I wouldn’t say so in spirit how so? The Crips in those days were not affiliated with the Nation or Panthers. To me it’s disrespectful to even put them together. Guys who were Crips is who the Nation or BP would look to reform. They were a young street club/gang of misguided teens and their main goals was criminality, money pursuit, neighborhood pride, brotherhood, protection. A typical youth street gang. Read Tookie’s book man there was nothing positive or pro-black about Crips in fact in the book he talks about strong feelings of self hate and rage in his adolescence.