Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them. Or they have no homes, and the children drift away. I have seen eight-year-old girls alone by the roadside holding up signs reading I WILL WORK FOR FOOD. What do you think is going to happen to them? All the time, homeless children turn up in gang neighborhoods knocking on doors, saying, "I want to claim. I want to be from this 'hood." And the gangs let them...
...same gang members who will torture an enemy to death simply for being caught alone will take in homeless children...
...They were all dressed in their gang color: red baseball caps, shirts, pants, scarves, shoes. That's what they call "flamed...
...treated them like people. And you changed their gang nicknames in the book to protect them...
...Gang members have told me that when someone looks at them with terror in their eyes or reflexively locks the car doors as they walk across the parking lot, they want to hurt them. They see the women clutching their bags closer, the white men switching their briefcases to the other hand as they approach. They know that part of the reason for the fear is because they're black, or poor. Nobody wants to be an object of terror. Nobody wants to be insulted like that...