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Ladi6

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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And then they stopped, and then they jumped out, and then they chased us.

Yeah, and they dragged my friend and ripped up her jeans.

Yeah, we had these iconic kind of โ€“ my dad was one of them.

And then there were, like, other brothers that were kind of more, like, just above our generation that were, like, these iconic sort of โ€“

islanders in our community that we would run to.

So we ended up at his house basically just like telling on them and telling him what happened to us, you know, just to feel safe, just to feel secure.

And yeah, I really, you know, my cousins were some of them as well.

these people in the community that you could feel like you could go to when stuff like that happens and that you felt like they had your back.

You know, my sister's partner, my brother-in-law now, he was one of them also, you know.

So we felt lucky that we had these like, I don't know what you call them, security guards, security guards for our community or just like, yeah, pillars.

So yeah, that was what it was like growing up down there.

And the good part of it, this is the thing that I often forget to mention, is that you feel like a superstar because you're like one of few.

So whatever you do, it's already highlighted.

Like no matter what it is, you're catching the bus, everyone's staring at you.

You're going over here, everyone's staring at you.