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you can't have you have to be on your toes at all times man because anything at any time can happen to you and that you can't have a heart know. you can have a heart but you've been a show is sort of never learned your so be we never lead your so be seen as someone with feelings emotions and except for. brutal force. in the ghetto you will be to an advantage to be targeted sharks are just each works little hour here in a concrete jungle you've got to be respected as a man. but in most cases respect.
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is actually. feed caught the better respect me you better fear me. when i had a hard look at everything as homer you want to be in a right state of mind if you're feeling good about her dress code in a representative for the month it implies the existence of the want to dress like. that out of the world not the way its name was named one in the morning it was the one they were in this only no man is looking good in the good of london let's go let's go and do whatever it takes to look good doing what. i was on pluto until guys were with me in san francisco to be interviewed i knocked on the car there have talent that kind of. and here are two of the most hardcore gang members and one of them it's got his ironing board out and he's got his traveling irons ironing misquotes. has to learn. you
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know he's just stores me our history. he would like. to make a painting stand up in a corner with nobody i'm there. for somebody that has no idea why a young man would do it what is the allure it's i join the gang not only for the protection for the love and unity to be a part of the family. if you live in a ghetto and you're living in a bomb where you're being assaulted like i was i just got tired of being a victim it's like either you're
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a victim or you to fix or. raised until it is not like you can to get out of there's no way you race until i decide what they teach you living on a i was really good to do and you know get chased out of school and get shot at all the time in life and i'm damned if i do democrats don't. get jumped in this album wealth and in fact a mom looked at my neighborhood ahdaf my neighborhood all mom puts mom a hood so i don't look at it like oh gang king is this crap church to. live let's all. make you leave. that's why at least it's up with this group they feed and they looking out for me for the clothes on his back on. and now it's time to just going to get these niggas
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you just shot at my house we should all do. wish you don't get to let me just fish you all much so how can you say no to that this will kill his most business defeat . told me when you first got a. gun i was like two the trial was about to wail now i'm all for years ago when i was twenty years old you got guns just to go to school if you don't have one you gotta be around somebody's got to agree got the ball right now don't want to have another i got a back up. take a forty something. you got big does you know twenty to thirty. millimeter to sixteen come on now you've also violent down some. generation with the last four after my generation there was gun play there was no such thing to fight the kids
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today came right in the game of go. that's why so many murders. that's made a twelve year old thirteen year old king for a day. put you in a hole and not the state. within itself says the child. you clear black people. your car mom school all the dogs. i mean clear to block standing twelve thirteen years old with just a small. stick in. the wall. there for to use against another individual or human being but once you block that part of your mind out. the companies you go watch and they become not the first
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time jittery you get to see the nervous system and then you come back and look at the same person at the been along with the flow here and i mean they sold a ready to get. we have one with a lot of people right now but being who i am and it's been true i got a lot i love of being a real mother. and that is saved my life many times you'll say but at the same time it's another generation that don't know me and feel like they can get a strike could they get rid of me. much or enemy and whatever they do you counterattack they write on the wall you run to beat up somebody you've beaten and shoot somebody uses. it come over here
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she want to bust me goldie and she like to avoid in. the future but. the message to survive really became a dog the dog. the would you kill they would use but. you got to tell me that because the heart of this job to you and keep the film up there so that you got to make the feel when you freeze in the sun which is go over . that and i. never go back again bringing. it back.
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even though i'm in the game i'm in. for a look at how you 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 so. i read 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 know more good individual but sometimes i gotta put that moral state of my behind and become an animal.
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think. there was a. well there's a man that out there can be hard work to eighty five ninety percent of the 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 ushers in a series of transformations that radically changing nature of black history in this country blacks for the first time are invited and now asked to work in america's arsenal for democracy building those tanks building those planes building those
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ships. nine hundred forty s. night and seventies you see over four million african-americans leave the south in ways that have never never occurred before. and for new york head first caught go ahead for los angeles. for the first time they were integrated into the american worker on a mean 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. play
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a did not have the overt history with racism that one had in the south there were no laws aside blacks had to ride in one part of the bus for no laws a set 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
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racial lines in an effort to keep traditionally white neighborhoods free. non desirable home owners sometimes not desirable men latino sometimes not desirable men sometimes not disarmament asian but it always meant black and so those racially restrictive covenants which didn't disappear into the late forty's early fifty's essentially kept blacks circumscribed in a very narrow portion of the l.a. county region. like people were sort of 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 l.a. residents responded by transforming their a lot of territory into a thriving cultural hub the central avenue developing into a sort of harlem west. west coast best jazz clubs
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dozens of black businesses lining the street people dressed in their sunday best on the weekends a period during which the most affluent and the poorest blacks live essentially side by side. and then with will more to spend. more time economy adapted itself to lead automotive industry major corporations like g.m. chrysler ford good you and firestone all establishing factory in south los angeles . and we're going to factory you got benefits you could buy a 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
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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 its high skilled high wage training on one very low skilled sweatshop labor another. lacks find their skills don't fit into either those demands. they don't have the education for the skill with 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 sweatshop work
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downtown l.a. because they don't perceive that as jobs that american citizens should have. and not talking about people who have arrears we're talking about people with jobs if you have a job you are dependent upon 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.
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generationally in america is supposed to be about the american dream people are supposed to move up as well. as the elevator. we're talking about a situation where actuality it when it reversed 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. the black in the ghetto gold surviving.
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they go on all night and all of that. was all not. all that. going to. make. them to commit to it even to begin to have a. headache that's really what i have been going on. they are refugees if you want to call them that we displace like a moat. and helicopters flying over the it might not be acceptable in britain however some that occurs every two or three hours in my community. in the south central community basically what you have is in peel broken down businesses if you have any business to. take
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along downtown baltimore from french on her money you tell me the opportunities that are available low income housing five or six churches gang violence crack up 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 and it broke up a lot of you know a lot of people just thought crack was the way out you know what i even thing them but they keep you know what i'm saying that will broke a lot of homes if that crack would never came parties to have nice the homes and nice to the families you know but when i came in like tow everything before but let me ask you when did you have a conventional childhood illness all dysfunctional as families and it's helped us. to see out here they dos is ninety three i was raised out of that he. had to be
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a man i take my gee mom found my low but this is said. i'm going to buy for little. well the system do what you do. with us collateral oh look at me. i grew up in a home where my mother worked two jobs but had three. so you can imagine we were on supervised sold up our muscle business outside 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 the neighborhood just not the opposite way so i went to gangs without fighting come out and i don't think they had some hand getting your
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books then stayed on but if everybody if 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. thought of the most part the absence of a father a male father. in the home. when there is no male influence. on them from. then everything is going to be out of whack the people told me told me don't tell me how to be whole tell me all he spoke to you once he's not be a man but his fight to move by somebody to somebody doesn't really tell me been a man. have
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a show coach or a black man. pretending to be men by killing each other. about standing up in a brothel. but they're misguided. now days the fathers are the black men my age are the day and i'm in jail and one of the problems we have is. if they're going to try to arrest a problem that means they're putting all the black men in jail. in two thousand and three purel 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
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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 and i have. come in a cafe privileged to be in two thousand seven. plans to spend seven point four billion dollars to build forty thousand new prison. terms to. look at the population of people in the penitentiary particularly from the one nine hundred eighty s. or for black men are disproportionately represented that's the new coffee or white you can't play you know you would think of like. a little kid and for a few. days you can assess. what this means is we are breaking even the possibility of there will be intact families with a mother and
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a father raising a child together. because we are sending the men off to prison with unprecedented rapes 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 a xerox sent an application and they found out i was on parole and i lost my job i used to be jealous some our wives going to work at. this is my wife a woman a stood by me 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
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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 writers. what mystery is hidden deep the nice. visitors the north welcome here. traps are laid for intruders. and the supernatural cannot arise from nowhere. can a human be possessed by the underwater spirit.
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