On that. A lot of these guys grow up in that environment and have connections with questionable characters. For many of them, severing those ties is unthinkable because those guys were virtually family to them. That was their support system and severing ties is like betrayal or worse to them.

Some guys have been able to do it, but others haven't. But maintaining ties with your friends back home doesn't make you a gang banger. Doing Hernandez stuff makes you a gang banger.

ETA: I know most of you won't get this because you probably don't know or haven't ever really tried to know anyone from "the hood", and that's not a problem. Most people have no reason to.

This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 6:01 am

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Posted by GynoSandberg

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Posted on 4/1/14 at 7:02 am to Sophandros

Of course a lot of athletes grow up in the "hood". You don't hear about 90% of them doing bad stuff or broadcasting it once they make it big, though.

The thing w DJax is, he either has no one around him to tell him to cut out the blatant gang shite, or if he does, he's totally ignoring that person.

And don't pull the "you people probably don't know the hoof" stuff. You went to Jesuit and probably grew up in mid city or Gentilly

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Posted by bonethug0108

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Posted on 4/1/14 at 7:19 am to Sophandros

I totally get all that Soph, but his HS (?) coach said he didn't start hanging around those people until after his dad died.

So this wasn't a case where he was friends with them from a young age. He purposely sought out those types later in life.

Like I said, he's just some wannabe good kid that decided he wanted to be a "bad" boy.

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