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hopefully he finally had that moment of clarity and being around Jim, Reynolds and Shane Heyl may help. The guy has all the talent in the world so hopefully he can bounce back, but the odds are clearly against him.
shiiiiiiit, he's a black dude from LA with a family history of gang affiliation. the odds have been stacked against him for some time. i think he can do whatever he wants, but thats what it's gonna really come down to, what he really wants. I got no judgement on him till he shows the world where he's at now.
K
Dude has had sponsors since he was maybe 14 or 15 ?� Supra , Deathwish , Spitfire and Thunder and some other I bet .� Dude got free product and clothes . And Im sure if he asked nicely his sponsors would have helped him with moving to a diffrent city or country to stay out of problems and so on .
Im not going to say LA is the easiest place to grow up , but you have people from the poorest african countries and ex afghanistan fight / die for their right to go to school . Live every day of their life with bombs dropping next to them and landmines and still they want to live and go to school , get jobs and stay alive . Look at the gaza strip now , now that is a hard life
fuck of with that shit , if you really want out of a situation and change , you do it . Antwuan has had plenty of chances
when he was in new Orleans he was easily spending a $500- 600 a day on partying, he coulda very well moved his family where ever he wanted with that kinda money if he wouldve been responsible with it, but he made that choice to noe do things to make he and his familys life better.
the fact that you'd have to think about moving your entire family to another area at that age means that (ding!ding!) the odds are stacked against you. Add to that the typically territorial nature of gang affiliation (multi-generational) and it may not have been as easy an option as you make it sound. And more to the point, you're assuming that he never tried.
that said, I didn't say that he hasn't wasted many chances to better his situation, but if you argue with my first statement, you're a moron.
K
You dont have any facts or proof that he has tried to move his family . And if he did it was a complete failure since his family prob lives where they always lived and Antwuan ended up in jail .
you dont need to move your entire family , plenty people move somewhere ells and either just stay in touch with the family and visit . And some just send money back home . Ive known plenty of immigrants who live somewhere good where they make money and stay out of problems / dont get killed . They work hard and often go to school at the same time to send money home to their family and in some cases try to move their family over . And this is working shit jobs , not knowing the language and working really hard .
If some 18 year old can move half across the world , escaping war , no job , no future . Work 2 dishwashing jobs and go to school to learn the language , while being away from his family and sending money back home to make sure they are getting fed and trying to save up money to escape the country , A pro skater that gets pretty much everything for free and gets paid to go traveling and to be sponsored
he should be able to stay out of jail , no matter what gang his brother is in or where his family lives . He didnt go to jail for being in a gun fight with gangs trying to attack his familys home , he went to jail for beating up some middle aged white dude infront of his kids
call me moron if u want