summary chapter 17

AJ tells Ruthie all about his problems concerining family and friends. He also tells her that it is a bit strange for him that Ruthie is so close with Anthony. She´s no social-worker. Ruthie talks about her problem,too. She says that she can´t associate with black people because she doesn´t know how she can respect a person who doesn´t respect himelf. Mot of the black people are thugs, MG´s, dope dealers, criminals or wanna-be gang menbers.This conversation is very hard for AJ and he also gets to know that Anthony broght some kind of stuff for Franco to a friend of him.From this moment AJ decides that the treatment with Franco is very bad for Anthony. He doesn´t want that Anthony takes drugs like Franco. AJ bans Anthony the contact with Franco. As AJ told this his older brother they fight and AJ gets hurt a bit.