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Lloyd Sanchez (lloyd@hollywood.cinenet.net) wrote:
: You comment on the reading abilities of gang members makes me question 
: your sources. Where do you get your evidence from?

: Are you assuming that because many gang members have been involved in 
: illegal acts that makes them illiterate? Do you assume that since most of 
: them attended LAUSD schools, they recieved an inadequate education? Or 
: were you just being sarcastic and had little to add to the posters 
: question?

True, not all gang members are illiterate, but most are or pretty close 
to it. I use to work as a paramedic on the streets of San Diego. Most 
of the gang members that I came into contact with were high school drop 
outs. They didn't get much of an education before dropping out either. 
Not to say they couldn't have, but their interest weren't in school. 
Every once in a while I would come across someone who was literate and it 
would give me hope. Hope that they may some day wake up and realize that 
what they were doing would get them no where in life. As for the rest, 
what else are they to do? Work at Burger King for $4.25 an hour or sell 
crack for $100 an hour.

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