IN STEREO

I want to tell you the story of this building. Before we took this store, my uncle’s house was inside. In the past we didn’t have a television. At my uncle’s home, there was a television. Black and white. And on Friday, they used to play a movie. The whole family came here [and] we watched the film. [Then] we went out, and we found a lot of people. There were a lot of police, intelligence… There was someone who lived here in this building whose name was Richard Mansour. I knew him when I was young. When he gave me [money] to bring him a pack of cigarettes, he’d tell me keep the rest. He was a very good man. Now, a butcher opened under his home. You know what a butcher means? A butcher means money. Not a little, a lot! I mean, all butchers here are rich, happy. Now, this butcher started working, [and] he wanted the store for free.  

 

The owner told him, “Why should I give you the store?” [So] the butcher told him to come down to take the money. He called him, “Richard, Richard, Richard!” He went downstairs, [and] at the end of the stairs, he was hiding a knife for him like this. The butcher stabbed him. I went out [and] I saw this stabbed man, bleeding. People] holding him in their arms and coming [out] with him. Something that makes the mind crazy. I saw him and, “Who’s this?” It was Richard. I mean, I didn’t sleep. I saw this man, I’ll never forget it. [The sign there is] because of this story. This is what happened. When I talk to tourists like this, they are very happy. I swear, they like it. The fingers of your hand are not the same: there is the tall [and] the short. There is the good and the bad. – Sammy