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scripts and books will be more than thirty yards one of the longest one in more than a disability. can always be someone else is ready to kill me because of where i'm going to go via e.q. one of them may come over me you're one of us and i'm really born until you came down to run away and get out of it didn't want to run one luxury over the past twenty years alone in the only county there's been all group to keep losing game related to. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators really going to be aware . of what minute i was born in a downgrade in the common die and. i didn't choose my destiny my destination chose me.

why. in the southern portion of the richest city in the richest state in america is a cluster of neighborhoods the streets of new boulevards laid out in a grid between concrete ribbons of freeway. ten miles of the west is a pacific coast highway and the beach is that among. five most of the more they are driving 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 has its own legacy. on its streets there up 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 was taken by times as many lives as the long running sectarian conflict in northern ireland it was devastating body count continues today. but in south los angeles. life wasn't always this way. to. go one hundred fifty s. three friends from south l.a. ron byrd become us and grew up reaching for their piece of the american dream.

the most significant thing was when i went to join the boy scouts boy scouts of america. my mother taking up to scout to be good your robert plant with the original blue one thousand nine hundred thirty three to nine hundred eighty three parked in the neighborhood right there what they were to join the boy scouts my mother did with the scout master. it was nice but he chose my mother well i don't know what some parents might object because it was a white troop. to say be prepared to do a good turn daily the scout is trustworthy loyal friend he could just kind of be careful brave clean and referee 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 plants returned. to the neighborhood was situated in an area where we were assigned designated to little small parts of

the sixty second to call slots and that's where the name comes from to. eat. since it's evolved into what many consider to be a ladies first modern african american game. but we never called ourselves that that was something that the city and the police like described as we were clubs. what drew me to slow simplicity 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. you know.

we give you a point. you have to be here because everybody else in town knew about it you know where. this occurred how good are those things i said these days my dear i said i would be to hand over back to the studio here. that's what we call wolf and oh you know i was going to ask what he said and he does you know you're looking for somebody to tell him i'm getting a phone. but it wasn't really about destroying somebody really just a competitive day and you know just competing with each other. this time of police all the time. my mother. always said you know what did you do just that i didn't do anything you know see people including parents could not

believe that the man just a lot of. young black man in this society have always been represented as the most threatening figures possible. their use as being people. will commit crimes. from one hundred fifty to one nine hundred sixty six the los angeles police department was manned by chief we. ran a police department like a military unit. the people who border were a black residents. here and. that hurt. and so the cops were treating these young black man as. though they were

enemies as though they were in warfare. 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 foot no reason at all east of meta these were way areas linwood southgate you couldn't go there you had cops they didn't want you the blacks that danes to cross the line were quickly put in place by police officers. one time i was walking down a street on seventy seventh and central and the man said hey you. heard that i can't walk you say you and they ran on the curb jumped on the currency didn't you hear it's called you a severed say you but my name is not you so you know get up against the wall and

such a soul and it look like i've been robbed. as well 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 hue were inferior 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 a 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 it came from. where you go. people ask me what are you doing here you go anywhere ask anybody

else what they do and. you stop an ass going to battles in a society where you exist. got 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 that tell me what message there might be and fear every day so you know understand it every day speed me is boom for the hatred. every day that's my. sperm for the hatred. you see. it's just a question of when is this going to erupt and upon whom is it going to erupt i will attack myself am i going to tag my brother you understand i want to tap my own image you know. and i am going to eventually attack the cause of my anger and my frustration.

at seven pm on the sea level one thousand and sixty five in the corners of a hundred sixteenth an awful lot when one year old watts resident marquette fried was pulled over by the california highway patrol on suspicion of drunk driving a routine traffic stop until police insisted on him pounding fries car despite being less than two blocks from his home fries mother won't call 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 a scuffle broke out and friday his mother rena and brother rob were all taken into custody. the squad cars rolled away but the crowd continued to swell as word of the incident swept through the neighborhood when i woke up one hundred fifty two now when i try as my quarter from the dartanion i said what happened is.

it jumped on market and. we just got more and more upset it was a cumulative thing it was one racist traffic stop two minute. hold it. hold it oh. please. please. don't speak. to. her. and i. wish i. could bomb it good. luck.

just send them out on an amount. and i'm out of line i'm a little.

fifteen the one thousand watts residents were surging up and down. about one am spike twenty nine arrests and sporadic reports of mandamus the situation was assessed by the l.a.p.d. as being under control. and. knowing you're. going. there's the morning dawn tense but relatively quiet. at two pm 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. i think that we must stay off the streets i think the civil rights dr in america have demonstrated that well be that. the cutting through a call for order came a voice that only the night before was raised by thousands in the street and i would take night if you like. this week the negro people down here. let's hear. you say. 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. it in oppressed as we would take to be. their 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. crowds of topical americans again filled the streets. but this time over two hundred people and deputy sheriffs. so here we are in a crowd at night when. things in such disarray and we're facing cops in the street . and they want to move to. see so when

we move towards. them so you're looking at one and. and you're reading of people in the body language that says it's going to build up. and then they fired some around the crowd. the so now. please. please my friday morning additional police were called in from all points of l.a. to squash what authorities were now termed a full scale right leg didn't call it a right to look. we were don't. 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 be

spread to some of the little. one leg. length then what happens is that it becomes a big newspaper story which increases political pressure on the authorities to do something. illegal. and then a body is sixteen thousand national guard who don't know how to write. little national guard particulars on a really funny to engage in civilian crowd completely at least. at that point they point to the other rich 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. claimed by police is that these were looters there were refusing orders to go to. the autopsies clearly show people were shot in the back. one has to really question whether or not a human one is worth following your case of beer. that is to say people were being killed for what can retrospect were the most trivial of offenses. really and did not mind anything because we're talking about desperate people we're talking about people who have nothing to see no hope. this is a memo along los alamos with which we're confronted and of the only thing they

understand as far as. that's been the one taboo. is that black people and other the press 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 send me to mass is my life is of no value how can your property how can your society how can a civilization how can any of the more rules or any of the monuments how can any of

it be of any value to me. when all it has on the 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. 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. the package of i'm a ship down from a barbecue trip down in the day is a testament to the revolutionary spirit. and so there was this sense of pride to be a taking a stand and to be a simple message out to the world. it. is.

the other thing that the rebellion represented for us was being built it celebrate our consciousness from sixty five until about seventy one again activity you know labels all time low because so many young people with joining organizations like the student or the fan prefer to be. there. is growing black pride movement saw the development of dynamic african-american organizations committed to instigating change from within. five years like byrd and ron 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 activism. 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. the chapter founder and his fun she card and john huggins were gunned down at a u.c.l.a. blacks to meet 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 could 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. and 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 the car the streets of south l.a. into a grid of rival territories. today these fractured communities are home to five generations of herb and soldiers. really for a while from. us this aisle is where we come from as a stall model kill or be killed.

bush got any type they'd have to come across normandy you dot. com called our march so baffling. what i was going to interview when the mother would all come out would you come the mother when you don't know nobody mother didn't you got. west side of us has blood on the inside of us is crude just round in a box oh man surrounded by insects this is created over twenty. years ago to where the geographics in the neighborhoods have been separated by gangs. certain streets certain alley certain stores certain schools certain parks were claimed as tar. you can go it is guess these gals know cool. you can go ahead we're getting older because you want to own neighborhood. you got some of

action when you fall and you would tell them you know i'm from nowhere home you know i'm saying but you got some of you see just blow your head off just because we're on a been jammed because now in my face way you format tell me tell me why i was from cars 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 there when to see me what i'm saying young how do you man i can't even go to see my i mean. everything i can. choose your language. clearly we can we go in for the mentally ill when i say still some on. what they. choose to use the consensus to. choose the opinions that immigrate to mind. choose the stories get in high school

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