thank you for proving my point. you AREN'T educated and you're a fraud. read a book, educate yourself and then get back to me when you act like you have some fukking sense.
you support a bunch of grown men still holding on to their status within the gang, still gangbanging basically doing what they should be doing in the first place which is being productive law abiding citizens and encouraging other people to do the same. you basically are giving them a backhand compliment by saying that they're dumb and don't know any better but that. you're just as bad as the people that you're accusing of being racist because you see your own fellow black men of not being capable of doing good except being violent animals. why should we applaud them for acting like they have some sense and not proving the naysayers right? they know better but CHOSE not to.
bLyminalz, post: 5922086, member: 189"]thats why i respect the gangs in LA more then anywhere else because they are still structure just as well as they were 20-30 years ago unlike the chi where lil 14-18 year old nikkas are just running wild with no type of structure or guidance from the og's, you have nikkas in the same gang shooting each other over dumb shyt.
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Who said these old heads are still active? As in, ACTIVE. Yeah they have influence, but might not necessarily have the influence to keep the younginz completely in line. Case in point, the very fact that this non-active legend got gunned down by a youngster. Apparently Grape Street's hierarchy (if you wanna call it that) couldn't keep one of their own in line. Black LA gangs aren't as organized as we'd like to believe. Case in point, peep the Keitaroc interview from the C-Walk joint. He's a bonafide legend from the 60s, but even he admits that the reason he was done with meeting at the table with rivals was because he couldn't get the younginz from his hood on the same page.
That all said, for active or non-active OGs that grew up dysfunctional, to call for peace in a time that traditionally demanded war, deserves some credit. These young boys have been dying over nothing for years. It can only stop when the participants decide to stop. If the old heads can set an example, that's a beautiful thing.
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