Our Name is Rogelio Bautista

Summary:

From the perspective of newspaper accounts and police reports, Rogelio Bautista died for a word, a color, a number, his death jotted down as just another statistic in our escalating gang war…but that’s not the perspective of the four narrators of the story “Our name is Rogelio Bautista.”

Website:

http://www.krcb.org/radio/voice_youth/index.htm

Description:

According to what his brother Sergio told the police, Rogelio Bautista was just walking to a party this past New Year’s Eve when someone across the street yelled “f--- SCRAPS!!”, scrap being the derogatory word that a Norteno gang member uses to insult a Sureno.

From the perspective of newspaper accounts and police reports, Rogelio died for a word, a color, a number, his death jotted down as just another statistic in our escalating gang war…but that’s not the perspective of the four narrators of the story “Our name is Rogelio Bautista.”

These four fourteen year old kids knew him as the cousin they’d crammed into a tiny apartment with, the kid who they played baseball with using cans as bases, the tough hero of their neighborhood...they narrate his story in the voice of this young man...

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