… over how the baby should be raised. Story here. Gosh, it’s good to know parents are so committed to their ideals that they fight over them.
The poor kid doesn’t have a chance, does he?
Nope.
Makes me feel better, though, that my husband and I really only disagree about things like how much TV is too much.
Jeez, isn’t this the kind of thing you want to work out BEFORE you have the baby? Of course, with the way kids are today he will probably become a Vice Lord … or a Shark…or a Cinncinati Bengal. 
Let me guess - the Crips circumcise, but the Ballers don’t.
Regards,
Shodan
I think it has more to do with philosophical differences. They’re both “blood in,” but the Crips are more restrictive on who the victims can be. Ballers have no restrictions, and the vicitim has to die. It’s a serious issue because it affects a persons entire sense of right and wrong.
I don’t see what the big deal is. It’s nice to see parents concerned about their kid’s upbringing.
My faith in humanity has been yada yada yada.
I can’t even joke, that is so fucking sad.
This is an issue that Westside Story never addressed. Maybe there could be a sequel where the gangs fall out again and Tony and Maria have to decide…
Oh, never mind.
Um, hate to break this to you, but Tony’s dead.
You killed him. You all killed him.
Not with bullets and guns.
With hate!
If there were any justice in the world, the kid would be taken away from these idiots, and they’d be forcibly sterilized.
Heh.
Frankly a serious ethical quandary at stake here. You wouldn’t want to raise your kid with the wrong morals and values, now, would you?
The best way to approach the situation would be to invite the crips and the ballers to the rec center and having a lock in, ordering pizza, etc. Then they would all be friends by morning!
What I’d really, really like to see in threads like these is a follow-up interview in six months.
“Dear mr. Manzanares, in the past six months, about 80.000 people have shared their opinion about your acts on that afternoon in the videostore. We have let you read some of them. Care to comment?”
Forget about what religion to raise your child as, or even what university your child should go to. If you want your child to grow up with all the advantages they can possibly have, you have to pick the right gang…
Personally I’d pick the Crips, they have more name recognition, and a larger presence across the US!
Looks like they could use some parental counseling.
Wait a minute, how did two people from different gangs end up parenting a child together anyway? Shouldn’t they automatically hate one another based on principle alone? And if they did decide that they loved each other enough not to bust a cap shouldn’t they have left the gangs to be together?
Yikes! Yuppy parents fighting over what prep school the 4 year old will eventually go to… gangster parents fighting over who’ll jump little Pedro in…
Seriously, I think by the time this kid does jump in - between ages 8 & 10, most likely- Dad will be dead or in prison, and the Baby Mamma can do whatever she wants, after her shift at the video store…
As an old-school representive of Grove Street, let me just say: Fuck dem Ballas.
Read? You expect the guy to read!?