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172. I became a gang member after suffering racist abuse

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I Was Abused, I Was Smacked With the Belt, You Know?

I was beaten with the belt, sometimes with a slipper. And my sisters, I've got seven sisters that all older than me. They used to beat me as well. My father thought that because there's seven girls, they need to do the housework and look after me. But when my parents went to work, they thought, no, we're not doing that. So I had to learn how to make my own breakfast, how to wash clothes by hand, how to sew, how to iron. Normally in our culture, it's expected that boy or girl, you will learn all these things at some point,. Because before you leave home, you're expected to learn those

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