| Description | Laverne Perkins talks to Dilip Hiro.
Track 1: She talks about the importance of knowing yourself, 1.55 mins
Track 2: Silence, 0.26 mins
Track 3: She talks about her mother, who was a 'creole' girl from Louisiana. She talks about being beaten up at school. She talks about her children, 1.39 mins
Track 4: She talks about her husband, who was killed in a road accident, and about her father, 1.25 mins
Track 5: She continues to talk about her father, who was a Mason, and her father's family. Her father came from Guyana. She talks about things her father used to say, 3.16 mins
Track 6: She talks about Algiers, a town in the American South where she lived after she was born. She talks about playing with a white girl when she was a child and recalls how they stopped being friends when they grew up. She describes her long journey to school, 2.36 mins
Track 7: She talks about the moment when she first became conscious of the city and of the white man. She describes seeing three white sailors kill a black man and says they were tried and sent overseas, 2.15 mins
Track 8: Dilip Hiro asks whether she has seen other incidents like this - she says that she has read about other killings in the papers. She says that black people should defend themselves as individuals and families, 2.28 mins
Track 9: She talks about first coming to New York and says she wanted to go home when she first arrived. She says she still doesn't like New York - it hasn't changed since she's been here, 1.56 mins
Track 10: She says that people in New York haven't changed but she thinks that black people have begun to trust each other a little more. She says that black people should come together, 1.48 mins
Track 11: She says that more black people are running shops and businesses. She says that youth now have more freedom and better education, 2.52 mins
Track 12: Dilip Hiro asks whether she thinks her children will have a better future: she says that they will if she takes an interest, 1.23 mins
Track 13: She says she does not work, she works for her children. She talks about the way black people are treated by the white man in the American South, 3.23 mins
Track 14: She talks about her awareness of her surroundings and the need to know oneself. She compares the world to a body with cancer, 2.43 mins
Track 15: She says that North America should be destroyed and that black people should leave North America, 1.29 mins
Track 16: 0.25 mins
Total: 32.10 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF534B0487180 |