This question is pretty much restricted to my folks from California (mainly Southern Cali) who grew up around that gang bangin $hit. This picture of a young Lao brother brought back memories of my Lao and Cambodian folks in Eastside Long Beach and SouthEast Daygo. The d!ckies, the Chucks, the Converse, the hat, the stripe shirt and sweater on the inside remind me of the early and late 90s. I can still picture it, all the fighting with Blacks and Mexicans at school. We shooting at them or they shooting at us. I remember in junior high when me and few of the homies in our bikes kicking it in front of the school when school was out and two car load of Eses roll by and stopped their car and one of them got out and started blasting at us. And I say my hood wasn't all the bad compared to other hoods that other SE Asians(Lao and Cambodian) had to deal with. Those were the days.

I live up in Norcal but I defenetly see Lao fools like that. I would never see a Lao person that was not into rap and hip hop. My cousins used to tell me stories about how the gangbanging was down there with the lao/cambo gangs. SEA got Street Cred

juss reminisin huh? sound like you lost alota your homies

Nah, man. I only knew two that got killed.

thats the realest $hit you ever said man. cali in the early 90s was mad crazy, khakis and chucks was the uniform, lao and cambodians banded up together to show folks they aint no punks. kids started bangin and slangin when they were young, alot of loved ones lost, they gained respect and made a word for themselves on the streets. sad, but real life. that was how life was when our folks just started out immigrating to cali to escape war/ect. it is what it is.

I'm not a californian


^if that was filled in, it would be a bad @$$ tattoo

A close friend of my brother was beaten up at the liquor store by a Mexican. His friend was outside waiting for him in the car. His friend then got out of car and went inside and saw what had happend and whooped the Mexican's @$$. He kicked the Mexican through the glass window. The Mexican probably thought he would get away with because the fella was Asian. Guess he was wrong.

a proper bad @$$ eh?

Don't try to get smart Mr. Lucky Charm.

kids dont look threatening but when push comes to shove they wont hesitate to pull a burner on you. but yea, kid looks like the typical socal TRG rider or something

dont sweat it...just you see so many fake @$$ ganstas here it makes me feel
i hear you though and some of the things you are talking about apply to irish youths as well.....especially up north.

Oh, you mean keyboard gangsters. Yeah, I know. They're wasting their time net banging.

same dudes are selling it like the're banging bee-hatches all the time too
makes you wonder how they have so much time for sitting next to a computer.
btw i couldnt see the picture but i can picture it ion my mind. i think i know what you mean though..............

The internet is a world in itself.

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I gotta disagree with you with saying that it's for the black people. That's an ignorant statement to say. But as far as gang bangin goes, what's the fu-king point?? Where does that $hit lead to? What the fu-k you get out of it? Nothing! I understand clicks, and groups of homies that got ya back, but I don't understand gang bangin? I don't need an explanation either if someone is trying to be smart. Anyways, people need to stop period! Nothing good comes out of it.


I don't miss those gang bangin days at all, even tho I didn't bang. But ya know what i mean.

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Gangs is in our history.

Gangs started way back anyways. Gangs will never be gone.

i can't believe yah proud.

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not proud of gangs...just proud of our people who stood up against the folks who tried to keep us down and wreck our stores and acted like we wouldent do anything. we not pushovers.

Don't be ignorant, gangs started from a long time ago. If you think about it, leaders and politicians are gangs. We follow one leader or another, or don't follow neither. One politician is also having a gang of their own, or a party you would call it.

In Laos, we have communists, some people follow, some people don't. Which start rivalry, basically what a gang does to another gang.

com'on dont try to get all colleged degree technicalled up on me up bro. street gangs are different then political orginizations. dont be so foolish.

It doesn't take a college degree to realize the obvious, and that is...gangs started from way back then.

Off topic: Did it hurt to get that tatoo? How much did it cost you, man?



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It's my uncle's tat. Before he turned into a monk, he wanted me to take pics of his tattoos and all. I believe all of the tats on his body were done by his friend.

Oh, he is a monk? _/l\_ Would you ask him to pray for the Shan people for me? I have been to the wat in a long time.

How long as he been a monk?

He's been a monk for 2 months now. I'm heading out to the temple tomorrow.

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