Gang Banging

Gang Banging is a way of life. Its a lifestyle that chooses you and pushes you to your limits. Your limits mentally, as well as physically. Its not something that you just choose to be part of. Its a culture, if you will. You have your family, your beliefs, and a way of making your means. You have your own dialect as well as your own clothing and symbolic entities. When you see people who bang your response shouldn't be run in the other way but learn about the culture and the way of life. Shit, if you look at it our governments are a gang and s are the police. They also wear self identifying clothing and hang with their brother and sisters in the force. If one of there own dies, then all hell breaks lose. Same is with a gang. Only difference is we don't have the credentials. However, if you ask the public about us we do have the credentials to fight back.

Gangs were created to bring unity to urban communities and to help people when they need it. Look at the MOB. They believe in the FAMILY. Everything they do is part of a better scheme to help those around them. Also look at the Bloods and crips. The crips were started to bring awareness to urban communities and the needs that surround them. They were organized to stop the brutality of California police. They were there to earn money for the community, be there when the community needed them, and to fight the harassment of local police. This was perceived as "gang-violence" because the local authorities were soon becoming outnumbered and out gunned. Another way this perception was magnified was because of the growing number of youth involved in these activities, as well as the crack epidemic. This now introduced more violence in the streets and disputes on where to earn your community money.

Which leads me to the Pirus. These people were organized for the sole purpose of bringing the community back together and protecting them from the growing violence of the crip gang. Also the Bloods in New York started the UBN for the prison community to be safe from the Latin Kings. 

Now do you see how us "violent street thugs" work. We work together to bring up the community. We are the people of the lower class and we aren't being heard. We are being moved into poverty stricken areas with the promise of tomorrow. This promise doesn't come from our governments, it comes from our community advocates. Who are they? They are the people who society discriminates against. They are the people who cant get jobs so turn to selling dope to feed their families. They are the people who you call criminals just because they are using what they know to get out of a bad situation. They don't want to rely on the government for anything but are forced to, just to have the basic needs of survival.

In no way am I glorifying the gang life. I am promoting the love and loyalty they bring to a community. I am telling you to just understand where we come from and where we want to be. Also us people who are in situations like these, we need to stop killing each other over street corners that we don't own. We don't own any businesses on that block so why do we keep dying over it? Why do we keep sacrificing our young people? We ALL need to let go when we have friends and family die. I understand first hand the emotions and feelings when we lose someone. I feel that same rampage within and want to do things but I don't. Its part of growing up and being what our last generations wanted, a tighter community.

We don't want destroy in order for success tomorrow but sometimes that is the only necessary way to be hear. We are taking the steps to come out of poverty and criminal lifestyles we just need an opportunity to show our potential. I challenge you to look at people and try to understand where they come from instead of assuming why we do the things we do. 

I leave you with this, don't pass judgement on an individual that you don't know their past. Their past has put them where they are today and tomorrow they may not be the same person. People are a product of their environments so lets make our communities more loyal, more caring, and most importantly more understanding. 

"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone. That's all" - Bob Marley

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will" - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.