sohankristen614's Space http://sohankristen614.posterous.com Most recent posts at sohankristen614's Space posterous.com Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:44:00 -0700 Fantasy Football or Reality Football? http://sohankristen614.posterous.com/fantasy-football-or-reality-football http://sohankristen614.posterous.com/fantasy-football-or-reality-football So there you are, a younger Latino boy strolling down the street, you can't put on a red, white, or blue shirt due to the fact it puts a goal on your again, and if you take place to piss a person off, the odds of it being solved with fists is almost certainly a lot less than fifty/50.

Okay, allows again up. You're most likely thinking, "Why can't Latino douleur wear red white and blue?" You most likely know the solution, but don't know the details, you just know it has a thing to do with gangs.

In Northern California, Red is the colour of the Nortenos. Blue is the colour of the Surenos. If you wear clothes dominated by these shades, and you are a youthful Latino (mainly Mexican, but there are other Latino gangs too), you are proclaiming your affiliation to one of these gangs. It is that simple. Once more, you could be contemplating, "Surely it's not that black and white. There have obtained to be spots where it is safe to put on whatever you want." Effectively, the small response is, "No."

I guess if you're familiar enough with a specific part of a certain town, you'll be okay. Perhaps if you are living in the burbs wherever there aren't gang issues, and you are a Latino male, you could almost certainly get away with it. But make positive it's profound in the burbs, and make sure you aren't wearing that things across town lines, simply because then you do not know what you will get. I know of hick, farming cities in the Central Valley wherever the Mexican kids can't be observed donning red. Other individuals where you can't dress in blue. In the metropolitan areas of program it is worse. You acquire a inappropriate switch in Oakland, Richmond, Hayward, San Jose, and you're a Latino sporting the incorrect colour, you are officially putting your life in hazard.

So can I just say this: Is not that a trip????

As white people, we don't believe about these types of things...effectively, not all of us. We can wear regardless of what we want with no worry of being connected with a gang. I bet you've by no means considered two times about putting on a blue shirt, have you? I'm wearing a blue shirt right now, and I've been driving close to the Bay Spot all day. But I'm white, so it doesn't issue.

Even now do not believe me? Here's a good tiny anecdote. A couple of many years ago, some instructors from my district took some Latino youngsters to San Francisco to see the murals in the Objective District. It is a web site of Latino heritage and Chicano Delight and things like that. Properly, one of their college students made the decision to use a San Francisco 49ers jersey. You see, there was a no-red-rule at this large school, but the child figured that because they have been on a field journey, he could use red that day (yes, not permitting an entire substantial college of two,five hundred pupils to put on a shred of red is typical in California, that's how undesirable it is [sure, NO One can dress in ANY red, an asian child cannot even put on red shoelaces]). Cheap Nike San Francisco 49ers Jerseys

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