Ex-Gang Member: What Makes A Violent Man Change? - Johnny Chang - #1140

Tell me about Your History. How did you get to where you are today? Yeah, so uh I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley, uh east side of LA, uh some project housing. Um and I grew up kind of not the stereotypical Asian.

Like I didn't like anime and I didn't like mathematics. I liked guns and gangbanging, basically. And it's prior to that is because my parents were immigrant parents. Um they did not uh fend very well, obviously landed in poverty. They came with the American dream in mind. Realizing that it's not as simple as other people were portraying it, like our family back. Back home. Uh so yeah, we landed in the projects. They didn't understand gang violence, gang culture. They they just thought, oh, this place is cheap. The government helps us. Why not? Land there and

And um He's a chef by trade, but he tries to um, you know, do everything that a a a man can do, right? Provide for his family. He starts to develop this addiction, um, which is to alcohol. He's drinking soju all the time. Um, and then he starts like beating my mom, beating me. Beat my brother. Basically he he had a lot of uh

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