Crips

Freedom Writers portrays how people from different backgrounds can forget about their differences for a purpose that is bigger than all of them. The are united by their similar pasts of lost family members and friends. Gang violence has created a divide in their lives and caused a large amount of emotional pain. In Freedom Writers, students from all ethnicities are incorporated, and show the process of their division and coming together. This movie shows the racism in our past. It can also be…

The release of Kendrick Lamar’s debut album Section.80 dealt with the “perils of a generation that fell victim to the crack era” in a city stricken by poverty and violence. Though Lamar was formerly an independent artist looking to gain traction in the music industry, the release of Section.80 catapulted the rapper to stardom. Lamar has since released three studio albums, one compilation album, one EP, five mixtapes, and has appeared on numerous other musicians’ songs in the short time he has…

Growing up in the early 1960’s to 1970’s was a tough time for my parents but not just them everybody. This was because of all the negative that was around them. There were many things for kids their age to do, and they took the better route in life. Compared to now, the gang banging is not something that you see a lot of today. Both my parents grew up in this time period and my dad has a different outlook on life. The things that are going in today’s society are from when my father was child. It…

Who are the easiest targets to join a gang? The youth. With children and teens in gangs, it affects them the most, their families, and their communities. The youth join gangs because it makes them look cool, they have an older sibling is in a gang, one or both parents are in a gang, they are pressured, unity, and brotherhood. One major reason why children and teens join gangs is the neighborhood they live in and their surroundings (Chaskin 7). The majority of children and teens in gangs are…

Racailization played a major role in neighborhoods such as the Cadillac-Corning neighborhood and the Playboy Gangster Crips consisted of low income and people of color. Gang injunctions can be similar to a restraining order enforced to individual gang members and at times the whole gang, from coming into contact and participating activities within a specific bordered target…

A gang is a criminal street gang they do assaults, drive by shooting robberies and homicides. What makes a young kid a gang member? How is a gang a good for young kids, or is it bad? Everyone needs a home and family. Even if it is on the streets selling drugs, trafficking women, and killing someone. No one has ever said a family is not like that, no one has said that a family needs to be normal. “What people don 't understand is joining a gang ain 't bad, it 's cool, and its fine. When you in…

The article “Shuttling Between Nations, Latino Gangs Confound the Law”, written by Ginger Thompson, was very informational to me. The counterculture in the article is gang members. Gang members are the counterculture because they are not the most powerful, influential, or widespread on the earth. Gang members are not respected and often times treated terrible. Gang members are not listened to and are supposed to obey the laws of the dominant culture. In some cases gang members might be the…

The songs opening bridge “If Pirus and Crips all got along / They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song / Seem like the whole city go against me” he talks about how by speaking out against gang violence in the song he becomes a target for them, fortunately for Kendrick the divisions…

just any street gang had as much notoriety as the Crips. The Crips, a gang of young men that specialized in a wide array of crimes. They would steal everything, terrorize neighborhoods and kill for nothing. Typical demographics of gang members in the ‘80s was male, between the ages 12-25, and of a minority group, In this project the focus is more on cultural and social tensions from an American film perspective, which gangs existed. The Crips…

Rites of passage have been used by almost all cultures since the beginning to mark the transition an individual takes from youth to adulthood. In many ancient cultures it has involved ceremonies often religious in nature. In typical modern day American society, the movement from adolescence to adulthood also comes with certain rites of passage. In the late teen years many youths have the desire for more independence. Many will get an afterschool job; this gives them some financial freedom. Next…