Rules of Beef
I once expressed my desire to have beef be expressed like in The Warriors...my wish has not come true..
The CityPaper has a new feature called Murder Ink. Basically they give a brief review of all the murders that have occurred over the last week. In the last 5 weeks I've known people (clients) who have been included in the tally. Tomorrow I will pick up the paper and read about a brother I know personally. It's not just messed up that he's dead but the whole circumstance is coming into one of those cycles.
Basically dude A is sitting in his house with his girl...Crew 1 walks in makes him strip, pistol whips him and robs the place. Dude A...runs out jumps on his dirtbike (still naked) and chases them down. He hits one with the bike and paralyzes him. He is now in jail with an attempted murder charge.
The young brother I know (father of two), runs across the remnants of Crew A and basically challenges them, tells them they're punks and he'll beat all of their asses right there. Crew A backs down and leaves. Later that night the young man is coming out of his house and Crew A shows up to solve the situation via gunplay. My man loses his life. We are called up, as in the past to speak to his younger brother about not going for vengance. It appears that another member of Crew A has already been killed. A conversation too late.
Now another member of my man's crew has been killed as well.
As simple as it sounds if things could be like the Warriors or The Outsiders where we see each other set the terms and then fight it out and when it's over we get up and leave.
posted by Amadeo at 2:16 AM
5 Comments:
There is no easy solution to this problem. But one of the saddest results of this situation is the fatherless children left behind to be raised by ill-equipped GIRLS and under-aged grandmothers.
While it is impossible to get a man to see that his true birthright is HUMANITY as opposed to ANIMALISM (he must see that on his own), it seems to be just as hard to convince these young women who are naturally attracted to power that TRUE power does not come from a man's ability to intimidate, but, by his ability to reason and have self-control when needed.
Black women must take a stand in this situation and stop having children with these men who are an endangered species--because unfortunately without fathers, their sons will also share the same fate. This bullshit needs to end.
Yeah, I think midlife crisis made a good point. I don t know too much about this sort of situation because in Germany we have different kinds of problems. My father worked with young men and boys who had difficulties at home and in school and yeah, there was definetly also stuff like that going on, however maybe not that frequently. But it is for sure that without a dad and stupid moms the children will have a fucking hard time to become reasonable men who can hold themselves back when needed. My friend works as a midwife in a hospital and she told me that it is almost insane how many young GIRLS get babies and obviously have no CLUE what that means in terms of responsibility and also of aquiring knowldege about ways how to raise kids and education. it s a desaster. for children from such homes EDUCATION turns out to be one of the last bastions where they can exit this vicious circle.
however, education is worldwide fucked up. royally fucked up. underpaid, underestimated, fucked up.
just pump some ritalin in that kid yo. or put it in front of TV/PC/Playstation etc. just so its gone for a while.
ritalin is fucked up. my dad worked with kids of that sort. ritalin might help for a moment, doesn t solve the problem, has nasty side effects.
education
education
education
is like working at the very front of the war. every soul counts out there. every single one.
Damn man. Piggybacking Beloved's sentiments to a tee man. At least you tried to quell situations. That's more than most people would ever do...
i am speechless
WOW...I'll keep you posted
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