Gangs

As I was told by a friend whose father was in law enforcement, he was released so he could kill more Blacks. I was there when many of the killers who killed Ballou talked about going to Hollywood on that fateful night. I did not go with them. I was there when the news broke out about what had happened and when the killers were nowhere to be found. I did not know they were involved, but later found out after they were arrested. I was not a Crip, but had associated with and were friends with many of them (Stanley Williams and Raymond Washington were never friends of mine). Those who I did associate with I shared the common bond of having to be tough in the confines of a racist society we were indoctrinated into. I pursued education and they were overcome by their vices. Though I befriended some of them, there is no justification and excuse for what they have done and what they have as a result caused. But I must demand that they are not alone to blame.

Lastly, I must say I do not believe the productions of gangs are because of the “survival of the fittest”. Rather, the terrorism gangs currently suppress upon our society is an unexpected result of the bigoted fascists of our past. While attempting to control the races, those in dominance created a cast of monsters. As discussed in “Don”t Go Ape, Darwin!’, it is not in the natural behavior of life forms including humans to steer away from social boundaries. Anti-social behavior was nurtured into gangs by unethical leadership, who never realized the possible outcome of what they did and who have never admitted to this day their roles in what was done.

Gangs become what they are because our institutions and communities mold them in such a way. In the early days all the havoc gangs have caused could have prevented if different approaches to the problem they pose had been implemented instead of that of segregation, complacency and internal genocide. Our society will take a long time to recover from what the institutions had passed onto us. A concerted effort must be made by all institutions and the communities from which these gangs thrive, to convert these gangs from destructive tendencies to productive ones. Once under control, we can not afford to let what happened before happen again. This destructive behavior can not be allowed to ever recycle. After all, if some our civilizations were established by groups of people, “a gang”, with a common cause, then many of these gang members may alter their reasoning to become apart of our society and not anti-social to it. In future writings I hope to suggest some potential remedies.