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Like ai said, it's real racial. if blacks get into it, i got to be there. really especially -- i'm always out there on the front lines. i'm always going to be that way. >> why? >> because i pretty much always have to prove myself, you know? always, no matter what. so i can't change my life now, i chose that road, so i have to be a part of that. i don't try to be black, i'm me, i'm dylan. >> but even the brotherhood of his prison gang didn't allow dunn much optimism for the future. >> hope is the biggest -- to me, hope is like thou kill me before one of them kills me. >> what? >> hope. as far a...

>> when we met dillon dunn i think the whole crew was surprised to find out he was a crip a white guy as a crip. >> i run with the blacks. there's not too many people like me. >> at first we thought he was messing with us, or just trying to have a little fun, but we found out he was the real deal. >> so talk to me about how an irish boy end up as a crip. >> i'm not irish. >> dylan dunn? i tell you, somebody is irish. >> my father. i'm puerto rican and italian. >> dunn's fish out of water status could last for a long time. he's serving 25 years to life for armed robbery. >> how are you perceive...

>> i run with the blacks. there's not too many people like me. >> at first we thought he was messing with us, or just trying to have a little fun, but we found out he was the real deal. >> so talk to me about how an irish boy ends up as a crip? >> i'm not irish. >> dylan dunn? >> my father. i'm puerto rican and italian. >> how are you perceived here? >> i get my respect. if i didn't, i -- like, they could stab me or whatever, i wouldn't be here, i'd be dead, you know. so evidently i get my respect. i mean, it wasn't easy, you know, it's still not easy, some places i go, i'm a target. >> why?

>> because of who i run with, who my gang is. like i said, real racers. if blacks get into it, i got to be there. really especially -- i'm always out there on the front lines. i'm always going to be that way. >> why?< >> because i pretty much always have to prove myself, you know? always, no matter what. so i can't change my life now, i chose that road, so i have to be a part of that. i don't try to be black, i'm me, i'm dylan. >> but even the brotherhood of his president ing gang didn't allow dunn much optimism for the future. >> hope is the biggest -- to me, hope is like thou kill me before ...

Like i said, it's real racial. and if blacks get into it, i've got to be there, you know? really, especially me. i'm always out there on the front lines and i'm going to be that way. >> why? >> because i pretty much always have to prove myself, you know? always, no matter what. so i can't change my life now, i chose that road, so i have to be a part of that. i don't try to be black, i'm me, i'm dylan. >> but even the brotherhood of his prison gang didn't allow dunn much optimism for the future. >> hope is the biggest -- to me, hope is like -- that'll kill me before one of the kills me. >> what...