John Barnes
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1,771 appearances
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 18 Jun
John Barnes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My mother's family started the first Jamaican government.
My mother's family started the first Jamaican government with Michael Manley, Norman Manley in the 50s.
And what they quickly realised is that this is a new elite black government.
And they're going to discriminate against black working class people and they're black themselves.
So when you talk about bias or racism, it's also to do with class.
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.
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