Ellis Jones
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There were some.
But like if you grow up in a small village in Jamaica and you are told every day Americans are horrible, white people are horrible.
They're the ones who brought you here from Africa.
You're going to have a little chip on your shoulder, too.
And now it's your turn.
Hurt the white man.
There were some guards that made it very uncomfortable for us down there.
So and then there were other ones that were just very strong Christians.
They were like, you need a good.
They're being told these are the worst of the worst American kids.
Like when I was working at a tattoo shop in Largo, a Jamaican lady came in with her granddaughter or daughter or something.
And I was like, oh, I went to that school in St.
Elizabeth.
And she stopped and looked at me like you were in that school.
Like, it's like folklore down there.
Like, America's sending their worst kids.
But it wasn't the case.
Like, you know, some of them were just troublemakers.
Some of them were just spoiled kids who just got kicked out of boarding schools.
Like, and some of them were serious felons.