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...easily p___ed off." The fine manners that he shared with his brother Monte, 11, were still on display, but he would exhibit troubling, attention-getting antics. Last summer, when he returned to Spring Valley to visit with relatives during vacation, he began obsessing over twin passions: girls and gangs. "He said he'd give anything to be in a gang," says Niemeyer. "He'd kill anyone to be in a gang." Schoolmates in Jonesboro say Mitch began wearing red to signal his membership in the Bloods, a ruse that they saw straight through. A wannabe, most of them concluded...
...other Mitchell Johnson, the one his friends saw, was a gang-loving, emotional kid who once threatened to shoot himself over the breakup of a summer romance and was truly troubled by his parents' divorce. "Since they split, he's gone downhill," said Mike Niemeyer, Mitchell's 17-year-old second cousin. "He'd look for trouble. He'd get into fights. If little kids pissed him off, he'd try to beat them up. He was easily pissed...
Referring to personal experience, another participant who requested that his name not be used described his own run-ins with street gangs in New York City, explaining that while he "never saw the ugly stuff," he knew of gang members luring his peers into their networks through "a lot of money, free drugs and gifts, like beepers...
...opposite end of the spectrum, Kelly Yamanouchi '00, who is a Crimson editor, professed that she did not know of any Harvard students who had contact with gang culture and proposed that "a lot of Asian people" imitate inner city fashions because they "want to pretend they are poor...
Nevertheless, there was broad agreement among participants that the proliferation of inner city styles, whether hip-hop or gang, among Asian-Americans was related to the commodification of both cultural traditions by corporate America. As one of the participants who asked not to be named said, "it's all about the corporation...