See Y'all Frontin' In The Street Then I Let My GAT Leak...

How could I fail to mention that there was a "near riot" at my former high school recently? Wait ...and there are fears that there may be a drive-by shooting at Edison?... This is starting to sound all too familiar...

Aww, I know now. This reminds me of the good ol' days when I attended the school...

We nearly had a riot my freshman year of high school after an anti-immigrant bill was passed under Pete Wilson. My brethren (the cholos or cholitos as we call them) were pissed, to say the least, and the only thing that was going to assuage their anger was to kick some white-ass. Being that some of those "white muthafuckas" were my friends, I had a real moment of truth. I thought to myself "If a riot does indeed break out, do I stand-up for these people who are essentially good even if their parents may not be or, because I am a brown-skinned Latino that can easily blend in, do I switch sides and spare my ass?"

Alas, a voice of wisdom stood up and spared me from having to make that decision. A young Latino thug sporting a shaved head and saggy pants spoke to La Raza and said "Hey guyz, we shouldn't kick their ass, they can't even vote. We should kick the teachers' asses!"

There was also a drive-by-shooting between the Norteño and Sureño gangs while I attended the school in which students' cars were shot up in the parking lot and an extremely obese gang member took a bullet for his "vatos". To be honest it wasn't even a drive-by-shooting-- it was more like a "bike-by-shooting". Yup, the gang unleashed a round of bullets while riding by the school on their bicycles. So ghetto. Our gangs couldn't even afford to use cars.