Word: homeboy
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...that I've interviewed you, would you like to become my homeboy?' DAMON WEAVER, an 11-year-old journalist from Pahokee, Fla., asking President Barack Obama a final question during their Aug. 13 interview at the White House...
...interview you asked Obama to be your homeboy, and he said yes. How does it feel? It feels good. It feels the same, though...
...Until the homeboy invasion, local gangs got by with knives or primitive steel-pipe guns. They got drunk and maybe smoked a little grass. But that all changed under the deportees' murderous influence. The pipe guns were replaced with AK-47s and Uzis, and the marijuana with crack, which in San Pedro Sula sells for only $4.25 a "rock." Now, gang members aspire to have a teardrop tattooed on their cheek, to signify they've killed a rival. The new-look gangs quickly began shaking down grocery shops, factory girls and bus passengers for "taxes." They hijacked buses for drive...
...wounds healed, he and seven other gang members are sitting in a muddy backyard behind an empty house. The homeboy who lives there with his mother is a crackhead who has pawned off everything in the house except for a photograph on the wall of his runaway father...
...second-generation-immigrant compulsion to assert identity. "First we was rudeboys, then we be Indian niggas, then rajamuffins, then raggastanis, Britasians, f___n Indobrits," as Londonstani's conflicted hero, Jas, describes his peer-group's search for a label. "These days we try an use our own word for homeboy an so we just call ourselves desis." That word basically means countrymen in Hindi, but in Londonstani it seems to embrace any young gangsta wannabe who fancies bling jewelry, designer hooded sweatshirts, Bollywood film divas, high-end mobile phones and senseless violence. A former "coconut" - brown outside, white inside...