Shaykh Uthman

When I turned around and looked at him, I mean, in front of everybody that grabbed me, I just punched him because, you know, we can't take disrespect.

As a gang member, if you let somebody disrespect you, then who are you, right?

It's like prison rules, right?

Like if you let somebody get over a little something, next thing they'll be getting with a lot.

So you don't let them cross that line.

So that was at PB Middle School.

Another teacher, he had told me that if you pass all your tests, you get an A. It was intermediate algebra.

I remember it.

And then it was Richard, too.

I still remember his name.

Yeah.

And I had good grades.

I passed all my tests.

I just wasn't in class because I was doing other stuff.

Gang business, you know?

At the end of when we were getting our grades, he gave me a D. Like a D. Oh my God, a D?

I had never brought a C home, let alone, I mean, if I had a B, I'd be stressed out because my mom was strict.

When I saw that, I was like, a D?

I was like, bro, I'm not getting a D. You're changing this to an A like we promised.

And he's like, yeah, yeah, we had a deal, but you never showed up.