Youth of Guyanese parentage spearheads clean-up in aftermath of Minneapolis riots over Floyd killing -drove 10 hours to join fight for justice

With a strong willpower to “be the change I want to see in the world,” a youth of Guyanese parentage, spearheaded a massive clean-up exercise in Minneapolis, USA following rioting and looting during protests over George Floyd’s killing.

Determined to make a difference, Paul literally went the extra mile when he drove alone for 10 hours from Illinois to Minneapolis on May 29 to clean up the affected community.

Paul met a lot of “great people” during the two-day exercise that lasted for about nine hours on each day.

He saw the clean-up campaign “as a form of protest because sadly, all of the negative things, like  rioting and looting, were associated with black people… But that was not the case.”

“I’m the baby of the family and I’m Guyanese by the morals and the values I was thought… I’ve only had the opportunity to do the things I’ve been able to do because of the guidance that my parents provide me (with) and the morals that they thought me…”

He added: “Growing up with a family of excellence you have to rise to the occasion, you have to learn from the great examples that they have set…”

“I remember one thing my mom used to say was, ‘many hands make the work light’ and I used that to drive me when it came to the clean-up,” he asserted.