Luis J. Rodriguez: Returning to Roots

Posted on: February 26th, 2006
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ] [ Commentary ]
Tags: blog, children
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“A person’s life can often be measured by their returns. People go out into the world, have adventures, trials, tribulations, initiations. Most, however, don’t ever come back to original spaces, first contemplations, to various places called home, completing circles. I’ve been fortunate to have done this many times.

When I left my barrio of South San Gabriel in the west San Gabriel Valley, it took me twenty years to return. Like Odysseus, I had many wondrous but also tragic things happen to me in those intervening 20 years. When I did return, I came back with my recently released memoir, “Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in LA.” I had been contacted by five homeboys and homegirls who wanted me to speak at our old schools, to the youth, many of whom were entering the same gangs we took part in during the late 60s and early 70s. A couple of the homeboys had lost their own children (one, a former heroin addict and friend of mine, lost two sons to the gang warfare that continues to this day).”

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