![]() ![]() ![]() His father dreamed of starting a construction business, his mother of opening a beauty salon. His parents emigrated from Mexico-his mother crossed the border from Juarez to El Paso in 1975 expressly to give birth to Fabian in America, he told me-and came to Los Angeles seeking opportunity. Debora already featured in another LA story. And from the gang came entry into an archetypal story about Los Angeles, America’s so-called gang capital, where an estimated two hundred fifty street gangs claim more than twenty-six thousand members. From the tag came membership in one of East LA’s oldest street gangs. The spade is a subtle and powerful symbol.” From that childhood insight, gleaned growing up in one of Los Angeles’s most violent public housing projects, came the graffiti tag Debora began spreading around his Boyle Heights neighborhood at age thirteen. THE SPADE, ACCORDING to artist and former East Los Angeles gang member Fabian “Spade” Debora, is the craftiest card in the deck, the card that “takes all.
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