Growing up. I used to hear about like Salvadorians hating Mexicans and Mexicans hating Guatemalans. It's just it's retarded
Yeah, you know opportunity hater now. I would say this was like in Long Beach
I remember growing up in Long Beach. There was always always beef between black people in Hispanics always
But it was more like a gang rivalry. You know, I mean
You had the Crips who were who would always beef with the with the long goes
And it was it was I don't think it was over race
It was just over territory, but it would turn into like a racist type of a thing
Well, there were certain areas when I lived in South Central
During the riots. I was
120th and Bud long and I would go down this certain alley the Rodney King rides your refer
Yeah
The Rodney King rocks and there was a big soft floss the gangs called the soft laws
Mm-hmm, and they were the Mexican gang and I would go down this little alley say hey, that's my soft law alley
We doing you're going down there. I always go down there, but I'm not a gang affiliated
Anyway, yeah, and they say hey, I'm not going down there dude, dude, and I was wondering oh no wonder
Why does Mexicans will look at me? Oh funny when I walk there. Hey, what's up, you know?
so they didn't bother me, but as soon as you're aware of the
Prejudice, yeah of did you shouldn't be in there then you're I guess you're sensitive to it. I wasn't so yeah
Well, no, you're right about that because even like when I was growing up in Long Beach
You had there was like Crips that would like those sweat you if you're Hispanic
Yeah, I remember almost got jumped by a group of
insane Crips
we're on a bus one time and
but
og
Crip from like I don't know. I think it was like really 20s or something. He backed me up
I'm gonna say the dole is the young ones. I don't yeah the young got here
I had a bright red shirt on in a crip neighborhood. Mm-hmm. And the guy a youngster came up to me pumping gas
He says we go with the funny-looking cuddles good. Yeah
He said
He's like, I'm sorry. We relate. Sorry. I'm sorry cuz I actually I'm sorry. What did you say?
He said we go with them funny-looking colors cool
I says, I don't know what you mean. I said, but I'm not from here. I just gotta feel different
He said well, you better ask somebody
I
Saw like racism to a certain extent but it was
Honestly, like I got along with a lot of black people
I got along with a lot of Crips and I knew some some some Crips that were just like hey if you know you ever
Went into any trouble you can you know, talk to me and I'll help you out or whatever, you know, they're cool
But there are others like you don't want to get caught alone
That's right, because they automatically think you're a part of like that Mexican game. Listen, I seen so much violence
before the riots
It wasn't a day. I'll say every two days there were shootings. Mm-hmm kids would jump on the floor faster to me the drive-bys
And they would say well you better get down
They didn't knew they were like the reflexes quick I actually lived in a girl's house where she must had enemies
I don't know. She raised my window
Yeah, I mean I
Knew people I said John's dead. What? Yeah. Oh this woman right outside my door
Mm-hmm, and and some guy came and said he make it use your phone
Patrice just was staff Sarah in the heart with a pencil. I'm like, yeah, right a pencil really
Stabbed her in a heart with a pencil. I got stabbed with a pencil one time. Oh, she's cool
She died too, so it was
Can I was counting on that like a rapper and they did this is like this guy's favorite rapper and he literally took his pencil
He stabbed me. I
Was like this dude just stabbed me for a rapper
People did some hotheads are in there and
Yeah, it was the worst part about it the most violence
Was between each other
Hey me better put my beard out
That's not your beer and she's it
He looks around if you ask
So and he said I'll shoot you you gotta shoot me to pow shot right through her hand through the cup
Oh, man, like these guys are treacherous. I'm the guys walking down the street
Let me have two men come let me shot me in my what's the name shot me in my butt who his cousin shot
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. There's another guy who's going on a gang. They're going to a gang fight
They're all getting their guns ready and he's driving and he
He lurched and he shot him in the back
Now the guys in the wheelchair because his buddy in the backseat shot him in the yeah
I remember and he's paralyzed. I remember being in Long Beach in Long Beach. You have like
You know you you have Samoans you have black people you have Hispanics, but you also have Cambodians and and the Cambodian gangs
are like
They're crazy man. Yeah, they don't mess around
But I remember I was I was at when I was in it when I was in high school
There's there's these because everyone was kind of segregated a little bit right, but I remember
You know, we're lunchtime and there's these two Cambodian guys and they were friends
Like they grew up together
But one of them like this is his his friends click like messing around and the guy stomped him out
He stopped him out so bad that the guy like went to the hospital and the guys like in prison for like attempted murder
Mm-hmm, I've seen bleeding out of his ears. I've seen this guy. He's crazy violent. He's kicking his eyes tried to stop
I said, dude, he's a man. Don't ever try to stop me again. No
Yeah, that's like really some crazy. This is your friend. Yeah, he put the guy in a hospital. Yeah a coma