0:00:02 > 0:00:04You're going to make me start crying now. I'm trying not to cry.
0:00:04 > 0:00:07I'm trying my best not to cry, yeah?
0:00:07 > 0:00:09But these people are going to make me cry.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13SOBBING
0:00:15 > 0:00:17INDISTINCT VOICES
0:00:17 > 0:00:23This programme contains very strong language.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40I think so... Oh, no, I made that one.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55- Oh, Leon, have you seen the handbag? - Yeah, all this...everything here is what's going tomorrow.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57- And on the floor?- Freedom Pass.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01- See the handbags?- Her sewing machine, her handbag.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05This is the most devastating time in my life.
0:01:05 > 0:01:10I thought when I lost my son I could never feel this way again,
0:01:10 > 0:01:13but this, in a different way, is even worse.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17This is the woman that brought me here,
0:01:17 > 0:01:20this is the woman that I've known for 55 years of my life.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Nothing compares.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25I don't know what I'm going to do without you, Mama,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28but I love you so much, from your son.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35This is a film that started with a funeral...
0:01:35 > 0:01:38- Morning, morning, morning, morning. - Hi, Pat.- Morning.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42..the funeral of Pauline Celestine Martin...
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Big ladies, boy!
0:01:44 > 0:01:45..whose favourite colour was red.
0:01:49 > 0:01:54She'd come from Jamaica in 1962 and died here in south London,
0:01:54 > 0:01:58leaving her grandchildren and children behind.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Her eldest son, Steve, also known as Blacker,
0:02:01 > 0:02:03was someone I'd featured in a
0:02:03 > 0:02:07student documentary when we were both 19.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11- Morning.- Good morning. Hello, Molly. - Hello.- Good morning, Miss Molly.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14- Good morning.- How are you this morning?- All right.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18He'd asked me to film his mother's funeral, but what neither of
0:02:18 > 0:02:23us realised then was that a series of dramatic events in Blacker's life
0:02:23 > 0:02:26would keep me filming with him for the next three years.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Everybody goes to the church.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32If... Can everybody get in a car or something?
0:02:33 > 0:02:37We're all hanging around and we need to get in the buses and coach and
0:02:37 > 0:02:39everywhere, so we can move.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41I feel like I'm... I feel like I'm at roller skating, cos it's like this
0:02:41 > 0:02:43big disco ball.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45MUSIC: Amazing Grace
0:02:45 > 0:02:50# I shall forever lift my eyes to Calvary... #
0:02:55 > 0:02:57The cortege travelled past
0:02:57 > 0:03:01significant places in the family's life,
0:03:01 > 0:03:04including the iconic record shop
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Blacker had had in Brixton for 21 years.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13TRUMPET PLAYS
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Blacker's mother had come to England alone, but she died leaving behind
0:03:24 > 0:03:2894 grandchildren and great-grandchildren who clearly
0:03:28 > 0:03:32loved her, as did the community.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Over 700 came to celebrate her life,
0:03:35 > 0:03:37led by Blacker's sisters and brother.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39# I wanna shake my hand with the elder
0:03:42 > 0:03:47# I wanna tell all the people, "Good morning"... #
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Relatives had even come from the family home -
0:03:51 > 0:03:54St Thomas, Jamaica - to pay their respects.
0:03:54 > 0:03:58# When I view the last sunset
0:03:58 > 0:04:02# And I cross over that sea
0:04:02 > 0:04:08# I know sunrise will be waiting for me. #
0:04:08 > 0:04:10APPLAUSE
0:04:10 > 0:04:14SOUL MUSIC PLAYS
0:04:21 > 0:04:25For three and a half hours, there were performances, hymns,
0:04:25 > 0:04:27prayers and tributes.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29APPLAUSE
0:04:40 > 0:04:42But it was a story told by a local pastor in his tribute that made me
0:04:42 > 0:04:46realise what had been happening in this community,
0:04:46 > 0:04:49and how influential a figure Blacker had become.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52I want to tell you something, and the reason I'm here today
0:04:52 > 0:04:55because Steven, known as Blacker,
0:04:55 > 0:04:58he's been a great inspiration to me in my life and I'd
0:04:58 > 0:05:01do anything for him.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04We don't talk a lot, but there's one thing that he did for me when I just
0:05:04 > 0:05:08came out of jail, and those of you
0:05:08 > 0:05:14who know John Wayne and the policeman, he had this thing for me,
0:05:14 > 0:05:17and I was unlicensed and I got nicked.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20And Blacker held on to my hand when all the police were looking at me,
0:05:20 > 0:05:26trying to grab me and put me in the van, and Blacker said, "You're not, you can't take him."
0:05:26 > 0:05:28They couldn't touch me.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30APPLAUSE
0:05:33 > 0:05:38I'm saying this to say that, where did he get that courage from?
0:05:38 > 0:05:41Where did he get this conviction from?
0:05:41 > 0:05:44It was from his mother.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47And I want to say to all the Martin families that are here,
0:05:47 > 0:05:49please hear these words,
0:05:49 > 0:05:55do not look at yourself as someone that's of insignificance.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00Know who you are - you are leaders in this community.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03May you walk in peace and unity with each other.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07May you walk through a community with your head lifted up high.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10JAMAICAN MUSIC PLAYS
0:06:31 > 0:06:34- Thank you.- Mind your heads, mind your heads.
0:06:45 > 0:06:46That's cool.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04REGGAE MUSIC PLAYS
0:07:05 > 0:07:08I got a lift to the graveyard from an old friend of Blacker's,
0:07:08 > 0:07:11Naptarli, who'd been put in charge of clearing the roads
0:07:11 > 0:07:13for the cortege.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17HORN HONKS
0:07:17 > 0:07:23- You'd be a great getaway driver, Naptarli.- I was.- You were? HE LAUGHS
0:07:23 > 0:07:27- Life story, let him tell you his life story.- She knows my life story.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31- Not in such detail. You were a getaway driver?- You will know it,
0:07:31 > 0:07:33you will know it, you will know all of it.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36Tell me about when you were a getaway driver.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39Um, that's when I used to do armed robbery, I used to be an armed
0:07:39 > 0:07:43robber, many, many years ago. I used to be an armed robber.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47Banks and post offices and building societies, and that's...
0:07:47 > 0:07:50But I was driving from when I was 13 years of age.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53- In this country? - In this country, yeah.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56You know, and I just got the knack of driving and
0:07:56 > 0:08:00just this "don't care" attitude that I've got.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04It gets me into trouble but that was just how I was, you know?
0:08:04 > 0:08:06That was just how I was.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19HORN BLARES
0:08:19 > 0:08:23Naptarli was obviously an appropriate choice as the escort.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26The procession travelled unhindered through the rush-hour traffic.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29HORNS BLARE
0:08:32 > 0:08:33You could blow a little more.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35SIREN
0:08:41 > 0:08:44Keep it clear, please. Go out of the way, please.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Let us bow our heads in prayer, please.
0:08:50 > 0:08:55Heavenly Father, we thank you for the life of this great woman.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59We thank you, Lord, also for the family that was able to share
0:08:59 > 0:09:04the blessings of her life. And we will say amen.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07- ALL:- Amen.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10A few weeks later, I went around to see Blacker.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14He dug out some old family photographs.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16I'll see if the bag has any goodies in it.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18- Yay!- The bag of goodies.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22These are Mummy's archives.
0:09:22 > 0:09:27So let's see what Mummy saved up over all these donkeys of years.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34This car here, Miss Molly, see this car here?
0:09:34 > 0:09:35- Yeah.- 2290 UR...
0:09:37 > 0:09:41..that's the only car number plate I have remembered all my life.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44This is the car that picked me up when I came to England.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47Austin Cambridge, Daddy's car.
0:09:47 > 0:09:482290 UR, and I remember that.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54Do you remember that feeling of him picking you up?
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Yes, I'll always remember that feeling.
0:09:57 > 0:10:03I didn't... It was so cold, because I came to England in some little short
0:10:03 > 0:10:07clothes, some little short clothes and no jacket or nothing, and it was
0:10:07 > 0:10:11cold, and I'm saying, "Why did we come to this place here?"
0:10:11 > 0:10:14And I think I said to my sister on that day,
0:10:14 > 0:10:20"Sis, I want to go home, and I will go home and I have to go home.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23"I'm not staying here. I don't want to be here."
0:10:23 > 0:10:26I didn't know my mum, I didn't know my dad.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Dad left Jamaica when I was about two and a half,
0:10:28 > 0:10:30and Mum must've left me when I was
0:10:30 > 0:10:36about eight, nine months old, cos Mum came first and Dad came after.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39And there was this horrible moment,
0:10:39 > 0:10:43very horrible, I don't want to say this on camera, but there was this
0:10:43 > 0:10:46horrible moment in the car,
0:10:46 > 0:10:51and I remember saying to my sister,
0:10:51 > 0:10:54"Who is this, who is this woman?"
0:10:54 > 0:10:59Cos I was just so mad, I was like a little terror. "Who is this woman?"
0:10:59 > 0:11:03And she said, "That's your mum." I said, "That's not my mum. I don't know her."
0:11:03 > 0:11:05And my mum, I think my mum cried.
0:11:07 > 0:11:12She was so upset, and maybe that's why I ended up loving her so much,
0:11:12 > 0:11:16cos that's always stuck with me forever, that I didn't know Mummy
0:11:16 > 0:11:19when I came to England. I never knew her.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21Never, ever knew her.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28Back in the 1980s when I first met Blacker,
0:11:28 > 0:11:31I was making a film about the underground network of Jamaican
0:11:31 > 0:11:33sound systems playing around the UK.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36DUB MUSIC PLAYS
0:11:43 > 0:11:45In halls all over the country, teams would arrive,
0:11:45 > 0:11:50string up vast speaker boxes and play exclusive reggae music to
0:11:50 > 0:11:53packed audiences.
0:11:53 > 0:11:58At the time, Blacker was a rising star in that world.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00The sound business is funny.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03It's not, it's not who's carrying the swing on the die, really, that's
0:12:03 > 0:12:06the best sound, it's who can keep it up.
0:12:08 > 0:12:13Blacker went on to become a hugely successful reggae producer with his
0:12:13 > 0:12:17- own label, Blacker Dread Music. - I'm on my way over to you.
0:12:17 > 0:12:1930 years later,
0:12:19 > 0:12:23he was still producing music, and I went with him to deliver his latest
0:12:23 > 0:12:25track to radio DJ Seani B.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28- What are you saying?- Blessings, blessings.- Yeah.- Hello.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31- Hello, who's this? - This is Molly.- Hi, Molly.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35- Filming a documentary. - Oh, you're filming a documentary? - Yeah, yeah.- Well, go on.
0:12:35 > 0:12:41- Welcome to the team.- About Blacker Dread.- Blacker Dread?- Yeah.- The boss, this is, you know.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45When you look at emcees like Stormzy, Wiley, Chip,
0:12:45 > 0:12:47all these kind of emcees in grime music,
0:12:47 > 0:12:50it started out with a man like this.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54Where everything has to have a seed, you understand what I'm saying?
0:12:54 > 0:12:58And even though it may have flowered and grown in a different manner,
0:12:58 > 0:13:00you know where the seed comes from,
0:13:00 > 0:13:04and the seed comes from Jamaican sound system culture,
0:13:04 > 0:13:07and one of the spearheads, columns in the UK of this culture
0:13:07 > 0:13:10is this man right here.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13DUB MUSIC PLAYS
0:13:22 > 0:13:24With the success of his label,
0:13:24 > 0:13:28Blacker then set up his record shop in Coldharbour Lane, Brixton.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32I dropped into Blacker's shop in 2012, during the Olympics,
0:13:32 > 0:13:34when Jamaica was dominating the headlines.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36CHEERING
0:13:38 > 0:13:41World record! World record!
0:13:52 > 0:13:56The shop had become a focal point in Brixton, and Blacker had
0:13:56 > 0:14:00become a leading figure in his community.
0:14:00 > 0:14:05He went on to work with the authorities, helping create huge
0:14:05 > 0:14:07local events like Brixton Splash,
0:14:07 > 0:14:10where up to 40,000 people came every year.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17Blacker still has his shop, and we arranged to meet down there with his
0:14:17 > 0:14:21old friend Naptarli, who'd driven me at the funeral.
0:14:21 > 0:14:25- This is Brian Alfonso Rancus.- No, that's a spurious name he's calling me by, Mo.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28- That's a very spurious name. - Brian Alfonso Rancus, yeah. - LAUGHTER
0:14:28 > 0:14:33My name is Naptarli, Brian Bedford, but Naptarli is my street name.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36This is a name that he's just conjured out of his brain.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40- Are you an Englishman? - Am I an Englishman?- Yeah.- No.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42So what are you talking like an Englishman for?
0:14:42 > 0:14:47Because sometimes I do, because I'm able to do that, I sometimes feel...
0:14:47 > 0:14:51..I feel comfortable doing it, cos I've been doing it for many years.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58- Not chatting like me, chat like you.- I can chat like me!- You do say... You drift in and out.
0:14:58 > 0:15:04- Ah, you see? You're a drifter.- But I'm talking for you, I'm not talking...- You're a hybrid.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Well, that's it, I'm talking for her.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09For her or whoever is the audience behind the camera.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13- All right, I hear you, mate.- You understand?- He's a John now, isn't he?
0:15:13 > 0:15:17- He's not like me, innit? He's not Brian any more, he's John. - LAUGHTER
0:15:17 > 0:15:21- You need your glasses, mate.- John, I don't know what he's talking about.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25- Need a glasses to be a Brian, mate. - Glasses to be a Brian.
0:15:25 > 0:15:30- Did you lock your car?- No, we don't lock car out here.- We don't lock our cars around here.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33- I don't lock my car around here. - Not around here.- Can I be here 21 years and still lock my car?
0:15:33 > 0:15:36- No, there's no point. - What about parking tickets?
0:15:36 > 0:15:38- We don't worry about that. - We don't get...
0:15:38 > 0:15:41Parking wardens, they don't give us any problems.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44We've got a man that's in there with a garage.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47- There's a man about a dog there. - He's a man about... Yeah. - LAUGHTER
0:15:47 > 0:15:50REGGAE MUSIC PLAYS When I got to the shop,
0:15:50 > 0:15:55Blacker's older sister June was helping out.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59Yeah. It might look like it's closed, but it's not, all right?
0:15:59 > 0:16:01LAUGHTER
0:16:01 > 0:16:07What no-one had actually told me was the shop was being packed up and was closing down.
0:16:07 > 0:16:13- OK.- Seriously, Blacker, you're going for real?- It's a lot of spending money here.- You're joking!
0:16:13 > 0:16:16- So what do you need to do? - Where's the human chain, then?
0:16:21 > 0:16:24- Right here.- He can't...he can't go.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30- Why is he going?- I don't know.
0:16:30 > 0:16:35No, man. What good if I come here today?
0:16:35 > 0:16:38- Molly...- Why does it matter to you so much?
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Because Blacker Dread's shop is part of the community.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Very much so.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47People would want to help, man, seriously.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50What wasn't clear was why the shop
0:16:50 > 0:16:53was closing and where Blacker was going.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57One way of finding out was to go and mind his car.
0:16:57 > 0:17:02- Car-sitting.- How was it?- Yeah, yeah, everything is great.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04- Car-sitting.- Car-sitting.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08- It's not a good job for a lady of your status, ma'am. - LAUGHTER
0:17:08 > 0:17:12Blacker, where are you going?
0:17:12 > 0:17:15- My suspicion is you're not going on a yoga camp.- Yeah.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18- And you're not going to Jamaica.- No.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21But you're going away somewhere, which is requiring a lot of
0:17:21 > 0:17:26- preparation of life.- Yep. That's right.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29That is perfectly true.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32- What a nightmare.- Yeah, a nightmare.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36I've allowed some things to happen in my life that I should not have
0:17:36 > 0:17:40allowed, and it's come up on top.
0:17:40 > 0:17:44Made some people do some things that
0:17:44 > 0:17:46should've known better,
0:17:46 > 0:17:49but they fucked me over.
0:17:49 > 0:17:54- Oh, God.- Because they fucked me over. You know what I mean?
0:17:54 > 0:17:57- Is it serious?- Yeah. Serious.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Seriously, Blacker?
0:17:59 > 0:18:03Yep. Serious, serious shit.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06Serious shit.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Can I ask what or not?
0:18:08 > 0:18:12Somebody's led me into a predicament, and now I have to face
0:18:12 > 0:18:15the consequences of that predicament.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18I'm just one of those people that just gets on with my life.
0:18:18 > 0:18:22You know what I mean? I'm just one of them youths that, I've never done
0:18:22 > 0:18:26- anything, I don't do anything, I don't do...- What do you mean?- I don't do anything.
0:18:26 > 0:18:30- I don't do anything.- What do you mean, you don't do anything? You mean bad stuff?
0:18:30 > 0:18:33Yeah, I don't do anything, I'm the type of person that don't do
0:18:33 > 0:18:38anything. I'm always the one trying to encourage people not to do shit.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42- That's what I've always done.- Yeah, well, I heard that at the funeral.
0:18:42 > 0:18:47And giving people advice. But I'm just a human being and I make
0:18:47 > 0:18:52mistakes, and if I make a big one then it affects me, and it's going
0:18:52 > 0:18:57to affect everyone else, so I have to just stand up and face my
0:18:57 > 0:19:03judgment. And on Friday I will go to face my judgment,
0:19:03 > 0:19:07and when I face that, I will start
0:19:07 > 0:19:09my countdown from that moment,
0:19:09 > 0:19:13whatever happens in my life, but it will change everything.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20Blacker had been found guilty of money laundering.
0:19:20 > 0:19:24He'd allowed large amounts of money, stolen by someone else, to be hidden
0:19:24 > 0:19:26in his bank account.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29He was due to be sentenced at the end of the week. SIREN
0:19:36 > 0:19:39- Still there? - Yeah, just doing some work.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43People just use this as an iconic place for them. They don't know
0:19:43 > 0:19:46the business of what it takes to keep it going.
0:19:46 > 0:19:51They're not bothered about what makes it, what keeps it going,
0:19:51 > 0:19:54they just want to know that they've got a little place that they can
0:19:54 > 0:19:57say, "This is Brixton, still."
0:19:57 > 0:20:00It's sad he's going, isn't it?
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Yeah, it's very sad, it's like a cornerstone, you know?
0:20:03 > 0:20:07- Not like a cornerstone...- Matter of fact, he's not like a cornerstone, he IS a cornerstone.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09From he's gone there now,
0:20:09 > 0:20:11we usually come to Brixton and you say, "Blacker Dread", and you come
0:20:11 > 0:20:14to Blacker Dread, you say, "Go and link Blacker Dread."
0:20:14 > 0:20:16You know exactly where to go.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19Everybody wants a bit of him.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23So what's going to happen when they can't have him?
0:20:23 > 0:20:28It's going to be like you've lost a great aunt or a great uncle...
0:20:28 > 0:20:32..cos everyone, all the children, it's "Uncle".
0:20:32 > 0:20:35- Yeah.- Whether they belong to us or not. It's "Uncle".
0:20:35 > 0:20:38So what's going to happen now that he's not going to be around
0:20:38 > 0:20:42- for a while?- And he's a figurehead. - Exactly, so...
0:20:42 > 0:20:45And will they know why he's not around?
0:20:45 > 0:20:47Um, the majority of them won't,
0:20:47 > 0:20:50cos it's not something you're going to advertise, is it, really?
0:20:50 > 0:20:54I replied to him and said, "Well, you know..."
0:20:54 > 0:20:58It would be Blacker's first prison sentence.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Martin and his shopping.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03What happens about your locks inside?
0:21:03 > 0:21:07- Nothing. Mine is mine. - You're just allowed to keep them?
0:21:07 > 0:21:09It's mine. Of course, they're mine.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13When did you last cut your hair?
0:21:13 > 0:21:17From the moment I was free of the shackles and the chains,
0:21:17 > 0:21:22and I didn't have to have parental fuss-pottery.
0:21:22 > 0:21:26So I've never had a haircut since I was 14.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29- You don't let it out much, do you? I noticed...- No, no, no, in England I
0:21:29 > 0:21:34don't let it out, because people get kind of, "Oh, my gosh, it's so
0:21:34 > 0:21:38"long! I've never seen anything like that before, can I touch it?"
0:21:38 > 0:21:42"No, you can't." "Please, can I touch it?" "No, you cannot.
0:21:42 > 0:21:46"Ma'am, you cannot touch my hair. OK, let's make a deal,
0:21:46 > 0:21:50"I allow you to touch my hair if you allow me to touch your breast.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53"Is that a good compromise?" "No, no, no, no, no!"
0:21:53 > 0:21:58- I think that's a slightly strange one.- But that's what I'm trying to say...- Yeah.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00..your breast is personal to you,
0:22:00 > 0:22:04as a woman, and you hold it as a private part of your life.
0:22:04 > 0:22:08- Can I see how long now? - Can YOU see?- Yeah.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10I don't want to touch, I just want to see.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13OK, now that's maybe a different request, then.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Yeah, I wouldn't dream of saying, "Can I touch?"
0:22:16 > 0:22:20Especially not under the circs of what you've just said. HE LAUGHS
0:22:20 > 0:22:23See, it works every time.
0:22:23 > 0:22:28I don't mind my locks being shown, cos it's mine, and I have no
0:22:28 > 0:22:32problems with showing my locks, because it is a part of me.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36And some of them have been there for 40 years, cos these are the original
0:22:36 > 0:22:39ones from day one.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42Yeah. This is original from day one.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Do you wear them out in Jamaica? You say you don't wear them...
0:23:16 > 0:23:19LAUGHTER
0:23:19 > 0:23:21It's just to get the chicks going, that's why you do that.
0:23:21 > 0:23:26No, man, no chicks are around there, man. And then, when you flash them and flash them, the water just
0:23:26 > 0:23:30flies, and then I take them and I spin them. Like this.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34And by about one hour, they're dry, and I get some olive
0:23:34 > 0:23:39oil and put it in it, you know? So that's all I do.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42That's it. That's why, you know,
0:23:42 > 0:23:45any time when I have them out, I just do this
0:23:45 > 0:23:47and put them in my pocket.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52While I was at Blacker's,
0:23:52 > 0:23:56Naptarli turned up to show him the new car he's managed to lease.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01He wants to start a legitimate career as a chauffeur.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04- Looking at all the hits on the car. - What hits?- Look!
0:24:04 > 0:24:07That's the accident that they hit me. I'm waiting for my insurance.
0:24:07 > 0:24:12- I don't care! And this tyre...- This is all one accident.- And this up here as well is another accident,
0:24:12 > 0:24:14- yeah?- What? There's no accident there. That's chipped.- What's this?
0:24:14 > 0:24:16- That's not an accident, brother. - What's this?
0:24:16 > 0:24:19- So what is this, then?- That's where somebody grazed me.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22- No, man. I'm not accepting that, man.- What's wrong with this brother?
0:24:22 > 0:24:25The first time you were inebriated, you broke that.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Broke what? No, that's nothing to do with that, Steve. That isn't inebriation.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32Let me tell you what that is. That's parking on the kerb, too close to the kerb.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Could it be something to do with your glasses?
0:24:34 > 0:24:39- Yeah, we need to buy you a pair of glasses.- No, Mo. No, Mo.- Why you driving with them?
0:24:39 > 0:24:43- Because they allow me to, they say I can drive with them.- No, no, no, no, no, reading glasses are reading
0:24:43 > 0:24:47- glasses, my brother.- Here's why they're reading. This part here is for the reading.- Yeah.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51- This part here is for seeing.- Yeah, but you're always looking out that part, down the bottom.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55- I'm looking down to see over the top of the glasses.- You need...you just need a proper glasses, bruv.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58- It is a proper glass! - LAUGHTER
0:24:58 > 0:25:02And then you've got the bloody hat on, that's covering your eyes as well.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04- LAUGHTER - If it's not the hat, it's the towel.
0:25:06 > 0:25:11Naptarli and Blacker have been close friends since they were 13,
0:25:11 > 0:25:13but they've led very different lives.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17- When did that happen? - You forget?- I forgot, tell me.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19December '88, when I got shot by the police.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29Excuse the holes in my vest, it's a work vest.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35Across there...
0:25:35 > 0:25:36..and over here.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41That's quite a serious one.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44It would be, it's a gunshot. They're all gunshot wounds.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48What, it went straight through the arm and out the other side?
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Yeah, and along there.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Tell us the story, Naptarli.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55It's a simple story.
0:25:55 > 0:26:00- Yeah?- Armed robbery, I used to be an armed robber,
0:26:00 > 0:26:05and on our last escapade we went in and demanded money,
0:26:05 > 0:26:08and we came running out and the Barnes police,
0:26:08 > 0:26:12Barnes robbery squad was there, waiting for us.
0:26:12 > 0:26:17And a gun battle ensued between us and the police,
0:26:17 > 0:26:21and two police officers got shot and three of us got shot.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28And I'm here to tell the tale.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33But does it not make you feel a bit of a shit, scaring someone?
0:26:33 > 0:26:36No, not really, not...
0:26:36 > 0:26:40Not then. In those days I was...I didn't really care less. I just was
0:26:40 > 0:26:42looking out for me and myself.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46- Oh.- You know, and...
0:26:46 > 0:26:48- You feel different now?- Yeah, we used to smoke cocaine in those
0:26:48 > 0:26:51days, so we used to,
0:26:51 > 0:26:55we were high up on cocaine, as in fearless.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58So, because we were fearless,
0:26:58 > 0:27:01anything comes, anything goes.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Didn't really worry about it.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08What's the price you've paid, though?
0:27:08 > 0:27:12Spending time away from my...
0:27:12 > 0:27:19..loved ones, and missed out on the growing up of my children.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22Missed growing up with them.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25- Grandfather, what are you doing? - Yeah, I'm running from the camera.
0:27:25 > 0:27:30More of Blacker's old friends have turned up to help dismantle the shop.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32The camera there, see one there, see one there.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35They're all around. You can't hide.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38- This is Grandfather.- My agent told me I have to cover up.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41- These are your agents. - LAUGHTER
0:27:41 > 0:27:44REGGAE MUSIC PLAYS
0:27:47 > 0:27:50How long have you known them, as a family?
0:27:50 > 0:27:53I've known them 40-odd.
0:27:55 > 0:27:59He's really caught up at the moment.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03You know? And trying to come to terms with the loss.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06In time he will get there, but at the moment he's...you know?
0:28:06 > 0:28:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12But it's a sad thing, you know?
0:28:12 > 0:28:16Especially when we are saying how you're close to that individual,
0:28:16 > 0:28:21you know? Cos he's just getting over his son...
0:28:21 > 0:28:24His son also died as well.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27You know, and he's getting over that, and then his mum here now,
0:28:27 > 0:28:30- so it's a double for him, you know? - What's going on, my soldier?
0:28:30 > 0:28:36- You good?- Yeah.- Yeah? You're getting big, man. Yeah, man.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38How did he lose his son?
0:28:38 > 0:28:42Some street battle.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44Street, you know?
0:28:47 > 0:28:49Oh, let's see that.
0:28:53 > 0:28:57And he walks with me, wherever I go.
0:28:57 > 0:29:02- You see what I'm saying?- That's a fantastic shirt.
0:29:02 > 0:29:06It's like a war wound, you understand?
0:29:06 > 0:29:11You go to the war and it's there, you know?
0:29:11 > 0:29:16- This bag is yours?- Yeah, you can manage this as well, at the same time?
0:29:16 > 0:29:20Now wasn't the right time to ask Blacker about Solomon.
0:29:20 > 0:29:23I knew he'd been killed violently on the streets, but I wondered why
0:29:23 > 0:29:27Blacker had called it a war wound.
0:29:27 > 0:29:31What it is, right, I was on a building site, yeah?
0:29:31 > 0:29:35We're not getting racial, right, but I was on a building site and a white
0:29:35 > 0:29:40man said to me that, "The other day I took up a magazine, and I read the
0:29:40 > 0:29:44"magazine and it was an article with the National Front,
0:29:44 > 0:29:46"and you know what the National Front said?"
0:29:46 > 0:29:48He said, "Thank God for the Yardies."
0:29:48 > 0:29:51So I'm thinking, "Why would he say that?"
0:29:51 > 0:29:54"Because we don't have to do black people anything no more,
0:29:54 > 0:29:57"they're doing themselves harm.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00"We don't have to be killing black people or going and burning down
0:30:00 > 0:30:02"their houses or offending black people."
0:30:02 > 0:30:05It's a black-on-black thing, what's happening now.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10The black youths don't respect their culture or their skin. They need
0:30:10 > 0:30:14to start going into their culture and get to know their culture.
0:30:14 > 0:30:17You get me? They need to start learning about their culture.
0:30:17 > 0:30:19They know nothing about their culture.
0:30:19 > 0:30:23They know nothing about Africa, they know nothing about the West Indies.
0:30:23 > 0:30:27They need to know where their parents came from and the struggle they went through.
0:30:30 > 0:30:34I wanted to ask June about Solomon but an old friend of her mother's was
0:30:34 > 0:30:36passing by.
0:30:36 > 0:30:38I thought it was June that was your girlfriend.
0:30:38 > 0:30:39What's your profession?
0:30:39 > 0:30:42- What do you do?- He's retired, he's an OAP, darling.
0:30:42 > 0:30:43My profession?
0:30:43 > 0:30:45- Yeah, but what was it?- He used to...
0:30:45 > 0:30:47Engineering, engineer, Post Office.
0:30:47 > 0:30:50British Telecom, stop it.
0:30:50 > 0:30:51- Eh?- British Telecom.
0:30:51 > 0:30:56I had the best time with Post Office, Government.
0:30:56 > 0:30:58I'm living happy.
0:31:00 > 0:31:03When we came here, England was England.
0:31:08 > 0:31:12Third and fourth generation, no love at all, no love.
0:31:12 > 0:31:17They're not like we. We would pass and say good morning, good evening.
0:31:17 > 0:31:19They're not like we.
0:31:24 > 0:31:26Will you tell me about Solomon, what he was like?
0:31:26 > 0:31:28- She can tell you.- As a person?
0:31:28 > 0:31:33- No, no.- Oh, go on. - It's too emotional for me.- It is very emotional for you, though.
0:31:33 > 0:31:35- Yeah, yeah.- You were very close to him?- Yeah.- She was.
0:31:35 > 0:31:38And although it's been...it's ten years this year...
0:31:39 > 0:31:42..it's... Yeah.
0:31:42 > 0:31:46I know, cos Steve's still got the DVD and he's never watched it.
0:31:46 > 0:31:49- Yeah, I've never watched it either. - I've never watched it either.
0:31:49 > 0:31:52- The DVD?- Of his funeral. And I've never, ever watched it.
0:31:53 > 0:31:54How was he killed?
0:31:54 > 0:31:58- They shot him.- He was shot in his head.
0:31:58 > 0:32:03- In the head.- Did they ever find out who did it?
0:32:03 > 0:32:05- Nope.- Serious?
0:32:05 > 0:32:09Up until today, it's an unsolved case.
0:32:09 > 0:32:11Is anyone trying to solve it?
0:32:11 > 0:32:12Hm.
0:32:19 > 0:32:24I borrowed the DVD from Blacker and found that his mother had delivered
0:32:24 > 0:32:26the graveside eulogy.
0:32:27 > 0:32:30We just want to thank you for Solomon's life.
0:32:30 > 0:32:32We know we can't do nothing for him now.
0:32:32 > 0:32:36You said there's no repentance in the grave or pardon offering to the dead
0:32:36 > 0:32:39so we have got to pray for the ones that are left behind.
0:32:39 > 0:32:43Lord, my family is very, very large and you know, I know,
0:32:43 > 0:32:48and everybody knows, and I pray God for them, especially for the young men.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51Lord, I pray that you'll take them off the streets.
0:32:51 > 0:32:56I pray God that you'll let them be at home where they belong.
0:32:56 > 0:32:58I pray, Heavenly Father, that you'll touch their hearts,
0:32:58 > 0:33:02touch their lives, Lord, and turn things around.
0:33:02 > 0:33:06And I ask you, Heavenly Father, that you will take full control of their
0:33:06 > 0:33:11lives. We don't want to see any more young men like this.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13- ALL:- Amen.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20I see. Everybody's in one
0:33:20 > 0:33:24grave, then? Everyone's in one grave, then?
0:33:24 > 0:33:28With Mummy? Yeah. We've got Daddy, he was number one.
0:33:28 > 0:33:32Solomon's on top of him. And then Mummy's on top of them.
0:33:33 > 0:33:36They're all down there together.
0:33:38 > 0:33:39Mama...
0:33:42 > 0:33:44..brother Martin...
0:33:46 > 0:33:49..father Martin and son Martin.
0:33:50 > 0:33:56- When's Solomon's anniversary? - 31st of December, it will be ten years to the day.
0:33:58 > 0:34:00Ten years to the day.
0:34:03 > 0:34:05I think the longer it is, just the worse it gets.
0:34:08 > 0:34:12They shoot him. Drive-by killing.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16They set him up and shoot him.
0:34:16 > 0:34:18But the law don't care.
0:34:18 > 0:34:25You know what I mean? I've never had a conversation with the police in charge of the case.
0:34:26 > 0:34:30What did he do, Solomon? What was his thing?
0:34:31 > 0:34:35Solomon was a street youth. He'd been away,
0:34:35 > 0:34:38done a robbery, got some time for it.
0:34:38 > 0:34:44He came out in December and died in December, so it's not like he had a chance
0:34:44 > 0:34:48to even change his life if he wanted to.
0:34:48 > 0:34:52He didn't get the opportunity to wake up one morning and feel the spirit
0:34:52 > 0:35:00of the Almighty hold him and say, "Come, son, I'll take you home."
0:35:02 > 0:35:0624, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I never took any exams at school.
0:35:06 > 0:35:09- Why?- My knowledge is of the street.
0:35:11 > 0:35:17I don't know if I'm academically wise. I know I'm streetwise and I learned
0:35:17 > 0:35:23my education from the ghetto college of education, further education.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27It's called ghetto-ology.
0:35:27 > 0:35:32And do you think there's a freedom in that or a price to pay?
0:35:32 > 0:35:37You pay the price of probably missing out on the opportunities of
0:35:37 > 0:35:43being a part of the so-called society.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49I grew up in the '70s and '80s, you know.
0:35:49 > 0:35:52There was no opportunity for us.
0:35:52 > 0:35:57It was token black time, when token blacks were given token jobs.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00- You don't think it's different now? - No.
0:36:00 > 0:36:07- Really, no?- You ask all the youths in the community around Brixton if it's any different now.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12Don't ask me. I had my chance and I did what I did.
0:36:12 > 0:36:18But you ask the youths, because when they grow up and they're telling their story like I am,
0:36:18 > 0:36:22they're going to say the 2000s,
0:36:22 > 0:36:282010 to 2020 were the hardest times in the history of England.
0:36:30 > 0:36:36How much youths were dying, how much youths were in jail, how much youths couldn't get jobs.
0:36:47 > 0:36:49Do you want a hug? Do you want a hug?
0:37:06 > 0:37:08Where are you? Upstairs?
0:37:08 > 0:37:11Yes. I'm downstairs eating my breakfast.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14OK, you make your own breakfast now?
0:37:14 > 0:37:20Blacker's youngest son, JJ, goes to school in Jamaica, where he lives with his mother, Maureen.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22Sorry, excuse me, sir.
0:37:23 > 0:37:28You see me make my breakfast every morning. There's no difference to this morning, is there, Daddy?
0:37:28 > 0:37:30No. No, son.
0:37:30 > 0:37:32No, son.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34SIREN
0:37:35 > 0:37:37That's the sound of Brixton.
0:37:39 > 0:37:42- And how often do you talk to them? - Every day.
0:37:44 > 0:37:45Every single day.
0:37:47 > 0:37:49- Every day.- Why does he...?
0:37:49 > 0:37:52Why have you got a son who goes to school in Jamaica?
0:37:52 > 0:37:56Because of England. England has messed up a couple of my other children,
0:37:56 > 0:38:01they end up in prison now, whatever, but the system, their oppression,
0:38:01 > 0:38:06all kind of crap, saying he's a bad child, he's this, he's that,
0:38:06 > 0:38:07he's the other.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10And now he's in Jamaica, he's an A student.
0:38:10 > 0:38:13So what does that tell me as a father?
0:38:13 > 0:38:16They had actually told us... The school in
0:38:16 > 0:38:19the UK told us that Jahmel does not belong in a mainstream school.
0:38:19 > 0:38:24They said that you have some children that cannot deal with mainstream
0:38:24 > 0:38:28schools and Jahmel is one of them.
0:38:28 > 0:38:33- Whoa.- So, you know, what do you do? So if my child stayed in the UK,
0:38:33 > 0:38:37he would have ended up in a pupil referral unit full-time.
0:38:40 > 0:38:42When I was 13, I was...
0:38:42 > 0:38:47..I got involved with some wayward people at school that were...
0:38:47 > 0:38:53- They were unruly like myself. - Yeah.- And we just did silly things and I never got a chance to finish
0:38:53 > 0:38:58school because of my waywardness at school and so I ended up in the
0:38:58 > 0:39:00children's home and...
0:39:00 > 0:39:05- Why? Where were your parents? - Well, they were here, they did their best. But you know when you buck up
0:39:05 > 0:39:09with some people and then you don't want to listen to what Mum is saying
0:39:09 > 0:39:14any more, you know, and before you realise it is too late.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19- Then what happened to you? - Approved school.
0:39:19 > 0:39:20Borstal.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23Children's home. Detention centre.
0:39:23 > 0:39:30To prison. Ten years in prison then two years in prison in France.
0:39:33 > 0:39:37- So if you've only been out for three years...?- Yes.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40But before that you were in for how long?
0:39:40 > 0:39:44- For two years.- Oh, OK.- And then before that for ten years.
0:39:47 > 0:39:50- Too naughty. - Too naughty.
0:39:50 > 0:39:53- He was knighted?- No, naughty.
0:39:53 > 0:39:55Knighted? Yes, that would be nice!
0:39:55 > 0:39:59He was a naughty boy. He was a bad boy.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01All right, all right, all right.
0:40:01 > 0:40:05Tomorrow morning, Blacker goes for sentencing.
0:40:05 > 0:40:07Word's got out.
0:40:07 > 0:40:09- I saw you.- Yeah.- Love you to the max.
0:40:09 > 0:40:11- All right? Sorry about that.- Yeah, man, respect.
0:40:11 > 0:40:15- Everything OK?- Yeah, man. - Family well?- Yeah.- God bless you.
0:40:15 > 0:40:17- I'm going to come look for you, all right?- All right.
0:40:17 > 0:40:19Can you take me in the morning?
0:40:19 > 0:40:20Yeah, you going to come to my house?
0:40:20 > 0:40:22No, cos I've got no transport.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25- I won't have no transport. - Get you from where?
0:40:25 > 0:40:30- The Vale. It's on the way. - It's not on the way.
0:40:30 > 0:40:33- It is!- Are you going as well?
0:40:33 > 0:40:36- Of course I'm going. - Why do so many of you go?
0:40:36 > 0:40:37Because...
0:40:37 > 0:40:41- ..we go.- Because you've got a family and you've got a support system and
0:40:41 > 0:40:43those kinds of things, you know what I mean?
0:40:43 > 0:40:46Like, a lot of people, when they are facing these things, they don't have anyone.
0:40:46 > 0:40:48It's just them.
0:40:48 > 0:40:50One and God. But he's got family and people that care, innit?
0:40:54 > 0:40:55Hello.
0:40:56 > 0:41:00Some of the family have come round to be with Blacker on his last night at home.
0:41:02 > 0:41:04Hello.
0:41:04 > 0:41:09Five, six, seven, eight, nine pairs of socks.
0:41:09 > 0:41:14- June, why are you doing all of this? - Hmm?- Why are you doing all this?
0:41:14 > 0:41:16I'm listing so he knows what's in there.
0:41:16 > 0:41:18They're packed to go,
0:41:18 > 0:41:23like you're packing on a holiday and that. It's not holiday, you know?
0:41:23 > 0:41:27Yeah, and you're forced to go to a place where you don't want to go.
0:41:27 > 0:41:29Have you ever been in one of those places?
0:41:29 > 0:41:31More than I would like to count.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33Really?
0:41:33 > 0:41:38- I ironed my underpants and my vest. - Proper perfectionist.
0:41:38 > 0:41:41No, his mother does these things.
0:41:41 > 0:41:46Look in my drawer, I ironed my underpants, I ironed everything.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48I ironed my sheets,
0:41:48 > 0:41:52I ironed my pillowcases and my towel, if you don't watch it, as well.
0:41:52 > 0:41:55Daddy's got OCD.
0:41:55 > 0:41:56Why, Blacker?
0:41:56 > 0:41:59Why? I don't know, it's just what I do.
0:41:59 > 0:42:03I didn't think of... Is it not normal?
0:42:03 > 0:42:06I don't know what normal is, Dad, but...
0:42:06 > 0:42:08I don't know nobody else that iron...
0:42:08 > 0:42:10- So, you don't iron your underpants? - No! What for?
0:42:10 > 0:42:12People don't iron socks.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15You take your socks out, you put them down like this,
0:42:15 > 0:42:19and you go like that and you roll them and you sit them down.
0:42:19 > 0:42:23My baby brother, sometimes I have to love you cos you iron your socks.
0:42:23 > 0:42:26Oh, my God, my brother irons his socks! Oh, God!
0:42:26 > 0:42:28You never seen it?
0:42:46 > 0:42:50- Yo, sis, put down that bag. - Come on, baby, get in.
0:42:55 > 0:42:59- I'm driving.- No, me.- Hold this.
0:42:59 > 0:43:00PHONE RINGS
0:43:00 > 0:43:03REGGAE MUSIC PLAYS
0:43:37 > 0:43:39- How are you?- Tony. - No, I'm all right.
0:43:39 > 0:43:40Who were you talking to, Blacker?
0:43:45 > 0:43:48And what did he say to you?
0:43:56 > 0:43:57So, it's a shock.
0:43:58 > 0:44:01So he said tears are coming down his face.
0:44:06 > 0:44:10She's getting married in Jamaica, and Daddy's not going to be there to give her away.
0:44:14 > 0:44:16It's Corinne who's about to get married.
0:44:16 > 0:44:19She's one of Blacker's elder daughters and a probation officer.
0:44:22 > 0:44:24- Good morning.- Morning.
0:44:26 > 0:44:27Ebony is another of his daughters.
0:44:27 > 0:44:30In fact, quite a few of Blacker's children have come.
0:44:32 > 0:44:34Remember, her mum said that we mustn't come in, innit.
0:44:49 > 0:44:52The judge sentenced Blacker to two and a half years
0:44:52 > 0:44:55and in his summing-up dismissed him as a failure.
0:44:55 > 0:44:59You've failed, you've failed and you've failed again.
0:44:59 > 0:45:01You know what, he needs to not take in those words.
0:45:01 > 0:45:04No, he hasn't failed, that's his opinion.
0:45:04 > 0:45:05He doesn't know him from nowhere.
0:45:05 > 0:45:08No, but listen, someone so stupid that the fact they think Dad was the instigator.
0:45:08 > 0:45:10Do you know how stupid that sounds?
0:45:10 > 0:45:11I don't think that word "failure"...
0:45:11 > 0:45:14- I don't think he's failed.- ..should penetrate. That's what I'm saying.
0:45:14 > 0:45:17He'll be out next week. Next year, June.
0:45:17 > 0:45:20See, look at that. Fuck me,
0:45:20 > 0:45:22- that's all right. - Well, that's it, isn't it?
0:45:22 > 0:45:23- It is what it is.- Yeah. - It is what it is.
0:45:23 > 0:45:26So he only has to look after his ass for a couple of months, a year.
0:45:26 > 0:45:29For a year. For a couple of months. Look after himself.
0:45:29 > 0:45:32Are you crying? Stop it. Please, stop it.
0:45:36 > 0:45:40There's times when I'm at home and I think about him, and my mind goes to
0:45:40 > 0:45:42him, and I think, "Fucking hell, Steve."
0:45:42 > 0:45:45You know, what he's going through in there now, where he is.
0:45:45 > 0:45:50Because I've been in the same place many a time, so I know that part of it.
0:45:50 > 0:45:52I feel that pain.
0:45:52 > 0:45:55There's times when I know even as a man he will sit down,
0:45:55 > 0:45:58and because he's there he will sit down and cry.
0:45:58 > 0:46:01He will cry. To himself, when there's no-one around.
0:46:05 > 0:46:09For Naptarli, it's now life on the outside that's the struggle.
0:46:09 > 0:46:10I only washing up.
0:46:10 > 0:46:15And he waits for me to come home from work at half past six to cook, sometimes seven.
0:46:15 > 0:46:17Cos she does it so nice.
0:46:17 > 0:46:22It turns out he can't get a licence to be a chauffeur because of his criminal record.
0:46:23 > 0:46:26As the man I have to help provide,
0:46:26 > 0:46:29and not providing how I should be providing.
0:46:29 > 0:46:32And it hurts me to...
0:46:32 > 0:46:34I'm...frustrated.
0:46:36 > 0:46:37Because I feel inadequate.
0:46:39 > 0:46:43Is this just, as it were, sort of just deserts,
0:46:43 > 0:46:46that you sit here thinking, "Shit, now what?"?
0:46:47 > 0:46:48What would you say to that?
0:46:50 > 0:46:51I know you will have something to say.
0:46:51 > 0:46:54Life is not fair, is it? Life ain't fair.
0:46:55 > 0:46:57Life is not fair. I did what I did.
0:46:58 > 0:47:00I paid for what I did.
0:47:01 > 0:47:03I paid for what I did.
0:47:03 > 0:47:05I was incarcerated for many years.
0:47:06 > 0:47:09And that's my just deserts.
0:47:09 > 0:47:13So, now, I'm still a human being and I'm still alive,
0:47:13 > 0:47:16so what are you going to do with me?
0:47:16 > 0:47:19Are you going to make me live and be dependent on you?
0:47:19 > 0:47:21No.
0:47:21 > 0:47:23Fend for yourself.
0:47:23 > 0:47:28But because of your situation, we've taken away your liberty
0:47:28 > 0:47:31from you and we just dropped you in...
0:47:31 > 0:47:35..in a pond, now, for want of a better word.
0:47:35 > 0:47:41You need assistance to get going and be straight like everyone else.
0:47:42 > 0:47:45Cos if you don't straighten up like everyone else, then you just end up back where you was.
0:47:56 > 0:47:58I miss him.
0:47:58 > 0:48:00And, like, here,
0:48:00 > 0:48:04I'm in his home looking after his bits and pieces.
0:48:04 > 0:48:07Every time I turn around there's Mum and my dad sitting on one wall,
0:48:07 > 0:48:10there's Solomon on the other wall, and there's Steve sitting up there,
0:48:10 > 0:48:13and they're all smiling at me and I'm not in a very smiley mood.
0:48:13 > 0:48:17Were you this involved with Blacker before all this began?
0:48:17 > 0:48:18Were you around and helping him?
0:48:18 > 0:48:21Do you know, he was my baby.
0:48:21 > 0:48:23And I was there.
0:48:23 > 0:48:27I was there from the beginning, and he was our baby brother.
0:48:27 > 0:48:28Jean and my baby brother.
0:48:31 > 0:48:32He would have been ten...
0:48:32 > 0:48:37I think he'd only be about eight when he got here, and his dream was to go home.
0:48:37 > 0:48:40It's always to go back to Jamaica and live in Jamaica.
0:48:40 > 0:48:43Not stay here indefinitely,
0:48:43 > 0:48:45die here or anything like that.
0:48:45 > 0:48:50And the only reason why Steve did not go was because of Mummy.
0:48:52 > 0:48:54His heart was never in England.
0:48:55 > 0:48:59He left his heart in Jamaica when he was a child and came here.
0:49:00 > 0:49:02Cos he had no choice.
0:49:04 > 0:49:07Is the house that your mum lived in still there?
0:49:07 > 0:49:11Yes, cos my sister... Oh, my sister made me laugh.
0:49:11 > 0:49:13She said... Cos when we were little
0:49:13 > 0:49:18this house was like a huge, phenomenal thing to us as little ones.
0:49:18 > 0:49:24And my sister said to me, she said, "You know what? Mum's house that we thought was so grand
0:49:24 > 0:49:25"is just like a shack."
0:49:25 > 0:49:27My grandfather's house, which was like...
0:49:28 > 0:49:31..huge to me when I was little, she said, "It's a shack."
0:49:34 > 0:49:38The home they left behind all those years ago is here in the parish of
0:49:38 > 0:49:40Saint Thomas, Jamaica.
0:49:40 > 0:49:42So, this is all the family plot?
0:49:42 > 0:49:44That, there.
0:49:48 > 0:49:51Is Blacker's mum's, Pauline's old house?
0:49:51 > 0:49:55No, it's where my great-grandmother used to live.
0:49:55 > 0:49:57Some of the family still live here now.
0:49:57 > 0:50:03In fact, June's son Nicky is living here at the moment and he's brought me out here.
0:50:03 > 0:50:06That's Anne Marie.
0:50:06 > 0:50:09So, this is... Whose place is this, then?
0:50:09 > 0:50:10Mine.
0:50:11 > 0:50:14And down there is Steve Martin.
0:50:14 > 0:50:16That's what he left. Who lives there now?
0:50:16 > 0:50:19I've got a cousin staying in there.
0:50:19 > 0:50:21The main reason I'd come out to Jamaica
0:50:21 > 0:50:25was to meet Blacker's son JJ, who I'd only met on Skype.
0:50:29 > 0:50:32Don't worry, I'll play another one, hopefully I'll win that.
0:50:33 > 0:50:35Is this going to go on BBC News?
0:50:35 > 0:50:38Well, I think it'll probably go on prime-time television.
0:50:38 > 0:50:40- Yeah, you playing your game.- OK.
0:50:40 > 0:50:43- I think so.- What, like, everybody in the world's going to see it?
0:50:48 > 0:50:49What are you going to do when you grow, do you think?
0:50:49 > 0:50:52- What would you like to do?- I would want to be a wrestler.
0:50:52 > 0:50:54- Do you?- Yeah.
0:50:56 > 0:50:57I would want to be a wrestler.
0:50:59 > 0:51:02My other profession would be a footballer,
0:51:02 > 0:51:04if I don't get to do that.
0:51:04 > 0:51:07You don't want to follow your academic work?
0:51:07 > 0:51:09Well, if I had to, I will.
0:51:10 > 0:51:13- You're so clever.- I know. Thank you.
0:51:18 > 0:51:22JJ lives in Kingston, which is two hours from the family plot.
0:51:22 > 0:51:25Some people get a ride on the back or front of the car.
0:51:25 > 0:51:26They don't want to pay you, though.
0:51:31 > 0:51:34LOUD REGGAE MUSIC PLAYS
0:51:37 > 0:51:41- 30 for them?- Yeah, 60 you get two. - Come on, man, 20 for them.
0:51:50 > 0:51:54You want bagjuice? 20 for bagjuice?
0:51:59 > 0:52:04In two days' time, JJ has to sit entrance exams for secondary school.
0:52:04 > 0:52:08And when you get those good grades that you're proud of and you turn
0:52:08 > 0:52:10around and say you didn't think that you could do it but you did,
0:52:10 > 0:52:13just remember that feeling.
0:52:13 > 0:52:15I didn't say I didn't think I could do it.
0:52:15 > 0:52:19Remember the feeling you had when we looked at your report card the other day?
0:52:19 > 0:52:20- Yeah?- And you got what?
0:52:20 > 0:52:2391.2, I know I could do it.
0:52:23 > 0:52:26- Absolutely.- What did you get? - 91.2.
0:52:26 > 0:52:31But I wasn't surprised, because I knew I could do that, but I know I can do better.
0:52:31 > 0:52:33- That's right.- Yeah.- You can do better.
0:52:33 > 0:52:36I can get 100% if I focus more.
0:52:36 > 0:52:39So, I don't think you're going to be a wrestler.
0:52:39 > 0:52:42Well, I could be, cos you have to use your brain to be a wrestler.
0:52:42 > 0:52:44You have to know what moves, when to do it.
0:52:44 > 0:52:48So, everything you have to use your brain
0:52:48 > 0:52:52when you're doing it, like how to pour a bag of sugar into a pot,
0:52:52 > 0:52:54you have to put the exact amount.
0:52:54 > 0:52:56THEY LAUGH
0:52:59 > 0:53:00That's where I put my science book.
0:53:00 > 0:53:03You know the work that you've done in those extra books that she gave you,
0:53:03 > 0:53:07- and you need to bring back those books.- I have to do extra work.
0:53:07 > 0:53:09Extra work pays off!
0:53:09 > 0:53:11How long has he been at school out here?
0:53:11 > 0:53:16- Four years.- Four years. - Yes.
0:53:16 > 0:53:17This month makes four years.
0:53:19 > 0:53:24One thing that Jamaica has taught him is that
0:53:24 > 0:53:26he's not different.
0:53:26 > 0:53:32He's not different. He is a normal boy that has lots of energy.
0:53:32 > 0:53:35That's like a lot of the boys out here.
0:53:35 > 0:53:36In the UK...
0:53:38 > 0:53:40..he was being taught that he's not normal.
0:53:40 > 0:53:44They thought he had ADHD, they thought he was autistic,
0:53:44 > 0:53:47they thought he was this, that... He was just rude.
0:53:47 > 0:53:53He was just rude, rude, rude, rude, rude.
0:53:53 > 0:53:55- But I had brains.- And... Yes,
0:53:55 > 0:54:00he's always had a brain, because he knew how to wind the teachers up.
0:54:00 > 0:54:02- This is in England? - Yes. Yes.
0:54:02 > 0:54:06And because the teachers are powerless to do anything
0:54:06 > 0:54:09because your government over there has made them powerless to do things,
0:54:09 > 0:54:11so they can't even touch a child,
0:54:11 > 0:54:15cos if they touch a child then they're frightened of losing their job,
0:54:15 > 0:54:17then of course the children are going to run wild.
0:54:17 > 0:54:19That's what he done, he ran wild.
0:54:19 > 0:54:20I kicked a teacher.
0:54:20 > 0:54:22- Did you?- Yeah, I remember that.
0:54:22 > 0:54:24And I got... It's like in an article, and Daddy had to come for me.
0:54:24 > 0:54:27He was cursing all the way home.
0:54:27 > 0:54:29When he was going to mainstream school,
0:54:29 > 0:54:34practically every day apart from maybe one or two days a week...
0:54:35 > 0:54:38..they called us in to come and pick him up.
0:54:38 > 0:54:43Do you feel here, too, do you feel the teachers are more interested in you here?
0:54:43 > 0:54:49Well, yeah. Like, they might be hard on you, but they're more interested of you helping...
0:54:49 > 0:54:53They want to help you get somewhere.
0:54:53 > 0:54:55So, if they want you to help get somewhere,
0:54:55 > 0:54:59as well as teaching you the work, they want you to have, like...
0:54:59 > 0:55:03They want you to have behaviour so when you grow up you know your manners
0:55:03 > 0:55:07and respect for elder people, so you can say please and thank you and hello and good morning.
0:55:07 > 0:55:11So they teach you discipline at the same time as they teach you the work.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13So it's a good thing.
0:55:13 > 0:55:15But England, they didn't teach me that.
0:55:15 > 0:55:20All they taught me was my behaviour, I wasn't anything good.
0:55:20 > 0:55:26And I was believing it, but when I came to Jamaica I realised that what they were saying was not true.
0:55:32 > 0:55:37- And who is this?- My sister, Colleen, Dad's daughter.
0:55:37 > 0:55:38Whoa.
0:55:39 > 0:55:41This is just your morning costume?
0:55:43 > 0:55:44- Yeah, basically.- You look fab.
0:55:44 > 0:55:47Oh, gosh! Good morning.
0:55:47 > 0:55:48Good morning!
0:55:48 > 0:55:53Good morning! Good morning!
0:55:56 > 0:55:59- Jahmel?- Yes?- What are you doing, baby?
0:55:59 > 0:56:02- I'm waiting on you. - Are you going to come?- Yes.
0:56:02 > 0:56:04You got your bag, you got everything?
0:56:04 > 0:56:07No. Not got everything.
0:56:07 > 0:56:09I haven't got everything.
0:56:09 > 0:56:10You were sitting in there on the phone
0:56:10 > 0:56:13and you haven't even done your wallet, you haven't put on your watch.
0:56:13 > 0:56:15So, you are not ready, and I'm ready to go through the door.
0:56:15 > 0:56:18- Yeah.- You were sitting on your phone, Jahmel.
0:56:18 > 0:56:21That's why I'll take the phone away from you.
0:56:21 > 0:56:23Because if you don't know when to put down the phone and look about
0:56:23 > 0:56:26getting yourself ready, I will take the phone away from you.
0:56:27 > 0:56:30All right? This is what I keep on saying.
0:56:30 > 0:56:35It's a distraction, and until you know how to use it responsibly, I won't let you have it.
0:56:38 > 0:56:39That's fair enough, right?
0:56:41 > 0:56:43Bye.
0:56:43 > 0:56:44Bye, Jahmel, see you at school.
0:56:56 > 0:56:59What about Jahmel? At the moment, does he know or not?
0:56:59 > 0:57:02No. No, no, no, he doesn't.
0:57:02 > 0:57:07And he's not going to until his father is ready to tell him.
0:57:07 > 0:57:10We've discussed it and we've said,
0:57:10 > 0:57:14yes, he does need to know, but he doesn't need to know now.
0:57:14 > 0:57:19- Yeah.- And it's going to be a conversation that him and his father will have,
0:57:19 > 0:57:22because his father is going to have to explain to him
0:57:22 > 0:57:24what he'd done, what he'd done wrong.
0:57:24 > 0:57:27You know, why it was wrong, and this is what happened to him
0:57:27 > 0:57:31because of the wrong that he done. But then for Jahmel to process that,
0:57:31 > 0:57:33he's going to be seeing his father in the flesh.
0:57:35 > 0:57:37Maureen, how is it for you?
0:57:37 > 0:57:40Yeah, for me, put it this way. I think I can talk for...
0:57:40 > 0:57:44It's not just me, it doesn't matter who you are, it doesn't matter what background you are,
0:57:44 > 0:57:49I don't think anybody sets out to end up in jail.
0:57:49 > 0:57:51I don't think anybody does.
0:57:51 > 0:57:54When you think about life and the things we've done in life,
0:57:54 > 0:57:58you know, even if it's to do with the taxman, you're fiddling a bit of tax.
0:57:58 > 0:58:00Now, I know people have got their business,
0:58:00 > 0:58:02you know, it's about getting a good accountant.
0:58:02 > 0:58:04When you've got a good accountant
0:58:04 > 0:58:07then you're trying to pay the least amount of tax as possible.
0:58:07 > 0:58:12Technically, that's illegal, if you think about it, but we all do it.
0:58:12 > 0:58:16Because it's about surviving. It's about surviving.
0:58:16 > 0:58:21Because life is hard, so, sometimes things come your way,
0:58:21 > 0:58:24an opportunity comes your way and...
0:58:26 > 0:58:27..you think about it...
0:58:29 > 0:58:33..for a split second, and you just probably think about the glory side of it
0:58:33 > 0:58:36but you're not really thinking about "what if..."
0:58:36 > 0:58:41And it's that split second that you say, "All right, gonna try a ting."
0:58:41 > 0:58:46And you try that ting and you're going to say, "Yeah, if it work, it go nice."
0:58:46 > 0:58:50And, you know, if it works, it's going to be nice and nobody's going to be none the wiser.
0:58:50 > 0:58:51But if it doesn't work...
0:58:52 > 0:58:55..your whole world can be blown apart.
0:58:56 > 0:58:57And that's what it is.
0:58:57 > 0:59:03It's the difference between, "Yes, I'm going to do it," "No, I'm not." Simple.
0:59:03 > 0:59:06And it was a yes or no decision. He went with a yes.
0:59:08 > 0:59:12And that's it. And then your whole world gets turned upside down
0:59:12 > 0:59:14just because you said yes.
0:59:14 > 0:59:16And that's what life is about, life is about choices.
0:59:24 > 0:59:29Back in London, Naptarli has managed to get a job driving a van for an agency.
0:59:30 > 0:59:33At the moment he's delivering to charity shops.
0:59:35 > 0:59:38- My name is Brian. - Brian?- Yeah.
0:59:39 > 0:59:41Thank you, Brian. Very helpful.
0:59:51 > 0:59:54- Now, where's the bloody key? - Why do you enjoy it?
0:59:55 > 0:59:59I'm giving back. I feel like I'm, you know, helping out...
1:00:01 > 1:00:04..from society, so to speak,
1:00:04 > 1:00:09as a man who spent a portion of his life taking.
1:00:11 > 1:00:12It's all in a day's work.
1:00:19 > 1:00:22PHONE RINGS
1:00:22 > 1:00:27- Hello!- Hi, is this the right time that I can talk to you?
1:00:27 > 1:00:30Well, you can, in a way, yes, you can, but...
1:00:33 > 1:00:36- Good clothes!- Good clothes! - THEY LAUGH
1:00:38 > 1:00:41Yes, hello?
1:00:41 > 1:00:46Yes. You do remember the conversation that we had...
1:00:46 > 1:00:50- I don't.- ..regarding... ..regarding the arrears.
1:00:50 > 1:00:52Right, OK, yes.
1:00:52 > 1:01:00So, as of now, as of today the arrears are £3,352.49.
1:01:00 > 1:01:02Yep, I'm hearing this. Jesus.
1:01:02 > 1:01:07OK. So, we want you to
1:01:07 > 1:01:12come to some kind of payment plan where you can actually start paying more.
1:01:12 > 1:01:15Obviously, yes. Yeah, I would imagine that, yeah.
1:01:17 > 1:01:19What do you work as?
1:01:19 > 1:01:21I'm a driver.
1:01:21 > 1:01:24OK, and how many hours do you work?
1:01:24 > 1:01:29It depends. That's the thing, I don't work every day of the week.
1:01:29 > 1:01:36Sometimes, because it's an agency, I might not have work tomorrow.
1:01:36 > 1:01:38And how much do you get paid?
1:01:38 > 1:01:42For me to tell you a set wage weekly, I can't.
1:01:42 > 1:01:44It doesn't work like that.
1:01:44 > 1:01:47The sooner you come and sort this out, the better to...
1:01:47 > 1:01:49Obviously, yes, yes, yes.
1:01:49 > 1:01:52OK. We will see you next Thursday, then, yeah?
1:01:52 > 1:01:55- Yes, madam. Yes, bye-bye. - Bye-bye.- Bye.
1:01:58 > 1:02:02Isn't it? That's the world I live in, Molly.
1:02:02 > 1:02:05I don't get the break that I want.
1:02:05 > 1:02:08Cos the world is not a nice place.
1:02:10 > 1:02:13- It doesn't forgive. - Well, it's just that you are...
1:02:14 > 1:02:16- Doesn't forgive. - It doesn't really forgive.
1:02:19 > 1:02:22It's just you started on your straight journey so late.
1:02:22 > 1:02:25Yes, that's the problem.
1:02:27 > 1:02:30The world is awash with money.
1:02:30 > 1:02:34It's awash with fucking money but...
1:02:35 > 1:02:40..people who need what they need to get by and be comfortable
1:02:40 > 1:02:44can't get nothing, they get swindled out of it.
1:02:44 > 1:02:49You must just put up with your lot, so to speak,
1:02:49 > 1:02:53but the big guy, or big guys,
1:02:53 > 1:02:59can get around it anyhow they can and get around it and it's OK.
1:02:59 > 1:03:03And it's just total bollocks.
1:03:03 > 1:03:07It does make someone like me who is of the other side of the track,
1:03:07 > 1:03:10or who has been on the other side of the track,
1:03:10 > 1:03:12say to yourself, "Fuck me, man,
1:03:12 > 1:03:15"I just want to do criminality all the time."
1:03:15 > 1:03:16Cos, you know,
1:03:16 > 1:03:19if that's what you know to get yours
1:03:19 > 1:03:21then you want to do it when you see these other shit.
1:03:24 > 1:03:29But conscience, you know, you have a thing called conscience.
1:03:29 > 1:03:32- Also you have a thing called prison. - Yes.
1:03:35 > 1:03:37And these guys in front of you!
1:03:37 > 1:03:38HE LAUGHS
1:03:45 > 1:03:49After 15 months in prison,
1:03:49 > 1:03:54Blacker has been released, and JJ and Maureen have come from Jamaica.
1:03:54 > 1:03:55HE SHOUTS AND LAUGHS
1:03:57 > 1:04:00- Comfortable now?- No, no!
1:04:00 > 1:04:02Now we can do the interview.
1:04:02 > 1:04:06This is, yeah... This is called child crutality.
1:04:06 > 1:04:10- This is child crutality. - You can't do that, that's horrible!
1:04:10 > 1:04:12- No!- That's horrible!
1:04:12 > 1:04:14That is not nice!
1:04:14 > 1:04:17Hang on to the rope already! Hang on to the rope... Aagh!
1:04:17 > 1:04:19Oh, excuse me.
1:04:19 > 1:04:21All right...
1:04:21 > 1:04:24- Daddy loves you so much. - I can't get up, man!
1:04:24 > 1:04:26How long since you two have been together fighting?
1:04:26 > 1:04:31I've not beaten him up for 17, let me see, 12...
1:04:31 > 1:04:35..19 months, I haven't been able to beat him up.
1:04:39 > 1:04:42Blacker, what did you tell JJ?
1:04:42 > 1:04:43I just sat him down
1:04:43 > 1:04:47and I told him the whole "shangbangdiddlybangsking".
1:04:47 > 1:04:48Everything.
1:04:49 > 1:04:56And he was very receptive to it and he sat down and he listened intently
1:04:56 > 1:05:00and he was like... Could see he was shocked, could see he was shocked
1:05:00 > 1:05:03because nobody had told him anything, which was brilliant,
1:05:03 > 1:05:05and I explained to him, I said,
1:05:05 > 1:05:08"Listen, your family and your friends have done what I asked.
1:05:08 > 1:05:10"So don't have anything against them,
1:05:10 > 1:05:14"don't think anybody was keeping a secret from you, it was my request."
1:05:17 > 1:05:18Tell me what you got.
1:05:18 > 1:05:20- What, my average?- Yeah.
1:05:24 > 1:05:28Well, when I did the actual exam it was easy to me
1:05:28 > 1:05:29and when I got my results...
1:05:31 > 1:05:32..I wasn't surprised.
1:05:32 > 1:05:34Mummy wasn't surprised either
1:05:34 > 1:05:36because we knew I was going to cut it.
1:05:36 > 1:05:38Most of my grades were 95.
1:05:38 > 1:05:41- Yeah.- Which you were one of the top ten.
1:05:41 > 1:05:42No, the top six.
1:05:42 > 1:05:45- He was in the top six.- Yeah.- Wow.
1:05:47 > 1:05:50Top six, top of the class, ain't he?
1:05:50 > 1:05:52- Yeah.- OK.
1:05:56 > 1:05:58What was it like in there, Blacker?
1:05:58 > 1:06:01That... It's crazy. It's rubbish.
1:06:01 > 1:06:07What are they doing, they throw you behind the door and the judges,
1:06:07 > 1:06:11the politicians, they don't care, you're behind the door,
1:06:11 > 1:06:13that's it, another one off the road.
1:06:13 > 1:06:16It's crazy. For the amount of black people that's in prison
1:06:16 > 1:06:22in a country that's allegedly only got 5 million of us or 6 million,
1:06:22 > 1:06:26whatever the amount, that total of us is terrible.
1:06:26 > 1:06:29That means somebody's failing somewhere
1:06:29 > 1:06:33so it's either coming from when you're a child at home,
1:06:33 > 1:06:35your parents have failed you,
1:06:35 > 1:06:37then the society has failed you in school
1:06:37 > 1:06:42because as you're a young black boy, if you are militant, you're trouble.
1:06:42 > 1:06:46And I'm not going to be bothered with trouble so we put you in that little naughty corner,
1:06:46 > 1:06:50or send you out to the headmaster's office or something like that
1:06:50 > 1:06:53and that's it. And then you grow up feeling left out,
1:06:53 > 1:06:56you grow up feeling that you're not a part of what's going on,
1:06:56 > 1:06:58so then when you get on the street
1:06:58 > 1:07:01you're still not a part of what's going on so you become
1:07:01 > 1:07:05what you would never have been if somebody had taken that five minutes
1:07:05 > 1:07:08just to put you aside and give you a good talking-to.
1:07:09 > 1:07:12So tell me what happened to you at school.
1:07:12 > 1:07:13I took my 11 plus.
1:07:13 > 1:07:17I got a very good mark but I was told to take the 11 plus again.
1:07:17 > 1:07:22I just knew they didn't believe that I could just come to England
1:07:22 > 1:07:25and be able to take that 11 plus.
1:07:26 > 1:07:30I got good results and I went to grammar school in Penge.
1:07:30 > 1:07:34It was only, like, four or five black boys in the school, yeah,
1:07:34 > 1:07:37so Mr Jenkins used to pick me up
1:07:37 > 1:07:39and drive me up the road,
1:07:39 > 1:07:43far away from where the boys used to stand up and wait for you
1:07:43 > 1:07:47cos they'd wait by the gate. So you jump over the back fence
1:07:47 > 1:07:48and make a run for it,
1:07:48 > 1:07:51you see the bus coming, you know the bus is coming,
1:07:51 > 1:07:55you know you can run so you'd, like, wait until they thought you couldn't get the bus
1:07:55 > 1:07:57and you make a run. Boom.
1:07:57 > 1:07:59And just run and jump the bus,
1:07:59 > 1:08:03and it was like a cat-and-mouse thing with me and them for years,
1:08:03 > 1:08:07so it was a godsend when I had to move school.
1:08:08 > 1:08:11Did your parents know what was happening?
1:08:11 > 1:08:12Mum never knew because
1:08:12 > 1:08:15you couldn't tell her, I say I get beat up,
1:08:15 > 1:08:18you couldn't tell her that people beat you up, yeah?
1:08:18 > 1:08:20And you can't tell her
1:08:20 > 1:08:22that you're running from people
1:08:22 > 1:08:25because she never bring us come England to be scared of anybody,
1:08:25 > 1:08:28she bring us come England for want of a better life.
1:08:34 > 1:08:35My daughter's getting married.
1:08:35 > 1:08:40So I'm supposed to... I signed the paper two nights ago,
1:08:40 > 1:08:44the man came and gave me a paper to sign to say that
1:08:44 > 1:08:46it's one second before midnight.
1:08:46 > 1:08:50Blacker's daughter Corinne had changed her wedding plans
1:08:50 > 1:08:54so her father could give her away, but he's out on tag.
1:08:54 > 1:08:55Could you tell that to my wife?
1:08:55 > 1:08:58I didn't get a letter from Corinne or anything like that
1:08:58 > 1:09:02so she's worried that I'm making it up. Thank you.
1:09:04 > 1:09:05Hello, good evening.
1:09:08 > 1:09:11- OK.- What's it look like?
1:09:12 > 1:09:14- It's a little thing. - Oh, it's tiny.
1:09:17 > 1:09:19- I see.- See it?
1:09:19 > 1:09:21Thank you very much.
1:09:21 > 1:09:23OK, all the best. Thank you, bye-bye.
1:09:28 > 1:09:30Here we go, you got permission.
1:09:30 > 1:09:34- See?- Make sure you get your backside in the house long before 12 o'clock,
1:09:34 > 1:09:36otherwise I'm going to beat you.
1:09:36 > 1:09:38I'm so happy!
1:09:52 > 1:09:56Thank you for your gifts, yeah, thank you very much for your gifts.
1:09:56 > 1:09:57Yeah, see you.
1:09:57 > 1:10:00- Oh.- Come on, Daddy.- Oh, baby.
1:10:00 > 1:10:01Let me hold you.
1:10:04 > 1:10:06Oh, my word.
1:10:07 > 1:10:09Nice. I want your dress.
1:10:09 > 1:10:11- Lovely day as well.- But you knew you were going to get this day.
1:10:11 > 1:10:14Listen, remember we were going to Jamaica? Jamaica came to us.
1:10:14 > 1:10:17Remember I said that to you, because you've changed it.
1:10:17 > 1:10:19- You remember what I said?- Yeah.
1:10:19 > 1:10:22Cos you've changed it, you're going to get the best day of the year.
1:10:24 > 1:10:27MUSIC: Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran
1:10:27 > 1:10:31# Darling, I will be loving you till we're 70... #
1:10:36 > 1:10:38Wicked, wicked!
1:10:38 > 1:10:43# And, baby, my heart could still fall as hard at 23
1:10:46 > 1:10:48# And I'm thinking 'bout how
1:10:48 > 1:10:54# People fall in love in mysterious ways
1:10:54 > 1:10:59# Maybe just the touch of a hand... #
1:11:02 > 1:11:04You all right?
1:11:04 > 1:11:06You all right, bruv? Thank you.
1:11:06 > 1:11:09- You look beautiful. - Congratulations.- Wonderful, super.
1:11:11 > 1:11:13Thank you, thanks.
1:11:13 > 1:11:16- Beautiful.- Thank you.- It was really nice, though, you know?
1:11:16 > 1:11:17- Was it?- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:11:17 > 1:11:20- It just went by so quick. - Yeah, yeah.- Really quick.
1:11:20 > 1:11:21And so is the rest of the day.
1:11:21 > 1:11:23I'm so glad that you're here to see.
1:11:23 > 1:11:26Yeah, man, what do you mean? This is, like, my world.
1:11:26 > 1:11:28If I wasn't here I would be so upset.
1:11:28 > 1:11:30I don't think... I would have been mad today.
1:11:30 > 1:11:33- Yeah.- I think I would have been crazy. Yeah.
1:11:36 > 1:11:38And I've always wanted
1:11:38 > 1:11:41to walk one of my children down the aisle,
1:11:41 > 1:11:44one of my daughters, cos I have about six of them, right?
1:11:44 > 1:11:47And so, Corinne,
1:11:47 > 1:11:50I thank you so much for today.
1:11:50 > 1:11:55After all the sadness and all the sad things that we go through,
1:11:55 > 1:11:59you know, today is a day with bare joy, bare love,
1:11:59 > 1:12:02bare happiness, bare smiling.
1:12:02 > 1:12:05And, Dwayne, respect, my brother.
1:12:05 > 1:12:08I'm glad to say you turned my daughter into a wife, yeah?
1:12:08 > 1:12:10LAUGHTER
1:12:10 > 1:12:13Yeah, give me a kiss, babes, I need it.
1:12:13 > 1:12:15- Thanks, Dad.- Blessed.
1:12:15 > 1:12:16APPLAUSE
1:12:23 > 1:12:25MUSIC PLAYS
1:12:25 > 1:12:27Where's the best man? Where's the best man?
1:12:40 > 1:12:44Just as the party's getting started, Blacker has to leave.
1:12:45 > 1:12:48He has to be home in time for his curfew.
1:12:58 > 1:13:01- Bye, stranger!- See you, baby. - You all right? See you soon.
1:13:08 > 1:13:10Thanks for a nice day, Miss Molly.
1:13:10 > 1:13:14- Thank you.- I know I got up your nose two times for the day.
1:13:17 > 1:13:18Bye!
1:13:23 > 1:13:26Tomorrow, Maureen and JJ are going home to Jamaica.
1:13:27 > 1:13:31And in six weeks, as soon as his tag is off,
1:13:31 > 1:13:33Blacker will be free to follow.
1:13:34 > 1:13:36# I do my own whatsit
1:13:36 > 1:13:39# You know what a whatsit?
1:13:39 > 1:13:43# Some people don't know what a whatsit, they can't do a whatsit. #
1:13:45 > 1:13:47Hoover thieved my locks.
1:13:51 > 1:13:53Hoover tried to thieve my locks.
1:13:57 > 1:13:59# ..judgment, murderer!
1:13:59 > 1:14:01# Blood is on your shoulder. #
1:14:01 > 1:14:03I'm listening to some Buju Banton.
1:14:06 > 1:14:09Blacker's shop was leased to someone else while he was away.
1:14:09 > 1:14:11And it's now a dress shop.
1:14:13 > 1:14:16The whole of Brixton is changing as well as Blacker's life.
1:14:18 > 1:14:20On the house.
1:14:20 > 1:14:24We are what? We're opening soon, on the house.
1:14:24 > 1:14:26So what is that they're opening there?
1:14:26 > 1:14:28It's an estate agent.
1:14:28 > 1:14:31Oh, bloody hell, yes.
1:14:31 > 1:14:33That's about right, innit?
1:14:35 > 1:14:36Another one here.
1:14:37 > 1:14:39There's another one there.
1:14:40 > 1:14:43That's why they wanted to get me out, you see - "We get Blacker out,
1:14:43 > 1:14:44"we can do what we want.
1:14:44 > 1:14:48"When Blacker's here, everyone's coming to Brixton to see Blacker,
1:14:48 > 1:14:51"we can't afford to do anything while he's here.
1:14:51 > 1:14:55"Get that bugger out. Have to get him out of Brixton, mate."
1:14:55 > 1:14:57Who's that? The great silver wonder?
1:14:57 > 1:14:59Yeah!
1:15:00 > 1:15:02- It's the great silvey. - Silver wonder in person.
1:15:02 > 1:15:04Mr Martin.
1:15:04 > 1:15:06- Rasta.- You good?- Yeah, man.
1:15:06 > 1:15:09- Brethren!- Who's that? My sister.
1:15:09 > 1:15:12I'm good, I'm good, I'm good.
1:15:12 > 1:15:14- Irie?- Yeah, I do.
1:15:15 > 1:15:16Blacker.
1:15:16 > 1:15:19- Oh, Lorna. This is my cousin Lorna from America.- Greetings.
1:15:19 > 1:15:21- Hello, Lorna from America. - And this is my sister Joanne.
1:15:21 > 1:15:23- Hi, Joanne.- This is Blacker Dread.
1:15:23 > 1:15:27- Greetings.- Blacker Dread is one of the characters of Brixton. Trust me.
1:15:27 > 1:15:28- I remember you.- Do you?
1:15:28 > 1:15:30You were so upset the shop was shutting.
1:15:30 > 1:15:34I was. And I was going to point out his shop to you and show you.
1:15:34 > 1:15:37This is one of our famous Brixton landmarks.
1:15:37 > 1:15:40- OK.- And then I see him. That's good.- Yeah, you see.
1:15:47 > 1:15:50I'm not making what happened to my mum and dad happen to me.
1:15:50 > 1:15:53I'm sure when they left Jamaica it wasn't forever...
1:16:09 > 1:16:11Has England been good to you?
1:16:11 > 1:16:13No, sir.
1:16:13 > 1:16:14No?
1:16:14 > 1:16:19England good to me in terms of the education in learning, life.
1:16:19 > 1:16:21I can't film you against the window, cos you're so dark,
1:16:21 > 1:16:24you're going to have to sit down. I'm so sorry!
1:16:26 > 1:16:28- But you go silhouetted. - You're being racist now,
1:16:28 > 1:16:30you're being racist now, Molly, man.
1:16:30 > 1:16:32It's not, it's about video exposure.
1:16:32 > 1:16:34OK. So I'm going to sit down here all day.
1:16:34 > 1:16:36What did you mean, learning about life?
1:16:36 > 1:16:39I mean there were so many things happening and your brain,
1:16:39 > 1:16:41as a little youth, you don't even think.
1:16:41 > 1:16:43Describe the sort of things.
1:16:43 > 1:16:45When I'm working at Crystal Palace
1:16:45 > 1:16:47and all these big footballers used to be there
1:16:47 > 1:16:50and you can't believe these are the guys you're seeing
1:16:50 > 1:16:52on your black-and-white TV.
1:16:52 > 1:16:55Match Of The Day. And these are the same guys you're walking past,
1:16:55 > 1:17:00I was allowed to walk through the place because I was staff.
1:17:00 > 1:17:02I used to sell programmes walking around the pitch.
1:17:02 > 1:17:06They used to curse me, "Oi, nigger, come sell me a programme."
1:17:06 > 1:17:10"Hey, you little black cunt, come here." Things like that.
1:17:10 > 1:17:14I used to get abused like nobody's business, but I love football
1:17:14 > 1:17:18so I didn't care about the abuse, because I'm getting abused when I'm walking on the road,
1:17:18 > 1:17:22I'm getting abuse when I'm on the bus, I'm getting abused when I'm going shopping,
1:17:22 > 1:17:23I'm getting abuse when I go to school,
1:17:23 > 1:17:26so if I get abused at football matches it's just the next abuse.
1:17:26 > 1:17:28It doesn't really matter to me.
1:17:28 > 1:17:30What do you mean by abuse - what kind of things?
1:17:30 > 1:17:34I mean racial abuse, when people are cursing you and telling you to
1:17:34 > 1:17:37go back on the jam jar, you little gollywog, you know what I mean?
1:17:37 > 1:17:39"Black bastard" and...
1:17:45 > 1:17:48What, because they say that it's better?
1:17:48 > 1:17:52You got the people that believe that it's better, let's just be real.
1:17:52 > 1:17:56Forget all that hype about diversity - diversity is a word.
1:17:56 > 1:18:00It's a word, it doesn't walk, it doesn't live, it doesn't breathe,
1:18:00 > 1:18:04it's not like a piece of grass or a tree leaf that comes from the ground
1:18:04 > 1:18:07that's grown. It's a word that people, all right...
1:18:09 > 1:18:10A black child...
1:18:12 > 1:18:16..a child that's born in a mixed relationship, yeah?
1:18:16 > 1:18:20We used to call them half caste, now you can't call them half caste,
1:18:20 > 1:18:24why not? Cos it's not politically correct.
1:18:24 > 1:18:26So all these new words,
1:18:26 > 1:18:30all they've done is swept it under the carpet,
1:18:30 > 1:18:31so when you go under the carpet,
1:18:31 > 1:18:35all the dust and the mites and everything is living under there
1:18:35 > 1:18:38now, there's a world under that carpet that you're not seeing.
1:18:38 > 1:18:42You don't even know that it's there but it's there and when anything
1:18:42 > 1:18:45happens, you're going to see who is who, yeah?
1:18:45 > 1:18:47You will see who is who.
1:18:47 > 1:18:49I ain't no racist person, you know?
1:18:49 > 1:18:51But I'm on the side of reality, yeah?
1:18:51 > 1:18:56And what I like, when I go to Jamaica, black Prime Minister,
1:18:56 > 1:19:02black finance minister, black police, black people,
1:19:02 > 1:19:05and that's what I see. When I was a kid in Jamaica, you know,
1:19:05 > 1:19:10I used to see white people and we used to say, "Look at the white man there,"
1:19:10 > 1:19:14but we never, ever thought of hating that white person.
1:19:14 > 1:19:15It was...
1:19:15 > 1:19:19You love them, you bring them in because they look so different,
1:19:19 > 1:19:22so you just want to be around them to see what is this person,
1:19:22 > 1:19:25why is this person's skin different? Why is their hair different?
1:19:25 > 1:19:28Why do they talk like that? Why do they do the things they do?
1:19:28 > 1:19:31When you come to England, it's a complete different thing.
1:19:31 > 1:19:34You land in their country, they don't want you here!
1:19:40 > 1:19:41Oi!
1:19:43 > 1:19:44Hello!
1:19:46 > 1:19:47Mr Man!
1:19:48 > 1:19:50What are we going to do?
1:19:50 > 1:19:53- We're going over to north-west London.- Yes, I know that much.
1:19:53 > 1:19:56And we're going to a gathering.
1:19:56 > 1:19:59- Yes?- And it starts at two, finishes at four
1:19:59 > 1:20:03and it's just a solidarity thing to do with the family of...
1:20:03 > 1:20:04- Sylvia's family?- Yes.
1:20:06 > 1:20:09- NW10.- Do you like my posh sat nav?
1:20:09 > 1:20:12- Posh, isn't it?- Cos you have one in the car ain't working
1:20:12 > 1:20:15cos there's no point in putting in crap sat nav like that,
1:20:15 > 1:20:18- those days are over.- Yeah, mate.
1:20:18 > 1:20:21Turn right, A23 Brixton Road...
1:20:21 > 1:20:24I know what I'm doing, I'm not exactly going to follow this.
1:20:24 > 1:20:26- I won't be following him.- OK.
1:20:28 > 1:20:31Turn left, then sharp right.
1:20:31 > 1:20:33Shut up, man, we know where we're going.
1:20:33 > 1:20:36Sharp right means your immediate bloody right,
1:20:36 > 1:20:37that's what a sharp right means.
1:20:37 > 1:20:40Yeah, and it also means driving with due care and attention.
1:20:40 > 1:20:41No, no, no!
1:20:41 > 1:20:43Actually, you can use this lane - what am I doing?
1:20:43 > 1:20:45- You sure?- Yes, yes!
1:20:45 > 1:20:48- There's no-one else there. - No, you're allowed to use the lane.
1:20:48 > 1:20:50I remember the other day.
1:20:50 > 1:20:52I came down here and look, see, look.
1:20:52 > 1:20:54If I'm turning left I can use this lane.
1:20:54 > 1:20:58Turn left, A3213 Drummond Gate,
1:20:58 > 1:21:01then take the second right.
1:21:01 > 1:21:05REGGAE MUSIC PLAYS
1:21:10 > 1:21:13- THEY SING ALONG:- # ..to the edge of the boom, hey! #
1:21:13 > 1:21:17Turn left, Doyle Gardens, then you've reached your destination.
1:21:19 > 1:21:21Yeah, left.
1:21:24 > 1:21:26OK, I can see crowds already.
1:21:30 > 1:21:31Where can I park?
1:21:32 > 1:21:34Can I park on the corner?
1:21:34 > 1:21:35Yeah, we can park on the corner.
1:21:35 > 1:21:37We're going to park on the bloody corner.
1:21:42 > 1:21:44So this is the school?
1:21:44 > 1:21:45Yeah, must be there, innit?
1:21:47 > 1:21:49Fucking hell.
1:21:51 > 1:21:53The gathering we've come to is a vigil.
1:21:53 > 1:21:56The child of a friend of Blacker's
1:21:56 > 1:22:00was murdered outside his school last week by another boy.
1:22:00 > 1:22:05..killing a child, and that is not OK on our streets, in our community,
1:22:05 > 1:22:07that is not OK!
1:22:07 > 1:22:09Yep, that's right.
1:22:09 > 1:22:12Me and Quamari been brethrens for so very long
1:22:12 > 1:22:18and I was fortunate enough to talk to him on the day that he died.
1:22:18 > 1:22:23Quamari was one of the realest people I ever met
1:22:23 > 1:22:24and it just saddens me,
1:22:24 > 1:22:28when I did find out the news, my body went numb.
1:22:28 > 1:22:31- Yeah.- I told my mum,
1:22:31 > 1:22:32I was Instagram
1:22:32 > 1:22:36and had to find out that one of my good, good friends is passed.
1:22:36 > 1:22:39And I couldn't even walk down the stairs,
1:22:39 > 1:22:43I'm walking on the street and I'm seeing someone and I'm thinking
1:22:43 > 1:22:46it's Quamari and I know that I can't even call his number
1:22:46 > 1:22:49because the phone won't ring or something like that.
1:22:49 > 1:22:51And it really saddens me.
1:22:51 > 1:22:55I know I don't shed no tears yet, but this really affects me.
1:22:55 > 1:22:57And I just want, as black people,
1:22:57 > 1:23:00cos I am black and that's all I know,
1:23:00 > 1:23:02and I want us all to be together.
1:23:02 > 1:23:06How come every other single culture can be together but we can't?
1:23:06 > 1:23:08Talk the thing! Talk the thing!
1:23:08 > 1:23:13- Yes, talk the things.- Black people are always fighting over nothing.
1:23:13 > 1:23:15As a black youth myself, I think that...
1:23:17 > 1:23:25..us black boys especially, we don't value our other people.
1:23:27 > 1:23:31But we'd rather go and fight people, go and stab and shoot people,
1:23:31 > 1:23:35- and it's just for what? - Talk it, son.
1:23:35 > 1:23:39Because you're going to go and stab and shoot people and end up in prison.
1:23:39 > 1:23:43There's no use in prison, you can't do nothing in prison.
1:23:43 > 1:23:46We have to really realise that a lot of us black people,
1:23:46 > 1:23:48we don't know the value of this colour.
1:23:48 > 1:23:53We want to walk and go and lighten our skin to go and get a job.
1:23:53 > 1:23:55APPLAUSE
1:23:55 > 1:24:00So we need to understand, we've got something important and valuable.
1:24:00 > 1:24:03That's all I have to say, but we all love Quamari
1:24:03 > 1:24:07and I'm happy on behalf of him that we've all come out.
1:24:07 > 1:24:08Yes!
1:24:13 > 1:24:17# Old pirates, yes, they rob I
1:24:17 > 1:24:21# Sold I to the merchant ships
1:24:22 > 1:24:26# Minutes after they took I
1:24:26 > 1:24:29# From the bottomless pit
1:24:29 > 1:24:35# But my hand was made strong
1:24:35 > 1:24:39# By the hand of the Almighty
1:24:39 > 1:24:44# We forward in this generation
1:24:44 > 1:24:48# Triumphantly
1:24:48 > 1:24:56# Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?
1:24:56 > 1:25:00# It's all I ever have
1:25:00 > 1:25:04# Redemption songs
1:25:04 > 1:25:08# Redemption songs. #
1:25:14 > 1:25:16Beautiful flowers you got there.
1:25:16 > 1:25:19Yeah, my sister bought them for me. She's always buying me flowers,
1:25:19 > 1:25:21cos she knows I love flowers.
1:25:21 > 1:25:23- Gene.- Really?
1:25:23 > 1:25:26Yeah, she's a darling, she's always buying me flowers.
1:25:26 > 1:25:29Today would have been Solomon's birthday.
1:25:29 > 1:25:32They're going to open up now and go...
1:25:36 > 1:25:38I keep telling you, you're killing them.
1:25:38 > 1:25:40You need to stop putting them in this.
1:25:40 > 1:25:42That's why I need a couple of those, I can't help it,
1:25:42 > 1:25:44I like to see the things up, babes.
1:25:44 > 1:25:46- Right?- But every time he puts them in there I take them out,
1:25:46 > 1:25:49you know, because they're just going to die.
1:25:49 > 1:25:50Which one's he putting in?
1:25:50 > 1:25:52No, what he does, he puts them just in the ground
1:25:52 > 1:25:55and then what happens is that they all just die after a day
1:25:55 > 1:25:57- and they need water. - Blacker just sticks those?
1:25:57 > 1:25:59He just, yes, he just sticks them in the ground.
1:25:59 > 1:26:01- Like that.- It looks like it belongs there.
1:26:01 > 1:26:03But it's going to die.
1:26:03 > 1:26:05- Cos it can't...- Yeah, but the point is that when I come,
1:26:05 > 1:26:08I like to see the beauty of the flowers,
1:26:08 > 1:26:10- that's why I don't bother with the plant.- And we want longevity.
1:26:12 > 1:26:14Come here, sweetheart.
1:26:14 > 1:26:17Solomon's older sister Serita arrives.
1:26:17 > 1:26:18You're taking liberties, you know?
1:26:18 > 1:26:22Followed closely by one of Blacker's sisters, Kim.
1:26:26 > 1:26:29- We've been waiting!- Hi, people.
1:26:29 > 1:26:30Hi, people.
1:26:30 > 1:26:33Bit by bit, the whole family start to arrive
1:26:33 > 1:26:37because it's also the anniversary of Blacker's mother's death.
1:26:37 > 1:26:39Look, we've got them here!
1:26:39 > 1:26:43Come, we brought all our knives, we got rid of our knives.
1:26:44 > 1:26:47I have not seen you since the West was won.
1:26:47 > 1:26:51- Since the West was won.- I haven't seen you since the West was won.
1:26:54 > 1:26:57- This is for Mummy.- That music?
1:26:57 > 1:27:00Yeah, that music is for her, it's all her church songs.
1:27:00 > 1:27:02And she likes it.
1:27:02 > 1:27:05We've been coming up here from we was little children for my dad
1:27:05 > 1:27:09over 30 years. And it's just a place to, like, remember
1:27:09 > 1:27:12and just gather, and my mum likes her flowers and we can put
1:27:12 > 1:27:16a really wicked display on for her. You know what I mean?
1:27:16 > 1:27:19And we're all in one, everyone...
1:27:19 > 1:27:21You know what I mean? We've all got the same feelings.
1:27:24 > 1:27:28Everybody went to Mum for everything and anything.
1:27:31 > 1:27:32She was like the backbone.
1:27:33 > 1:27:38People call their beloved ones rock but she was the backbone, literally.
1:27:41 > 1:27:44It was Blacker's mother who brought him here.
1:27:44 > 1:27:47She was the reason he never went home to Jamaica.
1:27:50 > 1:27:53Now that she's gone, he's free to go.
1:27:53 > 1:27:57It means leaving behind his father, mother, and son at the cemetery,
1:27:57 > 1:27:59and the rest of his family.
1:28:02 > 1:28:04- He's coming, look, he just... - Driver!
1:28:04 > 1:28:07One-stop! Put on the brakes!
1:28:07 > 1:28:09Look, they sent a helicopter for us.
1:28:09 > 1:28:13But being with Blacker has made me understand why Britain has
1:28:13 > 1:28:15never really felt like his home.
1:28:21 > 1:28:23What? The snow is falling,
1:28:23 > 1:28:25England snow, you see this?
1:28:25 > 1:28:28A snow scraper off a window, you know that?
1:28:28 > 1:28:31- What's going on?- God bless.
1:28:32 > 1:28:36MUSIC: Praise Him by Sanchez
1:28:45 > 1:28:48Long time since I seen snow like this.
1:28:51 > 1:28:54# Hey! Hey! It cold!
1:28:54 > 1:28:58# England pretty but it cold, I said England's pretty but it cold
1:28:58 > 1:29:01# I want to go to Jamaica, where the sun shines bright
1:29:01 > 1:29:03# England's pretty but it's cold. #
1:29:03 > 1:29:06- # Hallelujah - Praise his name
1:29:06 > 1:29:09- # Hallelujah - Highest praise
1:29:09 > 1:29:12- # Hallelujah - Every night and day
1:29:12 > 1:29:15# Hallelujah
1:29:17 > 1:29:20# Oh, when I am down and low
1:29:20 > 1:29:23# And the heathen, dem a throw dem glow... #