Marion

We're a multicultural society.

It's just so sad that someone like that young woman...

has to be on the end of this experience.

And I would know throughout my life from the group Harmony, from friends, you know, people that have left here because they couldn't cope with that.

I mean, a lot of it, she sounds very resilient, but it must get, life is hard enough without adding this and giving these right-wing yahoos entitlement and no control.

And the government are letting migrants and people be scapegoated for the problems of society.

They're letting talk go on that, oh, it's the cause of homelessness, it's the cause of this.

You know, why aren't we teaching young children all about difference?

And why is it seen as negative rather than positive?

It would be a very dull place if it wasn't.

Sorry for going on so long.

Well, I knew then that society would define his identity.

So I suppose I approached it from a number of, you know, saying, no, not at all, they're just silly people.

I mean, it also has to be age appropriate.

But also to give him a sense of identity, which was partly why when a man called Tony French approached me, who was in an intercultural family as well,

And another, Jude Hughes, who's a black Irish man who's been on the radio a number of times.

And another man, we got together to form this group called Harmony, which was a family organisation, had activities for children to bring them together.

So they weren't, as in those days, the only black child in the class.

Now, subsequently, we became very, we campaigned for legislation.

And of course, legislation is only useful if it's applied.