Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there are many gang members who got out. There is a player in the N.F.L. back East. There are homeboys who stopped running with the gangs because school was important to them, and in some cases, their gangs helped them pay for college. There are attorneys, doctors, professionals, military men. A lot of them fought in the gulf war. The guy who hands you your luggage at the airport or sells you a ticket at the movies may be a gang member. One of the Bloods manages a very popular rap group now. He just signed them with Atlantic Records...
...rival gang kidnapped his friend and tortured him to death. % They used electricity and white-hot knives, and they shot him in the face...
...still see the gang members socially...
...gang member spotted an enemy on the street and machine-gunned him, along with his wife and baby. Yet he is such a good friend that you attributed the killing, in your book, to another gang member in order to protect...
...many other black 14-year-old girls in her corner of Oakland, these ideas are anathema. The telephone rings in her family's modest apartment, and the anonymous voice murmurs daggers. "We're gonna kill you," the caller says. Za'kettha knows the threat comes from a gang of black girls, one that specializes not in drugs or street fights but in terrorizing bright black students. "They think that just because you're smart," says the eighth-grader, "they can go around beating...