| Title: | What's all this fuss about "sax and violins"? |
| Notice: | Please read all replies to note 1 |
| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL |
| Created: | Thu Jan 21 1993 |
| Last Modified: | Thu May 08 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 133 |
| Total number of notes: | 1901 |
Just last night I read Ice-T's article in Playboy on gangs, and it occurred to me that this conference lacks a relevant topic. Anyway, I thought the article was a pretty good intro for folks like me who don't have a clue about how and why gangs operate. The point of the article was that it's all about control and revenge. - craig
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| 57.1 | protection too. | AKOCOA::BBARRY | �@��ad&�� | Thu Jan 13 1994 12:29 | 6 |
On 20/20 or 60 Minutes, or one of those, a gang member said kids
join gangs for protection. If you don't belong to a gang, you're
fair game for anyone. If you wear colors, an assault on your person
is considered an assault on the whole gang you belong to.
/Bob
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| 57.2 | Need to feel needed | CSOA1::HOLLAND | The happiness of pursuit | Thu Jan 13 1994 13:54 | 13 |
Also I've read / heard / seen in the news that kids join gangs for
acceptance - something that they don't get at home. Pre teens and
teenagers want the same thing that we "adults" want - aceptance and the
need to feel that we belong, the need to feel needed, love and respect.
I have a nephew that wants to join a gang because he complains that his
mother (my ex sister-in-law), doesn't respect him. He is required to
do *all* of the house work while she lays around.
He lives about 450 miles away from me but I trying to stay into his
life. We'll see...
dlh
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