PartIcipating in a gang is some of the most c00n shyt you could do

[ndthentherewasx]

Purposefully dividing the people who look like you?

Killing other blacks and not getting a dime or a pat on the back from the white supremacists who allow legislation leading to those circumstances

Automatically having issues with someone cause of the color they wear

I don't get why in 2016 gang members still are seen as "hard" by some of y'all

& don't sit here and try to exaggerate the family aspect of gangs, I understand a lot of gang members come from broken families looking for acceptance. My point is that same acceptance can be gained from an all black frat, HBCUS.. something, ANYTHING more productive than gang life.

Join a fraternity in middle school brehs

 

[b_low_brown]

OP nikkas gon come at you for making this thread just wait and see
For some reason we got Black ppl who defend the dudes who terrorize and destroy our communities

for gangbangers that would you at the drop of a dime brehs

They already are.
Their counterargument basically being that most who join gangs have no choice, which even if valid, doesn't change the facts.

There's no positive value that gangs bring to the community that can't be accomplished another, less violent way.

 

[b_low_brown]

Join a fraternity in middle school brehs

Cause middle schoolers are the only
Ones in gangs.. ok

How about a Boys and girls club? A fukking sport, maybe? Using your brain for a sec brings a lot of alternatives, I promise

Keep at it with the basic Coli 1 liners instead of actually engaging in discussion on real topics tho

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

So what is it then? nikkas killing themselves over Blocks they don't own?

Nah nikka it's politics , oh this nikka killed my uncle even though he not a banger well it's on sight That's the mentality most bangers have , you take mine I take yours Most bangers nowadays just talk shyt about the opps on social media and get chin checked at McDonalds

 

[Gold]

Draw it out since you seem knowledgeable on the topic.

My oldest brother messed with brehs who were affiliated when he was young. There was nothing "participatory" about it.
My parents both worked 2 jobs at the time, we didn't have money like we do now.

So he was the one who basically was raising us. We got our home broken into 3 times, robbed twice.
He went to go confront them and got beat so badly he ended up in the emergency room. He still has scars to this day.

We called the police, they didn't do shyt, they coudln't do shyt.
So he reached out to some other brehs in the neighborhood... and he got all our shyt back.

I didn't understand how or why cuz I was young, but now I get it.

I 'm not saying it was smart (he eventually got arrested), but I GET why he did it at the time.

 

[MillionMills]

I don't think some of you corny nikkas understand how gangs work

of course we know how gangs work
We just crackin jokes because they dumb as hell

 

[b_low_brown]

My oldest brother messed with brehs who were affiliated when he was young. There was nothing "participatory" about it.
My parents both worked 2 jobs at the time, we didn't have money like we do now.

So he was the one who basically was raising us. We got our home broken into 3 times, robbed twice.
He went to go confront them and got beat so badly he ended up in the emergency room. He still has scars to this day.

We called the police, they didn't do shyt, they coudln't do shyt.
So he reached out to some other brehs in the neighborhood... and he got all our shyt back.

I didn't understand how or why cuz I was young, but now I get it.

I 'm not saying it was smart (he eventually went to jail), but I GET why he did it at the time.

You seem to think I don't get why they'd do it. fukked up economic circumstances will lead some to take an alternative approach to bringing money home. Completely get it.

That doesn't invalidate my opinion that gangs do much more bad for the community as a whole than good

 

[Birdie]

This isn't the 80's, gang members aren't hard or even remotely tough nowadays. The vast majority of these mama's boys are joining gangs and block/drug crews to impress some crunchy hood rats and they're killing over them as well.

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

The modern gang banger just fukks with a white bytch , takes her money and smokes weed all day while checking the opps on Facebook . If I didn't have money doesn't sound like a bad option

 

[JackRoss]

Go to the source and inform them of their c00nish behavior

 

[LuckyLibra619]

Nah nikka it's politics , oh this nikka killed my uncle even though he not a banger well it's on sight That's the mentality most bangers have , you take mine I take yours Most bangers nowadays just talk shyt about the opps on social media and get chin checked at McDonalds

Yeah that shyt becomes a endless cycle of violence of dudes just killing themselves that shyt makes me hella sad I can't lie

nikkas need to chill, we already live in a system of White Supremacy we can't be killing each other on top of that

 

[ndthentherewasx]

Cause middle schoolers are the only
Ones in gangs.. ok

How about a Boys and girls club? A fukking sport, maybe? Using your brain for a sec brings a lot of alternatives, I promise

Keep at it with the basic Coli 1 liners instead of actually engaging in discussion on real topics tho

Most 1 liners are funny. Shyt.

Mine missed

but really, theyre going to join whoever, whatever is around. Thats unless mom and pops gives em a different route or puts an end to that shyt early.

Growing up in the wrong hood alone can get you fukked up

Who you turning to after that? Gotta go in, join up too

 

[Gold]

You seem to think I don't get why they'd do it. fukked up economic circumstances will lead some to take an alternative approach to bringing money home. Completely get it.

That doesn't invalidate my opinion that gangs do much more bad for the community as a whole than good

I'm not disagreeing with that. But my brother wasn't thinking about c00ning, he was thinking about protecting his 5 younger siblings cuz no one else was going to.

Have you ever had a bunch of young men run up in your house while you're having breakfast and rob you?

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

Yeah that shyt becomes a endless cycle of violence of dudes just killing themselves that shyt makes me hella sad I can't lie

nikkas need to chill, we already live in a system of White Supremacy we can't be killing each other on top of that

I mean we all gonna die one day might as well be early

 

[Turk]

So what is it then? nikkas killing themselves over Blocks they don't own?

My hood is probably different from a lot of the other posters on here. It was mixed. Asians, Latinos, and Blacks all lived in the same area. It wasn't majority black, and the neighborhood gang mirrored that...it was diverse af. The people in my generation (I'm 22) didn't start this shyt. That gang started back in the 80s, it's been around for 30+ years. A lot of people just got sucked into it. A lot of people had family members who were in that gang and naturally you're gunna be influenced by your surroundings. It's not as black and white as "oh you're just a c00n". When you're living in that environment where you're constantly around that shyt it's going to have an influence on you.


OP talks about college, frats, and etc but a lot of nikkas never got the chance to see any of that. I'm fortunate to come from a background where my family is pretty well educated but my nikkas and the people around me weren't. Most nikkas aren't even leaving their block regularly. College aspirations weren't real because they never got the chance to see it. But they did see gangs on a daily basis. Who the ones looking fly? gang members. Who are the ones getting money? gang members. Who are the ones with respect? gang members. You see that regularly growing up and you will want to emulate it. On top of that these are probably people you've grown up with and known your whole life. Frat nikkas are really just some random mfers and you gotta pay on top of that.