coming of age

Who says what? WS 1

‘Some of the things I said to you … I shouldn’t have said.’ p. 223, l. 44

‘It must be so easy, being you!’ p. 223, l. 48
‘Some people call it a coming of age.’ p. 136, l. 38
‘I was never ‘black’ enough.’ p. 224, l. 10
‘Man, that is one jealous chick!’ p. 29, l. 33
‘My neighborhood ain’t the slums but it ain’t that nice, either.’ p. 32, l. 21
Who says what and in which context? What is the relationship between the characters?

WS 2

Fight at Local School Turns into Chaos

Riot Gear Used

KABC TV 7: Los Angeles Nov. 19, 2004
LOS ANGELES — A fight between two Jordan High School stu-
dents Friday led to a blacks-Latinos brawl that police said may
have involved up to 1,000 people, including some gang members
who came on campus for the fracas.
The scrap, which reportedly began with two girls fighting, possibly
over something that happened yesterday, began during the second
lunch period, officials said. Nobody was seriously hurt. […]
Capt. Sergio Diaz of the Los Angeles Police Department said several
hundred people were involved, possibly as many as 1,000. A youth
said it started in one place, then spread throughout the campus.
When all was said and done four students had been arrested, one for
allegedly kicking a school police lieutenant in the mouth, and three
for disobeying orders to disperse, said Ellen Morgan of Los Angeles
Unified. Four students also were treated for minor injuries, as were
three school police officers, she said. […]
By the end of the day, officers in riot gear were escorting students in
groups of 20 or so off the campus.
Worried parents – one woman sat crying in a chair and being con-
soled – waited anxiously to be united with their children. […]
A father said, ‘You have a child who wants an education and other
kids who don’t. That’s what’s frustrating.’

Kelli’s eyes go narrow. ‘Look who’s coming!’
Coming down the next hall is the Black Cows, Shanice, Yvette, Alis-
ha and Patrice, four dark-as-shit girls who always startin up shit with
us light girls. We call em cows cuz they fat and ugly.
‘Somebody got a weave!’ Imani squeal, lookin at Shanice. I look at
the girl and laugh out loud. Yesterday her hair was short but today
it hang past her shoulders. The weave look terrible. The hair two
different textures and real short on top. You can tell it’s a weave a
mile away.
I laugh as they walk by. ‘Man, someone messed up her hair!’ Now
Shanice and the cows stop in front of us and look at us with mean
looks on their ugly faces.
‘What was that, bitch?’ Shanice say, glarin at me.
I keep laughing. ‘That’s some messed-up hair!’
‘Bitch … ’ Now them big nostrils of hers flare and her firsts clench.
Lorri Hewett Coming of Age, p. 25–26 ]

Re: Latino vs. Black Gang Fight Turns LA High School Into War Zone
WS 3
by Anonymous on Saturday, November 20 @ 19:48:43 EST

All across America, the school systems keep saying they need more money to handle new growth. The schools
and the press won‘t tell people where this big increase in students is coming from! Schools across America are
being packed full of illegal aliens and their kids. The public needs to be told. The cost is in the billions! I read on
Free Republic that high school is 75 % hispanic, 24 % black, and .1 % white. Does anyone think that school would
be anywhere near 75 % hispanic if we did something about illegal immigration?
Our country is being invaded. These people hate us white and black. They do not respect our borders or our laws.
They do want to take what we have. That is what they are doing. They are raping and pillaging. And most Americans
have lost the guts to even fight the destruction of our country and way of life!