187 DVD review

This raises a good question. What do you do when the kids are in such shape? How do they get that way? Is it poverty or lack of parenting? Do they both always go hand in hand? Are we defined by where and to whom we are born? Maybe, to a certain degree. How do you then save these children from their own environment? It's sad. You can't just give up, can you? It's such a waste.

It really upsets me. The people that give the most back continue to get paid the least. Police, teachers, firefighters, and the military. Man, the list goes on. How can that be? How did that happen? The place I grew up, the literal district had the highest homicide rates in Washington State about four years back and it was mostly related to gang shootings. I haven't checked on it recently. I think back to my childhood. It wasn't the best area ever, but I wasn't afraid to walk around, go downtown, or even to the Tacoma Mall. It saddens me. Does our generation just not care or is the new generation that messed up? Is it a combination of both? When I was graduating, the Crips and Bloods were just forging a presence in the Hilltop area of Tacoma. My understanding is that they are not in that area anymore because they were trying to clean up the downtown area for business. It seems to me like they may have migrated to my old neighborhood; although, the gang names may have changed.

I don't know that I could do it, and they don't get enough flippin' money for what they do. They play a huge impact on our future generations. Huge, colossal, gigantic? How many other ways can you put it? When we are out working to make ends meet they are helping raise or children.

Where I live now I look out and I see mountains filled with green trees everywhere. I see a growing corkscrew willow and a hill covered in wild honeysuckle. I hear church bells playing a tune every morning. My son can run wild without fear other than just random freaky chance.

I don't know what else to say.

Samuel L. Jackson as Garfield "G"
John Heard
Kelly Rowan
Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez
Tony Plana

Karina Arroyave
Lobo Sebastian
Jack Kehler
Jonah Rooney
Demetrius Navarro

Written by Scott Yagemann (a teacher)
Directed by Kevin Reynolds