of the city to Warrington or St Helen's and altogether different.

[@grahamjonathan762]

Sound's nothing like a Dublin accent

[@bezerkerkrankenhaus7769]

Definitely, listen to any of the old interviews with Ronnie Drew, Brendan Behan etc and they're very similar to that man at 14.00 The older Liverppol accent says, "de boouuck" for "the book", "luike" instead of "like", "dis and datsss" for "this and that", "youse" for "you". Exact same pronunciation as Dublin and also they have the same musical sing song up and down accent, ,musical intonation. Up to a half a million Irish landed there after the famine, it's no wonder the Liverppol accent changed in the 19th Century. that man at 14.00 sounds a lot more like a Dubliner than someone from St Helens or Wigan.

[@simonyip5978]

The middle aged fella at 14.00 and the older man at 17.00 both sound like they are from Ireland more than from England.

[@maximillianramirez1189]

The one chap in the skinhead group seemed to be of mixed heritage

[@ponyboycurtis3795]

It's quite obvious the "skinhead" group isn't a skinhead group..not one has a skinhead 😂

[@Tayloradrift]

And?

[@ashleyoasis7948]

It’s the EDLs grandparents

[@booma3069]

Ashley Oasis 😂😂😂

[@krystjanchanerley9288]

Ashley Oasis yeah right

[@leonarddavies288]

EDL are not racist just against islam

[@ashleyoasis7948]

Leonard Davies that’s just there dog whistle to attack brown ppl from foreign countries

[@zapre2284]

@@ashleyoasis7948 Nope

[@mikewillis44]

Catch a train and see how much open land there is about.Cramming people into boxes will always bring trouble.People get tired of living on top of one another and not getting a moments peace.This causes an underlying stress.

[@Tayloradrift]

So if immigration was controlled then there would be more houses?

[@jimmanycricket3756]

Wait till the corkhills move in

[@BuzzsawMG42]

Who are the corkhills?

[@spidyman8853]

@@BuzzsawMG42 Brookside. Before your time

[@MsErikdeking]

The place will go to the dog's if that lot is movin in

[@backstreetboy1122]

They’re not skins, they’re suedes, after 1970 they started to die down and evolved into suedeheads and bootboys.

[@Davidnumber23]

"the coloureds" dear me.... Rigsby! .. Respect to that British Subject lady.

[@garyrigby21]

everyone spoke like that in those days

[@Davidnumber23]

@@garyrigby21 yes and education has improved very little to this day.

[@Tayloradrift]

It was 1972, idiot!

[@Stiffd1]

Not a criticsm? But I used to bus thru Tocky on '86. One evening, lower deck. A Bolt thru the window and it wasn't Usain, no clapping. Luckily I sat at back shielded by seats/engine housing.

[@eckeynecker]

This was all being demolished when i lived there in the late 80s .

[@life_seeker6102]

Was it the new build council estates featured in the film being demolished or the Victorian terraces?

[@nguyendailam6703]

Broadcast on ITV @ 21:00 on Thursday 17th August 1972.

[@RANITAJINTERNATIONAL]

Wonder what they would say to each other if you sat some of these people down with each other today.

[@bobbywaldron2337]

most of us were talking to each other a couple of weeks later

[@meonly8071]

@@bobbywaldron2337 We spoke with our skinhead tormentors

[@highburyhoops6074]

Would love a repeat interview

[@km99999]

These are local, and not newcomers, anyway they are grandads now .

[@sirphineasluciusambercromb9114]

Liverpudlians of all colours have grown and matured since those days. Thank goodness.

[@emil_rainbow]

@andrew chambers I’m sorry for your loss, Andrew.

[@Djdjduhehshehhrh]

@Unknown2234 Unknown liverpool is still pretty racist. It likes to paint itself as welcoming to everyone...and most people are... but there's still a very racist element within the city.

[@Djdjduhehshehhrh]

@Unknown2234 Unknown i've only been on the receiving end of racist abuse in two cities in the world, Liverpool and Manchester. Look at the aftermath of the evra suarez argument.... even the lfc fans were caught en masse shoutjng racist stuff/ doing monkey impressions.... anthony walkers murder.... check for merseyside right wing groups/ members. Are you actually non-white yourself or white and have just fooled yourself into thinking the place is fine. Im not saying its terrible. I lived there long enough...only left 5 months ago. But to claim it doesnt have a racist underbelly is patently false.

[@S01-k9z]

The youth is so much more ignorant now , I wlukd of preferred to grow up in 1972 in liverpool than now

[@ernstvanstangl1048]

@@Djdjduhehshehhrh I'm Mancunian. Irish mother and Barbadian father. Lived in Liverpool and got shite for being a Manc. No racial experiences however.

[@tommyedwards3730]

wow! 1972 hair styles.....wonderful memories and of course rebellion/

[@daisychain3007]

1972 hairstyles- peculiar!

[@ujoepost]

need to fix sound

[@rossmorebaz]

hard to believe that this was almost 50 years ago already .. half a century later .. I hope things are better

[@jordanspark5396]

Nothing better it's actually got worse in the UK .

[@andrewdaley3081]

@@jordanspark5396 your right it hhas gotten worse. 🇬🇧👍

[@jethrookoh1218]

I'm from Liverpool Scotland Road I've never had a racist experience but can't speak for everyone. Hopefully things gey better but u can tell white and black don't mix

[@rawcuss3447]

Bigoted city…

[@Tayloradrift]

No chance it's worse

[@MrResearcher122]

So called White guy with tam is mixed- you can see Africa in him. Camera man knew it as well. But working class Liverpool-black n white-articulate, tough,and real. Most are Irish blooded, including blacks.

[@emil_rainbow]

And Welsh and Scottish and German and Jewish and…

[@MrResearcher122]

@@emil_rainbow And Nigerian, Sierra Leonean,Ghanaian.

[@phantompage4304]

Timestamp?

[@emil_rainbow]

@@MrResearcher122 True.

[@luckyking42]

Is it just me or do I see a lot of similarities between New York and London

[@luckyking42]

@dominic clarke thanks for telling me but I was going based off interview I seen in the Bronx during that same time the way they wear their afros the way to get interviewed and the way also answering the interviews questions the whole gang situation seems so similar to what was going on and the Bronx.

[@ashleyoasis7948]

London is now londonstan lol 😆

[@unknownfrvr6767]

Lucky luckelson yeah it is , we created gangs to protect ourselves just like black Americans did but yet them blame us for having gangs when it was there fault we have them in the first place

[@ashleyoasis7948]

The UK has more Muslims than Blacks but there not Muslims from Syria like the rest if the world but mainley from India and Pakistan due to common wealth so there not middle Eastren but still Muslim

[@unknownfrvr6767]

Journey To Valhalla most of us blacks are from countries that were CREATED by your people , we are from slave societies ... so I don't care what you think because we colonised u just like the Muslims did , we have robbed u for ur culture and heritage forever

[@EthansCONN]

Folk never get on, never will. Don't know why different colours are forced to live like this. I feel bad for the White and Black lads!

[@daisychain3007]

Poverty and social deprivation always exacerbate racialism.

[@sarahfemi9862]

Racism and segregation and cultural differences will always be a issue this is why most people don't integrate in the UK even locals .

[@daisychain3007]

@@sarahfemi9862 Cultural differences create problems in all parts if the world, not just in the UK.

[@daisychain3007]

Folks can never get on if they never learn to respect each other's differences.

[@matthewhall1172]

Things will only get worse in modern Britain as people are struggling to find ‘genuinely affordable’ housing.

[@kay-marie1076]

Liverpool has the longest and oldest black community since the 1700's do your research.

[@YJB8CCFC]

Poor buggers, having to live in that shithole

[@LonnellRich]

Slavery

[@englishpatriot9464]

You talk a load of BS 😂

[@LonnellRich]

@@englishpatriot9464 liverpool was a port to import slaves to england.. thhis is true

[@yvngleanoa2137]

@@LonnellRich maybe you should do more history on Europe buddy. Blacks been in Europe for centuries

[@keepingitrealandtruthful.5081]

History is slowly repeating itself if we're not careful.

[@tudormiller8898]

You don't get no bovver these days mate. It's all water under the bridge.

[@anythingrandom8598]

Negative. This shit never stopped

[@keepingitrealandtruthful.5081]

@Laura Nwogu No one said it stopped. I said it's repeating itself again.

[@spidyman8853]

mrtheoneandonly 83 You mean Brexit will bring Tension ? has it not already started.

[@spidyman8853]

@@keepingitrealandtruthful.5081 Yep, It hasn't gone away. It's very much still here. In the late 90s it went underground. Now with imminent Brexit, it reared its ugly head. I'm sure more surprises on the way head.

[@mistofoles]

@1:43 - Look how I balance my hat on top of my Afro !

[@albear972]

GB is still paying for their massive colonialism. Short term profits from 1600's-1800's led to stuff like this.

[@sojiadamo5212]

albear972 even though it's a lot longer, 1600-1800 is no short term!

[@TextBookPuncher1]

Reece A bullshit GB is built on immigration.

[@feministwitch1402]

Nonsense. There's nothing wrong with black ppl so no price is being paid!

[@krystjanchanerley9288]

How ?

[@seniorscouse1984]

9 years later fighting side by side against police

[@pauldonnelly3179]

A temporary alliance and tbh blacks and Asians are still not welcome down Scotty

[@flake452]

When you have poor people being forced to share the very little they have with an outgroup of course there is going to be hostility.

[@lodersracing]

The whites are coloured too lol

[@newjerseyyouth4853]

Sad!

[@newjerseyyouth4853]

One love!

[@dnstone1127]

It was very rare to hear a black person with a British accent back then, just parts of Liverpool and Tiger bay in Wales, remember there was a black comedian who made his unusual Yorkshire accent part of the joke but virtually all had thick Carribbean accents.

[@JasonJack32]

That too was my experience growing up in Birmingham in 70`s. Most Black people I encountered spoke with a what I called a Jamaican accent. When I moved to London in 1980, I first heard a black man speak with a London accent. He was also a skinhead who used to fight for Chelsea. I remember thinking this Bredder got issues...

[@emil_rainbow]

Oh yeah. And where did you encounter these "black people"?

[@patlynch9969]

Check out Kenny Lynch from east London

[@mistofoles]

Lookit dat Afro !

[@bigfletch8]

I lived in Tiber Street, off Lodge Lane. A great mix of people moved there after their houses were bombed. My parents lived by Aintree racecourse. I was born in 1950 and there was just one black guy in the neighbourhood. I even remember his name " Ollie"...and one Chinese family running the laundry. The race mixing had an amazing growth, where there was little undertsanding back then. No wonder there was conflict.

[@lillyrose1545]

thats cool hope you didnt have anything aginst them too

[@bigfletch8]

@@lillyrose1545 We all grew up on stories of the " goodies and the baddies" and was often racially based, so when you actually meet those images in real form, two directions emerge. One is you can see there was no substance in the previous " story" and two, you act as though those images were accurate. Its all about layers of consciousness.

[@lillyrose1545]

@@bigfletch8 i guess but i just want all of us to feel happy with eachother and appreciate our differences we all don't have time to be ignorant this is too both sides of the story and all have a good day mate

[@wimskey3120]

Would anybody be able to answer what communities did about this? I'm curious, so may as well ask people equally as curious about such a topic.

[@starwonder8324]

WHAT COLOUR IS YOUR BLOOD???? WHITE.. OR RED???

[@2jcward]

As an American - they sound Irish to me.

[@jimmyonebomb]

its called scouse mate. Is an accent massively influenced by irish migration

[@pauldonnelly3179]

So do many Americans around New York and Boston

[@mistofoles]

LOL ! He asks the black guys who's been arrested - ME, ME, ME ,ME ,ME, ME, ME !!!

[@battyjr]

I wish he'd asked the other group the same question as well.

[@themightyredmen]

I grew up in L8 with black lads and white lads. If we went to certain areas though we were more weary of gangs of black lads, as if we expected trouble. When i left school in the mid 80's most of the group i hung around with were white and we faced attacks from gangs of black lads who would accuse us of racism ; "you called me a n***er" was a regular one, which was not the case, it was any excuse for a kick off. I can 100% guarantee that these gangs of black youths back then were the aggressors. But no racism is all one way apparently. My opinion is the same now, the older Jamaican guys for example who we'd see around L8 were ever so nice, yet a huge percentage of the younger generation of blacks around my age had an aggressive attitude.

[@DofNWEnt]

Yes cuz we jus go around asking ppl if u called me nigger 🤣🤣🤣shuv it your disgruntled...my parentd grew up during this time in liver ...I don't wanna here your bs...our fam had many black an white family friends there...the fact is there were so many angry disgruntled unemployed white men, that had plenty motive to start hate crimes

[@barbaraannecortina7899]

sound quality on this is shite!

[@jayday4795]

it's from the 70s... what were you expecting Dolby suround sound 🤔

[@aloheyio6335]

I'm sure u'll make better SOUND babes

[@scottphree1232]

Is that a man with the curlers ?

[@svenskpolitik4458]

It is a muslim.

[@FHIPrincePeter]

Yes it's Dick Emery ! If not you can see where he got his inspiration from.

[@therespectedlex9794]

Gruene Wald Wrong city

[@therespectedlex9794]

The commies were getting a bit short of actors.

[@TheBlackcular]

It was a bloke I think a Teddy Boy getting ready for the weekend.

[@welshlad6427]

Reporter....what do you think of the coloured kids 🤔

[@veriteinternational]

That is the conscious bias my friend.

[@zapre2284]

As opposed to the people of colour kids ?

[@BinanceUSD]

Lack of work is the problem. Labour Government is to blame for the bad policy. Just leave people alone. They can create work together.

[@emil_rainbow]

The lad in the white gang with the bonnet (22.42 ) has african features fo sure.

[@Marco-bi9rb]

How?🤣🤦🏻‍♂️

[@emil_rainbow]

@@Marco-bi9rb The shape of his eyes, lips, cheek bones, jaw line. Looks a like beautiful Brazilian.

[@bobbywaldron2337]

@@emil_rainbow thanks very much i've changed a bit since then

[@emil_rainbow]

@@bobbywaldron2337 Well done Bobby, Lah. Goodness me, incredible! A bit surreal, eh? Was I on to something with my observation?

[@bobbywaldron2337]

@@emil_rainbow spanish basque grandmother

[@bohsgerry]

coupla things those white youth were bootboys not "skinheads" as skinheads had died out by 1972 being replaced by suedeheads which one of the lads was(shorter haired lad with cut face)and bootboys like the rest but as contributers below have said was a GENERAL term for white rowdies or "gurriers"/corner boys.Any of John Tanners books give a great insight into THAT SCENE in Liverpool in the early '70's.Also the Dublin terms youse,gobshite and half mad have been used in Liverpool since time immomorial.EVERTON were always seen as the IRISH supported team in the city despite there being a strong ORANGE LODGE community in Everton and a srong loyalist community in Merseyside.

[@YJB8CCFC]

I always thought Liverpool had the stronger Irish and socialist support, whereas Everton were more loyalist and right leaning. Their abuse of John Barnes in the 1987 league cup match at Anfield also gave me that impression at the time.

[@JayEFC1969]

​@YJB8CCFC Liverpool had very few Irish players compared to Everton until the 80s whether deliberate or not I don't know. Racial abuse was as prevalent on the kop as anywhere until Barnes signed for Liverpool.

[@partycrasher854]

This was 50 years ago!

[@kamranhashmi1575]

52 yrs now

[@bobbywaldron2337]

That was me in the "hat" still here 48 year's later

[@genevievedolan1288]

I am curious as to which one is you....there were a lot of boys with hats in the last segment

[@bobbywaldron2337]

@@genevievedolan1288 the one doing most of the talking next to the guy with the plaster on his face

[@genevievedolan1288]

@@bobbywaldron2337 you were a good looking boy! Seriously, it is so affirming to see and hear the many intelligent, humane and considered opinions almost everyone was offering...so many strong people, enduring hardship with grace and kindness...I hope you are doing well, and I wonder what happened to the other people?

[@bobbywaldron2337]

@@genevievedolan1288 hi Genevieve, lovely name and thanks for the compliments, i've led quite a colourful life since those days and enjoyed every moment of it, sadly a few of the lads on the video are no longer with us, the black lads and most of us all ended up friends again not much later, but the young lad to the left of me ended up serving 35 years in prison only released a couple of years ago, hope your well best regards Bobby

[@genevievedolan1288]

@@bobbywaldron2337 Hi, and thank you for the reply. I am glad to hear you went on to have a good and colorful life and it is good to hear you that you and the black lads were friends most of the time, despite the occasional flare-ups. I am sorry to hear about the young man who ended up in prison for so long though, and that there are those who have already passed on. I hope you are keeping well and safe in this strange time. Glad you like my name!

[@miccheck6478]

I don’t think an outnumbered set of people would decide to take on the majority but obviously you will respond to aggression

[@TrueBrit1]

It's amazing to see how in some respects things have changed significantly since those days (back then there were very few cars, appalling dilapidated homes, such poverty and mass unemployment, and generally much more relaxed attitudes to different races today compared to then), yet some things have barely changed (Police do nothing, no Bobbies on the beat, politicians and councils have let the people down). Quite fascinating actually. Lots more cars there now, but most of them are on bricks now..................................... :)

[@spidyman8853]

Yea I see what you are saying. However, we'll be going backwards soon. 1. Brexit will mean increase in tension (already has started) 2. Covid-19 with millions unemployed will also cause an increase in tension

[@paulburns1333]

Like your brain.

[@lmtt123]

It hasn't changed at all around there

[@martinodonnell2501]

the first guy talking shows you Jessie lingard in the 70's

[@angusmeigh5141]

This looks more like 1978 than 1972. I am sure this video is not from 1972!

[@mikeymc3094]

I’d rememba that new estate goin up round 1970-76

[@mikeymc3094]

@David S Hey Dave 66 now Where did it all go hey mate am 63 remember like it was only a few years ago I was 18

[@mikeymc3094]

@David S Oh the point I was txt Am white Scouse but I think Afros shud come back I thort they looked so cool

[@mikeymc3094]

@David S Ha I remember everyone on ur list mate We might be gettin old Dave but nobody can take our memories

[@mikeymc3094]

@David S The girl who became my future wife fancied Donny like mad haha I think she’d dump me even today if he knocked on our door an asked her out

[@MrAntiSellOut]

Anything on Liverpool 8's Stanhope Street?

[@andygeorgiou661]

Interesting documentary they have all got a Irish twang to there accents, God them estates look terrible.

[@Kousaburo]

Conflict? But muh diversity is a strength!

[@regplasma7906]

3.39 The most beautiful woman in Liverpool 1972.

[@gezbo66]

If I was born in another country but was not the same ethnicity and they did not like me I would leave immediately. In he end being among my own on my own soil is better for my soul and well being.

[@gratefuldead3750]

Most of these kids were born when the brit.carrebean was under British rule.

[@user-ce1lm2gg3c]

why is the sound so low

[@sacandarmhagrh8911]

Yo

[@daisychain3007]

@@sacandarmhagrh8911I have to turn the sound up for the video and then the ads break in at ear-splitting sound.

[@mistofoles]

@14:27 - LMFAO ! If that's not a bloke, I'll run down Bold Street stark bollock naked !

[@garyrigby21]

He isn't a man he's a woman

[@voiletwhitehorse]

Lol I immediately thought tyranny

[@hectichazerdus]

@@voiletwhitehorse tyranny looool. amazing how the english language has had to adapt to not be removed by the youtube bots

[@mistofoles]

@15:05 - I like this lady, she's very forthright.

[@vixen1143]

I watch this and see how the 2 sides say the same things about each other. Maybe with the current protests in 2020 more people can try harder to see things from the other's point of view. I'd would be interested to see if the people interviewed think things have changed for the better or if they feel it just as bad.

[@kasheem1747]

Rosanna Blake 🧐 when 2 sides are fighting each other usually theirs someone in the middle instigating it ....

[@johnrose3213]

Great comment

[@zapre2284]

Protests ? You mean the leftist race riots in the US ? Keep that crap out of this city please

[@aloheyio6335]

Good question

[@garyrigby21]

i grew up in this area just off Tunnel rd, Edge hill and same age as those kids but i don't recognise anyone! we had the Penny wreck in Earle rd

[@southlondon86]

Powerful video!

[@daveedwards8522]

Who's that Guy with the Afro.. Very articulate..

[@antonbless]

Dave Edwards Delroy Showers!!

[@billsykes9605]

She’s not a lad, she’s a girl 😂😂

[@EVERTONFC.]

All working class we all get on now as we did then. Media again egging it on.

[@EVERTONFC.]

@@nura319 dont call me stupid you cheeky get.

[@Moonlight-lo-fi]

@Gaines Don you're right, the racism against native Europeans, the institutionalized racism, ethnic cleansing of indigenous English people from their own cities is so alive now.

[@dannywlm63]

Since when has selling drugs and being a pimp been illegal?

[@daisychain3007]

There were drugs openly sold and pimps in 1972, Danny?

[@enskeez6815]

@@daisychain3007 NOPE but you know why he said it lol…

[@G-Man78]

13:40 That's a _WOMAN_ ??????????????

[@jamescullen2448]

Hahahaha, today the answer would be yes 😂😂😂😂

[@starwonder8324]

"FROM GANGS TO GOD" BY RON HALVERSON TRUE AMAZING POWERFUL STORY FROM THE BRONX CONEY ISLAND ENJOY 🙏🏿💯😀❤️

[@Sunakfilth]

Volume....SHITE

[@sojiadamo5212]

Vya2 boang ikaw must you always complain? Anyway I'm coming round later so get dinner ready....😘😎

[@azazel1893]

13:41 their names were John and Jean Hughes of 23d Windsor Gardens.

[@leolicursi3536]

Scouse comes from Norwegian shipmen

[@philipcurnow7990]

Bit of Italian a well IMO

[@jcshy]

It doesn’t

[@leolicursi3536]

@@jcshy its not irish. If you think it is you havent done much research

[@jimmyonebomb]

@@leolicursi3536 the scran does yeh, not the accent though

[@gazriley624]

Those white lads were from Earle rd going the penny wreck ha ha

[@user-rw1ii4oc5q]

Earle rd aint white no more is it.

[@jman4668]

In 1972, she said Somali not Somalian.

[@jman4668]

@YSWG1 I know. I'm saying she knew the correct term back in 1972.

[@TA-ik3kf]

The lady at 18:30 🕡 said she was born in the UK 32 years ago. That would make it 1940, that’s pretty early; I dint know immigrants were there that early?

[@max-un7rt]

people have been immigrating to the UK for hundreds of years, they could also be descendants of slaves brought to the UK in the 17th and 18th century

[@TA-ik3kf]

@@max-un7rt That would make her unique as most in this video are 1st to 3rd generation Caribbean immigrants.

[@quantro65]

You'll find that those port cities had black people in the 19th century due to the sailors from Africa & the Caribbean setting down with a English lady.

[@simonyip5978]

@@quantro65 the original Chinese district in Liverpool and London were also dominated by males, so they also usually settled down with British women and had mixed race children. Indian, Somali, Adenese, etc sailors and sea men in British port cities were the same.

[@quantro65]

@@simonyip5978 thanks for that info . People from different nations have been settling in the uk for centuries. Nothing wrong with that, my parents were immigrants who came here in 1960..

[@dean6816]

3:26 is that Combo?

[@copyrightcharacter1166]

Him with the hat looks a bit “coloured” himself.

[@anthonywalsh7613]

He does look mixed race

[@TrishDaniell]

Exactly what I thought to myself. He's definitely mixed

[@bobbywaldron2337]

my grandmother was spanish from the basqe region

[@anthonywalsh7613]

@@bobbywaldron2337 is this you in the video?

[@bobbywaldron2337]

@@anthonywalsh7613 sure is cheers

[@DDandrums]

Scouse beauty 13:40

[@meonly8071]

Loool

[@leonarddavies288]

Yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk

[@RatgenerationX]

Ok so Colin Kaepernick 1:00 was dealing with Nixon in 1972 over race then as well

[@zapre2284]

Colin Kaepernick .... The worst grifter on earth

[@RatgenerationX]

@@zapre2284 Did he steal your girl lol

[@leonarddavies288]

He has his own flavour of Ben and Jerry's it's called change the whirled 😢🙄😳

[@darrilynbradley9624]

Were is your queen to help these people this world is fucked

[@MrIrrepressible]

Queen doesnt care

[@Beamboy555]

@@MrIrrepressible queens to busy counting the cash she steals from tax

[@meonly8071]

Joey Barton lookalike 2.10

[@feministwitch1402]

"Why do you think they come after you?" " because we're black "

[@harrisonware5331]

Who’s here from exe college