Show me where gangs have helped the Black community and I'll transfer the title of the bridge I just bought to you.
Unless they flip it into a force for the protection of Black folks against our enemies, then it needs to be eradicated.
What I think you're not understanding is the true origins of the street gangs we have today.
Crips and Bloods really only consolidated sets and neighborhoods all over the country that already had a gang like structures in place.
And a large number of those neighborhoods/sets was a product of the Black Panther party, the soldiers, the real victims of Cointelpro that lost their way once the leaders were systematically exterminated.
That culture has continued because above all else, with the socio-economic status of black people native to this country pretty much being the same as in the 50s and 60s when these sets formed, it's a culture that has continued to provide the worst victims of white supremacy, the people we ignore or look down on once we or our parents/grandparents "make it out", with one of the few organizational structures left in this country where a black boy can show all of his natural abilities, unrestricted by white folks, be loved and respected for it by his brothers, and truly let his nuts hang, even if they know it's only for a very brief moment.
It might be the only chance they get to feel truly alive in this White Man's world, even when death or loss of freedom is more than likely, as a result.
We look at the negatives of gang banging, the certain jail time/deaths, etc., but in all of our pontificating, we fail to recognize what really draws a young black boy, looking at a hopeless future, into joining a gang in the first place.
With all that being said, the New York nikkas was supposed to be working on an alternative to that lifestyle, where we could feel truly free but not have to be a criminal to achieve it.
Some kinda way, them nikkas dropped the ball, got addicted to the money, started partying all the time, and lowered themselves back to the level of the gangbangers of the 80s and 90s, after the Zulu Nation had already used Hip-Hop culture successfully to dead gangbangin in the city.
You nikkas disappointed Southerners like me that tried to emulate y'all culture instead of falling in line with the bullshyt I saw around me everyday, so that I could come back and spread the knowledge amongst those that would listen.
Once I realized New York didn't really value the lessons they tried to portray to the world, I said fukk that bullshyt they talking and got in line with the culture I was used to.
Then when I went to Cali, and was surrounded by nikkas that was way more gangsta than any nikka I knew thuggin on the East Coast, all the allure was gone.
have a regularly syndicated snitchathon brehs
at more than East Coast copycat gangbangers is celebrity gangbangers, who are sometimes one in the same.
We saluting gangs now
