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Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

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15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Exactly. It is too late. It is too late. And nobody is interested. In my situation, Mr. Speaker, the young lady who took me to court committed the same offence! She went to another woman’s house and found the same man that I found at her house— with another woman!
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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But that does not get reported in the newspaper, Mr. Speaker. [Inaudible interjections]
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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But they want me to go to court. She had a restraining order against her.
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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But Leah Scott is the bad one who goes and walks into somebody’s house. Mr. Speaker, I went to that woman’s house to tell her we are both being disrespected. And I went peacefully. I was not disrespectful to her. And she said, Get out of my house. You broke up my relationship, and I’m g oing to tell Michael …
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Now, the other thing I wanted to talk about, Mr. Speaker, is racism. I was watching this show th e other night called “The Van Jones Show.” I do not know if anybody has ever seen him . [Inaudible interjections]
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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And he was talking about implicit bias. And he had some examples, and I cannot r emember all of them. But one of them really stood out to me. They had done a study of white school teac hers. And they had presented a video to them of four children. There were two blacks, a boy and a girl, and …
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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And he was not. But it is an a utomatic reflex that, if you are black and you are male, you are going to misbehave. They also said that there were certain names that, when white people heard those names, they automatically thought, you know, that it is a big black person and they are going to a ttack yo …
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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My thing is this. Hon. Derrick V. Burgess, Sr.: No different in Berm uda.
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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I am a 60- year-old hippie. I b elieve in peace and love and harmony. And I think that we have to find a way to do this. And I do not know if, since Trump has been in power and the tone from the top that he is causing has maybe opened up my eyes in terms of how …
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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They tend to be a little bit more forgiving than we are. They have not had t he same kind of experiences that we have had. But we will never, ever, ever be able to move ahead until we can do— [Inaudible interjections]
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Once we are able to have the di scussions and acknowledge that there have been things . . . and, you know, one of the things that I would like to do in my constituency is to start having talks about race and start talking about how we can break down the barriers and how we can start moving things …
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Implicit bias. And so, we must get past that. Because I am a black woman—and no di srespect, but because I am a black woman, do I have to be a cashier or a (what do you call it, Cousin Burgess?) domestic technician? What did you say? Hon. Derrick V. Burge ss, Sr.: No. A room attendant.
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Right, room attendant. You know, it is almost as if it is wrong that we aspire to be something. You know, when I grew up, my mother was from Mobile, Alabama. And she, from the day that we were born, and I have two sisters, she told us, You will go to college. It was not a choice. You will …
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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You canno t give your child Shaquila and think that she is going to get a job! She will not get in the door. And although you might want to name your child because that name has significance and meaning to you, you also have to understand that right now, the way soc iety is, you are creating a hi …
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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I get it. I get it! I get it. I get it. I understand what you are saying. But what I am sa ying, too, is that until there is a change and a shift in the mind- set, we have to do some things in order to ensure that our children are going to advance. 2442 15 June 2018 …
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Well, I understand what you are trying to say.
15 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Barack Obama had a hard time with his name because they accused him of being a Muslim. What is it, Barack Hussein Obama? So he had problems, as well. So all I am saying, Mr. Speaker, is that al though we think we have come a long way, we still have a long way to go. And whether I see …
8 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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But I have more than 10 minutes. Hon. E. David Burt: I will yield. I will yield. Do you want to, Leah? I will yield. I will yield, Mr. Speaker.
8 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Premier. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate what the Gover nment is trying to do in bringing this sugar tax. And I would like to know whether there is actually any real evidence that a tax will reduce obesity. And along with imposing the sugar tax, I think that we also need to have a really good education process. …
8 Jun 2018 House of Assembly
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So, I appreciate that the tax is coming in. But we also have to look at —suppose you have got a 21- year-old mother. She is trying to get her child ready for school. We all know that our youngsters are not as organised as they need to be. So, she gets the child ready for school, and on the …