One Mile Away Page #6

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In North Belfast, a leader, Gerry

Kelly, who used to be in the IRA,

escaped from jail three times - once

in Ireland, twice from British jails.

Gerry Kelly,

at one stage, had to stand,

holding back

a whole crowd of young Catholics

who wanted to attack.

Some of the more crazy ones

started shooting at him,

rather than at the police

or at the Loyalists.

He had to put himself on the line

to stop that from happening.

My warning is the first steps

are easier than further on.

If you start losing faith in it,

I just urge you to keep faith

and to have patience in doing it

and absorb a certain amount of pain

in doing it, because you'll have to.

But it's really, really worth it.

You can change. You can make it.

You're not part of the solution,

you're part of the problem.

I know where your head's at, blood.

I know you're on this thing

and you're a down n*gger,

but I know you'd like to get involved

in something like this, blood.

People are trying to help us.

That's what I want you to know, blood.

I ain't gonna bullshit you.

That's why I want you to come

to the meeting - to see for yourself.

These are proper MPs,

people that rub shoulders

with Tony Blair and Parliament -

proper big people.

So if that's not good enough for you

to say you're from the hood...

You know like they say,

"Bring the Queen down.

I wanna talk to her direct... "?

How high up do you need

to be going, blood?

Who do you wanna

get your message across to?

These people are prepared to help us.

I know some are saying, "F*** that. "

You shouldn't look at it like that.

You know...

Yeah!

The next time we see my face,

we could have, like, 40 men.

Like, who knows?

That's one thing

we're opening the door to.

Do you not wanna

get involved, blood, seriously?

Don't keep saying

I'm doing my thing, blood,

cos it's not my thing, blood.

You know I'm having problems

on this side.

No one listens.

That's why I say I need support.

They've got their thing mapped out.

Over on this side,

everyone's like, "No. "

I don't know what you want me to do.

I need someone like you

or Nuggz, Sharp,

someone to back me up, blood.

See what's going on.

If you think there's money, you get

the money, as well, then, innit?

If that's what you believe.

As long as you're here,

it's not gonna harm you.

I didn't say

no one ain't gonna harm you, blood.

Who said anything

about harming you, blood?

No, I didn't say that.

Did I say that no one

is gonna harm ya?

What am I gonna say

someone will harm you for, blood?

I said it's not gonna harm you

to come down. That's what I said.

Who?

What are you on about, blood?

Blood, I'm saying...

Different day same sh*t

when I wakin' up

Lyin' in my bed

Wishin' that I never woken up

I've got this father

that I never ever see

And the only time I see

this little prick is in my dreams

Every day I'm wonderin'

"Has he forgot about me?"

Every night I'm on me knees askin',

"God, why me?"

Mum don't want her son

to be taken by the streets

But this is the life I lead

So it's kind of beat

wonderin' if people will miss me

When I'm 6ft deep

Tossin' in my grave

cos I can't rest in peace

I've got so much demons

surroundin' me

So I call on Most High

to come and rescue me...

Today we're going

to speak to the youngsters,

who are my sons' friends.

They've got friends

that have been stabbed,

but nobody's actually died.

They haven't got the pain

and don't feel that revenge yet.

So we have to get to them

before it's too late.

You're aware

of what's going on, innit?

And I know you're getting

slowly but surely close to it, innit?

I look over my shoulder

in this area even...

Every three to four seconds.

I ain't tryin'

to wish no death or nothin'.

Anything could be

round the corner, really...

Anything, anything

could be around the corner.

- How old are you lot?

- 15 and a half.

That kind of age group...

They're all 15.

You understand what I'm sayin'?

What do you know about

growing up on the ends?

All the beef, the "man dem",

the "bwoy dem" and, yeah...

Started to like know about it

from, like, Year Seven onwards.

Year Seven, that's what I'm sayin'.

11 and that thing.

Same with all of that, as well.

My bredren got stabbed the other day.

- Over the gang stuff?

- Yeah.

Yeah.

It was in Aston. Yeah, Aston.

That's what I'm sayin'.

You can go to that area, but

if you get caught slipping, then...

You've gotta do

something about it, innit?

Because of, like, the pride, as well.

We gotta keep the pride.

I'd probably die if my pride died.

That's why it escalates.

Say something happened

to my man here,

then, obviously, we'll all go back.

It'll escalate and then if we do

something to them,

then they try and do something to us.

Like, if he had a fight

or he got rushed,

I'd go back there straightaway,

not thinking.

If it's just us two and there was

ten of them, I'd go there.

Probably might die or whatever.

That's what I mean.

You just don't think, do you?

You don't hesitate to do things.

It just happens.

They can't afford guns.

It's not that easy to get guns,

regardless of what people think.

So they've all got little knives

and they will poke you up with it.

You poke the wrong artery,

you will bleed to death,

unless you make it

to the hospital in seconds.

It's impossible.

Don't you think

that's a waste of life?

Yeah...

I don't see it as a waste of life.

It's just... I don't know.

- That is life.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

It's just a way of life that we know.

After filming on that day,

I had phone calls.

There were people that wasn't

too happy with what we was filming

and some people didn't understand

what the message was,

so it made them kind of hostile

to what we was doing.

If we don't get through

certain mindsets,

it can be a serious thing,

you understand?

I mean, I'm not worried for myself.

I'm not saying, "I'm Superman.

No one can shoot me. "

Anyone can get killed,

anyone can get shot,

but I ain't worried

for myself like that.

I don't know, but I worry for him.

You understand what I'm sayin'?

If people come to, like...

He will be the target. 100%.

Do you understand what I'm sayin'?

I told him on the phone.

I said, "Listen, tell D boy

I'm gonna kill him. "

Not calling no names or nothin',

but you know...

And like...

They've got the place in their hand.

You have the whole hood in your hand.

You say, "Jump," and they say,

"How high?" That's the reality of it.

So that's why it's up to man

to be responsible

and make things right, innit?

So, what's up?

We've kind of hit

kind of a brick wall.

Like, my mum's windows

got smashed out

and, like, the night before,

like, a 17-year-old kind of died.

So I don't know

about all this truce stuff.

Right now, basically,

the truce thing, like,

it's not gonna happen, innit?

It's just long.

You know, whoever did it

knows who they are, innit?

D*ckhead business.

Punk business, bredren.

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