he's been top man they do a quickie deal is what they call slipping don't get a call slip it. flipping nice relaxing being off god. not on point not always hostile hot ready to do it done and be the one to the one that. you can't have you got to be on your toes at all times maybe because anything any type can happen to you and that you can't have hurt no. you can have a heart but you better not show this sort of member here so be we never let yourself be seen as someone with feelings of emotion except for. brutal force.

in a good old movie took advantage of the targeted sharks and just each work so our year in a concrete jungle you gotta be respected as a man. but in most cases respect. is actually. caught you better respect me you better fear me. when i had a hard look at everything in the whole if you want to be in a right state of mind if you're feeling good about a dress code in a representative for the money go into it was going to want to. know want to dress like all suck that out the world not the way they whine then whine and whine it was they were they were in this all we know man is looking good and a good amount in us no. just go into whatever it takes to look good doing the what

. i was i'm going to wait until guys were with me in san francisco to be interviewed i knocked on the door of their talent and said kind of . and here are two the most hardcore gang members and one of then it's going to xining going out and he's got his traveling irons arning is close. just a look they know he's a distortion we aren't sure if. he was like pressing to make a payment stand up in a corner with nobody i'm there i'm. not. really. looking

. for somebody that has no idea what a young man would do it what is the allure and stuff i join the gang not only for the protection of the local community to be a part of the family. if you live in the ghetto and you live in them mama where you're being assaulted like i was i just got tired of being a victim it's like either you're a victim or you to victoria. raised until it is not like you can to get out of this and when you race until like this is what they teach you in the young game i was really good to and you know get chased out of school get shot at all the time it might get i'm damned if i do democrats don't. ever step out and get jumped in this job while tending to a mom look to my neighborhood ahdaf my neighborhood tamagotchi mom a hood. i don't look at it like old game kings is just.

looking that's all my. life is that the with this group they keep the looking out for me put clothes on the back ok but now it's time to just going to get these niggas you just shot up my house which you know don't. wish you don't love again let me just fish you all must be hard to say no to that this will kill is my business you feed me. told me when you first got to. the trials by. now my first thought when i was thirteen years old was just to go to school if you don't have

one you got to be around somebody's got to agree. i don't want to have another i got a backup. for two so. you got big twenty to thirty eight to . sixteen come on now you've also done some. of my generation with the last four after my generation deal was gun play there was no such thing to fight the kids today came right in the game of go. that's why so many murders. that's made a twelve year old son teen year old king for a day i'll put you in a hole not the state. within itself says the child. you clear. people. are moms. all adults in. a no.

i mean create a block standing twelve thirteen years old with a pistol small. sticking out you walk. into them for to use gun against another individual one human being but once you block that part your mind out becomes very easy you go watch them they become not the first time jittery you can just see the nervous system and then you come back and look at the same person that's been a while with the flu here and i mean they sold a ready to get. one with a lot of people right now but being who i am and it's been true i got

a lot i love for being a real mother. and that is saved my life and many times nothing but at the same time just another generation that don't know me and feel like they can get a strike could they get rid of me. much or enemies and whatever they do you counterattack they write on the wall you run from want to beat up somebody you've been to so much and shoot somebody you should. want to bust me go but he actually like to have forty i'm. not sure but. you know the list to support really became a dog the dog. alone would you kill they would use but. the army tell me that because your heart of gold. your so you empty of the fellow must be so bad you got to make this deal with you free elizabeth funk with his gold over over over and. oh. if i.

thank you i am glad that they're here and i. knew. it like you read you i made it and thank you ed by hearing about it. even though i'm in the game i'm in. for a. good deal with the world or i ignore it i don't pay attention to it is really no room in his in this world. this man. was a lot man because i know that ultimately to say the way to society intended it to

be so a lot of times man i'm no more good individual but sometimes i've got to put that moral state of my behind and become an animal. think. there was a. well there's a man that out there in the prior to world war two eighty five ninety percent of the black population this country lives in the south. was a lot of. black people would primarily live in the south because of slavery in the

south was a rule agrarian farm economy oh there's a. way about. world war two years in a series of transformations that radically changing nature of black history in this country blacks for the first time are invited en masse to work in america's history all arsenal for democracy building those tanks building those planes building those ships. nine hundred forty s. one nine hundred seventy s. you see over four million african-americans leave the south and ways that have never never occurred before. and for new york head first ca go ahead for los angeles. for the first time they were integrated into the american worker economy they were earning enough to be lower middle class

homeowners in l.a. and to establish if not exactly a very close similarity to the american dream. choose your language killing the killer though in a financial crisis a still some. choose the consensus. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that impact your life choose me access to your office to. if. easy to.

see. what could be ever after. i left nothing to live. so i'm all. for precious children. like. roger shoulders. leave it to die. on our.

homes thanks. thanks. no way did not have the overt history with racism in one hand of the south there were no laws that said blacks had to ride on one part of the bus for no laws that blacks had to be in certain schools there were however extremely exclusive web of racially restrictive housing evidence that kept blacks in particular areas and out of other areas these covenants mandated the sale of real estate along racial lines in an effort to keep traditionally white neighborhoods free of non desirable homes sometimes not desirable men latino sometimes not desirable men to you sometimes not

disarmament asian but it always meant black and so those racially restrictive covenants which didn't disappear into the late forty's and early fifty's essentially kept blacks circumscribed in a very narrow portion of the l.a. county region. like people were forced to live on top of each other because it just wasn't possible to live where you chose even though you might have been able to afford it. in. south philly residents responded by transforming there are a lot of territory to a thriving cultural hub and central avenue developing into a sort of harlem west. west coast best jazz clubs dozens of black businesses lining the street people dressed in their sunday best on the weekends a period during which the most affluent and of course blacks live essentially side by side. and

then with will more to spend. more time economy adapt itself to an automotive industry major corporations like g.m. chrysler ford good you and firestone all establishing factories in south los angeles. and we're going to. factory you got the benefits you could my house you could buy a car you could raise a family you could live a working class a lower middle class life. it was a moment of unprecedented black prosperity in which the trajectory of black america was on the rise people were getting jobs were buying homes were buying cars sending their kids to colleges it was a moment of real optimism. in the late one nine hundred fifty s. you begin to get the first. wave of what came to be called the

industrialization. the american economy is changing we're moving from one of those really commie to an economy based on service based on information rooted in technology that is it's high skilled high wage high training on one very low skilled sweatshop labor on the other. lacks find their skills don't fit into either those demands. they don't have the education or the skill or the training because of historic discrimination to work in aerospace. on the other hand they don't feel any desire or need to go into the low skilled service sector jobs like hotel cleaning like sweat shop work downtown l.a. because they don't perceive that as jobs that american citizens should have. not talking about people who are at the rear we're talking about people with jobs if

you have a job you are dependent on that job so when that factory closes you are in essence asked out. by the late sixty's you see those plants beginning to disappear when they disappear there is virtually nothing left in their wake. and so it leaves a gaping hole in the economy of the region. with consequences that are just enormous. generationally in america is supposed to be about the american dream people are supposed to move up as opposed to elevate. we're talking about a situation where actuality it whenever reverse the children over time began to do

worse than their parents. nine hundred seventy five the los angeles times reporters into the streets to assess progress in the city's black communities ten years after the watts rebellion. the fearful lived behind protective bars and double locks high schools are graduating functional illiterates. some black people have got businesses some professionals have got into significant jobs but if you talk about the masses of that guy who was in trouble in one thousand and sixty five it is more difficult now. for the black in the ghetto gold surviving. one.

thing. to. let me ask you who are pushing yeah. this is. odd. about a big want to. all not. all down. to

the economy. going to get about if they. have a katrina that i have been going to. a refugee isn't going to call never be displaced like a moat. and helicopters flying over the it might not be acceptable in britain but however some that occurs every two or three hours in my community. in the south central community basically which is in peel broken down businesses if you have any businesses. take a walk downtown baltimore from crenshaw of vermont and you tell me the opportunities that are available low income housing five or six churches gang violence crack the. introduction of crack cocaine onto

the streets of l.a. in one nine hundred eighty one proved to be a major tipping point for an already vulnerable to. cocaine came a toy it broke up a lot of you know a lot of people just thought crack was the way out you know what are you. think of what they keep you know what i'm saying that will broke a lot of homes if that crack would never came party still have nice the homes and nice the families you know but when i came in like tow everything before but let me ask you into juba conventional trial with ilog dysfunctional ass family in the south of us. to see out here is ninety three i was raised out of that he. had to be a man on my take care of my mom issue. are fairly mellow but this is said. i do if i should little brothers and sisters do it you don't. look at me.

i grew up in a home where my mother worked two jobs but had three. so you can imagine we were supervised sold the business outside of the home. she was too busy making a living. then to love me. even though she tried and did the best that she could it was not a. lot of black youth in a neighborhood just like the opposite way so i went to gangs because i didn't come out last night i'm thinking they had some hand getting your books then stayed on but if everybody had been in a lot of things would have been different but that wasn't the case.

the common thread throughout all of these conversations throughout our communities things to be. part of the most part the absence of a father a male figure father. in the home. when there is no male influence. there's no strong male going from. then everything is going to be out of whack the people that told me told me wrong tell me how to be all. you want is not be a man but his fight to me by somebody or goes to somebody does a way to tell me been a man. have a soap coach or a young black man pretending to be men by killing each other. about standing up in a brothel amana. but they're

misguided. now days the fathers are the black men my age are the day and are in jail and one of the problems we have is. if they don't try to arrest the problem that means they're putting all the black men in jail. in two thousand and three bureau of justice report reveals twenty eight percent african-american men more than one in four will be jailed or sent to prison in the last. week of engaged in this country and an absolutely historically unprecedented experiment in the past in prison. we now have and imprisonment plate that is six to seven times higher than it has ever been before in our history is suffocation coming to the fifth place finish up in the system in

two thousand and seven four years governor announced plans to spend seven point four billion dollars to build forty thousand new prison. terminator. look at the population of people in the penitentiary particularly from the one nine hundred eighty s. going forward. black men are disproportionately represented that's the new. you can't play you. would think of like. a little kid. to. gain a sense of. what this means is we are breaking even the possibility of there will be intact families with a mother and a father of raising a child together. because we are sending the men off to prison with unprecedented raids usually for nonviolent offenses that.

would. be. even with time served so many of those determined to start a new life find little freedom in their lives. go to get a job working for xerox sent an application and they found out i was on parole and i lost my job i used to be jealous some wives going to work it. this is my wife own a stew a bomb he grew up with me bill me absolute kids and she would go out thousand go to work and i would be mad at her because she could go to work and i couldn't help. i'll be mad because she's paying the bills and i convey to you there's never no cycle to get us out of this it's just a cycle to get us back into so of course people are going to behave in ways that are anti-social if we don't let them behave in pro-social lives.

makes life complete. nose and a happy family. or self-expression. puppet show. that seems so true. for little ladies child. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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