- What would you say if I wanted to
like, join Crips or like a gang or whatever.
- Are you thinkin about Cripin' or something?
(Upbeat music)
- Hey Dad.
- Hey, so do you know why we're here,
you know what we're gonna talk about today?
- You were in a gang and I'm gonna
ask you questions and you're gonna answer them.
- Sounds about right.
- Why did you join a gang?
- I felt like a lot of times as a kid in my family
I wasn't accepted and so you know this was easy.
In the streets your accepted.
- What kind of gang were you in?
- I was in like a street gang.
I ran with, you know, a lot of my homeboys
from the neighborhood.
That doesn't necessarily deem us as like
bad people, or anything like that. You know that right?
- Mhmm.
- [Woman] Do you think people in gangs are bad people?
- I don't think they're bad people
but they might do bad stuff.
Doing shoot offs and stuff and
drive-bys and things like that.
Remember when we were at the barber shop
and there was, like, shooting.
- [Woman] Can you tell us what you remember.
- I remember we were in the car
and, and then we were getting out the car
and then just out of nowhere there was
just a buncha shooting or whatever
and then I was trying to go inside the barber shop
but then I had to stay on the ground
'cause my dad wanted me to be on the ground.
So I had to stay on the ground until it was over.
- Yeah, it was kinda crazy 'cause it was like
I was actually just goin inside for a second
and somethin was like, you know, go back
and get, and go get Arionna.
She got out of the car and was getting ready to come
and then they just start shootin.
I had to run over there, get on top of her.
She's like, what's goin on?
I'm like, nothin just stay down.
Do you ever think about that, cause I know
we've never really talked about it.
- I have thought, like, were they tryin to shoot at us?
And I was scared, but other than that
haven't thought about it.
- Why didn't you ask those questions
if you were wondering if they were shooting at us.
- I didn't feel like talking about it
and I didn't think you felt like talkin bout it either.
- When those type of traumatic things happen
like that, like, instead of holding it in
we gotta, we gotta communicate about that.
Especially if it's bothering you.
- Are you still in a gang?
- No, I'm not. I'm no longer a active gang member
I'm a leader in the community and I
work with all the young people
and try to support them the best way that I can
and help them through, you know, tough situations
and transition on to the right side of the fence.
- What would you say if I wanted to
like join Crips, or like a gang or whatever?
- Are you thinkin about Cripin' or somethin?
- No. I'm good. I already have plans for my early life.
- Like what?
- I want to be a singer. I want to be a Youtuber
and I want to be a dancer.
- Cool. And you know Cripin aint
none of those so we're good.
No, I would first ask you why?
and then I would share with you a multitude
of reasons why it's not in your best interest.
Would you make a gang?
- Like, with my friends?
- Yeah.
- I kinda already made one. I have my own
big crew, we're just stuck like glue.
- Are you the leader of that crew?
- I feel like I am.
- You know, you are a leader, your a born leader.
It's in you to be a leader and to lead all the time
but one thing with leadership, you have the power to lead
your crew, your group, the right way or the wrong way.
As long as your leadin that group of people
to do the right thing and make the right decisions
I support you a thousand percent.
- [Woman] What do you guys think, what was this like?
- I just think it's really cool that
I get to do this and just learn a lot of things
about him that I didn't even know.
Bye Dad. Cut.
- [Woman] All right Arionna. Good job.
That is a cut.
- Hey guys. It's Claire. We have a new Hiho
original series called "No Whining"
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