John Barnes

How many white working class people can't get a job and no one's speaking for them?

So therefore, you have to look at it from a point of view of class, elitism, feminism.

You can't just look at it from race.

And I've never really looked at it from that.

And because I was brought up

and elite family in Jamaica who subconsciously used to discriminate against black working class people in where we lived, where we went to.

We wouldn't mix with work.

A bit like, you know, the way the world is.

So I was fortunate that when I then came to England and this racist abuse started to come to me, I was like, well, you can't be talking about me because I'm a superior person.

Because my life showed me that I'm superior to everybody.

Wrongly showed me that.

You're a bourgeois black.

Well, whatever they want to call it.

You know what I mean?

But that's what my life showed me.

So therefore, I remember when I played and, you know, I'm being racially abused, I looked behind and said, who are they talking to me?

I said, you see where I live?

You see the car I drive?

So you can't make me feel less than.

You can't disenfranchise me.