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“You know what it is for police to drive slow slow slow by you since you is a small man and ask you, “Where I know your face from, boy?” You have to answer. You always have to answer.”
“People vex with the protest but when you watch it is a protest by plenty people who never get beyond Form 2. What you want them to say? What you want them to tell you? This not academic.”
“Boy, I fed up run from police. I didn’t even know why I was running all the time. When we get rounds up is a set ah rankin ting. You know how much slippers man lose? How much side of shoe man leave behind running? You don’t want to face the police.”
“In this society, somebody does call de shot. In my community de gang leaders does call de shot. Everybody have a shot to answer. It might not be the same group of people, they might not call it a gang but it is still a shot.”
“They charge the man in the savannah for grabbing a police hat? They charge he? I can’t do that. I stand up too long in the road and they go rough me. That is why they call us ‘cockroaches,’ ‘one shot,’ we don’t matter. We life don’t matter.”
“I don’t want this political but we does come out to rallies, money pass and we go home and we not good. They tell we that it have free education and social programme here and there and we have too much gangs. So nothing for we. Rally done and we not good.”
“I from Morvant. We from Laventille and Morvant. The government don’t take talk from we. We don’t have no links or person to call. They don’t respect we. They only respect tyres burning and stopping people from going to work in Port-of-Spain.”
“When people talking black this and black that I only taking that talk from few people who living like that. Them people talk but not helping a yute in Laventille who condition poor and mental poor.”
“I know it wrong to have gangs but that is what I grow up seeing. I grow up in a twelve by twelve. I went to school with no money. I didn’t want to be begging. Mother and father in jail. You don’t know how I feel. You don’t live with my scars. You didn’t start from zero."
“These protests is about identity and respect. We poor and we might not be as great in academics and everything and we have wrongdoers but we are people. We mean something. We are people.”
