We sat in Rodr guez's small but comfortable living room and talked of what it would mean to stop thinking of gang members as criminals and to start seeing them again as children and young men and women, the future of our communities. Society encourages these kids to turn their hatred inward because otherwise there's a strong possibility they would turn their rage against the system. These kids . Kill or be killed. Expressions like these are capitalism in a nutshell.
Huge changes take place in the early twenties.