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Hi I'm Carole, Dani's mum. Dani probably doesn't know about some of the hassles we've had living here, so I reckon I should tell you... I like the house we live in now, but I can't help remembering the trouble we used to have. My Mum, Dani's Gran, used to try to hide it from us kids when we were young, but I knew she used to get trouble from racist landlords, even though she had a decent job.
I got a council house when I got married, but I don't believe it was coincidence that a lot of black families got housed together - I think the housing people gave us worse places and put us all in one area, where all the oldest council houses were.
We bought this house before Dani was born, and I know some of the neighbours didn't like it. God knows what things would be like now if there wasn't a law against people discriminating, though there's all sorts of ways it still goes on. I know people used to be able to put their house up for sale and say 'to white families only'. Then they used to complain that black people always lived together! |
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