Many of the guys in my high school belonged to local gangs. Gangs afforded protection; if you wore the gang colors, your buddies would fight for you,Lifelines: Black and White,Many of the guys in my high school belonged to local gangs. Gangs afforded protection; if you wore the gang colors, your buddies would fight for you
I grew up in Boro Park next door to a family of Satmar chassidim.
There was a shul on my block but I never walked into it.
I didn’t like Jews. Whenever I walked down Thirteenth Avenue I’d feel their stares and feel judged by them. I could tell they looked at me as a creep a criminal.
They had every reason to look at me that way. In those days I sported giant earrings vulgar T-shirts multiple tattoos and piercings all over my face. Plus an eight-inch red mohawk.
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