And so people became highly addicted- I mean, everybody was getting addicted! Mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, grandparents; everybody is getting addicted under this crack.
Because not only is cocaine coming into the country — into LA, specifically at this moment — but also a lot of guns and weapons are coming in by the CIA. I was in Oakland when crack cocaine hit. I was there. I saw what happened in Oakland when crack cocaine came. I saw the destruction that it did to families, to businesses, black owned businesses. It was all about getting your money, you know, and you had black athletes for the first time getting million dollar contracts and, you know, 10 million — you know, Michael Jordan, then you had, you know, you have Michael Jackson.
And so, you know, I remember being in Oakland, I remember school teachers were selling cocaine because they wanted to get rich they want to have money too! So everybody was either selling cocaine, or they were using it. I think all that the black community has gone through. We got to give ourselves some props that we — we survived that first of all, but that we are able to rise up above that, you know, and do better.
And being able to overcome and producing a lot of great young black people. I mean, right now, black entertainers are in demand.
Black filmmakers are in demand, creating some of the best films that have ever been made. You know, we gotta give ourselves some props. We got to give ourself some props. Yuko Kodama This is He spoke with me about the drug epidemic during the 80s and 90s and its impact on Seattle youth. He starts by describing when and how youth gangs became prevalent in our region.
Aaron Dixon When I was growing up, we had these superficial gangs, you know, we had names and we carry switchblades. And, you know, we fought mock battles with each other, you know, it was nothing serious. But the first black kid to get killed by another black kid in Seattle was in And before that, there were no gangs in Seattle. But the Crips came up to Seattle, so in defense, the kids in Seattle, had to create their own gang, a guy from Chicago, he was with the Black Gangster Disciples in Chicago, and he created the Black Gangster Disciples in Seattle, and they became the rival to the Crips and Bloods in Seattle and so you had this whole neighborhood warfare going on.
And in , Seattle started Seattle Team for Youth, which they hired all these people to work as counselors to work and all these gang counselors to work and all these different neighborhoods to try to fight against the gangs. And I got one of those jobs and I started working with young people in West Seattle, who were gang involved. And we were trying to, you know, save as many young people as we could. Now, prior to s, black kids did not go to foster care. Because we had such a strong community that if kids were homeless, there was always somebody that was going to take that child and there was always a family member that was going to take that child in.
By s. Because the family and the community broke down. And as a result of that, you know, these kids are traumatized. These kids have gone in the foster care system, they become traumatized, because a lot of those foster cares only care about money, it was it was it was pretty crazy.
You not only had black families who were fleeing LA, who are bringing their kids to Seattle, to get away from the gangs. And bam, they get to Seattle, the gangs are here.
The gangs are in Seattle. And a lot of the kids I worked with in Seattle, they had came from LA, because the parents are trying to get him away. So now they get game involved in Seattle, I had about kids on my caseload and we were all trying to figure out how to work with these kids.
There were eight kids that I work with there on my caseload that were involved in homicides. We talked about 15, 16, 17 year old kids involved in homicide, they almost all of them brought guns to school, so I could either turn them in, and they would get expelled because the school had a zero policy.
They came into my office in the morning, open up the file cabinet, they put all their guns in there and after school they came and got them, you know, because I had to build trust with them too. Because you had gang warfare going on. They had to protect themselves and defend themselves. And make sure they graduated. Thus, any spirit of resistance was literally harassed, imprisoned or murdered out of the community.
Gangs however remained, serving a different purpose. With large amounts of Blacks being railroaded into prison, you could imagine the social impact. Virtually thousands of youths would be picked up by the police for no given reason, taken to police stations, mug-shotted, fingerprinted and then held until their families were notified and picked them up.
At a time when the availability of jobs were decreasing; to be young, Black and have a police record meant that the chances of finding a job was almost nil. If you combine this with the steady removal of social provisions and the marginalization of whole sections of communities, it is not surprising that social relations began to suffer.
The destruction of the Black family is a very real phenomenon. Though in relation to the whole Black population they were a very small number, they occupied positions in city, state and federal government; worked inside corporate America and ran their own businesses.
This class was purposefully and knowingly created by the establishment to give the impression that they could make it, if only they kept their heads down and noses clean. In reality a culture of survival has now gripped a large section of Black America. When people cannot eat or clothe their children they will steal to survive.
A person without a job who has been influenced by the rampant materialism of the dominant culture can be recruited into criminal activity. The illegal economies of crime and crack have become the only means of survival for many people. In amongst such conditions, children are the most vulnerable. The bond between gang members is so strong that many will kill or die for each other, no question. However, the current level of violence cannot be explained by these factors alone. Violence is learned behavior.
A child that is beaten frequently and unjustly will learn to resort to violence against others. Similarly, a community that is constantly visited with unjust killings and beatings at the hands of an oppressive police force can learn to settle conflicts through violent means. The steady criminalization process against Blacks still rolls on today. On the streets it is looked upon as the only legalized gang.
Police officers are viewed as no more than gang-bangers with badges. Between and there were 2, citizen allegations of excessive force against LAPD officers. This is but a tiny fraction of the total number of incidents of police brutality since filing a complaint against the police is seen as a waste of time. LA Times. They would take you to jail so they could fingerprint you, so they could take your picture, then they let you go.
Now all my friends have been fingerprinted and mug-shotted for nothing. In one year 50, people were taken to jail without a blink. The large percentage had no criminal charge sustained against them, there was no significant reduction in crime. The entire criminal justice system gets into motion, criminalizing layers upon layers of Black youths day on day, year on year. There are now more Blacks caught up in the criminal justice system than go to college.
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