The Homies — tiny LA Chicano gangsta figurines sold in gumball machines — are drawing fire from the LAPD, who want their sale discontinued on the grounds tha they provide a poor role model for Hispanic children.

My favorite Homie is rapping into a black microphone. His name is Ice, and he looks a bit like Kid Frost, whose hit song “La Raza” introduced Mexican American pride to the hiphop world in the early ’90s. Ice likes to let his pants sag, so that the top part of his boxer shorts is visible, and he has a pager just above the right butt pocket. The next Homie I adore is the blind Homie–or at least I think he is blind. He wears dark sunglasses that hide his eyes, and a white, long-sleeved shirt that’s buttoned all the way up to his neck and runs down to his knees. The blind Homie holds a brown cane with ringless fingers, and has a mustache that looks like two leeches sucking the life out of his nostrils.

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