sanjay you agree. on the books will be more than thirty odd years one of the longest one in more than the history of this country. and can always be someone outside is ready to kill me because of where i'm going to go over here in q one of them when they come over to one of us and i'm reborn until you can dodge run away get out of the water i want to hear it over the past twenty years alone in the only county there's been over fifteen thousand game related that. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators it would go to the u.n. . weapon of it i was born in a downgrade and i'm a die and. i didn't kill my destiny my destination told me.

in the southern portion of the richest city in the richest state in america is a cluster of neighborhoods the streets and boulevards laid out in a grid between the concrete ribbons of freeway. two miles of the west is a pacific coast highway and the beach is that among. five most of the north jewel they'll drive in beverly hills. seven miles to the east to corner of hollywood by twenty five miles south those orange county and disneyland. surrounded by the california dream this region that's own legs. on its streets there up to the country's most violent outbreak of civil unrest not once but twice. it's also the

home of america's two most infamous african-american gangs crips and bloods was bloody forty year feud has taken five times as many lives as the long running sectarian conflict in northern ireland and whose devastating body count continues today. but in south los angeles. life wasn't always this way. in the one nine hundred fifty s. three friends from south l.a. ron byrd become us grew up reaching for their piece of the american dream.

the most significant thing was when i went to join the boy scouts good boy scouts of america. my mother take me up to the scout to be good your robert plant where the original bill if one thousand nine hundred thirty three to nine hundred eighty three parked in our neighborhood right there so i go up there to join the boy scouts my mother did not the scoutmaster. it was nice but he chose my mother well i don't know what some of the parents might object because it was a white troop. to say be prepared do a good turn daily the scout is is trustworthy loyal friend it could just kind of be careful brave clean and reverent the that's the boy scouts of america bunch of races. with names like the businessmen gladiators and sloss and black teenagers began forming their own street fights returned. to the neighborhood was situated in an air. where we were assigned and designated to lose

the sixty second to call slots and that's where the name comes from. slawson evolved into what many consider to be a lady's first modern african-american game. but we never called ourselves that that was something that the city and the police would describe as we were clubs. what drew me to sloths and was that they mirrored who i was and it made one feel like one had some status and you had an identity and identity that you didn't have anywhere else. the sense of family is a sense of acceptance you also have a way to wilson power because now you've got numbers. in those

days we give you a point as it were but. we know you had to be there because everybody else in town knew but. this occurred how good are those things i say these days why do you say i would be cheering and i would back to the studio here to whoop your sideburns off. before we. does what we call wolf and oh you know i was good with my hands that's what he said he's a. you know you looking for somebody to tell him i'm getting phone. it wasn't really about destroying somebody really just a competitive they you know just competing with each other. this time and produce all the time. my mother. always. you know what would you do

just as i don't do anything you know see people including parents could not believe that the man just not a lot of. young black men in this society have always been represented as the most threatening figures crossed the border. there viewed as being people. will commit crimes. from one hundred fifty to one nine hundred sixty six the los angeles police department was commanded by chief william parker. chief barker ran a police department like a military unit and the people who boarded brought us were black residents get out get out far. bigger and go out but not that hard to get out and so the cops were treating these young black men as though they were enemies as

though they were in warfare to get up your. life it was an open secret that one of the tacit duties of the l.a.p.d. was to make sure people were in the right neighborhoods at the right time and alameda boulevard was the white curtain in l.a. you didn't cross alameda for no reason at all east of these away areas ok you couldn't go there you had cops they didn't want you there and blacks that.

that's why out of the rubble and she looks just like you. so the idea was to create not only a segregated society but the idea that those of darker a few were in theory and should be treated as such. and after a while you begin to internalize this and you develop a deep seated self-hatred. because you see yourself as having almost no value. in a free society i'm walking down the street but he's got the nerve to ask me where you go where you come you know he'll damn good as well going. i mean i'm danielle gamba is where i came from. where you go. people ask you what are you doing here you

go anywhere ask anybody else what they do or not. do you stop an ass going to battlefields in a society where you exist. going to step out of sand and you got the nerve to ask me that all day every day now what do you think that does to me psychologically what does it tell me what message there might be and feel every day so you know understand it every day speed me is food for the hatred. every day that's my guy spoonful the hatred. you see. pan is just a question of when is this going to erupt. is it going to erupt i will attack myself am i going to tag my brother you understand i want my own image you know. going to eventually attack the cause of my anger and my frustration.

at seven pm on august eleventh one thousand and sixty five in the corners of a hundred sixteenth and avalon twenty one year old watts resident marquette fry was pulled over by the california highway patrol on suspicion of drunk driving a routine traffic stop until police insisted on him pounding frys car despite being less than two blocks from the home fries mother. join the rapidly growing crowd who along with marquette grew increasingly belligerent of what they felt was the heavy handed police response l.a.p.d. reinforcements are called in the scuffle broke out and friday his mother rena and brother ron were all taken into custody. the squad cars rolled away and the crowd continue to swell as one of the incidents swept through the neighborhood when i walked up one hundred fifty two now when i drop my quarter from the dark canyons i

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one thousand watts residents were surging up and down up along. the about one am spike twenty nine arrests and sporadic reports of. the situation was assessed by the l.a.p.d. as being under control. and. going. there's the morning dawn tense but relatively quiet. a

meeting was called in a neighborhood rec center simply representatives from various community groups elected officials the l.a.p.d. the media. and even mean from. that we must stay off the streets i think the civil rights drive in america have demonstrated that well be that. the cutting through a call for order only the night before was raised by thousands in the street and i would take. what you like. this week the negro people down here. you can suck it up we know it's real and you can show it you greater than living it show that it doesn't work it doesn't destroy. will it take to be.

the parents are coming from places where black men are expected to step up the street and say yes to a twelve year old white boy. where black men are lynched with regularity. and so from their perspective los angeles looks wonderful they're certainly aware of the flaws but they recognize it's such an improvement their children however evan very different perspective. we come along and we take. you to win that. can americans again filled the streets. but this time over two hundred people and deputy sheriffs office. so here we are in a crowd at night when. things in such disarray and with facing cops in the street.

and they want to move to. see so when we move toward. them so you're looking at one and. and your reading of people in the body language that says it's going to build up. in a fire from around the crowd. is so now. led. by friday morning additional police were called in from all points of l.a. to squash what authorities were now termed a full scale life legacy they call it a right to look. we would only. see it as guerrilla warfare but the reason that you

can't say it is because you never gave the so-called nickel up intelligence to these predators some of the little. one leg. length of them what happens is that it becomes a big newspaper story which increases political pressure on the authorities to do something. illegal. and in a body of sixteen thousand national guard. little air national guard particulars on a plane to engage in civilian crowd people believe. at that point they want to be others which was the iron fist the aren't.

and this leads to a virtual free fire zone where people could be shot. making . the wrong time at the wrong intersection. the claim by police is that these were looters and were refusing orders to go to. the autopsies clearly show people were shot in the back. and one has to really question whether or not a human one is worth the bottle of beer a case of beer. that is to say people were being killed for what can retrospect were the most trivial of offenses. really been undermined anything because we're talking about desperate people we're talking about people who have nothing to see no hope. this is

a memo a last element with which we're confronted and of the only thing they understand is farce. that's been the one taboo. is that black people and other oppressed people in this country are never to use violence to achieve what it is they want. but this country uses violence whenever it chooses and then it legitimizes the violence. what. you say need a massive my life is of no value how can your property and your society how can a civilization how can any of them or as walls or any of the monuments how can any

of it be of any value to me. when all it has on a door for me is a rejection of us i'm not on. out of love i'm not allowed to touch not allowed to partake dissipate. all my life i was rejected before i was born and the most reject nothing is open to me. and every time i'm not on a door and get rejected takes a little something out of it. in. the bathtub i'm a ship down from a barbecue trip down in the bay is a testament to the revolutionary spirit. and so there was this sense to me of taking a stand and to be it sent a message out to the world. it. is.

the other thing of the rebellion represented for us it was being built it celebrate our consciousness from sixty five until about seventy one gang activity you know labels of all time low the so many young people with joining organizations like the student or the video like the phantom already. is growing black pride movement saw the development of dynamic african american organizations committed to instigating change from within. the former street fighters like byrd and ron now thought the power rather than other gangs were going along side groups like the black panthers and civic programs that range from free breakfast to neighborhood restoration to political activist.

elite. athlete. this new black power structure quickly found itself in the crosshairs of government agencies like the f.b.i. . according to recently declassified documents f.b.i. director j. edgar hoover. counterintelligence operation against the black panthers. organization he described as the greatest threat to the internal security of the country. from his last in in the chapter founder of this bunch of car. were gunned down at a u.c.l.a. black student while black panther founders huey newton and bobby seale faced arrest

and lengthy jail sentence. in a few short years many of america's most influential. black leaders. they ran him down and chased them out of the murdered everybody and made their body else either go to exile or to lock them up in a penitentiary and when all that was over we. call the creeps. you see. in the late one nine hundred sixty s. when the black top playgrounds of fremont high school emerged this new order led by south l.a. teenager raymond washington generally credited as the crips founding member. in response number of rival gangs formed an alliance calling themselves bloods moniker adopted by african-american soldiers serving in vietnam. the opposing

armies now in place battle flags were raised blue for crips and red for bloods. exactly which set our neighborhood true first black and white never be no. more the next four decades or encrypt and blood sets we carve the streets of south l.a. into a grid of rival territories. today these fractured communities are home to five generations of urban soldiers. really from well from. the u.s. this aisle is where we come from as a stall model kill or be killed. plus

you go to any time they'd have to come across normandy you dot. com call her mark feel bad for. what i was going going to be what the mother would roll come out with you can come to my living you don't know nobody mother don't you got. west side of his bloods on the inside of us is crips just around in a box you know misrata but in the sect this was created over twenty. years ago to where the geographics in the neighborhoods have been separated by gangs. certain streets certain alleys certain stores certain schools certain parks were claimed as tar. you can go it is gas. you can go to bed. because you want to own neighborhood.

action when you fall and you would tell them you know. what you got some of she just because we want to be. all in my face way you format tell me. because come down and i'm out of situation i wish i could just go and just be where i want to when there is other girls in other projects as man i just want to go the engines see me. young how do you go to. everything i came.

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