At The Risk Of Intimidating My Fellow Caucasians

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OG Oliverio

truly misses

the Bloods and Crips

from Jefferson HS

in South-Central 

Los Angeles

 

[This equally applies

to the Latino Grape chollos]

 

It behooves Oliverio 

to list some reasons why

 

1. 

 DD Morse

—a Crip—

is one of only two students

(out of 2000)

who could look at me 

in such a way

as to make me doubt

the veracity

of whatever

Math statement

I had just made

DD is also the only student

to score higher

on his Geometry final exam

than the fabled 

Vietnamese twins,

both of whom graduated

from Jefferson with

4.25 GPA

 

One of the twins is

presently

a Math Professor

at Cal State

Los Angeles

 

2.

An eternal thank you

to all the 

gangstas and chollos

who held the door open for me

at 5:30AM

when I was purchasing 

as much as $200 worth

of donuts

to raise funds

in order to stage

school-wide free concerts

twice annually

for ≈ten years

 

The donut shop

was/is

 at the intersection

of Vernon Avene

and Central Avenue

 

3.

Chuckie Cruz

 was on my 1990

YEARBOOK staff

 

He was the leader of

the "advertising" group

 

We had a very icy relationship

 but ten years later

he was a security guard

at Dodger Stadium

who recognized me

on the stadium plaza

 

He addressed me by name

from inside the security gates,

opening one and insisting

I enter.

 

Which, of course, I did

—being a party of one—

 

We high-fived each other

than he went his way

and the illegally-entered

former teacher

walked away

in the opposite direction

 

4.

Cha-Cha Lovell 

always prevailed

in the corner of the Quad

where the hardcore Bloods 

gathered.

 

That was happening

from 1987 through 1989

 

Today, Cha-Cha

is known as 

Sargent Lovell

at the 

Santa Barbara

Police Headquarters

 ***

Names have been changed

to protect 

the innocent and the infamous

but every word above

is 100% fact-based

 

OG = Original Gangster

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