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What Do Their Rites Of Passage Truly Reflect?
'Acting out' aka mere social rebellion, some becoming a part of the problem by default or them too emulating the young political activists examples of the distant or present, i. e., who don't see 'the hood' and/or its residents as it is, instead what they could make them safe places/spaces/etc. for them to live in/raise their own families in the midst of?
Personally it was the examples of the Oakland Panthers not the Bloods and Crips I was and I am inspired by...
On a real serious note, considering the violence which plagues more than the Windy City, I believe all of our takes need to be updated...
FYI...
'Acting out' aka mere social rebellion, some becoming a part of the problem by default or them too emulating the young political activists examples of the distant or present, i. e., who don't see 'the hood' and/or its residents as it is, instead what they could make them safe places/spaces/etc. for them to live in/raise their own families in the midst of?
Personally it was the examples of the Oakland Panthers not the Bloods and Crips I was and I am inspired by...
On a real serious note, considering the violence which plagues more than the Windy City, I believe all of our takes need to be updated...
FYI...
