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Dawn Butler

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  1. “A singer in a band. He had his own band. He got into the charts. I got his record gold-plated for him back in the days when you had to sell like hundreds and thousands of records, no downloads or anything like that. So that was really quite cool.”

    2018-04-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Dawn Butler One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Absolutely. I mean, my dad was a singer, so he'd work during the day and then he would work at night and he would do the pubs and the clubs and things. Some pubs he wouldn't get into, by the way, because they wouldn't allow black people in. But he would sing songs to me at night. So he wouldn't read me stories.”

    2018-04-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Dawn Butler One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “And this is why we have to remember history and teach history in a real way. And this is why we're like in the UN decade of people of African descent and our government has refused to recognize that. And we have to recognize that. And I always remember a line in Labri Safree's song. And he says, you deny my place in time, you squander wealth that's mine. My light will shine so brightly it will blind you. And I think we have to remember not to deny people's place in time.”

    2018-04-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Dawn Butler One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Absolutely, it's all coming back, all that hostility is coming back and it's bringing up real pain. And now it's a generational trauma.”

    2018-04-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Dawn Butler One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Absolutely. I mean, 2018 is going to be 70 years since Windrush, the ship came in and docked in. And this is why it's really quite emotional for me because I see people that look like my parents saying we now feel surplus to requirements. And that's really hard because you think they came in, they struggled, they worked hard. My dad never took a day or sick in his life when he was working on the railways. And he said that with great pride. And I'm like, oh, you know, I was young thinking, but if you're sick and you take a day off and he's like, no, we've come here to work, we're going to work. He never took a day off in sick in his life. And so to feel that, you know, people like that are now surplus to requirements, it breaks my heart.”

    2018-04-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Dawn Butler One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Off and in the windows. Those signings in the windows. The fact that they had to find somebody who would take them in. And so that's why they lived. Five, ten people in one house just because one person got a place and so everybody else together”

    2018-04-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Dawn Butler One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “It means looking at the faces of my parents, their smiley faces when they came to the country, followed by confusion because I listened to the stories of when they came to the mother country. So Britain was always considered as the mother country. And they were greeted by fog and all these houses close together and they thought they were all factories and they couldn't understand why it was so cold and where was the greenery? Where were the pavements paved with gold that they were promised so they actually thought the pavements were paved with gold and they came and they were so shocked and then the hostility and the racism of them trying to find somewhere to live and you know no blacks, no Irish, no dogs.”

    2018-04-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Dawn Butler One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “I'm known for shouting out of my car window for people to pick up rubbish that they've thrown on the floor in Brent. I'm like, what's wrong with you? Why do you want to live in him? Why do you want to live in a clean place? Pick it up. And so I could kind of be seen as the mad MP as opposed to some people. I'm also known to shout out my window for young men to pull up their pants.”

    2018-04-27 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Dawn Butler One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source