Trouble will find you.

L.A. Gangs.

Last week turned out to be a crazy day, and this is not an understatement. I was running late to my second class at PHW ( playhouse west) and headed to the 101 North FYW to North Hollywood, I was on the off ramp exit ready to make my turn on Lankershim Blvd, when this car in front of me, kept jumping from one lane to another and getting back on my lane still in front of me just a second before hitting the gas peddle, thank god for me I saw that, and my natural reaction was to hit the break & blink my horn at this stupid girl in front of me, this girl turned out to be a group of girls, tattoos & all, I don’t wanna be profiling but they sure looked like gang members to me. Anyway one girl got out of the car ( on the freeway ramp) and pointed her fingers & simulated a handgun at me. OMG, bordelle de merde, hell no, I grabbed my cell phone & dial 911 at the speed of light, and thought to myself shit, the car has tainted windows, and could see agitation & the car bouncing on & off ( still in front of me) with this nut from hell walking towards my car, operator answered and I told the 911 dispatcher here’s the license plate number & locations, just in case I don’t make it alive. I really thought I was going to be shot! Turned out the girl took her fat ass back to the car as soon as she saw me on the phone, I know for a fact there were 3, because I could see their heads not well but counted three of these crazy fools.. I feel that if it wasn’t for my quick reaction to dial 911, gods knows where I would be right now, with all the adrenaline rush, I headed straight to acting class which I will blog my thought on that shortly… On Saturday, I decided to take my daughter who is 7 years old to Griffith Park , anyway just one block away at Normandie & Santa Monica Blvd, the entire section was closed, cops were present & Local Tv Stations as well, I thought to myself gangs again ! Probably, I bet someone got shot in a related gang crime. A few hours later back at home, at turned the Kcal 9 news , & turned out that there had been a double homicide at Normandie & Santa Monica & that it was gang related and the suspects were still out on the run………… Here’s my intake as Frenchie/North African girl from La banlieu, Paris is much safer. I don’t care how bad you think you have it in France ! C’est horrible ici, I mean you always have to watch you back out here . L.A., is the Gang Capital of the world, it does not matter where you are, you don’t have to look for trouble, trouble will find you when you least expect it. Gangs are well established, and frankly I have never had any encounters with them in the past. The people who join these gangs are for the most underprivileged black or hispanics kids who really have it hard, I mean hard !!!!! Dirt poor, poverty & presurre to survive, and feeling oppressed in the white man's world. Many of them are good kids, but you do have few of them who have no conscious & will kill for the hell of it or as part of gang initiation. While I am no expert in this, I think that one should not be so quick to put gangs down, it's the few bad rotten apples, those in my opinion are terrorists & cowards. I think in order to cure gangs, we need to look at the underlying cause, that 's POVERTY & RACISM, and pressure of surviving that pushes these underprivileged kids to join. It sad, I think that if the Government really wanted the problem to be solved they would have done it by now ! They have the resources to fix all that. I think that because we're dealing with minorities, the issues are not pressing ! and that's WRONG & so hypocritical!