Who is the speaker in "We Real Cool?"

In my opinion, the speaker in this poem is not any
particular person -- it is not someone that we can name.  Instead, the speaker in the
poem is meant to be someone who represents a certain group of
people.

The whole point of the poem is that some young
African-American men are making choices that are destructive.  They do things like not
going to school, things that make them end up dying young.  So the speaker is just a
representative of that group of young men.

So I would
answer this by saying that the speaker is not a specific individual but rather a
"person" who is meant to be the representative of a whole group on whose lives the poet
is commenting.