John Barnes
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because you feel superior to me because you're white, and you can't even spell your own name.
You haven't got a job.
Now, I completely empathize with women, black people whose life has shown them that, and they've been completely demoralized and exploited and discriminated against, you know.
But my life, even when I came to England, so I came at 13, and where did I live?
We lived in Highgate.
We lived in Mayfair.
The last six months when my dad got recalled back to Jamaica, we gave him the house.
It was an unrented house.
And we lived in Piccadilly in the Jamaican embassy in a four-bedroom house.
I remember we had to run.
It's so funny because I was running home one day because my dad was training, 16.
I was just training at Watford.
And I'm running home one day.
And it's about 11 o'clock from Hyde Park, running down Piccadilly to go home.
And this policeman started to follow me.
And that used to happen all the time.
But particularly if you're a young black kid running at midnight and it's like night on Piccadilly.
So I'm running in Piccadilly.
I then ran up Conduit Street and we lived in a dead end just off behind Bond Street.
Right.