Very good article!!!
I’ll only give you excerpts.
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I am a 26-year-old African American male. I have been an active gang member since I was merely 8 years old and am the father of an 11-year-old son on the verge of closely following in my footsteps.
I write this in hopes of opening his eyes and the eyes of others to the recently reported racial tensions between African Americans and Hispanics that lead to melees of violence at Jefferson High School.
Behind the walls of California’s prison system there is a war for superiority and control. Drug trade and other forms of underground commerce are the basis for what goes on in prison in respect to racial warring. The ripple effect takes form and the hate streams back into the streets as people are released or as phone calls are made.
The fact of the matter is nobody gave a damn when it was inmates against inmates and gang members against gang members; nobody batted an eye when the dregs of society were simply doing the free world a favor and killing each other.
…Those who were at the root of the problem from its onset are not happy with the result of their negative activities. Men like me and youths like my son and others in all ages in between don’t want to be preached to by some community center leader; they don’t want some smiling-faced politician in telling them that there is a better way; and they really don’t want some celebrity patsy or over-exposed rapper telling them to stop the violence…more
I am the author of this article. I thank you for deeming it worthy of sharing with others.
The message is real and important.
Again, thank you.