Layton Williams breaks down at discovering family connection to slavery

Layton Williams in tears at family slavery connection discovery Source: BBC

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00:00When you're a person of colour, you always know that that is probably the eventuality.

00:04But when you actually kind of have it all spelt out to you,

00:07that your family would have, you know, been enslaved, quite frankly,

00:10to actually think about it and to really know their names

00:13and know that they were children growing up in it,

00:17there's so much black power in that.

00:19And I don't think I've been really, really proud of being a person of colour

00:26and really, like, leaning into, like, I'm a beautiful black man

00:31and I'm proud to have come from people who went through that

00:37but kind of came through the other side, and now I'm going to cry.

00:45It's really...

00:47It's really beautiful, and it's important that we don't forget.

00:56Because it's real, and it happened, and it was sad.

01:01And I'm sure it was awful, but we made it here.