Assignment #5

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            I think teens join gangs to look cool. Because I think when they join a gang they don’t even know what they’re doing, most of the people that join gangs think it’s all a game or something. Some other maybe join gangs because they think their always going to have their gang member to be there for them, like when they have a problem, or when they are going to get their butts kicked. Other may get in gangs if they have a older brother or sister that is in a gang, then they’ll want to join a gang too.  I personally think joining a gang is stupid, like I mean, I don’t see the point, people say they join gangs to have a “family” but if you think about it nothing latest forever, and I don’t think they’ll always be there for you. Besides that all you do is get in trouble when you join a gang, I don’t see the fun behind getting jumped.

                My uncle named Chato was in a gang, well more like he still is..  Every time my uncle tells me his stories it makes me tell myself. Wow! His been through a lot.  My uncle is like 48 now, His Chicano; He was born and raised in California. He started getting with gangs and all those stuff when his parents died, He tells me it all started with a little kid games and all the sudden it turn in to a whole different thing. He says that when he was a junior in high school, was when everything started for him, so he stared hanging out with the “gangsters” from the neighborhood he lived then he started doing all kinds of crazy stuff, he says he started doing all kinds of drugs and he became a big o’ pothead, He says that when he got jumped in that gang he was in, he got his ass kick so bad that he ended up at the hospital with stitches and everything, but that was just a way of saying he was a gangster now and he had a new family, so he started getting tattoos representing his “hood” . As he was telling he his story I just sat there kind of surprise how it all starts with something little. So he says, he went to all kinds of parties, so he would get high and drunk and all off those stuff, so since he started going to parties he started having sexual intercourse with a lot of chicks, and he basally was living “the crazy life” he says he was having fun so far, until one day the main head off the gang told him, that he had to show him how down he was for his “hood” so to prove that, he had to get in a fight with a guy from the gang they didn’t get along with, so my uncle said “ok” and a couple of day after that my uncles gang and the other gang had a “rumble”. So my uncle ended up fighting with that guy, but he didn’t only fight with him, he shout him, and after that my uncle ended up in prison he was 20 when he go locked up, and says jail is the nasty’s place you could ever go to, he says the food is nasty and people try raping you in there, he says that when he was in there he regret everything he ever did and wish he would of never got in that gang, because like I was saying nothing latest forever, and he said since that day he got locked up no one was there for him, none of this suppose “homies” where there for him because they didn’t even visit him or anything, the only people that where there for him was “us, his real family”, He says that being in there was living hell; he tells me how people, get high of “gravity hits”, and chocking themselves, not to death but just hard enough to make them fill high. Chato was in there for 23 years.  And now that he finally came out he tells us the story of his life being in a gang, and tells us not to fallow those steps, because as you can see, it doesn’t take you to anything good. And all gangs do is get you in trouble, his stories make me not even try to mess with those stuff, because I wouldn’t want to end up doing time in jail, or any of the things the chato went through, because even though my uncle changes his ways, he says he’ll never forget being in jail for killing a men, and al for stupid stuff that’s how he describes it.  He says he tries to escape it but the memory is always going to put him down, because it always going to stay in this brain.

                Now when I see little kids try to be in gangs I wish they would listen to what my uncle when throw so they really now where gangs lead you and the pain and damage that it does to you. Now a day’s people think that just because you dress with “dickies and a square shirt “your consider a “gangster” but the truth is, you’re not a gangster because of the way you dress or look. Because I guess that not how it works. But what I don’t understand is what is so amusing in gangs?  I think instead of worrying about being an O.G (original gangster) people should worry about what they’re going to do with their lives. And should focus about their carriers, But I guess they want to be gangsters, so they’ll never understand until they see what the real gang war is, until they end up locked up, getting there ass’s kicked or even dying. And when that happened in pretty sure I can almost guarantee that they’ll learn and regret. But maybe for some of them, it’ll be too late.