Short clip: Preet Mooneeram talking about 28 The Parade, Cardiff

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Short clip of Preet Mooneram recalling his father's, Ravi Mooneeram, experiences whilst managing 28, The Parade, Cardiff.

“There were some communities who thought he was in it for himself. I remember there was a community who some of whom attended my school, who took a delegation to the City Hall to complain about him, accusing him of favouritism towards other communities. And that's the last thing he would have done. I mean, there's a shot somewhere amongst all these photographs of him addressing a room full of people from and so called community leaders, self professed community leaders of all backgrounds in this room, basically knocking their heads together and saying, listen to you all because they were supposed to be, you know, having this meeting where they could thrash things out and talk about their differences and, you know, come to agreement. You know, basically, we're all batting on, you know, we're all should be singing from the same hymn sheet about development of kids and all the rest of it. But no, there were these little agendas going on, and he basically tore them a new one that day. And a lot of those people who are now, some lot of whom are not around anymore, but some of those guys for years afterwards, talked about that night. It literally was a sobering moment for them to be talked to like that, and said, yeah, we realize now what we need to do, bringing them together.

As an institution, the parade was, you talk to any one from that time, about 28th parade, they all knew what it meant. You know, people from various communities. Oh, where's Ravi? He’s down in the parade, oh, yeah, okay, I'm going there. They knew what it was, it was like, but it was, you know, some people have a church and they know that's the centre of their community. That's their bond. For various communities across Cardiff, the parade was it.”