You can't enter a classroom at this high school and not see swastikas scribbled everywhere from the textbooks to the desks to the walls. Hate speech has been scrawled on the desks of the very few Jewish students in the school, including myself, though I do not practice Judaism. A few of the insults I have seen include: "Ich hasse Jews" (a baffling mixture of German and English) and "Auf immer Gestapo" (forever Gestapo). The members of this gang often engage in many of the fights that occur daily around the campus. I have almost gotten entangled in a few of them myself.
One of the members has even claimed that someday he will get a swastika tattoo right in the center of his forehead (remind you of someone? Charlie Manson, anybody?). Well, at least there's the comforting thought that the only thing that tattoo will be good for is identifying him someday when he's inevitably arrested. It will also certainly be useful in his initation into the Nazi Lowriders, a notorious white supremacist gang partially based (at least historically) in Bakersfield.
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