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Did you get in a lot of trouble when you were in the gang?
Amanda
Amanda,
I got in a lot of trouble going through the growing pains that brought me
to adulthood. This was due to my not feeling I could trust the advice from
those trying to help me and because I thought I had to find all the
answers myself. Well, I did; and now I understand how little I knew when I
knew everything.
Brian
California
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As a gang banger what where some of the hardest things you had to do?
What is the thing that you did and regret the most?
What did your family have to say?
- Eddie F.
"As a gang member, the hardest things that I had to do were to inflict
pain upon my family - the look of unbearable pain I saw in my mom's eyes
whenever I came home after being gone for days. The last time I saw my mom
before I got busted was when I came home after being gone for weeks. As I
entered the living room, I saw her reddened eyes and her sad face turn
towards me. She tried to be tough and turned away from me. When I asked
her where my older sister was, she answered with a simple, 'She's not
here.' I turned away and left. I think that she felt guilty because she
had gotten an arrest warrant on me on advice from my P.O. I guess that she
figured at least I'll be alive if I was in Juvenile Hall. After I got
busted, I found out that as soon as I left the house, my little sister
came crying after me calling for me to come . I didn't hear her"!
"The hardest thing that I did and the one that I regret the most was to
take someone's life. I did it in the heat of the moment because, as soon
as I saw the victim, I felt such hate and anger for something I believed
he did in the past. It is hard and mind-blowing to be responsible for
ending a life, for taking away someone's son and brother. What can a
person say to the family?! There aren't any words to be said to the
victim's family! 'I'm sorry, I apologize,' are words a person says when he
bumped into someone or unintentionally hurt someone's feelings, but there
are no words to say how much a person regrets ending someone's life, a
family's future plans. A man's dreams of bringing up his kids along with
his brother's are suddenly no more."
"For some reason beyond my understanding, families seem not to exist when
someone is in a gang. Cousins stab and shoot at each other because they
belong to rival gangs. Even though families don't exist in most of the
gang members' minds, it doesn't mean that they are not there, that they
don't suffer. My family suffered a lot. My mom had to enter a clinic
because she had a nervous breakdown. But her suffering cannot be compared
to that of the victim's family, and especially the victim's mom."
Alex
California
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What was the worst thing you ever did in a gang?
Mrs. Moxley’s Class
I hit this old lady in the head with a pipe. I don’t know what happened to
her, but to this date, no mater what others stuff I did, that one hurts
me.
A Prisoner
New Jersey
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