Jimmy on Growing Up Poor in Denver & the Kids Who Got 4.0 GPAs
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0:00A: Over 65, 75% of the kids made 4.0.
0:04B: Okay, they have excellent GPAs.
0:06A: Yeah, we plastered it all over the Rocky Mountain News paper.
0:12B: And so tell me about your family. Like, tell me about your family in the Chicano world.
0:16A: Yeah, my family in the Chicano world. We grew up, uh, poor in the, uh, on the east side, and, uh, Where?
0:29B: On the east side, on 30th and California. We had a house over there.
0:32A: We were renting a house over there. Then we moved to the west side after we got a, uh, a, uh, a house, a project house, which was 2 or 3 rooms rather than 1 room.
