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Buka abadlali bePark lacrosse u-Ayomide Aborisade, kwesokunxele, no-Eve Hart bajabule endaweni yokuzilolonga.
(Luca Evans / Los Angeles Times)
Endaweni encane esikhungweni sasekhaya se-Inner City Education Foundation Public Schools, iqembu lamantombazane nabafana abayisithupha abahlangene e-View Park bagigitheka ngesikhathi bezama ukukhipha ibhola ezintini zomunye nomunye bezilolongela ngoLwesine.
Badubula inethi elincane, ngoba eliwusayizi ogcwele kuphela wabo – elibolekwe ngumdlali osephothule iziqu zePacific Palisades – laphuka. Izinduku ezisezandleni zabo zishiywe yikhempu endala ephethwe yintsha engenzi nzuzo u-Harlem Lacrosse noma zithengwe ngendlela enolaka ye-Facebook Marketplace umqeqeshi u-Elizabeth Waterman.
“Isici soxhaso,” kusho umqeqeshi wonyaka wokuqala uWaterman, “bekunzima.”
Kuyi-microcosm yesithembiso nezithiyo izinhlelo ze-lacrosse zesikole samabanga aphezulu ezibhekana nazo e-Los Angeles. Izinti ngazinye zingabiza kufika ku-$150, amagilavu u-$200, izigqoko zokuzivikela ezifika ku-$300 – “ukuqala okumba eqolo,” njengoba uBorrell akubeka.
I-City Section, ehlanganisa amaqembu amaningi avela ezindaweni ezingenayo imali encane, inezikole ezingu-12 kuphela ezihlanganisa iqembu le-lacrosse. Umehluko wezigaba uhambisane nokuhlukana kwezinhlanga ezingeni lamakolishi. Naphezu kokuthuthuka okuncane kule minyaka eyishumi edlule, u-83% wabo amaqembu e-lacrosse abesifazane nabesilisa ngo-2022 zazimhlophe.
“Uma uhamba uthi udlala i-lacrosse, uthola abantu bethi, ‘O, labo bantu abamhlophe s—,’” kusho u-Ayomide Aborisade, ilungu leqembu le-lacrosse lamantombazane e-View Park.
Izinhlelo zentsha ezinjengoHarlem Lacrosse, osezakhele udumo eCompton High, ziwukhiye ekukhuleni komdlalo emiphakathini ehola kancane, kusho abaqeqeshi. I-View Park ilahlekelwe yonke imidlalo ohlelweni lwayo kule sizini, ayizange ikhiphe abafundi abenele ukuthi bayidlale. Kodwa okuningi kuzoza ngemuva kokuphothula isizini yebhola lombhoxo yesikole, u-Waterman uthemba, futhi umphumela womdlalo kuqembu elijabulisayo ngoLwesine ubucacile.
“Ngicabanga ukuthi wumdlalo ohluke kakhulu,” kusho u-Aborisade. “Sifuna futhi ukwenza kwaziwe kakhulu, hhayi izingane ezimhlophe kuphela, nezingane eziMnyama.”
