THE CRIPS

Yesterday I was with 12th graders all day. Substituting for an English teacher at Dos Pueblos. In one of her classes this was the conversation that I overheard between a girl and a guy:

Guy: "Wasn't your boyfriend in a gang?"
Girl: "Yeah."
Guy: "He was with the Bloods, right?"
Girl: "No, the Crips."

...later, she talks about how after he beat her up she broke up with him. Even later she tries getting people to go to this "huge rave in LA on Halloween."

Another student in the same class describes to his classmate how drunk his mom gets all the time, and imitated her the first time she got wasted around him.