Jeremy Corbyn
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And I worked in a voluntary theatre in Kingston.
No, because I made a lot of friends very quickly in Jamaica of people who were fellow teachers and all sorts of people.
And if I had time, I went to evening events at University of the West Indies just to catch up what's going on there.
No, I was not lonely at all.
Yeah, I was learning a lot about Caribbean history and black history and the history of the Caribbean and the independence movements.
Absolutely, it was my education.
You can't just be reading.
I'm reading history books.
I'm working really, really hard.
and not get involved with people.
A respect and understanding for the way in which people living in desperate poverty do their best to achieve improvements in the lives of others and do their best to try and educate themselves in order to get out of that poverty.
and the sense of injustice that's been done to the people of Jamaica.
The original inhabitants of Jamaica were all wiped out in the first genocide, which was the arrival of the Europeans.