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Llinellau gan Dad (Cyfanswm: 62)

 
(0, 1) 74 That upset my system so much.
 
(0, 1) 76 Upset the whole world I think.
(0, 1) 77 Middle-class white people are far more radical black than us black people.
 
(0, 3) 161 So I arrived in Wales in 1978.
 
(0, 3) 175 My grandfather was farming most of the time.
(0, 3) 176 I was actually brought up by women completely, more or less.
 
(0, 3) 179 It's a shame you never got to meet her.
(0, 3) 180 My grandmother is still, apart from now you are here, the greatest human being that ever lived.
 
(0, 3) 182 She lived with me for all my life, her morals are my morals, but my problem is I ignored them for many years.
 
(0, 3) 184 Just behave yourself, be kind, be truthful.
 
(0, 3) 186 I know.
(0, 3) 187 I did send the odd message.
(0, 3) 188 I'm sorry, I probably said some things… some things that probably upset you.
(0, 3) 189 I was trying to explain my state of mind when you came around, when you were born and stuff.
 
(0, 3) 196 She was a shopkeeper.
(0, 3) 197 She had a village shop and, you know, raised goats, chickens.
(0, 3) 198 We were from the countryside so we all multi-tasked.
(0, 3) 199 We used to grow citrus fruits; oranges, tangerines, mangos ─ my grandfather used to grow Tangelo.
 
(0, 3) 201 They're like a cross between tangerines, oranges and something else.
 
(0, 3) 203 He used to splice some citrus fruit together and make hybrid ones.
 
(0, 3) 206 So, do you work, do you have a job?
 
(0, 3) 208 What will you study?
 
(0, 3) 210 Ah, so you're going to be the next British Prime Minister.
 
(0, 3) 212 Ah yes, Welsh, of course.
 
(0, 5) 272 You look just like her, you know.
 
(0, 5) 274 Your great-grandmother,
 
(0, 5) 276 A few generations ago we were slaves and my great-grandfather, he was like a landowner and I think he was almost, more or less, pure white, he was.
 
(0, 5) 278 Caribbean and black slavery doesn't worry me as much as some people take it to heart.
(0, 5) 279 I know that it was a great evil and it needs to be compensated for or what not, but I'm pragmatic to the point where you know … everyone be a bastard in that age, everybody took slaves, even Africans ─ we just got the sharp end of the stick.
 
(0, 7) 400 I'm so glad that we've managed to meet.
 
(0, 7) 402 I mean you can still get away with doing pretty much anything ─ it's not like they're really policing it.
 
(0, 7) 404 /When we had curfew in Jamaica, I was held at gunpoint because of the killings.
 
(0, 7) 406 The killings in Kingston, political violence.
 
(0, 7) 408 That's ok, I never taught you.
 
(0, 7) 411 So you had the Jamaican Labour Party and then just across the road you have the PNP, People National Party, they were just killing each other.
(0, 7) 412 Killings and gangsterism were just a hangover from colonialism.
 
(0, 7) 414 You couldn't go out in public unless you were a doctor or something.
 
(0, 7) 416 Yes
 
(0, 7) 418 I suppose, but more dangerous, we were just outside the city limits, I was with my cousins in Spanish town.
(0, 7) 419 Yeah, but anyway, we go across and we go see some Rasta man just over the other side of the city limit, and we sit there and we eat and we smoke, not that I was smoking mind …
 
(0, 7) 422 … and we're coming back and there's a massive lorry full of soldiers, I could hear it in my head for ages after, they had this tail gate on the lorry, dropped the tail gate, boom... boom... boom.
(0, 7) 423 And they had us up against the bank, and this one soldier stuck his rifle in between my legs, I was only, like, 14, and he went, 'bang...bang, spread out', and I, I was helpless like this, and then he came right up to my ears just touching me, and, excuse my language, he said, 'boy, if I feel anything hard in your belt buckle I'm gonna kill you'.
 
(0, 7) 425 That's what he said to me.
(0, 7) 426 Lucky they let us go.
 
(0, 7) 429 But this was normal, guns was everyday life.
(0, 7) 430 Here in Wales we're lucky.
 
(0, 7) 432 In comparison.
 
(0, 7) 434 Must've been hard for you, growing up in Wales like you did, being a Welsh speaker.
 
(0, 7) 436 I gave your Mam some books, I don 't know whether she/
 
(0, 7) 439 Did you like them?
 
(0, 7) 444 What is?
 
(0, 7) 448 So you did read it?
 
(0, 7) 451 So, tell me, which University are you going to?
 
(0, 7) 453 Cardiff University… waw.
(0, 7) 454 Not that I'm surprised, you're very clever.
(0, 7) 455 Well of course you are, us Andersons we're all very intelligent people.
 
(0, 7) 457 You're analytical, you obviously absorb knowledge, interrogate thoughts.
 
(0, 7) 459 You're an Anderson, when an Anderson sets their mind on something we go for it with everything we've got, I can see that in you.
 
(0, 7) 461 What do you mean?
 
(0, 7) 511 I have missed out.
 
(0, 7) 514 I hear you, but I'm different.
(0, 7) 515 Let's do this again, let me to prove to you/