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redefined as a crime problem and a gang problem but it's really an issue of no work and dysfunctional schools and so on we know that what we've been doing to deal with gang violence isn't working but we just keep doing the same thing over and over again and then we say well the fact that it isn't working doesn't mean that we're acting out of ignorance or maybe we need to learn something we say it just proves that these kids are unredeemable. it's a belief that our society did not contribute to the formation of this problem is the story of the scapegoat. the gang member is the scapegoat. nothing's our fault it's their fault. we didn't create them. they're inevitably incorrigible. discontinuing happens for us tonight virtually guaranteed that history would repeat
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. an evil twenty ninth one thousand nine hundred twenty seven news five miles away from the flashpoint for the one nine hundred sixty five watch rebel. again broke. these violent costly outbreaks civil unrest in u.s. history. but. the explosion of angry protests was touched off by the outcome of the controversial rodney king l.a.p.d. police brutality. the message to the community is that the system does not deliver justice it does not work for us so we have to find out just this industry. that. well into the don't. like the sixty's. fiber valley which was primarily contained to watts blades of
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ninety two in the way to the very doorstep bordering affluent. marcus garvey used to say that when all else fails to organize the people conditions will and therefore in one thousand nine hundred two the reason was all clustered together and it happened again. after. the aftermath the nineties uprising a high profile private sector initiative was formed to create rebuild. the six
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billion dollars investment program to find its goals as a long term systemic change the promise to create seventy four thousand new jobs within the rides over the next five years. at the same time a tentative troops between several crips and bloods sets the tone of optimism for south teles war weary. just one year later but many south l.a. neighborhoods still in room. to build quite close to still. the young generation of kids heard about this promise they momentarily got their hopes up they committed to this peace treaty and instead they learned that it was just another fourth time promise of the man. if ale. we should have known what the future would be in other cities. from here to
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baghdad. if the. gang warfare would resume for the next fifteen years. outside the me. it would make me believe. that exist. in a world we'd all like. you don't exist. to have. surgery last surgery was nothing happens it's just another nigga day. this is my grandson his name was mark an alias is seventeen years old very promising young boy and in one thousand nine hundred sixty came here to los angeles to visit me. from california. to visit me he was here three weeks and he was shot.
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ten thirty in the morning walking across the street headed for do i see a school. he didn't have gang. he didn't even know too much about the game as a matter of fact he said to him when i warned him about where to go and where not to go he said grandma. this is america. this is. where we're supposed to be free this is where we're supposed to be able to walk down any street we choose. and the next day a dad doing what he thought. was his right.
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it's ok to cry and have to cry. i had to cry in order to to to keep gone. i have to cry because if i don't cry and i keep plodding and go up to me. i may do some help people say oh you can get over it hell no we can't we just get through it just get through it but never get over it if you didn't take my dog you didn't walk alone on my house you know you didn't you
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know we possess my car my son was murdered he just didn't die he was murdered. so when i finally back was go i was always crying and it was amazing now the kids look around and they're like oh you know a lot of the ground are teary eyed even some of the boy and then i would ask him how many of you guys know somebody i'll go up there a friend and a schoolmate who was murdered. and when they first after a question and three quarters of the grass raised their hand i just broke down in tears. were.
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i am. a recent comparison of twin psychological studies by the lancet and rand corporation indicates the children in south los angeles are exhibiting greater levels of post-traumatic stress disorder in children of a similar age in baghdad the war torn camp fire back. in if they don't get resources but it's youngsters what's going to happen you've got another group of angry children another group of killers.
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for before crips and bloods. to realize their biases against us. and if we all come together it. is going to be over for us so if the resources were here you're seeing these kids with their shoes came. down and choose this no hope you know you are you in no man's land it's no hope people taking choices or going to college and i think that's my making a choice here you making a choice there's no choice is like you wait for somebody to come say man he just may go navigate say. i did to gang bang in the stop or not the sets to getting shot to drive bys to get shot in drive bys to going to jail to allah right but had i had a chance or someone else tell me for you play on the day i was get this i've been gay man i've been been to the county jails several penitentiaries and back and
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forth to war as far as gunfight and stuff so this perception the gang bang is wonderful that is the life sadly it is no life static live period your we war but gangbang is to be crippled blame for life your greatest we war. is the life plus forty years yet ultimate reward again banging is death and you don't come back from that. if you. believe. you know. the. major streets of south l.a. have given rise to a new sort of cat determined to fight not simply for turf or colors but for the lives of the next generation. i work with about four or five hundred high risk you
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every month the first thing i do apologize to him because i have to let bill know my generation is build you miserable see i'm fifty one years old i've been two decades of this structure so we let them know that hey we have done some wrong just like you do iraq these peacemakers many of them former gang members have stepped out from behind the gods and are now standing between the literally risking their lives in the formation of street level gang intervention morgan is egypt. privately funded receiving almost no support from either state or federal governments these grassroots movements are taking the first crucial steps towards stopping the cycle again but it's. people who care want to see a better theory want to see a better country and we got a star game together and have a sit down so that we don't keep breeding generations and generations who only think that that's the way to go eat eat. an alternative to that last i asked
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to put in place and if they want to see change and they've got the will invest in that autonomous to. a. can't they my son told me one day was dead. you say i know how you get your money so i get my money the second thirty people come up to give their wife doesn't it give you money i say is that right so he took off and rolled off in his pipe and they set me as a big bank and i want to thank my sound really are you watching. i do what i do so if i still get to the wall grabbing whatever it is. he's going to the same thing. right then i made a choice in my life when i was going to stick by them stick by us is mean and mean my label them against them meaning my kids so i chose to get them to turn to milo bit. down the coach role model proud parent. you know lift me and.
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i'm the one who prevented my own self from going to different areas i prevented it because of my mentality and because of what i d. how i dress partiers myself if i went to an area and i'm dressed in all red i'm looking for problems and i would be looking for problems i'd be looking for the guys in blue i'd be looking for the guys a look at me only lead to me now i'm ready to deal with this problem i'm ready to show my anger i'm a sell by ignorance that i can get just as stupid as you. want to stop that mentality when i started dressing differently started thinking differently i've increased my freedom to where i will go anywhere and when i get there and see start going to vigils they will say i would ask it from over there. and we go hey i you don't and we can talk now and it's not a problem i go to everybody's neighborhood there's not a problem how do you. not. truly enjoy the.
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move for. home home home . we are at the marker saying we have the resources for the richest country on earth it is absolutely outrageous it is inexcusable that we have failed to meet the most elementary tell us what it make it's to be fellow citizens and build a community. around. the . change in gradient is to appear about people who love. lasting bridge
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else i'm a timeline. you know indonesia. in america. i mean it makes it it takes him a minute to best translate into frank's solar eclipse the place you can let the space station a kid like the next head. expect him to explode in their place maybe it's like they can't be speaking to me and you. can't win the m m m. m m it is. the
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