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Thursday, January 31, 2002

Today was an exciting, prolly not the best word to describe it, day. There was about three fights today and a brawl. I live in a neighborhood that is populated with gangs. It's the basic ones, Bloods and Crips, but there is a lot of division. Most of the gangs are divided by race. There are vietnamese gangs, filipino gangs, and black and white gangs. I say black and white because the gangs are black and white. In my neighborhood, somehow the white kids and black kids formed a gang, together. It makes sense though, because the majority of my school is asian. It seems strange that despite all being asian, all the asian ethnicities dont get along. Although it seems that we just might, I am a Filipino. Im not in a gang or anything but i got obligations to people who have obligations to people in them because of family relations. If you're going to look out for your boy, whos looking out for his cousin, you're looking out for his cousin, in order to look out for your boy. understand? You dont have to. Bottom line is when you got Filipino friends, they are your extended family and their family is your extended family, although its not necessarily a close bond. Your friends call your parents tita and tito, auntie and uncle. There is a strong sense of comradery among Filipinos. What you have to understand is that asians are still just starting out in this country. We've only been around for less than a century. We haven't been fully assimilated into the american image, like black people. Its kind of interesting that the black kids and white kids would band together, its a true sign to me that the african american has now become the american african, while we are still on the outsides as asian-americans. So anyways, i hear that the fight started because the W&B kids were talking $hizz about the asians. Hence not just a individual fight but a brawl. It was crazy seeing the the anarchy of it. The administrators could not control what was happening, there was just simply too many students and only a handful of administrators. Fights went from one place to another. in front of the office, in front of the library, in front of the office again, it just couldnt be controled. Security guards were hit, our principal got pushed, our on-site police officer was hit and knocked down from behind when he was in the middle of it. Which is kind of good cuz hes a dick, ive had suspicions that hes prejudice, which may be just racial profiling since hes been at this school for decades. But it was pretty obvious that there was nothing they could do. practically the whole school was watching, they all ran to each fight site with eager eyes. Later that day the administration sent out a letter about how disappointed they were that we got in the way, and so they couldnt control the fights effectively. Which is only half true. they couldve controled the fights but not the brawl. so im not really scared just worried that this thing will escalate into a full on racial war. Im not really sure if i would jump in. If it was just W&B kids talking $hi7 about asian people in general and not just the people in the gangs, then i think i might. Cuz they talking about my family, my friends, and me. this world is crazy...today was prolly the most spectacular i've seen yet. we'll see what happens tomorrow, when the gangs start bringing weapons, im sure they dont plan to use them at school, but are just bringing them for protection. But then thats how it starts...someone accidently does something that starts a shootout. What then? crazy...all i know is im not wearing red tomorrow......
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