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<i>It was
the summer of my sixth-grade year.</i>

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<i>I was in the pool.
I couldn't swim, but it was hot.</i>

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<i>You know, I was trying to figure it out.</i>

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<i>And these kids, they looked over at me,
and they like, "Oh, we from nine-o."</i>

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<i>I wasn't into none of that,
wasn't thinking about anything,</i>

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<i>and I'm still trying
to paddle up against the wall.</i>

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<i>And I guess they figure,
"Okay, we can take advantage of her."</i>

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<i>Kid kept coming back,
kept splashing water on me.</i>

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<i>One of them come up from behind,
and he holds my head underneath the water.</i>

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<i>I'm scratching and pulling him,</i>

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<i>but he had me underneath the water.</i>

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<i>And the next thing I know,
I hear this one little boy screaming.</i>

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<i>Even though I have water in my ears,
I can hear him screaming.</i>

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<i>I felt the pressure lift off of my neck,
and she pulled me up out of the water.</i>

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<i>She got clothes on still.
She had a skirt on.</i>

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<i>She literally dropped her bags
when she saw what they were doing.</i>

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<i>So she hopped the fence.</i>

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<i>She got into the pool
right where I was at.</i>

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<i>"You better leave her alone!"
One of them, he had a busted lip.</i>

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<i>So she got me out of the water,
and she said,</i>

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<i>"Man, you lucky I was walking by,
and I just happened to see that."</i>

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<i>And her brother was with her,
and she gets him to get her a towel.</i>

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<i>Put her towel over me. She needed
the towel, but she's, "No, I'll dry off."</i>

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<i>And we go to the swings and sit down,
so I can just catch my breath.</i>

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<i>She's like, "You know what? You little.
You need somebody to watch you.</i>

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<i>We about the same age.
I done seen you around here a few times.</i>

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<i>What you doing tomorrow?"</i>

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"Coming back outside,
but I'm not coming back to the pool."

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<i>She's like, </i>"You don't gotta worry
about it. I'll be with you."

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<i>Latasha's mother passed at 1985.</i>

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<i>She was shot in the torso at a club.</i>

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<i>My grandmother couldn't
let them go in the system.</i>

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<i>So my grandmother's main focus
was just to raise her kids,</i>

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<i>and that's exactly what she did.</i>

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<i>She had to step in and step up
to raise and do what she had to do,</i>

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<i>especially for Christina,
Vester, and Latasha.</i>

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<i>I was the only child.</i>

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<i>My mom was in Orange County,
and they were out here.</i>

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<i>I wanted to be with them
'cause they were having more fun.</i>

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<i>Christina, Vester, and Latasha
was my life,</i>

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<i>my brother and sisters,
so I ain't have nobody but them…</i>

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<i>and her, and that's it.</i>

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<i>Latasha was more responsible.</i>

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<i>She used to do Christina's hair,
walk Trell to the park or to the store,</i>

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<i>so she stepped up
and helped my grandmother out so much</i>

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<i>with her brother and sister.</i>

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<i>♪ Double double ditch ditch
Double double ditch dat ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Double ditch, double dat
Double double ditch dat ♪</i>

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<i>We got to get up so early.</i>

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<i>We got to leave at a certain time
to catch the Manchester bus</i>

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<i>all the way out to Westchester,</i>

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<i>where, after school,</i>

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<i>buses be full,
everybody in the back of the bus</i>

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<i>talking smack.</i>

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<i>And it made our ride a little bit quicker.</i>

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<i>We used to get off on Figueroa,</i>

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<i>and we stopped
at Tam's Burger right there.</i>

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<i>My grandmother would give us
two to three dollars a day.</i>

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<i>So we'd hold onto
that two to three dollars a day</i>

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<i>until after school.</i>

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<i>Back in the day,
they had the little… little jukeboxes</i>

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<i>that sit on each table
that you could play.</i>

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<i>Our favorite song was "Stand by Me."</i>

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<i>- ♪ </i>Stand by me<i> ♪</i>
<i>- That song right there, right?</i>

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<i>We used to save our quarter
for that song every day.</i>

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<i>That was our song every day,
and we'd get our fries.</i>

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<i>And we'd walk down Figueroa
all the way home, every day.</i>

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<i>♪ No, I won’t be afraid ♪</i>

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<i>♪ No, I won’t be afraid ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Just as long as you stand ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Stand by me… ♪</i>

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<i>She wanted to be a lawyer,
so that's what she was aiming for,</i>

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<i>to get good grades,</i>

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<i>to help her grandmother out
as much as she can when she did make it.</i>

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<i>She had all A's.</i>

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<i>Popping out them A's.</i>

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<i>You'd think, like,
her mother passed six years prior,</i>

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<i>where's her mind at?</i>

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<i>'Course she talked about her mom,</i>

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<i>but I think she blocked it out
in so many ways</i>

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<i>by keeping busy,
by concentrating on school.</i>

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<i>She just tried a little bit harder.</i>

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<i>She just didn't want to end up
a statistic.</i>

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<i>She would talk about her mom.
She missed her mom.</i>

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<i>She missed her mom a lot,</i>

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<i>and she just told me, "You know,
I remember my mom would pick me up</i>

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<i>and give me the…
give me, like, the biggest hug.</i>

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<i>That's what I remember most about her.</i>

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<i>How she would hug me
and the way she smelled."</i>

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<i>Latasha would always talk about,</i>

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<i>"When we got older,
okay, here goes the plan.</i>

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<i>We could still be lawyers.
That could be our day job,</i>

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<i>and we could own businesses,</i>

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<i>because every time we go into a store,
they either following us,</i>

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<i>giving us dirty looks, disrespecting us.</i>

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<i>Don't… don't you want to have
something of your own?</i>

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<i>We need, like, programs. We need something
where the kids that's outside,</i>

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<i>they can have something to do or somewhere
to go, and we could start up tournaments</i>

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<i>and basketball,"
'cause she loved basketball.</i>

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<i>I used to just go to the park sometimes,
and I would watch her play.</i>

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<i>And she would be
the only girl on the court</i>

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<i>playing basketball
with these Hoovers, these big OGs.</i>

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<i>And we'd play games with the kids
that were younger than us sometimes,</i>

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<i>and we would just have fun.</i>

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<i>A lot of younger kids, they looked at her
almost like the neighborhood big sister.</i>

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<i>♪ I know my body's fragile
Know it's made from clay ♪</i>

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<i>♪ But if I have to go
I pray my soul is still eternal ♪</i>

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<i>♪ And my momma don't forget about me… ♪</i>

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<i>I wanna say it was a Saturday.</i>

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<i>My grandmother asked Trell
to get the orange juice.</i>

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<i>He didn't want to go,
because we just woke up.</i>

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<i>I was up, ready to go
to the movies with Tasha,</i>

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<i>but she was already gone.</i>

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<i>My grandmother asked me
to go get some orange juice.</i>

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<i>Told her, "I don't wanna
get no orange juice.</i>

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<i>Tell Trell or Nookie
to get the orange juice."</i>

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<i>But I wish I had would have went.</i>

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<i>I think Latasha passed
in the morning hours,</i>

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<i>'cause it was breakfast time,</i>

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<i>but the detectives didn't get
to our grandmother's house</i>

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<i>until the afternoon.</i>

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<i>I remember they came.
I was dressed. Christina was at the house.</i>

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<i>Trell was at the park,</i>

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<i>so my grandmother told me
to go run and get Trell.</i>

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<i>He was in the gym playing basketball,
and I remember walking up to him.</i>

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<i>I was like, "Man, they killed her."</i>

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<i>I remember pulling him, talking about,
"Let's go! Something happened! Let's go!"</i>

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<i>We both ran back home.</i>

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<i>All hell broke loose then.</i>

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<i>Word got around that a young Black girl</i>

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<i>got shot over $1.79 of orange juice.</i>

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<i>Everybody just broke down.</i>

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<i>Everybody.</i>

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<i>Went to the store.
It was hot that day.</i>

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<i>I got something to drink.
I had left my bag on the side.</i>

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<i>I said,
"Okay, y'all ain't got to shoot me.</i>

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<i>I'm just coming in
to get this and get out,"</i>

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<i>and the lady looked at me, she said,
"Oh, you heard about what happened</i>

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<i>to the little girl?" And I'm like, "Yeah."</i>

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<i>Didn't know it was my friend yet.
However, my parents knew.</i>

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<i>I didn't know that it was her,</i>

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<i>'cause I had saw her</i>

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<i>probably the day before,</i>

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<i>'cause she was excited
they were going to the movies.</i>

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<i>Go to the park.</i>

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<i>I see Trell, and he's crying.</i>

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<i>He's got tears down his face,
and he's got Latasha's jacket on,</i>

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<i>holding a candle. And I thought,</i>

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<i>"She don't let him wear
her gangster jacket. What's up with that?"</i>

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<i>And he looked at me, looked up,
but he was so hurt,</i>

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<i>he kept doing what he was doing.
So I didn't pay him no mind.</i>

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<i>"I'm not gonna bother him.
I'm just gonna go home."</i>

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<i>Got home, in my own little world,
and my dad comes in.</i>

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<i>He said, "I know you heard about</i>

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<i>the young lady that got shot over…
over an orange juice."</i>

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<i>He said, "Well, at this point,
it's all over the news.</i>

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<i>I can't hide that from you any longer,
because this is something</i>

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<i>where it's going to get out of hand,
and it's gonna get out of hand</i>

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<i>before anybody
can get a real good hold on it."</i>

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<i>So, as he's talking to me, it comes on TV.</i>

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<i>I'm sorry.</i>

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<i>And I saw it.</i>

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<i>I never knew what terror was…</i>

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<i>until I saw it.</i>

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<i>And they kept playing that video…</i>

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<i>over…</i>

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<i>and over.</i>

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<i>And I can only think to myself,</i>

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<i>there was an incident…
a few months prior where…</i>

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<i>…I went into the store with my mom.</i>

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<i>My mother had paid for some candy bars,</i>

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<i>and she said,
"Okay, I'm gonna go back outside.</i>

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<i>I need you to go back in there
and get your brother a candy bar."</i>

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<i>And so I go back into the store.</i>

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<i>I had the bag. The receipt was in the bag.</i>

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<i>I get the candy, and I have my head down</i>

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<i>'cause I'm… I'm counting my money.</i>

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<i>There was… a hooker in the store,</i>

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<i>and she's yelling, "Uh-uh! Uh-uh!
Hold on, hold on, hold on.</i>

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<i>Her momma outside.
I'm gonna go get her momma."</i>

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<i>I look up,
and the lady got the gun cocked.</i>

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<i>And I'm looking down this barrel.</i>

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<i>My mom runs into the store,</i>

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<i>and she said, "Uh-uh, she paid for this.
Here's the receipt.</i>

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<i>Here's the money for this candy bar.</i>

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<i>Tybie, let's go.</i>

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<i>You tell your friends
do not come back to this store,</i>

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<i>'cause this woman's gonna kill somebody."
This was something that we got used to.</i>

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<i>You get </i>used to it,

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<i>and what people don't realize is</i>

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<i>that wasn't the first time
that lady tried to pull something</i>

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<i>on one of the kids in that neighborhood.</i>

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<i>And I remember telling Tasha
a few days later,</i>

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<i>I said, "Yeah,
my mom said don't go back to that store.</i>

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<i>You know, she pulled that gun out again,"</i>

197
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<i>and Tasha was all, "You know, she always
doing that, but she don't never…</i>

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<i>She's never pulled the trigger.</i>

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<i>So don't trip.
She just do that to scare us."</i>

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<i>So I didn't think about it.</i>

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<i>But when I saw what I saw on TV…</i>

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<i>I felt bad 'cause I was like…
"I told her.</i>

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<i>Why didn't she listen?"</i>

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<i>I had that bad feeling
like something…</i>

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<i>This lady's gonna do something.</i>

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<i>I just don't know what it is.</i>

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<i>Every time we would go into that store,
whether it's me,</i>

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<i>whether it was her,
whether it was Shinese,</i>

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<i>whether it was any of the other kids
in this neighborhood,</i>

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<i>we always had to go in there and like,
"Okay. Just be prepared.</i>

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<i>You gonna get hit with something.</i>

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<i>It's just what?</i>

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<i>They're gonna call us monkeys this time,
or they gonna follow us around the store,</i>

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<i>or they gonna just put us out
just because?"</i>

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<i>But I saw that, and I just… I don't…
I shut down.</i>

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<i>I shut down for a long time.</i>

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<i>Sometimes I think,</i>

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<i>"How did I get this far,
and she's not here?"</i>

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<i>I know she'd be married by now.</i>

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<i>She loved the fellas.</i>

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<i>She probably would have three…
two, three kids by now</i>

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<i>and would be riding 'em,</i>

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<i>especially if she had a daughter.</i>

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<i>She'd be an awesome mother.</i>

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<i>Had she been here…</i>

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<i>yeah, I'd probably be a lawyer.</i>

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<i>Actually, no,
I would be a lawyer right now.</i>

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<i>We would own some businesses.</i>

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<i>We would have some activities for the kids
that's in this neighborhood</i>

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<i>to go somewhere, to do something.</i>

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"'Latasha's Shield.'

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I am very reliable
and trustworthy, honest.

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I like that I am confident about myself.

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I have a lot of talent, and I know
whatever I set my mind on something,

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I'm going to accomplish it.

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I show people that I care
by giving what I have to people

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who actually need it.

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I also show I care
by showing respect to all adults

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and ones my age and younger.
I know I care.

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What I want most in life is
to fulfill my goal to be an attorney

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and to also graduate from high school…

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…and also to graduate from high school

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with an almost perfect GPA
to go to college.

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The most important thing to me
is my family is always protected

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by a shield,

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so that…

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so they won't be…

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harmed by dangerous,
ruthless, uncaring people.

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If I had one wish,
it would be to get my mother back to me.

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Three descriptive words
my friends would say and probably give me

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are caring, sharing,
and very polite to others.

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Latasha Harlins, February 6th, 1991."

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What do you think
about that poem, Shinese?

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What I think about the poem? It's her.

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It's everything that I just had said.

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It's clarif...

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It's clarification what I just…

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had talked about.

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You know, who she was.

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That's what that poem is. Clarification.

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And I haven't read that poem…

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in such a long time
that I even forgot that,

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you know, it was valid. It was here.

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I totally forgot that…
…she wrote it.

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<i>People don't know that.</i>

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<i>They just know
that she was just a young Black girl</i>

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<i>who was worth $1.79.</i>

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<i>They don't know
who she was as an individual.</i>

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<i>They don't know.</i>

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<i>I'm gonna always remember
some of the conversations we had.</i>

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<i>Some I'm gonna forget,
but I'm trying my best to hold on to them.</i>

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<i>I pushed so much out
because it was painful</i>

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<i>to see one of my best friends
leave so soon.</i>

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<i>She was a loving person.</i>

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<i>I still appreciate her
for being who she was back then.</i>

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<i>She was aware of her color</i>

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<i>and accepted it.</i>

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<i>"We queens." "I ain't no queen.
I got no damn crown on my head."</i>

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<i>She's like, "No, stupid. We queens.</i>

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<i>The only way we gonna get treated
like we're queens</i>

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<i>is if we carry ourselves that way.</i>

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<i>There's nothing that I can't do
once I put my mind to it.</i>

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<i>My mother would tell me that,
so I believe that."</i>

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<i>And just, that was her drive.</i>

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<i>That's what kept her going.</i>

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<i>You're so strong.</i>

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<i>Where did that strength come from?</i>

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<i>And again, we're kids. We're children.</i>

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<i>♪ I know everyone goes some day ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I know my body's fragile
Know it's made from clay ♪</i>

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<i>♪ But if I have to go
I pray my soul is still eternal ♪</i>

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<i>♪ And my momma don't forget about me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I pray my momma don't forget about me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I pray my granny don't forget about me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I know everyone goes some day ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I know my body's fragile… ♪</i>

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