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Oak Park, Sacramento, California
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Coordinates: 438°32'350N 121°2747"W38.544045°N
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95817 and 95820
Oak Park is a neighborhood in Sacramento, California. The McGeorge School of Law,
Sacramento High School, and Christian Brothers High School are located in this neighborhood.
Oak Park is informally bounded by 113,_Baute_El to the North, Stockton Blvd. to the East CA22 to the West and Fruitridge Road to the South. ul It is situated within the city limits and
provides easy access to the ever growing/changing Downtown of Sacramento. The streets
intersect with avenues and there is one main street that runs through all of Oak Park, Martin
Luther King Jr. Boulevard, formerly known as Sacramento Boulevard.
Contents
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1 History
o 1.1 Oak Park's Downtown
o 1.2 Oak Park's Streetcars
o 1.3 Joyland
• 2 Recent past
• 3 Notable residents
• 4 References
HistoryWI]
The early 1900s saw Oak Park as a culturaU4tiving and economically vibrant, destination
neighborhood, v" due in part to its stronas
al% ommunity and its ties with and proximity to
the
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st:' he 1960s Interstate freeway expansion
program subdivided many historic Sacrame hoods like Oak Park creating isolated
areas of poverty or relative prosperity. Oak P
4community started to decline in the
early 1960s as a result of the freeway expansion,
perty values and families moving
out to the suburb communities now made easily acc lithe freeway expansion programs.
During the 1980s / 90's further deterioration of the livitQ_*andards were exacerbated by frequent
occurrences of petty theft, street crime, drug activities anTgang related violence. Recently, the
early 2000s saw a slew of real estate speculators and building contractors buying up low priced
homes in some parts of Oak Park that were either abandoned or sold off as unmanageable then
turning them around and reselling them as reasonably priced starter homes, often with financial
government assistance. At the same time many new high paying jobs moved into the area in
connection with the expansion of the llaiyinity_gleadifosthalkalledigalSn located to
the North of Oak Park, the revitalization of Broadway and Stockton Boulevard and the expansion
of the McGeorge Law School campus.
Oak Park's Downtownledit]
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In addition to being Sacramento's first suburb, Oak Park also developed a second "downtown"
retail and entertainment district, distinct from Sacramento's downtown. Running along 35th
Street between Sacramento Blvd (Broadway) to the north and 5th Ave and the park to the South.
The street was home to the Piggly-Wiggly and Park Meat Market, Steen's Corner Saloon,
Azevedo's Women's Apparel, Janek and Scurfield canvass goods, Citizens Bank of Oak Park, the
Ben Franklin variety store, and many others. The street's arts and entertainment could be found at
the Victor Theater (Guild Theater), the California Theater, the Belmonte Gallery or the outdoor
theater and pavilion at the park. 35th Street area also played host to the annual 4 July parade.al
Oak Park's Streetcarsiediti
Four of Sacramento's Seven downtown streetcar lines terminated in Oak Park. The original line,
the Central Street Railway, was founded in 1890 by real estate investor Edwin K. Alsip in hopes
of motivating people to move to Oak Park and Highland Park. The horse-drawn streetcars were
replaced by cable cars, and shortly after, electric trolley cars. Originating at Second and H Street,
it followed J Street to 28th St then south to Sacramento Blvd (now called Broadway) where it
turned east into the new suburbs of Oak Park. The eastern terminus was a public park, then
known as Oak Park (now McClatchy Park), on 35th Street and Fifth Avenue. Sacramento
Electric, Gas & Railway Company (later Pacific Gas and Electric Company) would acquire this
route and expand to include Route 6 which ran to the Oak Park terminus via 5th Ave. Meanwhile
a short Route 5 would run east from the Oak Park terminus and end at the Historic site of the
California State Fair grounda on Stockton Blvd.um
The Central California Traction Company also ran an interurban rail line from Downtown
Sacramento to Stockton, CA. The line headed through Oak Park along Sacramento Blvd, then
2nd Ave, finally turning South AStockton Blvd. and running down the Eastern edge of Oak Park
towards Stockton, CA.
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In 1895, Oak Park (McClatchy -PiffiSrbattlif d acres of shady oak trees, a zoo, carousel and
ballpark. When Sacramento Electz{j8aoailway Company acquired the Oak Park terminus
in 1903, they added a wooden roller , toiler skating rink, an outdoor theater, and a
scenic miniature railway. Joyland was (ibkri when the park was renovated to include an
amusement park, electric lights, and swiThining pool. In addition to local amusement, Joyland
was intended to showcase the abilities of electric power and increase ridership on the new
electric streetcars.°
Joyland caught fire in 1920 and never reopened. In 1927, Valentine McClatchy purchased the
land and gave it to the city to become a city park,named in honor of his father James McClatchy,
the founder of the Sacramento Bee?-'
Recent pastkc
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As of 2008 Oak Park faces a variety of challenges sustaining the beginnings of its comeback due
in part to an increase in foreclosures and an area wide decline in property values. Its future is in
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the hands of activists like Kevin Johnson, community groups like the Oak Park Neighborhood
Association, the South Oak Park Community Association (SOPCA) established in 2014,
Community policing efforts, the demand for affordable housing close to the University of
California Davis Medical Center and the overall impact that the real estate market will play in
the Mure.
Notable residents [edit]
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Kevin Johnson- Mayor of Sacramento, former NBA star
Deborah Ortiz former California State Legislator representing districts that included Oak
Park.
Diego Corrales, former boxing champion (deceased) Diego Corrales.
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95817- A aGNITIVE RETRDSTECTIVE, NARRATED BY MARK SANIEZS
AKA JUSTICE DIME ALLAH/JIHAD DWI ASKARINGETIC SAPIENT ALLAH. I AM AN ADVOCATE OF THE WM
OF GOCS AND EARTHSattN AS me FIVE MRCS/MRS, / WAS aPOSED THIS LIFE SAVAG CULTURE AS MU.
CHILD,ON 35M,4ND STH AVE,g1 SHAEAll'S FISH AND CHIPS, COED AND OPERATED AT THE 17AE BY THE NAT/ON
OF ISLAM N4.1. THIS INTEL, HAS STAYED wrru AE AND AT 17AE5 LAY DONAM" DURIAG w IECSENT INTO
SAVAGERY.THIS WORK OF REALITY AND WISDCALA CUATIMARY TALE FOR THOSE WITH INSIGHT.THIS CULTURE
IN 11111C.H I ADVOCATE WAS LN3LED A SECLRIN THREAT GROUP,BY STATE AND FEDERAL PRISON AUTHORTFIES
IN 1995.DESPITE THE FACT THAI OUR WD MITERED CULTURE WAS PIS ESTABLISHED IN THE FREE CIPHER(CtORLD)
BY CUR EDUCATOR,ALLAH.OUR GOD-CBTERED CULTURE ALSO HAS 501(c) (3)TAX D031PT STATUS LIKE AM/ OMER
RELIGICN LAVER me FIRST AVENVABIT, air BECAUSE OE TEACH THAT PE BLACKWN IS WD AND PIE BLACK
catas IS EARTH AND TIE ItHITE MAN IS DEVIL, AS A COLLECTIVE ILE *RE DEEMED A THREAT.
THERE ARE CUACASIAN FIVE MEMBERS, OR GRCUP IS ALL INCLUSIVE. OE ARE N/ETHER FRO BLACK OR MIT/
WHITE. DE ARE RW GOD MV AN1T DEVIL. (tE ARE CtE W FEARED? IT IS NOT FECAUSE ttE EMPHATICALLY
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WE BLAVE OTHERS AS me CAUSE MILE REALIZING THAT 0E CAUSED IT TO BE THIS WAY? ARE THEY FEAR
US FOR HE FACT THAT tie ORELY ADVOCATE 17E REV/9I4AL OF BLACK 024F/AEMD4T BY TEACHIAB
ark ?ROPERS
AND SISTERS BEHDID &BAY LDS HCW TO EFFECTIVELY ERADICATE POVERTY FROM THBASELVES AND TfEIR
LIAEAGE MIER PROTER ECUCAT/ON,DEVELOPIAG BLACK BUSINESS AND CREATIAG AN ECOACMIC STRUCRIRE
TO acre, PER Caftiff/17ES.I.E.C2llWITY COWL.
My hood! I want to give it up Oa the niggaz I went to school
with.Reat quick beion I jump up in this thang.
So a 21 gun salute goea out to theae btothas4.A.5 welt a.s buttetptooi
Love!
Myrstneet,in the g ate 60'a ea/ay 70 1 41.36th at. wass my neat nigggaz
Maxvin Sewand, My netty,aent Lit powen,Kevin itaahight chaney,my
nett y,nezt in powet,Shawn chaney,Jeii baity,Andne gwittie(chitty wilt)
Waaakington.
On the dime block was my naty 'teat tfcio9,8obo,my homie neat in poweA tynone
Runny, (dinozoun) Jamartived on 35.th.Pal4Agn munny.big Ttwauswaa on the dime
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&fay. The young.s.Too Part to List. St .thos
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enjoy thio neat
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NARRATIVE CONTIWED:>
IN WAG THIS OE ARE PROVIDDE DIRECTION FOR AM) GIVING REPOSE TO THE %%AERATIONS THAT ca.E AFTER
US, LEWIM ND EXCUSES F 0 R THE YOUTH TO USE AS TO EY THEY CHOSE SLAVERY OVER FREEDOW.THEY BEGAN
TO FEAR US MIEN THEY LEARNS, THAT OE (*RE NIETPER MIT-WHITE,WR P39-B1ACK WT STAAV AGAINST
EVERYTHING I OffTWEAK AND WICKED (DEVILMENT) BY EXERT/AG nE FORCE AND MIER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,EICH
IS RIGHT AM) EXACT AND PRODUCES RIGHT CCACUCT!
IT IS ELL NUN THAT CUR ANCIENT AACESTORS ALCM THE NILE RIVER,WR EIDERS EIXCATED ALL
HaONTTY WITHIN THEIR ECWATIONAL SYSTEM FOR THE CAUSE OF CIVILIZIAG n84 WITH TIE f3CWLED3E
TO RIMER CIVILIZATIONSHAT OE TEACH EFFECTIVELY ERAW/CATES UNITE SUTRENACY AND ITS I/CETTION.
FECUASE OICO1 AND UAVERSTAND DE FEAR WAS /MPLNA113) IN MR PSYChE&E HAW THOLGIff AND CONTEMPLATED
AFTER ENDLESS HOURS OF GkINIAG THE Klyaaparow EAVEZSTANDIAG OF SELF AND asz AACIEACT MCESTORS
MTIQUITCUS QUWW (HISTORY) MV CaE vorawinc COACLSICN THAT TE DEVIL FEARS US &CAUSE OF
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I AM EU AWARE OF THE FACT THAT THLW9193 IS A THREAT TO THE TCOER STRUCTURE OF THLS NATION
Tft7R SYSTEM, LEGALISE IN THEIR MN Qt$,81EY HAVE EITHER MOLE SALE SUAUGHTERED THOSE
A-ALIKE LIS,DRORFED BOWS ON US 0 R LOtED US:TP BECAUSE UE'VE CAUSED A STIR S AVOW PE LEAD.
SO I HAW AND THOSE LIE 0/SELF CE REALIZE EARLY IN nE GWE THAT IT IS AOT US THEY FEAR,UNAT
THEY DO FEAR IS nrE PRCEABILITY OF CHANGE THAT 02ES FRAU OUR ABILITY TO UNITE ALL OPFRESSED
PEOPLE TO srmv AGAINST THEIR °PRESSOR. THEY FEAR FORCE AND PM OF THE UNKNCUN EECCMIAG MN!
UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE EOM HON AND DIVINE. CREATED IN HIS IMAGE AM) LIKEIESS. LEVER PLAY AS
GOD OF YaIRSELF.
IN TfE NINATION OF GODS4M) EARTHS) (MRS) WE TAKEIIWV&S,FaGHTECCLS WES TO IDEM7FY WTTH AND
DEFINE 0.NO OE ARE ETHEVICALLY,MORALLY,CHAMCIEWISTIC.ALLY AND SCIENTIFICALLY. CUR FrIGHTECUS WES
STRESS AND VERDE OUR DIMITY AS WV OR EARTH THAT DISCONNECTS US FROM OUR SLAVE MASI tif'S hikVE.
THOU3H ftE RESPECT OUR falORA13LE NAMES GIVEN TO US BY CUR MEATS AT arnzni,TEY (4FCN IDENTIFYIAG
WITH AM) ACCEFTMG OUR DIV/MY, WE ARE GIVEN A RIGHTEOUS NW BY aR EDUCATORS, 0.410 DO SO BY OESMAG
OUR
CHARATEN2ALI7Y,ETHICS AND NATURAL ORDER. I HAVE SEVERAL RIGHTECUS fl4ES,JUSTICE DIVIAE
ALLAH,JUSTICE IS THE FEALTY, OR REWARD FOR ONES ACTIONS, AND I HAVE BEEN ACU.N TO EXACT
DIME IS V TRUE SELF, ALLAH 1/EANS"THE WI7'.JIH41) DAM1 ASKAR/ IS W ISLAMIC MIE,JIHAD MEANS
TO STRUGGLE, DMA lEANS BLOOD,AND ASKARI MEM
SOLDIER IN KtgalAifILI,
M4CAETIc,SAPIEM- ALLAH
MAGNETIC MEANSHAVING AN UNUSAL A2/141Y(10 ATRRACT,SAPIENT,MEANS WISE,DICERNING.
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EXPRESSIONS OF SIGNS,SYMBOLS,
AS
BUTES TO DEFINE THE REALITY OF MYSELF.
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TO EVERYTHING IN EXISTENCE ,THROUGH THE
SgAND LETTERS.
I SAID ALLAH IN ENGLISH dekNS iRE GOD,AND ALLAH IS HE/SHE WHO KNOWS
AND UNDERSTANDS AND CONTROLS THE ELEMENT FORCES-STRONG,ELETROMANETIC,WEAK,AND
GRAVATATIONAL, AND THE FIVE ENEEGIES-CHEMICAL-ELETRICAL-MECHANICAL-NUCLEARAND THERMAL.WITHIN SELF TO SHOW AND PROVE THE MOTION OF LIFE'S
EXISTINECE.
WORLDS.
ALL PRAISE DUE TO ALLAH,LORD OF ALL THE
SUPREME PEACE AND BLESSINGS.
I WOULD
LIKE TO SHARE A BIT OF JEWELERY WITH YOU, 5,JEWELS,1,LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL,
2TRAIN HARDER! 3,BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF AND OTHERS 4EXPRESS YOURSELF 100%
5,RESPECT YOURSELF AND OTHERS.
OUR, 2000 PLUS YEAR OLD ENEMY KNOWS THE POWER OF WORDS,OF THE WRITTEN WORD
AND HAS USED IT WISELY TO KEEP US, SEPARATED AND
SLEEP, TO THE LIES AND THE
TRUTH, OF THIS WORLD,STARTING IN THE 1960'S********** THE HONORABLE LOIUS
FARRAKAHN.HE STATED THIS ABOUT THE POWER OF WORDS---"I TALKED ABOUT HOW THE
WORD"NEGRO" WAS USED AND HOW LIMITED THAT TERM WAS AND HOW THE HONORABLE
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD USED THE TERM"BLACK" IN SUCH A WAY THE IT DEVELOPED IN US
AS A BODY AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM THAT CONNECTED US TO OUR PEOPLE ALL
OVER THE WORLD.
SO THAT WHEN SOMETHING WAS DONE IN THE
CONVAW
AGO,IN THE KILLING OF PATRICE
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LUMUMBA,THERE WAS DEMONSTRATION BY BLACK fitz04EZIAT THE U.N.WHEN MARTIN LUTHER
KING WAS MUREDERED A HUNDRED CITIES WERE 419104F IRE BECAUSE WE HAD DEVELOPED
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A NERVOUS SYSTEM THAT ALLOWED US TO FEELAII
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LANUAGE THAT THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUAHHiik
try.
SO THE EMEMY STEPPED UP HIS STUDIES OF ph.HE4ANTED TO KNOW WHAT WAS IT AND
WHO WAS THE LEADER THAT IGNITED US TO BURN UP A HUNDRED CITIES WHEN
ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE SURING THE CITIES WERE NOT FOLLOWERS OF MARTIN
LUTHER KING JR. THEY CONCLUDED THAT IT WASN'T SPECIFIC PERSON THAT WAS CAUSING
THIS AS MUCH AS IT WAS THE WAY THE MEDIA WAS USED .IT HAD GIVEN US A PEOPLE
ONE SHARED ATTITUDE TOWARD WHITE PEOPLE AND TOWARD WHAT WE CALLED'THE ESTABLISHMENT'
THESE ATTITUDES HARDENED INTO A SYSYTEM OF BELIEFirhe ALL OF US SHARED,NO
MATTER WHERE WE WERE IN AMERICA- A BELIEF ABOUT POLICE,A BELIEF ABOUT
GOVERNMENT.
A BELIEF ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE-THAT WAS VERY REAL.THAT ATTITUDE AND
BELIEF GREW INTO IDEOLOGY-A COMMON IDEA-THAT ALL OF US SHARED AND
WE HAD BECOME A NAT/ONAL COMMUNITY,EVEN THOUGH WE WERE IN DIFFERENT
GROUPS ,DIFFERENT CHURCHES Ama MOSQUES,ETC,THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT
BOUND US ALFOGETHER.WHEN THE ENEMY SAW THAT TELEVISON HAD SERVED
THAT PURPOSE AND THE NAME R BLACK,BROTHER, AND SISTER," HAD CAUSED
US TO SEE OURSELVES AS KIN TO PEOPLE OF COLOR ALL OVER THE WORLD,THEY
DECIDED AFTER THE ASSANATIONS OF MALCOM AND MARTIN AND THE DEPATURE
OF THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD,THEY HAD TO CHANGE LANUAGE.
THEY STARTED THAT BY AGAIN USING THE 'TERWMINOR/TY.'ONCE WE ACCEPTED
THE TERMINOLOGY. I MINORITY', A CERTAIN FRAME OF MIND CAME WITH ACCEPTING
THAT LANGUAGE.THE THAT WE ARE I MAJORITY' WAS DESTROYED.THEN WE BECAME
THE I DISADVANTAGED,AFRICAN AMERICANS.' BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO US A RESULT
OF ACCEPTING THAT LANGUAGE?IT KILLED THE4EROUS SYSTEM THAT LANGUAGE
OF BLACKNESS CREATED.THEN,EVERY TELEVIS4134
BLACK
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AS AN ADJECTIVE DESCRIBING IT,SUCH AS :
JOURNAL,"BLACK STAR' PRGRAM IN
NEW
BALTIORgiaRY CITY
YORK;PBLACK
HAD SOMETHING"BLACK"
AS A DISCRIPTION OF THE MAIN NouN,AmbogralAcK JOURNALIBECAMPTONY'S
JOURNAWAND I BLACK NEWS' WAS EVENT440- likEN OFF THE AIR. 'BLACK
STAR' WAS GONE.NOW YOU HAVE NO PROGRAM ANY WHERE ON TELEVISON WITH
THE NAME"BLACK"IN FRONT OF IT.S0 THE SUBTLETY OF THE ENEMY,IN DECEIVING
US,WAS THAT HE KNEW THE VALUE OF LANUAGE AND THAT IF YOU SHIFT THE
LANGUAGE YOU SHIFT PERCEPTIONS .WHAT HE DID WAS TO CREATE THE DEATH
OF OUR NERVOUS SYSTEM THAT CONNECTED US AS A FAM/LY.THEN WE COULD
BECOME TRIBES AND KILL ONE ANOTHER AND NOT FEEL THE PAIN OF OUR BROTHERS
IN CARIBBEAN ,OUR BROTHERS IN BRAZIL OR OUR BROTHERS IN AFRICA.
WE BEGAN TO LESS AND LESS GLOBAL AND MORE AND MORE NARROW IN OURFOCUS,
TO BE NARROWER RIGHT DOWN TO GANG AND TRIBES IN TERMS OF DENOMINATION/ AND
ONGANIZATION,AND KILL EACH OTHER THROUGHOUT AMERICA AND NOT REALLY
THE PAIN."
WE ARE ONE FAMILY UNITED BY HOLY BLOOD, AND OUR LIVES DO MATTER,
AND WE ARE UNDER ATTACK BY THIS SAME ENEMY, DON'T BE FOOLED, LOOK
AT THIS FOOL 'TRUMP'. THE ENEMY IS STILL THE ENEMY AND WE STILL
THE TARGET OF MURDER. WE ARE UNDER A THREE FOLD SYSTEM OF GENOCIDE
HEALTH CARE, THE CRIMINAL (IN)JUSTICE SYSTEM AND THE POLICE MURDER
BLACK MEN AND WOMEN PROGRAM.
I HOPE YOU ENJOY WHAT I HAVE TO RELAY TO YOU, AND I WROTE THIS NOT
TO, GLORIFY THE GAME BUT TO SHOW YOU THAT THE GAME IS SET UP FOR
US TO LOSE, THE GAME CAN NEVER LOVE YOU BACK, AND A LIFESTYLE WHICH
DOES NOT ADVOCATE LIFE,POSITIVE PRODUCTIVE LIVE, IS NOT A LIFESTYLE
IT IS A DEATHSTYLE, AND LEADS TO THE OTHER, 2ND DOOR OF NO RETURN
FOR BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLLE AND THAT IS PRISON, THE NEW SLAVE
PLANTATION
THE NEW SLAVE MARKET, THEY BUY AND SELL US ON WALL STREET, NOW PRIVATE
PRISON STOCK, WE ARE ONCE AGAIN PROPERTY. CHEAP SLAVE LABOR.TO KEEP
US SLEEP AND INCAREATED IS A BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY. OPEN YOU EYES
SEE WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT DON'T JUST LOOK AT WHAT YOU SEE.
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UNTIL WE WIN OR DONE;
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IN SOLIDARITY,INSTRUGGLE.
DEDICATION/ACINCKLEGVBITS.
FOR MY EFAUTIFUL VOTHER ORA WAR/E SANDERS, MY FATHER RU1EN SANDERS, I /1110 THAT MEI COWED POE FOR
E. FOZ W EEAUTIFUL WIFE,WONICA SANDERS, MY SPIKE PADECNE, ALL IN ALL, WEN THEY ALL LEFT PE
FOR DE4D SHE sititti) UP AAV PLAYED HER MSMON As THE WEB ON LIFES CHESS wARD. NE KIAG WAY 13E
THE PLAY CALLER, ST YOUR QUEEN CAN WAVE IN WAYS KU CANT, 91E IS ME ONLY USN I HAVE LOVED (tHOLLY
AM) FULLY. FCR W LOVELY DALIMERS
101) MARA ELAN S4AVERS, FOR MY RUIN WYS EWAN AM) ERANDON,
AND ALL W GRAND EABIES,AND TO MY EXTENDED FAMILY, I OLOVE YOU& LAVE IS TIE vosr MERRIL FORCE IN
THE UNIVERSE, LOVE NAYS WINS. MY lACLES-71I4ç 23T ziaaveE,JOEINGIUDDKEIG FLOW, HAROLD
REST IN PARADISE.
TO MY SISTERS, 9H41144 YEE, TEST IN PARADISE, FELIC7A STANFORD, 0/ EROTfERS JERCIE REED, REST IN PARADISE
LB. AYES, SIG JANES, NM FAVORITE RELATIVE ?ERIN CHANEY, WV WAS A BROTHER AM) FEST MEND FRCM DAY at
LOVE YCU BLOOD, REST IN TCO.ER. W FAVORITE WPM, LIL G,AKA GARY, LOVE Val WY, NY NFHEItS TOMACE,
DIME, AM) ALL W FAMILY I LOVE YOU AISO 111LLETPROOF LOVE FOR LIFE. REST IN PEACE W OG HMIS
AM) NY DAY MB, DANTE DRAYTON MARVIN DRAYTON, MV RELLY SAN CHANEY, WW, VEMIIS MILLER,
RAW DICK, _TDIMY HICKS, AWN f01/.1(MS, BIG Q, &VON DUNCAN, GOMVD USHER, 1/ARVIN MIA, SW, PAW,
DONALD WILLIS SR,AAV MAW WILLIS JR. LIL WALTSZ,ANO BIG WALTER, HARGROCK, 11.5. FEG, GODFATHER,
EMMY, WERE ARE TOO 144NY HOWES IN WAREN TO LIST SO TO ALL MY HOWES DIC HALE TR/WM/ONO
REST IN POGER. Id 0 0
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TO ,MY OMER ACHWIES'
EEUU.AH MAY ,AUNT LINDA, MILDRED PEACES BLACNAELL, TO THE PITTS FAMILY
CRUNP FAMILY, Bbt..W SIS, CAROLYN REED, W NIECES STEUA, MILLIE, TOYA AU W N/ECS.
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THE MIRMY,ANDAIP
AMILY, THE (JOLSTON'S TO EARLENE, (GRA/4W) AM) .111RU3E, +ELM HAILKINS(GRAANY
TfE ME thi? *Pak/ CHILD HOOD DAYCARE) GLEBA, UL HEW/ fiNCINS, REST IN PARADISE.
THE ROBINSON NVILYrTLE MCDOItELL FAMILY, ITE CCNSZLY, FAMILY, THE USHER FAMILY, AND MISS, USHER
ANOTHER 4/0171ER FIGURE IN W LIFE. THE 'Rum FAMILY, NE MIENS, M4MA LOU, SANDIE, PE RITSE'S
THE 9J33S, FAMILY, ALL OF W REAL RELATIVES IN OAK PARK, ME 1814s1S, THOMAS'S FAMILY, OUR HOOD
ACKCIVLEDGBINTS CONINE°.
IS SO BIG THAT IT WOULDTAKETHIS WHOLE BOOK TO LIST EVERY BODY, SO TO THE BEAN FAMILY,
SO TO S-114 IT ALL UP SINCE (LE ARE RELATED UP IN THAT TWANG BULLETPROOF LOVE FOR LIFE.
FOR THSCE 000 HAVE ROVE FOR ME DURAG PJ ENSLAVEMENT, SW BIG RIRIE VIRGEL LANDS ,111E HARR/S FAMILY,
8U3ER B, BILLY DEE, TERRILL DAKTIL, FAT KEV, CURTY, LIL BUFF, BLACK HICKEY MGILIQUE
TYESE, MARIE, NOW DRAYTON, ALL MY NIWAS ONO 047E SURE / SOME SHIT TO EAT WHILE UP IN THIS
CAGE, ALL YALL, I SALUTE Yfti, AND FOR THE )ES WHO RAN THE BALL ACROSS EMEY LUES, YOU ARE
APPRECIATED. AND FOR THE CNES
THES WALLS BECAME TOO MUCH OF A HURDLE, I LET YOU GO ofrrH LOVE
I AM NOT A MAN WHOSE DEMANDS ARE LIGHT, I DEMAND LOYALTY ON LEVELS OF THE SQUARE. I SALUTE
ALL WHO HELPED CARRY THIS EURDEV, (tE ALL misr BEAR OUR OWN CROSS, OF OUSE BUT MOW OF US MAKE IT
ALONE WE ALL NEED HELP.
ALL THE STAND UP BITCHES WHO STOOD FOR ME AND RODE FOR ME, RESPECT IS DUE,AND YOU ARE APPRECIATED.
TO GP MY NIGGA, WHO HAD MY BACK IN THIS MaTHESUMNER OF 88, WHEN HIT ARID, NT VAT SACK
FOR ME BEFORE If GOT MOCKED, IN "88° FOR GETTING ma PAPER, VOJ WEN MY NIGGA STACE *DERE BOTH
YOUNG BOYZ IN THE HOOP ON 4TH AVENUE WEN THEY FIRST WILT THE APARWENTS AND ME, YOU, AND CONRAD
WaILD SMOKE VAT GOLD DEED, AND DRINK QAURTS OF OW RGLISH, BEFORE THEY HAD 40'S, I MISS VOU 810001
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FALL SO Of aii1 4;1OSE OUR DRAW, WE HAD JUST COPPED SO* COW 0230 FRG( STAN THE MAN, MAN 1181
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AND ACOCIN>Otticeir I SALUTE YOU. IT WOULWT EE POSSIBLE FOR TO LIST EVERY FOGY, THE HOOO IS
110,70C57.1CH HISTORY, SO FOR THOSE MOT MENTIMED BLAME IT ON MY HEAP POT MY HEART. GA! TOT
JUST TOO Dr
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ME, / LOVE YCU BACK. PEACE AND BULLET PROOF LOVE 4 LIFE,
AusrA PASLAU3HEA, OAK PARK MARK, MAGNECT/C SAPIENT ALLAH, JUSTICE DIVIhE ALLAH,J/HAD DWI ASXARI
ALL
11OSE NAMES DEFINE ME IN SOME WAY, AND THIS A STORY OF RECINPTION.
IN THE IA E OF ALLAH, EBEFICENT PAZT 1.ERCIFUL, LORD OF ALL nE WORLDS, kW
BMUS MACAW IS
war EEGOT1731, MASTER OF THE /MY OF ismer,
ALOiVE (LE WORSHIP
YOU ALGAE (tE 1124 TO FOR HELP. MIT US IN THE RIGHT PATH;
THE PATH OF POSE WHOA YCU BLESSED;
WT 1110SE 010 HAVE GM ASTRAY.
ALLAH IS GOD, ALWAYS MS BEEN COWS WILL EE. B E THANKR1L FOR MAT YOU MW IN THIS
LIFE TAKE OHM FORGRANTED, Of ARE HERE TODAY OM TONORRC01, FE MINDFUL OF ME STRU3GLE
aaz PPL HAVE FACED IN THIS STRAAGE LAND, FOR MORE THAN 400, PLUS YRS. CUR EiEW
urstru. THE SAtE
DEVIL if WAS DURIAG SLAM, HE IS STILL SEEKIAG TO DESTROY THE wean EVERY MERE ON THIS
PLAAET. ONLY MIS TM
PIE NE01 JIM CRC01 IS DE CRIW/NAL TNJUST/CE SYST84 THAT VI1J-IFIES ALL
BLUM YOLt1G AND OlD ALIKE AS A -THREAT TO THE smus Q.10, Of HAVE TO WAKE UP AM)
smut) UP.
I WEE THAT YOU 63430Y THIS STORY OF try COMtUVITY, IT IS A BEAUTIFUL, CCWW1731, CAE IN ('RICH I LOVE.
RESFECT ,AM) REVERE. TWSE OF YOU MO U1ZU hE *a THAT I AM STUDENT OF THE Si NATION CT GODS AM)
EARTHS, AM) ADVOCATE, THAT PIE BLACK MAN MIST EE THE GOD OF HIS CM SELF, IN CURER TO W CCMPLETE
AND DE
Rimt WAH CREATE!? HIM TO E. AM) TO ACT FOLIO.) ANY DOCTRINE CR DOGMA &NU eta- /WESTIGATE
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I AS BRED, AND (ME UP IN THE CAPTIOL, OF CALIFORVIA, SACRNBITO, CALIF. AM S4K-TCUN
MCCALEVTO.
THE OAK PARK CONIVMTY, SAC'S FIRST SIEURB, THE OLDEST, WCX) IN TIE CITY, AND Off OF THE LARGEST.
TIE =ER KIDS, AEOUT 50,000 PLUS MEWS, RFSDIED IN W COMIINTY.
AAV THOSE OF W %RATION USE ESSENTIALLY THE
OFF SPRIAG OF TIE BUCK FIXER 1424:11ENT,
PRIMARILY THE BMC PANTHER PARTY, FOR SELF DEFSSE.
AS A CalSEQUNCE Of MD A
a:MBAR/
ESPRIT DE CORPS OF BLACK TCOER AND WY.
SURVIVORS OF THE WAR srativ AGAINST BLACK ACTIVISTS GROUPS WICIAG Tlf 1960'S AND 70'S
BY GOMM/ENT AND 1110 ENFORCLWENT OPERATIONS LIKE COINTELPRO EWERS TIE DIRECTICN OF .I.ECGAR HOOVER-
WERE STILL PRESENT IN W HOW, IN THE EMU 80'S. ffIT I DIGRF-SS. Auao mc TO WAG
you
Half WITH ht. CM al.
SACRAENTO, CA. THE STATE CAPITAL, IS LOCATED 70, MILES FOR THE "SAN FRAACISO, BAY AREA,TO THE
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DEST. 0 >
THE
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0.ERE LOCATED IN THE HEART OF OAK PARK, Aof HOOD, IN 60'S AN 70'S.
MTIONAL AlTENTION IN THE YR I WAS WRN,THE YIN/YAW YR, 1967 WHEN TO PROSTF-ST
THE 44
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THE SILTIREACT PS BROTHERS MCIED CN THE STATE CAPITOL WITH CMS OUTPALIKIAG CN THE CAPITOL
Ain
F UR,
LAWS ARE WDE,AND RACIST ASS Rathts WILSON REAGAN, LAS THE GOVERNOR AT THE 176E.
BROTHERS, MIXED HAMER-S OUT, SCARIAG THE SHIT cur THE WHITE FOLKS UP WERE, 0.110 RAN TO GET
WILLIE MN TO TALK TO J1I84, SDCE
HE WAS A STATE REP, AT THE ME.
WI& SAMPSZS
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BROMERCHARLESBRASONMSDECAPTAN, ATTHETIPE OF THE BIF, IN SAC, OAK BARK, To
SEEMLY.
PEW, BUTYOFFICE, AT MS TIME WAS LOCATEDAT 2941,35THSitf.
ONTHISSAYESmeti,ASLOCATEDASimtuTZUE,BYTHE MAW OFTNETIACKSOAS"
THIS anliv BE THE FIRSTSneti TWEE LDCATEDINWHOM, NOTNEFIISTSmdti TRIBE
IN SAC.
MEXITOTMNIOEMEMVITONOFELAMJADAFISISPar, BY-RfENWEOFS(48AWSFISHAWMITS.
MCKPOLAUMG 5THAVEAM)35TH,Smett,U6WWZMNCLUEN,AWSTORES, THIS WAS LIKEADCORMAN
FOROAKAUK,JOESSTYLESHOP, WAS HERE, WWRE THELVESTSTYLISHUMWSURESOMALSOHATS,
THERE WAS AL&7 G4&IAG 9{ACKS, LIQJ)JR STORES, IT WAS CRACICIW, ALL UP AND IWJ SRI AVE AM) ALL
UP AM)
35TH, TO Wain.
MUDS, IF AXHAREMTTHERRNICMAMICHWAS MITE, YOUUERETREATED BADLY, MO LOVEMS
AMAMI WWWASPAMPANTINSOOMEM.ThE LAWS WOULD KILL SW, JUSTASTHEYJMULMOWACDAYS.
J-47)S.
IF YOUx
nitilu OR BROWN, IT WAS HARD FINDING HOUSING AND VERY FEW NEW AFRIKANS
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AND Audriesceons WERE SEGRAGATED.
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THE WNIVIONITY, REDLINED, ALL HOUSING, BY CULUSION, WITH THE BANKS AND REAL
-ESTATE MENTAND WOULD NOT SELL BLACK OR BROWN FAMILIES HOUSES, IN PREDOMARATLY
WHITE NEIGHBORHOODS. IT WAS NOT UNTIL A LAWSUIT WAS BROUGHT AGAINST THE CITY,
IN THE 70'S THAT BLACK'S WERE ALLOWED TO BY HOMES,OUTSIDE OF OAK PARK,
DEL PASO HIEGHTS,AMD RANCHO CORDOVA.
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CHAPTER 2
SACRAMENTO, AT THIS TIME, WAS A C/TY WITH TWO MAJOR AIR FORCE BASES.
MATHER AND MC'CLELAN, MY FATHER WORKED AT THE LATER FOR OVER 20,PLUS YRS.
THIS WAS ACITY WHERE EX,MILITARY AND EX COPS WOULD RETIRE.
POLICE BRUTALITY WAS COMMON AND AT IT'S HIGHEST POINT IN THE LATE 60'S.
WHEN THE POPULATION IN OAK PARK WAS 67,000 PLUS RESIDENTS. ATTACKS WERE COMMON
BLACKS WERE HARRASSED FOR BEING IN WILLIAM LAND PARK. THE CITY'S LARGEST-PARK.
AND LESS THAN TWO MILES FROM OAK PARK. THE DIVIDING LINE WAS HIGHWAY 99,BUILT
IN 1962, IT DIVIDED THE WHITE FOLK, FROM THE BLACK FOLK. LIKE SOME JIM CROW SHIT
RIGHT HERE IN CALI.
BLACK'S WERE ALLOWED ONLY TO PATRINIZE THE PARK ON 33RD,ST.AND 5TH, AVE.
MUCLATCHY PAWAKA THE BIG PARK). WHICH LOCATED IN MY HOOD ,ONE BLOCK FROM THE
)> C)(/
PANTHER PARTYEIFealt WHICH HAD QUICKLY GREW, BROTHER,AND SISTER TEAMS LIKE
I Aft
JAMES MOTT,GLattfuSERNATHY,MELVIN WHITAKER,UGENE BOLTZE,LINKS HASKINS,JEFF HOWE,
x
AKA TIME BOMIke/ITEEMER,MARGO ROSE ,DELORES HENDERSON, JACK STRIVERS, AMONG
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A LONG LIST 81WIHERS AND SISTERS, WHO WERE HELPLING TO SAVE OUR COMMUNITY.
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FEEDING THE448/EZFREE BREAKFAST, MARK TEEEMER DREW THE PANTHER COLORING BOOK.
AND WAS A VIETNAM VET. AND ALL THESE RIGHTEOUS BLACK FOLK WORKED TO UP LIFT
OUR COMMUNITY,AND DEFEND IT FROM THE RACIST ACTIONS OF THE POLICE.
BY VOLUNTEERING TO HELP WITH THE MANY SOCIAL PROGRAMS.
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TO BECOME A PANTHER, ONE MUST GO THROUGH A 6 WEEK EDUCATION PROGRAM.
STUDYING, POLITICAL AND MILITARY SCIENCE, ALL THIS WAS DONE BY THE /NFORMAT/ON
1OFFICER...
ALSO THE PANTHER PAPER WAS SOLD.
POLITICAL EDUCATION WAS TAUGHT, SELF DEFENSE
OF ONES COMMUNITY WAS ENCOURAGED DUE TO THE CLIMATE OF THE TIMES.
ALSO THE STREET TRIBE,"THE
BLACK SOULS' HAD A CLUB HOUSE ON 5TH AND 35TH ST.
THIS WAS THE 1ST SO CALLED "GANG" IN MY HOOD AND CITY. MY BIG HOMIE,MENTOR,
BASEBALL COACH,JUNIE DARDEN,AKA FRAME, WAS A BLACK SOUL. JOJO WATERS,
BIG COOP, DONNIE PITTS,A FEW MORE OF MY BIG HOMIES WERE IN THIS STREET OGANIZATION,
PATROLLING THE HOOD, THE BLACK SOULS MEANT BUSNESS,AND THEY ALSO, METORED THE
KIDS IN THE COMMNITY, IN FACT , THEY WERE GIVEN A GRANT OF MONEY, FROM THE
FEDEERAL GOVERMENT,WHEN PRESIDENT NIXON WAS GIVING GRANTS OUT TO BLACK,COMMUNITY
ACTION P191000bTO HELP, TRAIN, AND FEED THE YOUTH, IN INNER CITY COMMUNTIES
ALL OVERFIHrlagTED STATES AT THIS TIME.
ANY
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THE HOOD WAS HITTAS, TRAPPERS , AND GO GETTAS,MAN.
1> 1.
WAS VERY DYNAMIC, GROUP AT THE TIME AND
ALL BLACK
NATION8478ROUPS AT THIS TIME OWE THEIR, BEIGINNINGS TO HONORABLE ELJAH MUHAMMAD
AND HA4SEL"P='SAVING,IVEOLOGY.
IT WAS AT SHABAll'S FISH AND CHIPS, THAT I WAS FIRST TOLD THAT THE BLACKMAN WAS
GOD, BY MY BIG HOMMIE JABBAR,AND BIG WINFORD, AND JOHN USHER, AROUND 1973. OR
- THEREABOUTS.
MARK SANDERS
6.
CHAPTER 3
SO I WAS ABOUT 6 YRS. OLD OR 7, WHEN I WAS TOLD THAT THE BLACKMAN WAS GOD AND
IT WOW? HAVE A PROFOUND AFFECT ON ME.
AT THIS TIME MY ROAD DOG, WAS MY REALT/VE, KEVIN CHANEY, AKA FLASHLIGHT.AND I
MISS HIM DEARLY TO THIS DAY.
HE WAS A LIFE LONG LOYAL AND DEDICATED FRIEND, MAY HE REST IN PEACE,AND POWER.
ABOUT THE TIME THAT THE BBP (BLACK PANTHER PARTY) WAS THRIVING IN OUR COMMUNITY
AND NATION WIDE. THERE WAS A BIG CONTROVERSSY GOING ON, REGARDING THE POLICE
AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, WRE KILLING PANTHERS.
AND KILLING BLACK FOLK IN GENERAL FOR STANDING UP FOR THEM THEMSELVES AND
DEMANDING THE GOD GIVIEN RIGHT OF BEING A HUMAN BEING.
POLICE HAD TEAR GASSED, THE PANTHERS OFFICE, THE BLACK SOULS TOO. IN THIS OPPRESSIVE
ENVIORNMENTSAOLICE OFFER, HAD HIS LIFE TAKEN ABRUPTLY, AT NIGHT,ON 35TH, STREET
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PARK 4.451
IN OAK
WERE ARRESTED. THIS WOULD COME TO THE CASE OF THE
BEFORE T4SeyAWIAL HAD BEEN DELCARED ON THE COMMUNITY, BY THE PARTY,IN 1969,AND
THE
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A WARNING THAT NO PETTY GRIEVENCES WOULD BE TOLERATED ON 35TH,ST.
-TO AVOro. FURZER DISUNITY IN THE COMMNITY.
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A NOT/CE HAD WENT OUT AT THIS TIME, SPONSORING GROUPS WOULD NOT
TOLERATE PERSONAL HANG UPS AND BULLSHIT, SQUABBLES.
THE BLACK SOULS AT THIS TIME WERE DOING AN ANTI POVERTY PROGRAM.
IN 1970, WHEN THE COP, HAD HIS TOP BLOWN OFF, BY SNIPER FIRE ON 35TH,ST.
AND 5TH, AVE.
THE OAK PARK 4 BEAT THE BS CASE.AND CITY RESPONED BY CUTTING DOWN THE NUMEROUS
OAK TREES, THAT THE COMMUNITY OF OAK PARK IS NAMED FOR, CITING PEOPLE WERE
HIDING IN THE TREES AND SHOOTING AT POLICE.
THERE HAD BEEN DIRTY TRICKS BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,SEDING LETTERS ,ABOUT MEMBERS.
SAYING THAT SO AND SO BEARS WATCHING ETC... THAT COINTEL PROGRAM.
THEY WERE DOING THIS ALL OVER GOOD OL'USA. BACK THEN THAT DIVIDE AND CONQUER
SHIT WAS IN FULL EFFECT. THAT WILLIE LYNCH SHIT.THAT IS STILL IN EFFECT TODAY.
PITTING US AGAINST EACH OTHER, FOR THEIR BENEFIT, AND OUR DEMISE.
THE MAJESTICS A CAR CLUB WAS ON 33RD ST. THESE CATS WAS BOUT THEIR BUSINESS
TOO.
THE PANTHER OFFICE WAS LOCATED RIGHT NEXT TO THE OAK PARK POST OFFICE, WHICH IS
STILL THERE TO THIS.A CITY HISTORICAL LANDMARK. AS THE CITY'S OLDEST POST
OFFICE.
THE ERA OF BLACKPOWER WAS COMING TO AN END NATION WIDE THEY WERE KILLING
OUR PEOPLE WHOLE SALE, ACROSS THIS NATION.
MARK SANDERS
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CHAPTER 4
THERE WAS A NEW ERA COMING ON THE THE SCENE,ONE THAT WOULD HAVE DEVASTATING
AFFECTS ON ALL NEW AFRIKAN COMMUNITIES ALL OVER THE NATION.
BUT THIS ERA HAD REALLY BEEN THERE ALL ALONG LURKING IN THE SHADOWS.
BREATHING ON ITS OWN, IN THE DEEP RECESSES OF THE COMMNUT/Y. NOW IT WOULD
REAR IT'S UGLY HEAD. AND THE WHOLE HOOD WOULD TAKE NOTICE AND THE DEVASTATION
WOULD LAST TILL THE NEXT WAVE OF SOCIETAL DESTRUCTION WOULD HIT AND AFFECT
MY GENERATION.
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HERE WE ARE / AM COMING OF AGE NOW. LOOKING AT THIS VIBRANT ASS LIVE PLACE
I LIVE.AND IT'S BRACKING, NEVER A DULL MOMENT,IN MY HOOD THAT IS!
IT HAS EVERY THING UNDER THE SUN,AND THEN SOME.
DRUGS, SEX, VIOLENCE, WE ALL WENT TO THE SAME SCHOOLS ,THERE ARE 3 HIGH SCHOOLS
IN THE HOOD,SAC HIGH-CHRISTIAN BROTHERS-AND AMERICAN LEGION A CONTIUATION
HIGH SCHOOL, BUT WE ALSO WENT TO EITHER C.K. MCCLTCHY,AND HIRAM JOHNSON
DEPENDING ON WHICH SIDE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOU LIVED.
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS IS A PR/VATE SCHOOL. WE HAD A FOURTH HIGH SCHOOL, CALLED
LELAND STANDFORD HIGH SCHOOL. BUT TWO OF MY BIG HOMIES,BURNED IT DOWN IN THE
LATE 1960'S.
RICKY MO I AND BOBBY REESE. THE OAK PARK COMMUNITY CENTER STANDS THERE NOW ALONG
WITH FATHER KIETH SKINNY ELEMENTARY.
SO THIS IS THE 1970'S RIGHT! AND JUST LIKE THE MIDDLE TO LATE 60'S IN MY HOOD
HERION IS KING,
Tis RE PLAGUE
IN MOST EVERY INNER CITY, AT THIS TIME.
PIMPING AND PAAIDRI4G BOOSTING AND GAMBLING, IS GOING EVERY DAY,AND THE
NIGHTS GO THE
S4-44-1.
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I AM LIVING ONISf3 EET I GRWE UP ON,36TH BETWEEN 12TH,AVE,10TH,AVEAND 9TH,AVE
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BETWEEN SHILOPtIT CHURCH- g i TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH.
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I'M RUNNING BEHINDaY BROTHER'S LIL'JAMES,BIG JAMES,AND JEROME, RELATIVES
DETCHIE,VINCE,AND DARELL, LOOKING UP TO MY UNCELES. WHO HAD ALL BEEN TO PRISON,
IN 1950'S AND 60'S.MY RELATIVE, JOHN EARL, HAD COME TO CALIFORNIA, FROM
TEXAS ,ORANGE, TEXAS,MY AUNT EDDIE MAE'S SON .AND HE WAS A MANIAC,A STONE COLD
KILLER.STOMP DOWN GANGSTER, AND SOME MO' SHIT.
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ALL MY RELATIVES AND FAMILY EXTENDED AND OTHER WISE HAD BEEN LOCKED UP
OR UNDER SOME FORM OF COMMUITY CONTROL,BY THE POWERS THAT 8E.
JUVIN/LE, THE BOYS RANCH, ALL THE SHIT, WE AS PEOPLE OF COLOR,
COME UP ANGAINST IN THE WILDERNESS OF NORTH AMERICA.
ONLY, MY UNCLES, JOHNNY, AND HAROLD, MY FATHERS BROTHER HAD NOT BEEN TO PRISON.
THIS WAS MY INTRODUCTION AS LIFE,TO LIFE.IT WAS NORMAL.PRISON, WAS NORMAL.
VIOLENCE WAS NORMAL. I WENT TO BRETE HART, ELEMENTARY, IMMACUALTE CONCEPTION,
CATHOLIC SCHOOL,AND FRUITRIDGE ELEMENTARY. SCHOOLS, WAS KICKED OUT OF
THE PRIVATE SCHOOL IN THE 2ND GRADE, FOR FIGHTING.
I WENT TO BRET HART, WITH NIGGAS WHO WERE BOUND TO MAJOR PLAYERS IN THIS GAME
THAT'S NOT A GAME.FAT KEV,AKA KEVIN HOOKS ,KIRK CRUMP,KENNY PITTS, CHRIS HOBSON
DONALD HAIR, WHO'S FATHER WAS A TEACHER AT OUR SCHOOL,A STRONG BLACK MAN.
WHO TAUGHT AT BRET HART ELEMENTARY. BRUCE AND KENNETH JOHNSON,WILL(1,5,)HILL
MAN, WE RAN 4ARD.DID US. HAD FUN,IN A VERY VIOLENT ENVIORNMENT,POVERTY, STRICKEN
YIC)(I
ENVIORNMENT0 C))b.
P= ' CO
WE WOULD K011145FLES IN THE ALLEYS, THE FEINDS WOULD LEAVE ON THE GROUND.
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MY UNCLE
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WAS A GANGSTA, IN THE 60'S, LATE 50'S, AND 70'S TOO.
I REMEBEEM-MatHER TAKING ME TO VISIT HIM IN SAN QUINTEN, IN THE 70'S.
°
EARLY 7MS IIIR OTHER UNCLES,LOCKED UP IN THE STATE,JIMMY,UNCLE PUDDIN„
MY RELATIVE, JOHN EARL, IN SOLEDAD PRISON, AT THE SAME SAME TIME.
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I NEVER KNEW WHERE I LIVED WAS A DANGEROUS PLACE. SHIT AS YOUNG BOY, MY DOCTOR
CAME TO MY HOUSE TO SEE, WE ALL HAD THE SAME DOCTOR IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, HIS
OFFICE WAS ON 40TH,AND 11TH AVE. DR.MORRISSY. WE ALL HAD THE SAME BLACK
DR. IN THE HOOD. BECAUSE OF THE UN-WRITTEN SEGRAGATION LAWS THE WHITE FOLK
WERE ENFORCING ILLEGALLY BACK IN THE DAY/
AS I SAID I NEVER THOUGHT WHERE I LIVED WAS DANGEROUS, AS A CHILD, THIS IS
JUST WHAT YOU KNOW, AND LIVE OUT. AT THE TIME.
I RAN WITH A PACK OF WILD ASS NIGGAS, WE STAYED IN SHIT. AND I STAYED FIGHTING,
WAS TALL FUJI MY AGE. THE BIGGEST PARK IN MY COMMUNITY IS MCLATCHY PARK, AKA
THE BIG PARK.ON 33RD,ST.AND 5TH AVE.IT'S A VERY LARGE PARK, WITH TWO
BASEBALL DIAMONDS A KIDS POOL,AND AN ADULT POOL. OLYMPIC SIZE. THE BIG PARK
WAS LIKE BABY AFRICA ,THE SERENGETY. WE HAD THE OLD POOL UP THERE, BEFORE THEY
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THIS WAS
THE EPECENTER4R-114
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LONG. AND TH0,1484;IAL BABY SITTER, IN THE COMMUNITY, AT THIS TIME.
THIS WAS WHENa YOUZID LEAVE YOUR KIDS ANY WHERE IN YOUR COMMUITY AND THEY
WOULD BE SAFE. NOT LIKE NOW DAYS. IT REALLY WAS A VILLAGE BACK THEW...
MARK SANDERS
12.
AS I SAID HERION WAS KING AT THIS TIME.
NIGGAS WAS GETTING TURNED OUT ON THAT SHIT. AT THIS TIME, WHEN I WAS STILL
IN PRE-SCHOOL, MY UNCLE,PUDDIN, WAS GOING WITH, HELAN HAWKINS, AKA GRANNY
OF THE MAD PAD.
BACK THEN IT WAS OFF 43RD OFF BROADWAY. BROADWAY SEPARATES NORTH OAK PARK
FROM SOUTH OAK PARK. THERE ARE TWO ZIP CODES IN OAK PARK, 95817 AND 95820.
IT WAS AT THE MAD PAD,WHERE I WOULD GET BABY SAT, WHILE MY MOTHER WAS AT
WOK, BY LAM, HER DAUGHTER. REALLY BY THE WHOLE FAMILY. THE HAWKINS FAMILY
THAT IS. IT WAS HERE MY BIG HOMIE, ROLAND HAWKINS, GRANNY'S SON HE HAD A TWIN
SISTER ROSIE. BUT ROLAND WAS HAVING HIS CASH, IN THE EARLY 70'S SELLING RED
DEVILS, PILLS, THE ECSTASY OF THE TIME. BARBITUATES IS WART THEY WERE. BUT
THEY WERE SELLING LIKE HOPT CAKES IN THE HOOD. SHIT SELLING PUSSY WAS LIKE
SHAKING HANDS. AMD AMCKING WAS LIKE BREATHING.
Ava86010
OPTIONS BUT TO GET IT, AND BE ABOUT IT. IT WAS IN THE
.....
AIR, CONTAGIOIS.LEOtRY BODY WkS TRAPPIN, OR ROBBIN, STEALIN, AND KILLINI/
MY NIGGAS
I SAW MY FIlipWCIDE CLOSE UP IN 1975,LIVE RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY EYES
AROUND THE .14ERFROM MY HOUSE, I SAW MY SECOND MURDER A BLOCK OVER,
ACROOS 1210,.1450VER A PIT BULL FIGHT. ONE OF MY BIG HOMIES SHOT ANOTHER
ONE OF MY BIG HOMIES DEAD IN THE STREET. THIS WAS COMMON THOOUGH. NOT AS COMMON
AS IT WOULD BECOME. BUT VIOLENCE WAS THE UNDER CURRENT ON ALL THE STREETS
IN THE COMMUNITY BACK THEN.
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KILLED ON
MARVIN DRAYTON WAS
8TH AVE THAT THAT SAME YEAR. DANTE' DRAYTON
WAS MURDERED THE NEXT YEAR, "76" AT MR.DEE'S A NIGHT CLUB ON STOCKTON BLVD.
I WAS GROWING UP FAST, THE HOOD DOES THAT TO YOU. YOU REALIZE EARLY THE
STRONG SURVIVE, AND THRIVE, BUT ALSO IN THIS PLACE YOUR STRENGTH,
MAKE WEAKER PEOPLE,
I WAS TRYING TO
WILL
KILL YOU OUT OF COWADICE.
LIKE THE MALES IN MY FAM/LV I WOULD ACT
ANDF DRESS, OR TRY
LIKE THEM. MY RELLY'S DETCHIE, HOT, BROS, JAMES, JEROME AND BIG
TO THAT JUST
JAMES. WOULD BE MAJOR INFLUENCS IN MY LIFE. MY BELLY DARREL
SMITM WAS A
BOSS
PLAYER, A MACK.
TIME WAS FLYING SHIT WAS ADVANCIING.
AT THIS TIME THERE WERE THREE BIG DOPE TRACKS IN MY HOOD, THAT WAS ON FIRE.
OPEN AIR SHIT, THIS WAS THE GOLD WEED ERA TOO, THIS WAS THE EARLY 70'S NIGGAS
WAS GETTING RICH
MY BIG HOMIES
WEe4JOIR
in
A ROLLS ROOYCE igyir
PLAYERS, MAN, BOSSES. LEE CROSS, BIG RUDY, BOUGHT
OFF THE LOT IN 76, LIKE ITWAS NOTHING. DONNIE PITTS
WAS CROSS COUN11491IN, SO WAS ROBERT CRUMP, D.W. MELVIN WALKER, BIG MAYS
02-
WALKER,BLUE FLQ1Z1
Aa
8Y DICK.
QUACK. RONNIE BEANSR. BO SLAUSON.DENNIS MILLER.
LEON MURPHY. THSES NIGGAS WAS STOMP DOWN GANGSTAS.
THE GAMBLING SHACK WAS AT SPRINGERS LIQOR STORE, WHICH ALSO HAD A GAS STATION
UP THERE,ON BROADWAY AND STOCKTV1D. BLVD.
MARK SANDERS
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CHAPTER 5
ACROSS THE STREET FROM SPRINGERS WAS THE JOY RIDERS CAR CLUB.
AN OLDER BROTHER, WHO I USED TO SOAK UP GAME FROM LIVED ON THE CORNER
UP THE STREET FROM ME, HE WAS A BIG HOMIE AND A TEACHER OF MINE, WE CALLED
HIM"COUSIN SAM," HE WAS THE FIRST MILLIONAIR, STREET MILLIONAIR, FROM
GETTING STREET MONEY THAT I KNEW.THE FIRST I KNEW. HE WAS PAST THE POINT
OF WHAT THEY CALLED NIGGA RICH BACK THEN AND HE WAS VERY UNDERSTATED. BT HAD
HAD ONE OF THE PHATTEST HOUSES I HAVE EVER SEEN IN A GHETTO.AS A KID
/ WATCHTED HAVE A SCULPTURE CURVED BY CHAIN SAW IN HIS FRONT OUT OF A TREE
THAT HAD GOT SPLIT, IN HALF BY A STORM, OR SOME LIGHTENING I DON'T KNOW I
WAS TOO YOUNG. BUT I SAT THERE AND WATCHED AS HE HAD SOME COME OUT THERE
AND CAURVE AN IMAGE A STRONG BLACK MAN OUT OF THAT TREE...
HE WOULD MURDERED, SOME TIME LATER UP AT THE GAMBLING SHACK TRYING TO BREAK
UP A FIGHT BETWEEN TWO FRIENDS OF HIS.
ABOUT THIS TIME I WAS TAKING MARTIAL ARTS CLASSES, UP AT THE OLD U.S. BANK
ON BROADWAY, AND 35TH, STREET. IT WAS ONE OF OUR MANY COMMUNITY CENTERS.
WE TAUGHT KUNG FU AND CHINISE KICK BOXING, UP THERE. THERE WAS A BIG
MARTIAL ARTS FASE GOING ON BACK IN THE EARLY 70'S BRUCE LEE FLICKS WERE ALL
THE RAGE BACK THEN.
A GANG OF US WERE UP IN THERE GETTING THAT TRAINING, MYSELF, SHY, BOB0(80
SLIM) MY BROS, AND RELALTIVES. WE THERE LEARNING, GROWING.
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A QUICK RETROSPECTIVE VIEW:
SO I GUESS THE LOGICAL QUESTION IS WHY DID I INCLUDINGAND
MY PEERS, FALL INTO CRIME AND DEVELOP A DISREGARD FOR
NOT
ALONG
WITH MANY OF
ONLY THE LEGITAMACY
OF THE SO CALLED AMERIKKKAN GOVERNMENT,IT'S SCIOECONOMIC STRUCTURE.
BUT THE PLOTICS OF A
NATION
THAT
FOUNDED UPON A CONSTITUTION
THAT RECOGNIZES ALL ITS CITIZENS AS EQUAL HUMAN BEINGS ?
AND INSTITUTED AMENMENTS TO ITS CONSTITUTION THAT (SUPPOSEDLY) GARUANTEE
WAL PROTECT/ON OF ITS CITIZEN'S RIGHT'S ESPECIALLY THOSE OF COLOR.
WELL AS AN ADOLESCENT CHILD OF AFRIKAN/ASIATIC DESCENT, I POSSESSEDALONF WITH
MANY CHILVREN OF COLOR, A SOCIALLY INTUITIVE DUALITY OF THE TRANQUIL COMFORTS
OF LOVE, AND THE ANXIETY OF HATE. TH E COMPANIONSHIP OF ACCEPTANCE AND THE
INSECURITY OF REJECTION.
UNFORTUNATELY AS / GREW OLDER AND CAME IN CONTACTACT WITH THE PREVAILING, DOMINANT
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS OF THIS SOCIETY, MY INTUITION BECAME DEFINITIVE WHILE THE
BALANCE OiNgeERIENCES BECAME LOPSIDED AS THE DEFINTION OF MY CHARACTER
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FOR THOSE OF"HUE" THAT CAN BECOME A POWEFUL MOTIVATING FACTOR IN THE DECISION
WE MAKE.
WHICH ULTIMATELY SPUR TOO MANY OF US TOWRD THE THRESHOLD, TO THE (PRISON) DOOR
OF NO RETURN.
I HAVE TO BOUNCE BACK TO THE PLACE I LEFT YOU SO BE PATIENT AND TAKE THIS
TRIP WITH ME.
THE JOUENEY CONTINUES.
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CHAPTER 6
AN EMERGENCE OF GAME.
AS I WAS BECOMING AN ADOLESCENT, COMING OF AGE IN THIS BLACKPLOITATION ERA.
I WAS BECOMING A MANCHILD.
GETTING TALL, / WAS ALMOST 6 FEET TALL BY 11 YRS OLD. YOU COULD SAY I WAS 6 FT
GANGLY,SMOKING BIG WEED, SMOKING CIGERETES, DRINKING, BEER.
TRYING TO BE LIKE THE THE OLDER MEN IN MY FAMILY, WHO WERE MY EXAMPLES
OF MANHOOD AT THIS TIME.
MY BIG RELATIVES, DETCH/E,DARREL, HOT,BORTHER'S JAMES, LIL'JAMES,JEROME,
UNCLE'S BIG HOMIES, DOUG WAYNE, BASE PIPE MIKE,WALTER ANDERSON CHIP PITTS,
DONNIE PITTS, TONY ELLIS, LEON MURPHYM LEE VAIL MURPHY,JAMES USHER, PETE BROWN,
LEROY CRAIG BIG VIRGEL, SHAWN COLLINS, WAYNE MOSES, RANDY MOSES, ROLAND
I;r1,
6
HAWKINS,07021- 1-0 NAME A FEW.
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AT THISTAIN WAS RUNNING HARD WITH BUNNY, (CLEVELAND JACKSON,MR.FIX(DEREK BROWN,
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CLEMIE
1061ErctiEG
LEG(RONNIE FIELDS), LEON JORDAN, SHY(FRANCHI NOEL).
03 :II WAS HlOge-%VgOUT DAILY AT THE MAD PAD, ON 37TH,ST. AROUND THE CORNER FOR MY
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HOUSEJANTINENG OUT ON 7TH, AVE, AKA HWALL STREET" WITH MY RELATIVE HOT
BIG 2, DUNCAN HAWKINS,(WOODROW) BIG WALT,(CAP,SQUEEK) AKA WALTER ANDERSON.
AT STAN THE MAN'S SPOT, (STAN PRINCE) WE CALLED 7TH AVE WALL STREET IN THE
LATE 70'S BECAUSE OF ATHE CURRENCEY THAT PASSED THROUGH THAT STREET ON A DAILY
BASIS.
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THAT STREET(7TH,AVE) EASILY RAN THROUGH A POUND OF POT, GOLD WEED,
THAT SHIT PRESIDENT
NIXON WAS HAVING SPRAYED WITH PARAQUAT, IN MEXICO.
IN THE 1970'S.
I WOULD VENTURE TO SAY AT LEAST 2 OR 3 POUNDS OF WEED WERE KNOCKED OFF
DAILY ON THIS BLOCK.
IN JUST NICKLE BAGS. TRASH CAN FULL OF NICLES WOULD BE POSTED ON STAN'S FRONT
STEPS.
MY BIG HOMIES CHIP PUTS, AND RANDY MOSES WRE CONSTANTS ON THIS BLOCK.
THE WEED WOULD SACKED UP ACROSS THE STREET AT STAN'S BROTHER'S HOUSE
REGGIE, AND TIM
PRINCE, CLINT, WAS THEIR OLDER BROTHER AND THE ONLY
ONE ABOUT THAT GUN PLAY. THIS STREET WAS
ROLLING, ALL DAY. BIG PAPER.
SHOP WAS SHUT DOWN AT 10,11 OCLOCK. EVERY NIGHT. CAR'S WOULD BE BUMPER
TO BUMPER ON THIS STREET, LINED UP TO BUY POT.AND WE WOULD BE POSTED OUT
THERE THICK AS THIEVES, MUSIC BUMPING,AND HAVING A GOOD OLD GHETTO LIFE
TIME.
I SPENT MY DAYS AND NIGHTS AT THIS SPOT. JOE DAVIS HAD THE
ALLEY ON
5TH, AVE A BROADWAY CRACKING, TOO, BIG WEED, WAS BEING PUSHED RIGHT
IN THE BACK OF THOMPSONS FUNNERAL HOME. THIS SPOT WAS EQUALLY ROLLING.
DRIVE THROUGH SERVICE, AND YOU HAD TO COME THROUGH THE ALLEY WHICH WAS SHIELDED
FROM THE STREET, SO YOU COULD NOT SEE THE
TRANSACTIONS GOING ON.
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JOE'S BROTHERS WERE FRANK DAVIS, AND PAUL AKA SITTY.
FRNAK USED TO RUN HARD WITH MY BRO JEROME, WHEN IWAS A LIL BLOOD.
AND THEIR NEPHWE STRETCH WAS ALSO POSTED ON 5TH, AVE.
P.FUNK HAD THE WATER CRACKIN' WATER(PCP) SO DID THE BARRON'S ON 3RD AVE.
HEROIN, (HOP) (THAT
ON SACRAMENTO
THANGO WAS
BLVD, ( NOW
PUMPED AT THE BIG PARK ,AND SWEETS POOL HALL
MLK BLVD) AND UP AT SPRINGERS, ON BROADWAY.
IN THE BACK OF THE LIQOUR STORE, WHICH WAS CALLED THE"LOG"
SHIT
WAS CRACKING ALL AT THE
ALL THIS
SAME TIME. AND WOULD BE A NORMAL COURSE OF EVENTS
IN MY- ROOD.
ALSO DURING THIS ERA, THE ATMOSPHERE WAS
THE HOOD WAS JUMPING, NIGGAS WAS BANK
ELECTRIC, WITH EXCITEMENT.
ROBBING, THERE
WERE CLIQUES OF ROBBERY
TEAMS, BACK THEN "THA I WILD BUNCH" WAS KNOCKIWBANKS DOWN,AND THE BIG HOMIE
"GANGSTA PETE' WAS RUNNING UP IN BANK'S HE WOULD MASTER MIND TAKE OVER BANK ROBBERIES.
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JACKIE
Rgi1t E3FAT
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MIN' WAS THE BEST THANG GOING.NIGGAS WAS LOW RIDIN, P.FUNK
MACK, CADDILAC JACK, ALL THESE CAT'S AHD CLEAN ASS
LOW RIDENCITF14
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HYDRALI03$264 CRACKIN, THE RIMS WERE SUPREMES, KRAKERS, WAY BEFONE TRU,SPOKES
r-
AND TRU32,101C RIM'S WERE OUT.
I WAS HAVGING2 TUFF, WITH MY RELATIVES, DETCHIE, HOT,EVINCE . AND DARRELL SMITH,
WHO HAS TOW BROTHER'S KENNY SANDERS, AND VERNON SMITH, AKA BOO. WE USED TO
CALL
BOO, BOO BERRY. HE WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE RELATIVE'S TO RUN WITH, WE ARE THE
SMME AGE. 012 PINP/N,ASS VERNON SMITH.
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AT THIS TIME MY BIG RELATIVE, DETCHIE, WAS RUNNING 'ROUND BUSTIN' HIS GUN.
TURNING OUT HOUSE PARTIES, KNOCKING NIGGAS OUT, WHO WERE NOT FROM THE HOOD
ANY WHERE WE WENT.
BACK THEN IT WAS ONLY REALLY TWO GHETTOS, IN S ACRAMENTO,CALIF. AND THAT IS OAK PARK
AND DEL PASO HEIGHTS. THE SOUTH SACRAMENTO, AREA, AND OTHERS WERE CONSIDERED
AT THIS TIME NICE NEIGHBORHOODS, THE ELDERS WAS , AS IN GLEN ELDER, NEIGHBORHOOD
WAS ALSO A BLACK HOOD BACK THEN BUT, NOT A GRITTY AS OAK PARK, OR DPH, DEL
PASO HEIGHTS, ( THA'DEEPEST PART OF HELL)
AT THIS 17AE IS SAC, THE ONLY MO PLACES THAT UBE REALLY CRACKIM AS FAR AS THE UAVERWOIRD
oar WAS OAK PARK MD DFH. TRIM.
THE REST OF THE CITY WAS CN SOWE SQUARE BEAR NIT. THERE ACTUALLY OAS A .0 Wit SPOTS AND
TRACKS IN AM' OTHER IARrs OF THE CITY. 0104K lA IRK AND DM. MOH IS UM/ PEOPLE FROM ALL
OVER THE CITY, IN THE LATE 60'S EARLY 70'S CAAE TO OAP PARK FOR THERE VICES, (tHETfER IT
BE (Si, ma, PILLS, STEED, OR HERION. YOU COULD GET IT IN OAK TARK.
BACX T1434 ALL THE 1/1 FAST TAIL BITCHES FROM THE scum AREA, OWED TO FUCK WITH A P.NIGGA.
I RBSEER THSE TILLS VIVIDLY, NIGGAS WAS GETTIAG PAPER. I WAS HAAGTAG WITH THESE G'S
CHARLIE BONTON, FUCKIAG WITH LEANDER COOK, UP AT THE BIG PARK.
ROLM) WILKINS HAD A SPX CN 33RD, ST. RIGHT BY THE ALLEY CH 3312D. HE WAS RWIAG BIG ItEED UP
OUT THAT YE AND MY HOWIE MST, afTICH IS ROLAND'S *MEW (tCULD BE OVER DAILY, SYOKIAB BIG.
MY BIG HCWES, LEO, JOHN TVOEU.S, MY
CIOCF
OfILDHOOD FRIEND Si', 'S DAD WS GETT/AB IT IN.
SFOOAER AND LAMAR, WAS SUPPLYING DAMV new nE MOLE HOOD WITH POWS OF GOLD *ED.
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THEME, STROLL, THETRACK,WAS ON 4111 AM)
BTXTHBC
IT WAS A FRE/Ty FAsTTRAcK, ALOT OF °BITES/ATE 0.19RtaS AND REULER M.OTETRMS WERE
SIYIAGIDAS OF RGSY0F0F.fliffT.SntuS. /TIOASSOULW MEM DatIVPIERE TfAT THERE
WAS IODISE Rale
moms, ECARDAG THE CON, AVDTPS ntoarryTONisrigi
CAPITOL SCHOOLS AND WHAT NOT.
WE WOULD RIDE OUR BIKES DOWN THERE AND FUCK WITH THE HOE'S ALL THE TIME, ME,
P.BABY. AND A FEW OTHER HOMIES. BEING KIDS, BUT TRYING TO SEE IF WE COULD
KNOCK A HOE OR AT LEAST GET SOME MONEY FOR TRYING. WE WERE HOE HARRASSERS
JUST PEST'S TO THE HOE'S TRYING TO GET THEIR TRAP RIGHT FOR THE DAY OR NIGHT.
IT WAS JUST CRACKING DOWN THERE ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT, THE TRICK'S WOULD LINE
UP AS IF IT WERE A DRIVE THRU, OR SOMETHING YOU COULD SEE ALL THE CAR'S
LINED UP ON
ey(INE. HOE'S WERE GETTING MONEY AND TRICK'S WERE PLENTIFUL.
AND PIMP'SWEREMETTING THAT TRAP SOCKED TO THEIR POCKETS.
MY BIG HOMOS11 4108ERT CRUMP, (KNOCK,KNOCK) D.W. DONNIE PITTS,TREE TOP,
>M
WAS PIMPIN )1°
FROM AwAll, TO -741 TO L.A. THEY WOULD COME
....COSMCOUNTRY,
I 23TO TOWN, FIZIE491S IN LAC'S AND LINCOLN'S JUST PLAYING, THE GAME THAT'S NOT
GI
IA
GAME! MAIMRS ftA yERS THOUGH, MACK'S. JUST DOING
WERE RAISED TO DO.
MAT NIGGAS IN MY HOOD
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CHAPTER 7.
MY BIG HOMIE BLUE FELIX, WAS GETTING HIS PAPER, TOO! BE HE WAS A COMBINATION
OF 3 TYPES OF CAT, A GANGSTA, PLAYER, AND A MACK. NOT TO BE PLAYED WITH
ABOUT HIS PAPER. A NORTORIOUS "GORILLA PIMP. WHO WAS A CROSS COUNTRY PIMP
ALSO.
HIS DAD, WAS 'RICH JIMMY" WOO WAS ALSO A MACK AND TRUE GANGSTA, WHEN I WAS
A CHILD, HAD AN AFTER HRS.AND A GAMBLING JOINT, THAT WOULD RUN SEVEN DAYS
A WEEK IN THE HOOD, AS A CHILD I WENT THERE WITH MY FATHER, AND UNCLES A FEW
TIMES.
IT WAS NOT UNCOMMON TO FIND CHILDREN IN THESE SPOTS MOST OF THEM LIVED THERE.
BLUE'S BROTHER'S WERE DENNIS MILLER, BIG JOHNNY FELIX, SISTER WAS JANIECE
FELIX...
I WAS ALS0,41MG86 TUFF, WITH MY RELATIVE CARL WEBB, AND SHAWN DUNCAN,
offeRUNCAN,DAREN DUNCAN, CONNIE,TONI,DIANE, AND AFEW MORE DUNCAN'S
POO DUNCAN,r
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WERE ONE 01-5.111$ER BIG FAMILIES IN MY HOOD, AT THE TIME S.D. SHAWN DUNCAN
rn
WAS MY DOG.)eg4STING NOW, AND I STILL MISS MY BRO!
C° 1:71
POO(MAN) DU955,046$ ON WALL STREET STAN'S LT. RUNIING THAT MACH/NE OVER THERE
Yr 0
GETTING PAICSTØ, HAD A CLEAN ASS, CANDY RED, FLEETWOOD BROUGHAM, BACK
THEN, PUT STARWIRE'S AND VOUCH TYRES, ON THAT THANG, WHEN STARWIRE RIM'S
HAD JUST CAME OUT. HE HAD T.V'S IN THAT THANG, AND THIS WAS BACK IN THE 70'5
HIS SHIT WAS BOARD OF HEALTH CLEAN.
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THE BIG HOMIE L.K. WAS ACROSS THE STREET FROM NIEGHBORHOOD
PARK(AKA 4TH
AVENUE PARK)AS IT'S KNOWN NOW. ON 4TH AVE, HIPPY WAS THERE, TOO. MS . USHER'S
SON. MY HOMIE, CONRAD USHER'S UNCLE.
CONRAD, WOULD, BECOME MY ROAD DOG, AND HUSLTIN, PATNA, WE WOULD RAISE ALL
KINDS OF HELL
TOGETHER, AS
HE WAS ONE THE
KIDS.
FIRST, OF MANY OF MY
PEERS TO FALL VICTIM TO GUN VIOLENCE,
WE WAS MURDERED, IN 1982, OVER SOME BULLSHIT. THE FIRST OF MY PEERS TO
LOSE HIS
LIFE TO
GUN VIOLENCE, WAS MARVIN KEOLA, WH WAS 14, WHEN HE WAS
KILLED. BY A MIDDLE EASTERN CAT' WHO HAD JUST EMIGRATED TO THE UNITED
STATES, FROM IRAN, HE WAS CAUGHT IN THEIR HOME WITH THE GUYS DAUGHTER,
AND WAS SHOT 22, TIMES. UNDER THE BED OF THE GIRL. HER NAME WAS NORA YAYA.
ANY WAY, THIS WAS THE HOOD BACK THEN BUMPING AND GRINDING.LIVE AND CRACKING.
IT WAS
NEVTIpritL
MOMENT. AND I WAS ENJOYING MY ADOLESCENCE.
THERE WAS APAra DICE GAME UP AT THE BIG
I USED TO R
lipIKE
FRESH OUT otO
J
AND LET ME
PARK, EVERY DAY,
BROAD DAYLIGHT.
UP THERE AND SHHOT DICE WITH MY UNCLE JIMMY, WHO WAS
AT THE TIME.UNK, WOULD LET ME HIT HIS BOTTLE, SHOT DICE
RS PAL MAL'S.
AS I SAID POWOUSLY, THE HOOD WAS CHANGING THOUGH, IT WAS SO VIOLENT AT THIS
TIME THEY WOULD BEGIN TO
CALL THE
HOOD "DODGE CITY" YOU WOULD BE AT LEAST
50 YRS OF AGE OR OLDER TO REMEBER THIS
LABLE.
MARK SANDERS
24
FOOLS STAYED GETTING SHOT! THIS WAS A FEW YEARS BEFORE MY FATHER PASSED AWAY
FROMA A HEART ATTACK, THOOUGH, I REMBER THSES TIME VIVIDLY AS ONE DOES REMEBER
THE WONDER YEARS OF ONE'S LIFE.
POP'S WOULD TAKE ME AND MY SISTER BACK AND FORTH TO L.A.
REALLY COMPTON TO
MY AUNT MAGGIE'S HOUSE ON CHEERY AVE, IN THE FRUIT TOWN PIRG HOOD, IN COMPTON'S
FRUIT TOWN AREA.MY OLDEST UNCLE JOHNNY, HAD A DAUGHTER, THAT ALSO LIVED IN
LOS ANGLESS, CECIELIA. I WOULD KICK IT WITH MY
FOLKS' DOWN THERE EVERY TIME
TIME POS'S WOULD PUSH US DOWN THERE.
THINGS WERE CHANGING FAST, I WAS GROWNING FAST ,AND, FAST BEOCOMING GROWN.
FUCKING WITH LIP FAST TAIL GIRL'S AND THEY WERE FUCKING WITH ME.
THERE WAS A THING MY RELATIVES USED TO DO TO ME, KEVIN, AND BOO, MY RELATIVE'S
IN MY AGE GROUP. IF WE DID NOT ACTIVELY TRY TO TALK, TO FEMALES, THEY WOULD
PUNCH ON US, AND CALL US NAMES LIKE "BITCH BOY,AND PUSSY MOUTH"WHIR1PROMPTED
US TO TRY AND TALK TO AS MANY GIRL'S AS POSSIBLE....
SO WE WOULD'NT TEASED AND TERRORIZED. AND WOULD MERCILESSLY FUCK WITH US.
WE HAD TO BE ACTIVELY TRYING TO PURSUE, PAPER, AND PUSSY, IN THAT ORDER.
PURSE FIRST, ASS LAST. AND MAN THESE NIGGAS HAD ALL THE FINE B/TCHE'S BACK
THEN. THEY DRESSED CLEAN, THE FLYEST SHIT, WORE SUITS TO CLUB'S AND SHIT.
'TEE FUNCTION'S WERE POPPIN' BACK THEN AT THE HOLIDY DAY INN HOLIDOME.
MR. DEE'S WAS CHANGED TO BROWN'S PAPRADISE LOUNGE, ON STOCKTON BLVD. IN
THE HOOD. THE HOOD ALWAYS HAD A MYRIAD OF CLUB'S AND A VIBRANT NIGHT LIFE.
ANY HOW, I WAS TRYING TO JUST LIKE THESE NIGGAS.
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ENTERING MY TEEN AGE YEARS.
I NOT ONLY BEGAN REJECTING THE LEGITIMACY
OF THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF AMERIKKA.
I BEGAN EMBRACING EVERYTHING AMERIKKKA REJECTED. AT THAT TIME IN MV
LIFE, I DIWNT UNDERSTAND WITH ANY LUCIDITY WHY IDENTIFIED WITH, AND
DEFINED MYSELF AS A NIGGA, AND AS A GANGSTA.
OR WHY SICWAS SUCH A MYRMIDON OF WHAT AMOUNTED TO IGNORANCE.
IT WAS ONLY LATER IN LIFE, AFTER SINCERE INTROSPECTION, AND CATHARTIC TRANSFORMATION
AND SYSTEMATIC ERUDITION- DID I DISCOVER THAT I HAD EVELOPED A PATHOLOGICAL
REJECTION OF AUTHORITY FIGURES IN SOCIETY.
ALSO, AS APOLITICAL AS I WAS AS A YOUNG BLOOD, REPRESENTING MYSELF AS A NIGGA
AND EMBRACING WilAT I DIWNT COMPREHEND WAS BASICALLY MY ('JAY-UNBEKNOWSNT
TO MYSELF AT THE TIME-OF ACTUALLY ASSUMING A POLITICAL DISPOSTION BY REJECTING
AN INSTITUTION OF PLOITICLS THAT MY EXPERIENCED CONVINECD ME HAD RJECTED AND
mac)
MY KImq;C)
='
YOU SE49 114 OTTER HOW IGNOMINIOUS, THE ATTITUDE OF A N1GGA IS THE EMBODIMENT
:C -4
OF A POic teCkg DISPOSITION LARGELY DUE TO EXISTENTIAL ANXIETY TOWARD SYSTEMATIC
rn
CLASS AnKAL OPPRESSION. WHICH IS EVIDENCED IN PART BY AN EMERGING USE
n
OF WORDG4T73VBEING EXPRESSED AS A SO CALLED TERM OF ENDEARMENT, AMONGNST
na
A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE IMPOVERISHED UNDERCLASS AND OTHER ETHENIC GROUPS,
BESIDES, MINES, US, OR WE.
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EVEN THOUGHT BLACK'S REMAIN ON THE -LOWEST RUNG OF THE SOCIAL LADDER
WHEN IT COMES TO RACIST SUBJUGATION. WHICH I SHALL DELVE INTO MORE IN THIE
NARRATIVE . WHEN WE GET TO MORE INTIMATES PARTS OF
THIS MEMOIR.AS THIS
IS A GRAPHIC MIND FILM.
SO AS I WAS SAVING I WAS COMING UP AND THE HOOD WAS CRACKING.
I AM RUNNING WITH NIGGAS THAT WERE BOUND TO BECOME FACTORS IN THIS
GAME THAT CAN NEVER LOVE YOU BACK.
CATS WOULD LEAVE A MARK AS STREET LEGENDS ON THE TRACK AND FIELD OF THIS
GAME,NIGGAS THAT WOULD PUT SHARP CORNER'S ON THE SQUARE.
MASTER MIND'S LIKE A CLOSE CHILD HOOD FRIEND OF MINE, ANTHONY CANNON,THE RICHEST
NIGGA TO COME UP OUT OF OAK PARK, AND THERE HAVE BEEN MANY, BUT NONE DID AS BIG
AS A.C. HE WAS THE FIRST OF MY GENERATION TO SNATCH A MILLION PLUS DOLLAR'S
UP
OUT THE GAME! AND DO IT WITH STYLE AND F/NEESE, LIKE A REAL P.NIGGA SHOULD.
NIGGAS LIKE TERRILL ROBINSON, ONE MY BEST FRIENDS, AND MV SECOND WIFE'S STEPHANIE'S
RELAT/Vtn Kb
rs
ALSO THE MOTHER OF MY DAUGHTER'S. I HAD TRUNED HER YOUNG
ASS 0UT(19ItSQUARE TO GO GETTA, AND SHE HAS YET TO HAVE A NIGGA LIKE ME
IN HER OEPIEIRAND WILL READILY ADMIT THAT.
RI
MY PROP-IP-RA fisom ANOTHER MOTHER, BIG INSANE LOK,AKA NIGEL COLLINS, MY
Cp :E 70
PIG HOMIEMDUPE OF MY MENTOR'S SHAWN COLLINS,LEEVAIL MURPHY, CARL ROYCE
Q -CI
MURPHY, AON MURRY, GREG MURPHY,ERIC MURPHY, BIG WALTER DWOO s GOLSTON,
0
CHARLIE BONTON, BIG VIRGEL, PIMPIN,808, AND JR. HIS BRO, LIL BRO.
ALL THESE CAT'S WERE MY NIGGAS AND REAL NIGGAS.
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27
MY BROTHER AND CLOSE FRIEND, TALTON ROBINSON WAS ALSO ON E OF MY
FREQUENT
PARTNERS IN CRIME BACK THEN.
I WENT TO PETER LASSEN JR.HIGH, BACK THEN BEFORE CALIFORNIA, CHANGED TO MIDDLE
SCHOOL'S A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER.
WE CALLED PETER LASSEN, P.L. A HUGE SCHOOL 7TH, 8TH, AND 9TH, GRADES
AT THIS SCHOOL. THE SCOOL WAS LIVE, AT P.L. I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH, LANA RULE,
ZORITHA MAY, SUAN CANE, TINA HUNTER, I HAD TURNED OUT THAT YEAR, WITH
FRANKIE ROBINSON, LEON JORDAN, ATHEN PHILLIPS, JAMES AHAMPTON.
SHIT WE WERE SMOKING WEED IN THEM HALL WAYS, AND THE BATHORROM'S WERE CRACKIN,
NIGGAS SHOT DICE, AND SHOOK SUCKAS POCKETS, UP THERE. I WOOULD CARRY A
BIG AS KNIFE TO SCHOOL MY SISTER
SHARON, HAD BROUGHT FROM HAWAII, WHEN
SHE HAD COME DOWN TO VISIT. I WAS A
L/L' NASTY MUTHA FUCKA TOO FINGER FUCKIN'
LIL BITCHES IN THE HALL WAYS IN BETWEEN CLASSSES. OR AT LUNCH. TRYING TO FUCK
ON LAN5!
g/j. ASS.
- AigTALLER TOO. I WAS HANGING WITH STEPHEN MILES, ANS SCOOSY,
I WAS (PFT-A
KEVIN
PISSED
mA
> LLOW,
ALSO, CHRIS HEARTWAY, AKA HARD ROCK. I WAS RUNNING UP IN THIS
0:111:1; BITCH NAMED JUILE,
SHE WAS A YOUNG GIRL FUCKING AND I WAS SMELLING
rig/ >
WM Zn
MYSELF. etitEKOIG IN HER WINDOW, AND GETTING IT IN. SHIT STEPHEN MILES, HAD PUT
ME UP OMIER, ACTIVITIES. SHE WAS FUCKING SCOOBY TOO. SHE WAS A BAD LIPB/TCH
TOO.
MY HOMIE HERMAN THOMAS, WAS LIVING OFF 10TH AVE BY STCKTON BLVD. HIS TWO SISTERS
MISSY AND CANDY USED TO BEAT UP NIGGAS AT P.L. BEFORE DURING AND AFTER SCHOOL.
BUT WAS ALWAYS KOOL WITH ME, I THOUGHT THEY WERE CUTE.
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ABOUT THIS TIME, AS I SAID I WAS RUNNING WITH HARDROCK, AND TAL TON ROBINSON,
I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST OF MY PEERS TO OBTAIN A FIREARM, I HAD A GAGE, BACK
THEN I WAS ABOUT 12 YRS.OLD, ABOUT 6,FT2, OR 1, DID'T MATTER I LOOKED
ABOUT 18, OR SO. WE DOING ROBBERIES,' WOULD CARRY HEELA SHELLS IN MY 501
JEAN'S POCKETS. THE GUGE WAS CUT DOWN REAL SHORT, ABOUT 5,OR 6 INHCES THE
HANDLE WAS CUT DOWN TO A PISTOL GRIP, WITH BLACK ELECTRICL TAPE ALL OVER
TO MAKE IT FAT TO HOLD BECAUSE /T HAD A HELL OF A KICK, I HAD 00 AUGHT
12 GAGE SHELLS IN IT. AND WOULD SHOOT TRASH CANS IN THE BIG PARK
AT NIGHT WITH IT.
I TOOK IT OVER TO 33RD,ST. TO MAMA LOU'S TO SHOW FAT KEV' BACK THEN, WE WERE
JUST KIDS MAN, BABIES, BUT MAN CHILDREN. BUT THIS IS OAK PAPRK, 12 IS LKE 16.0R
18, DEPENDING UPON THE HOUSE HOLD YOU GREW UP IN. BUT EVERY BODY WAS FAST.
NO ONE WAS LSOW. VILOENCE WAS NORMALIZED IN A SENSE BECUASE WE KNEW NOTHING ELSE.
I WAS HANGING OUT ON 4TH AVE, BACK THEN BEOFRE THEY BUILT THE APRTMENTS THAT
ARE THERE NOW. BEFORE THE APRTMENTS WERE BUILT IT WAS JUST A FIELD, A MEERY
GO ROUND, AND DIRT AND BROKEN GLASS. THE PARADN'S LIVED ACROSS THE STREET, ON
SAN JOSE WAY. MAN SHIT WAS LIVE BACK THEN. / USED TO KICK WITH DEAF DONALD PARADON
HE WAS MY BIG BRO,JEROMES ROAD DOG BACK THEN. WE CHILLED UP AT THE PARK
SMOKING BIG WEED DRINKING ODD ENGLISH ,AND THUNDERBIRD.
I HAD STARTED CHASING AFTER SHAN/E RAI MCFALLS BACK THEN SHE WAS OLDER THAN
ME BUT LIKED ME ON THE UNDER. SHE HAS TWIN BOYS BY ME. SHE WAS TALL,A PYT,
AND BAD BACK THEN.
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29.
HAD A PHAT ASS GAP BETWEEN HER LEGS,PHAT ASS COOCHIE, THAT WAS AFARENT IN EVERY
PAIR OF JEANS SHE WORE. I WAS ON HER HER ASS, LIL NASTY MOTHER FUCKER
THAT I WAS BACK THEN. BUT SHE WAS OLDER AND WAS LETTING MY RELATIVE
HIT. BUT I WAS NOT PETERED.
THEY WERE BUILDING THE APARTMENTS ON 4TH, AVE A COUPLE YEARS ALTER
AND CHECKIMATE
, MRKET
WAS OPEN ON BROADWAY THEN IT HAD MOVED FROM DOWN ON
4TH, AVE TO BROADWAY A FEW MONTHS EARLIER. I WAS STILL RUNNING WITH
A WHOLE COMMUNITY OF HOMIES, BACK THEN STACY GODDSON AND DETRIOUS JONES
STEVE MARTINEZ, TO NAME A FEW.
I WAS SMOKING SHERM(PCP) BIG SHERM WITH MY RELATIVE HOT, BIG Q,
DUNCAN HAWKINS, DARREN DUNCAN, CONRAD USHER. AND WAS FIGHTING ALOT
JUST BEING A GHETTO CHILD RUNNING WILD. I REALLY HAD NO RESTRICTIONS.
0
A S LONG AS I CALLED AND LET MOM'S KNOW WHERE I WAS AT
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IT WAS GOOD.
AS I WAS WITH FAMILY. AND FAMILY WAS EVERY (WERE. AND
I USED
F
170;114 WITH
EITHER, DETCHIE, OR HOT, DAILY AFTER SCHOOL.
rn
>Alitoey RELATIVE
HOT HAD RECENTLY TURNED OUT, WAS 17, HE WAS PIMPIN,
51i4JANICE FELIX) SHE HAD CHOSt UP AND WAS STOOMPIN 'DOWN FOR
.13 0
r
01M,21: E'D KNOCKED HER FROM HUSTON WARE.
HE HAD BEEN PART OF A HARD ASS POP LOCKING GROUP IN THE LATE 70'S
CALLED PRECISE DEVIDE AND THE MECHANIC WIZERDS. THEY WOULD DANCE
AT THE CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR, HIM TONY FLAGG , BENJI, BIG Q AND A FEW
OTHERS, DEREK AND COMPANY FROM WEST OAKLAND WAS COMING DWON HERE TO
SAC AND POP LOCKING AGAINS THE HOMIES.
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THERE WAS A HARD ASS ALL FEMALE POP
LOCKING TEAM TOO FROM THE HOOD BACK THEN
CALLED S.S.I. SOUL SISTAS INCORPERATED. AND A PHAT ASS GIRL DRILL TEAM
CALLED THE DISCOLETTES, THEIR, ROUTINES WERE EXPLICIT BACK THEN. THEY WAS
SHAKING A WHIOLE LOT OF ASS .WITH THAT "FREEZE DO IT SHIT"... IT WAS FREEEZE
DO IT! HAD THEM HIPS SHAKIN'FORM THE LEFT TO THE RIGHT. HA! HA! HA! JUST
A GANG OF ASS SHAKING.
IT WAS NOT LONG AFTER THIS THAT MY BRO JEROME GOT OUT OF THE YOUTH AUTHORITY.
HE HAD BEEN DOWN A YR. OR SO.
HIM GETTING OUT I WAS EXCITED, ANXIOUS TO
KICK IT WITH HIM, SINCE MY OTHER BRO
LIL JAMES HAD RECENTLY WENT TO DENVER, COLORADO. ANY HOW JEROME GOT OUT,
AND WE
KICKED IT HARD. BLEW SOME WEED, PUCNCHED ON ME, TOLD ME I WAS GETTING
BIG AND SHIT, AND DID I HAVE A LIL FEMALE? ALL THAT BIG BROTHER SHIT.
HE WENT TO DENVER TO STAY OUT THE WAY,AND WAS KIILED BY AN ACCIDENTAL
GUN SHOT4I4e DEVASTED BY THE LOSS TO SAY THE LEAST. HAD FOUND OUT AT
C) 7- co
MY AUNT RUMAOS HOUSE ON 2ND AVE. WE WENT TO DEVER TO LAY HIM TO REST.
ME AND
ifli
MP:T
s:6E HOT GOT INTO IT AFTER HIS FUNERAL, HE WAS
FUCKING WITH
C)-0
ME, AND
>
7BEING A L/L MANISH NIGGA. WE HAD ALSO GOT INTO WITH THE
MANAGER AnabigALDS OUT THERE. BUT THE FOOL DID I NT WANT ANY PROBLEMS WITH
US.
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I WAS GETTING GROWN AS HELL, TALL, KNEW MOW TO HOLD MY COMPOSURE AT THE
TIME WAS'NT RUNNING AROUND DOING ALL THAT GRINNING AND SHIT. MY RELATIVES
WERE ALWAYS MAKING ME TOUGHER, STRONGER, SMARTER. SHARPER. MY STREET EDUCATION
WAS EVERY DAY, BECAUSE I WAS BORN IN IT NOT, LOOKING AT THE GAME FROM
THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN. I WAS TEN TOES IN IT EVER!, DAY. ALL DAY.
EVERY NIGGA I RAN WITH WAS OLDER THAN ME.
I RETURNED TO SAC, AND MY RELATIVE HAD CAMGHT A CASE IN L.A. FROM A LICK THEY
HAD HIT, AND WAS DOW N THERE FUCKING AROUND ON THAT RACK AND GOT JACKED BY THE
ROLLERS.MY RELATTIVE DARREL WAS GETTING HOE MONEY TOO BACK THEN, HE WAS ABOUT
20 TOES DOWN, HAD A LAC, AND A 69, IMPALA. SENDING HOES TO GET HIS TRAP.
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THE HOOD WAS LIVE/ CLUBS WERE JUMPING ALL UP AND DOWN STOCKTON BLVD.
MR.DEE'S HAD CLOSED DOWN DANTE' DRAYTON WAS KILLED UP THERE BY THE HOMIE
DAREN PARADON. THEIR WHOLE FAMILY AT THIS TIME WAS ABOUT THAT LIFE.
IT HOING UP GOING ON, YOU COULD SMELL THE PC. AT P.FUNKS DUPLEX ON 35TH, OFF 12TH
AVE.
HE HAD THE WHOLE STREET SMELLING LIKE SHERM. THAT BUTT NAKED, SO CALLED BECAUSE
AT THIS TIME PEOPLE WOULD SMKE IT AND TAKE OFF ALL THEIR CLOTHES, AND PROCEED
TO RUN DOWN THE STREET BUTT NAKED. ANGEL DUST WAS POPPIN, THEN TOO.
ANY DRUG YOU COULD IMAGINE IT WAS IN OAK PARK. HERION AND COKE WAS SOLD
TOGETHER, SPEED BALL STYLE AT THE BIG PARK.
IN BALLONS, YOU COULD GET 20'S AND DIMES OF BOTH, RIGHT THERE IN THE
PARK.
MY WHOLE HOOD WAS AT THIS TIME ON AND CRACKING. ALWAYS HAS BEEN ON SOME GET
MONRi-41Ii
0 7-
AS FAR BACK AS / CAN REMEMBER. RAINBOW BAKERY AT THIS TIME WAS FACING
m
33RIFSA.4N 33RD. ST. THIS BEFORE THEY HAD REBUILT IT. AND BEFORE MCGEORGE
SCH a rnFrriWAS BUYING UP ALL THE HOUSES:: AND SHIT ALONG 33RD. ST TO EXTEND THEIR
r.,
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WAS
PARKING LOTS AND SHIT. BACK WHEN THE OAK PARK LIBRARY
aso, THE PUBLIC. RIGHT THERE ON 33RD AND 5TH AVE.
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SO AS IT WAS THEN THE OLD BAKERY WAS OPEN, IT WAS JUST AND OLD BUILDING, ACROSS
THE STREET FROM THE BIG PARK. IN THE SUMMER TIME , AFTER WE WERE DONE SWIMMING
AND HAD CLOSED THE POOL DOWN. WE WOULD GO OVER TO THE BAKERY, HELLA DEEP
AND JUST
KICK THE DOCR IN AND RUN UP IN THAT THANG,TAKING SHIT. YOU COULD SMELL
THE BREAD BEING BAKED THEN AS YOU CAN NOW.
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CHAPTER 8.
THAT FRESHED BAKED BREAD WAS A MAGNATE TO ALL US GHETTO KIDS, FAMISHED FROM
SWIMMING ALL DAY IN 100 PLUS 17:43IEESUMMER'S THAT SACRAMENTO, HAS EVERY SUMMER.
WE'D BE DUMB AS HUNGRY FROM PLAYING IN THE POOL ALL DAY. WE WOULD TAKE AS
MUCH CUP CAKES AND SHIT AS WE COULD CARRY, IT WOULD BE AT LEAST 40,OR
30, OF US RUNNING UP IN THERE. WE'D HAVE THE MUCHIES TOO FROM SMOKING WEED
SO THAT OLD BAKERY NEVER STOOD A CHANCE. UNDERSTANDING THAT HIS WAS RIGHT
AFTER ALL THAT RACIST 60'S AND WE LOOKED AT EVERY THING AS US AGAINST THEM.
THEM BEING WHITE FOLK.
SHIT THE CITY BUSES WOULD STOP RUNNING DOWN 33RD,STREET AND DOWN 5TH AVE
AT 6PM ON THE DOT. THE REGIONAL TRANSIT, BUS COMPANY WERE NOT ALLOWING THIER
BUSES TO PUSH THROUGH OAK PARK AFTER SUNSET. THEY WOULD ONLY ROLL DOWN
BROADWATICATCWIGHT BECAUSE IT WAS WELL LIT AND NO OAK TREE'S WERE BLOCKING
)).
THEIR
oto
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THE HOvicaValANGEROUS BACK THEN AT NIGHT, THE FREAKS CAME OUT AT NIGHT.
>>"
THE ST/ME123ULD BE SUPER PITCH BLACK AT NIGHT, BECAUSE OF THE ABUNDANCE
r-Is
OF OAKR16 1 23THAT ARE IN THAT PART OF THE CITY,UNDERSTANDING THAT THE MID-
CITYARK Pi3i 1 IS THE TOWN OF SACRAMENTO,CALIFORNIA'S FIRST SUBURB, AND
THE CITY, GET'S SUPER HOT SUMMER'S MUTIPLE DAY'S IN THE 100'S OR PLUS
AND OVER 90° IS
REGULAR. SO THE CITY PLANNERS PLANTED AN OVER ABUNDANCE OF
OAK TREE'S IN OAK PARK, SO EVERY STREET AND BLOCK HAS OAK TREE'S
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UP AND DOWN BOTH SIDES OF EACH STREET, AND SOME OF THE TREE'S ARE OVER
100, YRS. OLD. AND THEY SHADE, THE STREET'S AND KEEP THE HOOD COOLER
THAN ALOT OF THE CITY, IN SUMMBR.
BUT IT ALSO MAKES THE STREETS SUPER DARK AT NIGHT ESPECIALLY THE AVENUE'S
SO WE GET A LOT OF SHADE, IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE STATE FAIR USED TO BE LOCATED IN OAK PARK AT BROADWAY,AND
STOCKON BLVD. THE CALIFORNIA, STATE FAIR THAT IS. WHICH IS NOW LOCATED
IN THE NORTH EAST PART OF THE CITY, OF SAC.
I LEARNED TO RIDE MY 1ST BIKE, IN THE OLD STATE FAIR GROUNDS, AND WAS TAKEN
THERE AS A CHILD BY MY FAMILY. IT WAS THERE, UNTIL WHITE FLIGHT, MADE THE
CITY MOVE IT TO A SAFER LOCATION AND MORE FAMILY FRIENDLY, ENVIORNMENT.
OUR COMtiNtptiOAS BASICALLY SHUT OUT OF THE CITY, AND IT'S FAMILY FRIENDLY
'a C);1>
ACTIVI STI/ARTING AROUND 1962, WHEN THEY BUILT THE THE FREEWAY, THAT
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THE MIDDILE OF OAK PARK, BASICLALLY SOME JIM CROW SHIT BACK
RUN'S 113
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THEN, tepOEURATING US FROM THE REST OF THE CITY. WE BECAME A SELF CONTAINED
r- :C
UNIT.
0>
AT THINT/M 2tHE HOSPITAL WAS THE COUNTY HOSPITAL. NOT UC DAVIS AS IT IS
NOW. I SHOT MY FIRST FIRE ARM RIGHT NEXT TO THE COUNTY HOSPITAL IN A FIELD
WHERE THEY BULT A 7,ELEVEN.
SO , THE HOOD HAD A THRIVING NIGHT LIFE,SPR/NGERS LIQUOR STORE WAS
ON THE CORNER OF STOCKTON BLVD,AND BROADWAY, WHERE FOOD SOURCE IS NOW
.THERE WAS ALSO-
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A GAS STATION, AND A GAMBLING AHACK AT SPRINGER'S A HANG OUT IN THE BACK,
CALLED THE 'LOG' WHERE WINO'S AND DOPEFIEND'S WOULD HANG OUT, DRINK AND SHOOT
DOPE. HEROIN WAS SOLD IN THE BACK OF SPRINGER'S BACK THEN.
IT WAS REAL GRIMEY, SMELLED OF STALE URINE, AND BRWS GLASS WAS EVERY WHERE
BACK THERE. AMONG OTHER THINGS.
I WOULD BREAK BOTTLES BACK THERE MYSELF.
I WAS A LIL' GHETTO BOY.IF YOU WERE NOT FROM OAK PARK, YOU DID NOT WANT TO
GET CAUGHT IN THE BACK OF SPRINGER'S MONSTER'S LURKED BACK THERE.
AS A YOUNG BLOOD, MY AND MY LIL' GANG OF TUFF'S RAN UP IN SPRINGER'S
TAKING SO MUCH MURCHANDISE,ME, TALTON, ORSON, SHY, BOBO, CONRAD, TOO
MANY TO LIST. BUT WE YOUNG HOODLUM'S TOOK SO MUCH BEER, WINE, AND THINGS
UP OUT OF THAT STORE, THEY ENDED UP PUTTING CHICKEN WIRE UP ALL OVER THE
INSIDE OF THE STORE SO YOU HAD, TO ASK THE MAN, OLD MAN WILL, TO GO AND
BRING YOU WHAT YOU WANTED. THE STORE'S INSIDE LOOKED LIKE A PRISON CANTEEN.
YOU ONLY COULD COME INTO THE COMMON AREA ,POINT TO WANT YOU WANTED AND IT
WOULD BROUGHT TO THE CHECKOUT STAND. AND THIS WAS A PRETTY BIG STORE.
YOU HAD TO POINT AND SAY WHAT YOU WANTED. WE WERE SOME BAD LIL'MF'S
TERRIBLE. THE JOY RIDERS CAR CLUB WAS ACROOS THE STREET ,THE CLUB "BODY LANGUAGE"
WAS POPPIN' BACK THEN.MRS. ANDERSON'S LIQOUR, STORE WAS RIGHT THERE TOO
ON 8TH AVE AND STOCKTON BLVD.
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36
I WOULD BE IN A MAJOR GUN FIGHT, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF BROADWAY AND STOCKTON
BLVD. ON THE SIDE OF SPRINGER'S A FEW SUMMER'S LATER, SOME HOOD SHIT.
LOT'S OF SHOT'S FIRED DROAD DAY LIGHT, NO POLICE CARED OR CAME THIS WAS
OAK PARK THE COPS NEVER CAME. UNLESS SOME CALLED THEM AND THAT WAS NEVER,
BACK THEN,...
BUT I AM GETTING AHEAD OF THE NARRATIVE HERE, BEAR WITH ME.
AT THIS TIME MY COMMUNITY HAD A DAY FACE, AND A NIGHT FACE. BOTH WERE
NOT TO BE PLAYED WITH. IT WAS ALL SMACKING. DAY IN DAY OUT. NIGAAS WAS GEETING
PAPER.
I WAS STILL LIVING ON 36TH, STREET, MY HOMIE JEFF BAIL!' AND HIS SISTER'S KIMMY
AND RINA, LIVED ACROSS THE STREET FOR ME, IN THE DUPLEXES, SISSY, STAYED ON
THE CORNER IA HOUSE WE WOULD BUY A FEW YRS. LATER. EYEVONE, AND LISA, AND
THEIR
BRO, AUSTIN LIVED ACROOS THE STREET. TOO, MY RELATIVE LIVED ON THE
CORNER OF 9TH AVE AND 36TH, ST.
THE MURRY'S LIVED DOWN 10TH,AVE AND THE WASHIINGTON'S LIVED ON 36TH. MY OTHER
FOLK'S LIVED DOWN ON 10TH, MAMA JOYCE, UNLCE FLOYD'S SISTER, RED, AND THE
WHOLE FAMLIY WAS ON THAT STREET. THE HARRIS'S STAYED ON 12TH AVE AND 35TH,
RIGHT IN BACK OF MY HOUSE, SO DID LESLIE TAYLOR,AND HER BRO,JAMAL. TRACY'S
LIL I FREAKY ASS LIVED ON 35TH TOO.
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THIS WAS ALL BEFORE THEY BULT OAK PARK MARKET ON 12TH, AVE.
ANY HOW WE ALSO USED TO GO DOWN TOWN HELLA DEEP ON SUNDAYS TO THE MOVIES
THE ESQUIRE THEATER, WHICH IS IMAX NOW, ON K,ST. WE WOULD BE AT LEAST
100 DEEP THE WHOLE TEENAGE POPULATION WOULD GO DOWN THERE ON SUNDAY'S
EITHER BY BUS OR GET DROPPED OFF. IT WAS ALL HOOD UP IN THERE.
ALL OAK PARK
FEMALES, AND MALES. WE WOULD BE SMOKING BIG WEED UP IN THERE, DURING THE
MOVIE'S AS SOON AS YOU WENT AND SAT DOWN YOU SMELLED THE WEED HELLA STRONG.
BIG GOLD WEED. THE SECURITY WOULD NOT FUCK WITH US BECAUSE THERE SO MANY
OF US, AND WE SPENDING MONEY IN THAT RAGEDY ASS THEATER.BIG HOMIES
LIKE WALTER
ANDERSON, WOULD TELL THE UHSHER'S AND SECURITY TO MIND THEIR BUSINESS!
OR GET SERVED UP IN THERE. IT WAS TOO MANY OF US, UP IN THERE, WITH THEM
STACY ADAMS AND LEATHER COATS, BURNER GLOVES, AND GOLF HATS. DERBY HATS AND
STINGY BRIMS, HOT USED TO ROCK THE BLACK BEAVER, WITH THE WHITE TRIM, HE GOT
/FROM OAKLALND. THIS WAS THE END OF THE 70'S, I SAW THE MAKCK, SUPER FLY,
0 nD
THt)BOA JOITATION FILM'S UP IN THERE, I KNEW REAL MACK'S AND REAL
AND ALL
SUPER FLY'
F--
WERE PUTTING ON THE BIG SCREEN.
WE ALSO WENT)Fu“slAR THEATER WHICH WAS RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE ESQUIRE AT TIME.
a; 0 no
AND WE
co UP IN THERE TO SEE ALL THE KUNG FU FLICKS, THE FIVE DEADLY
woppiiiel
VENOM'S
enr pE
DRAGON, RETURN OF THE DRAGON, ETC.. .BOMB ASS MARTIAL ART'S
MOVIE'S AND WE WAS ALL INTO THAT MARTIAL ARTS' SHIT BIG BACK THAN, INSTEAD
OF HIP HOP.
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TRACK OF
THE SOUND
OUR LIVES WERE PARLIMENT, FUNKADELIC,BOOTSY COLLINS,
BRIDES OF FUNKENSTIEN,BERNIE WORRELL, CAMEOM THE WHISPER'S BROTHER'S JOHNSON
EARTH,WIND,AND FIRE, LAKE SIDE THE OHIO PLAYERS, SLAVE, SHALAMAR, ETC..
THE HIP HOP SCENE HAD YET TO EMERGE ON THE WEST COAST AS A STRONG FORCE
OR BECOME MAISTREAM.
AT THIS TIME A NEW STREET TRIBE HAD EMERGED IN THE HOOD FROM THE ASHES
OF THE
BLACK SOULS. IT
WAS BASED ON WALL STREET.7TH, AVE. AND EXTENDING TO
THE MAD PAD ON 37TH, AND 12TH AVE. RIGHT BEFORE OAK
PARK MARKET
WAS BUILT.
THEY HAD JUST BUILT A KFC, ON BRAODWAY AND ALHAMBRAH. WE ROBBED THAT MF SO
MANY TIME'S THEY JUST PUT BULLETPROOF GLASS,ALL
OVER THE INSIDE
OF THE STORE.
AND AT NIGHT YOU COULD ONLY GO THROUGH THE DRIVE THRU, FOR SE VICE. THIS
WAS THE ONLY KFC IN THE CITY THAT HAD BEEN OUTFITTED WITH BULLETPROOF GLASS
AND THEY VIV I '," SHUT IT BECAUSE IT STILL MADE MONEY, IT WAS SELLING CHICKEN
HEX SAW IT, THEY HAVE TO HAVE THEIR CHICKEN. COLD THANG THEM
TO NIGGAS
r
));
CRACKERS.--
co
41IKE THE MILITARY, AS THEY
THE POLICE
SO WE IN
olat
r-ZZ
DO NOW IN URBAN
COMMUNITIES.
ED HOSTILE TOWARD THE POLICE AND THEY COULD NOT COME ONE
DEEP TO TIZIAMAT NIGHT. THEY WOULD DRIVE DOWN 7TH, AVE OR 8TTH AVE
—
AND SEE Att
0
THE!BLACK PEOPLE
ON THEM STREETS AND JUST TURN AROUND, OR JUST
KEEP GOING IGNORING ALL THE ILLEGAL SHIT GOING ON.
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CHAPTER-9
"THE FUNK LORDWOUCH HOGGZ"
AT THIS JUNCTURE, IN OAK PARK HISTORY, THE MOST DOMINANT STREET TRIBE WERE
THE FUN LORDS, THE VG'S WERE THE TOUCH HOGGZ. THESE CAT'S WERE VICIOUS
EXPERT KNOCK OUT ARTIST'S. THERE WAS A TIME WHERE FOOL'S WERE GETTING KNOCKED
OUT, AT EVERY FUNCTION, OR VENUE THESE YOUNG BOY'S SHOWED UP AT. THEY SHOWED UP]
AND SHOWED OUT.
IT WAS THE "MUST BUST' ERA, WAY BEFORE THE CRACK ERA. THE 0.P.B.C. OAK
PARK BUSTA A CRABBER ERA. THE WALL STREET BUST ERA. THERE WAS EVENA HOOD TWO STEP
THE WALL STREET BUST.E VERY HOUSE PARTY, WE WENT TO HOUSE PARTY'S IN SOUTH SACRAMENTO,
BACK IN THOSE DAYS. ABOUT 60, 70, 80, DEEP, SOME TIME 20, CAR'S DEEP ALL TO ONE
SPOT AND ON TO THE NEXT PARTY.AND BEFORE THE CONCLUSION OF THE PARTY SOMEONE
NOT FROM OAK PARK WAS GETTING KNOCKED OUT AND STOMPPED OUT AFTER THAT. IT
JUST WAS GOING TO HAPPEN SOME ONE WOULD SHOUT"BUST" AND THE PARTS' WAS TURNED
OUT!
SOME WAS BUSTED ON! YOU HAD KNOCKOUT KINGS, ONE PUNCH NIGGA'S LIKE DARREL WILLIAMS,
KENNY LEE,DONNIE PITTS, DUNCAN HAWKINGS, LEE VAIL MURPHY, WHO I WITNESSED KNOCK OUT
SO MANY PEOPLE, IT WAS KRAZV, AND HE WAS A LITTLE NIGGA, KNOCKING OUT OUT FOOL'S
AND THEY WERE PISSING ON THEM SELVES.
KNOCKING FOOL'S OUT THEIR SHOE'S, BRUTAL KNOCK OUT'S. HOMIES LIKE TONY BEAN
AKA GENERAL, JAMES USHER, FRANK DAVIS, DONNIE POOL, CLEMM/E FIELDS, MY RELLY
TONY SMITH, DINO JOHNSON, BIG K.P. TOO MANY TO LIST, WHEN THE MINI SERIES"ROOTS"
CAME OUT, IN THE 70'S NIGAS WAS UPSET, TO SAY THE LEAST. AND AT THE FOOTBALL
GAMES THE HIGH SCHOOL'S PLAYED AT HUGHES -STADIUM, AT NIGHT, WE WOULD VIC/OUSLY
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KNOCKOUT WHITE BOY'S, BUT WE WOULD BE EQUALLY OPPORTUNISTIC AND GET ON ANY
BODY WHO WERE NOT FROM OUR HOOD. AND WE WOULD BE SUPER DEEP AND WALKING BACK TO
THE HOOD IN HUGE GROUPS OF 40, 50, OR MORE NIGGAS, MULTIPLE GROUPS
OF THAT MANY.
IF YOU WERE WHITE YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO BE CAUGHT ANY WHERE NEAR THE "Pu(OAK
PARK) IT WAS A LEGACY OF THE RAC/ST ASS 40 1 S,50'S AND 60'S, IN SAC. SO
IF CAUGHT OVER THAT DIVIDING LINE YOU WERE WHOOPED, AND ROBBED IN OAK PARK.
BACK THEN, RIO LINDA, IN THE NORTH AREA HAD THE KKK, AND THAT WAS KNOWN, TO US.
I WOULD BE THE YOUNGEST, WITH MY BROTHER'S AND RELATIVE'S BACK THEN AND WOULD
SEE THAT SHIT FISRT HAND.
WE WOULD HAVE HUGE GATHERING'S FACT THEN AT WILLIAM LAND PARK, ON SUNDAY'S LITERALLY
HUNDRED'S OF PEOPLE, SOMETIMES THOUSANDS, ALL THE FINE ASS FEMALES WOULD BE
UP IN THE PARK IN THEIR SUNDAY BEST. ASS ON DISPLAY, ASS, AND TITT'S. WE USED TO
GO
THreff) RIGHT AFTER THE
MOVIES, ON SUNDAYS.
Q
IN THE SPRI flippUMMER, ESPECIALLY EVERY EASTER, THIS WAS WHEN ALL PARKINGS SPACES
-4
IN THE BACKN HO PARK WOULD BE FILLED WITH CAR'S EACH SLOT. SO , CAR 'S MUSIC,BARBQUE,
op C) lp
DICE GAMESCONTH OUT FAIL SOME BODY WAS GETTING BUMPER JACKED, OR KNOCKED OUT
OFTEN
Time
BEFORE THE DAY WAS OVER.
MARK SANDERS
41.
IT WAS USUALLY OAK PARK NIGGA'S MAKING THAT NOISE AND TALIKING THAT FUSS ,THE
SUCKA 'S
AS IT WOULD HAPPEN THE FUNK LORDS AND TOUCH HOGGZ WOULD BE A BIG PART OF OAK
PARK HISTORY.
WE USED TO WHERE BLUE AND BLACK FLAG'S AND SAID BLOOD, AND WORE KUNG FU GI'S
WOULD GO TO ANY FUNCTION HELLA DEEP, AND SERVE ANY ONE WHO WAS"ACTING THEY WANTED
ANY PROBLEM'S. WALL STREET AND HE MAD PAD WAS HEAD QUARTE4 TACO RICO WAS CRACKING.
BEST MEXICAN FOOD IN THE HOOD, RAY,AND JUANITA, OWNED TACO RICO, ON MLK,BLVD, AND
BROADWAY. WE ALL GREW UP EATING AT TACO RICO.
CHECK MATE MARKET WAS BURNED DOWN FOR THE INSURACNE MONEY, ON BRAODAY, IN THE BACK
OF 4TH AVENUE APARTMENT'S. THEY REBUILT CHECK MATE ON BROADWAY AND 38TH, ST.
ON THE CORNER WHERE THE RECORD TREE, A MOM AND POP RECORD STORE USED TO BE IN THE
70'S. THE OWNER'S OF CHECKMATE, GOT RICH RIGHT THERE, BECAUSE WALL STREET WAS ON
THE SAME SIDE STREET, SO OLD ENGLISH 800, CAMEL'S AND ROLLING PAPER'S BY THE TON
WERE BOUGHT UP OUT OF THAT THANG.
I USED TO BE ASLEEP ON THE FLOOR AT RANDY MOSES , HOUSE ON WALL STREET BACK THEN,
HIGH AS GIRAFFE PUSSY, AND WOULD BE SLEEPING MY OLD E, AND WEED HIGH DOWN.
I WAS KICKING IT WITH WAYNE MOSES, BACK THEN.:
I WOULD BUST DOWN POUNDS OF WEED DOWN AT REGGIE PRINCE'S JOINT ON WALL STREET
WITH MY BIG HOMIES, CHIP P/TTS. BLOW BIG WEED WITH MY BIG HOMIE WILLE ARCH/E
WHO WAS A STOMP DOWN GANGSTA, BACK THEN. I WAS RUNNING THEM STREET'S WITH CHILLY
W/LL(UULLARD COCHRAN) HIS SISTER TANY JACKSON WAS MY SISTER'S BEST FRIEND BACK THEN
ONE OF HER BEST FRIEND'S. SHE HAD MANY. ALL MY SISTER'S FRIEND'S WOULD SPEND THE NIGHT
AT OUR HOUSE BACK THEN.
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AND ALL HER FRIENDS WERE KOOL PEOPLE, AND CUTE GIRL'S AS WELL. MIA MITCHELL
PAULINE CLARK ,LEE LEE BENNET, CHRISTINE BERRY, PEE PEE TAYLOR, TO NAME A
FEW. TOO MANY TO LIST. I COULD WRITE A SMALL NOVEL ABOUT ALL THE FEMALE'S
WHO CAME, LIVED AND SPENT THE NIGHT, MANY A NIGHT AT MY HOUSE, IN THOSE DAYS.
SO THAT WAS JUST NAME A FEW. I WAS RUNNING THEM STREETS, WITH CHILLY WILL,
AND CLEMMIE FIELDS, PEG LEG, HARDROCK, MY RELLY, CARL WEBB, AND,S.D.
THE HOOD WAS LIVE! IF YOU WAS A SUCKA,OR A PUNK YOU COULD'NT HAVE SHIT.
AS IN ANT GHETTO,IN ANY PART OF AMERICA, IF YOU WERE ON SOME SOFT SHIT.
YO' SHIT WAS TOOK! BIKE'S, SHOE'S, HAT'S, CLOTHE'S, MONEY, ETC...
ABOUT THIS TIME I WAS COMING INTO MY OWN. MY RELETIVE DETCHIE, AND RELATIVE
DARREL HAD A SPOT ON 3RD, AVE. A BACHALOR PAD, IF YOU WILL. IT WAS CRACKIN'
OVER THERE, TROY ALLEN NOT, MY OTHER HOMIE TROY ALLEN-AKA R NEW BOY". THIS
TROY ALLEN HAD MOVED TO THE HOOD FROM THE BAYAREA, WOULD ALL BE OVER THERE
KICKING I45WAN IRON BOOT. NEW BOY WAS RUNNING WITH MY RELATIVE HOT.
THEY HADME4Y BEEN ON ONE, AT A TRACK MEET AT HUGES STADIUM. THE LAW'S
nn
AT THE
TIP'S
TAgmagLED
IT A RIOT. THEY WERE JUST UP THERE, AND GOT TO PUTTING
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OrSjitETM4FTER
SOME FOOL'S GOT IN THEIR BUSINESS. SHIT WAS ON THE NEW'S
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AND
ALLG/N=Tel SACRAMANTO BEE, AND THE SACRAMENTO
UNION, THE
ts.)
AT THE TIME. SAC, ONLY HAS ONE NEWS PAPER NOW. THE SAC ,BEE!
TWO NEWS PAPER'S:
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43.
CHAPTER 10
SO THEY HAD PUT HAND'S ON SHIT UP THERE, KNOCKING FOOL'S OUT. IT WAS
DUNCAN HAWKINS, WALTER ANDERSON, HOT, NEW BOY, BIG Q. NEW BOY WAS THE YOUNGEST
IN THAT CADRE' HE WAS JUST ABOUT TO TURN 18. SO NIGGA'S WAS DOING DUMB SHIT
AS YOUNG KID'S DO.
I LOOKED UP TO THESE CAT'S THOUGH, THEY WERE MY EXTENDED FAMILY. I WAS ABOUT
TO MAKE MY NAME IN THE GAME SOON ENOUGH...
AT THIS TIME I WAS LOOKING, LEARNIG, OBSERVING, RESPECTING THE GAME.
WE WERE ABOUT TO BRING FOURTH AVENUE TO LIFE! SOON ON THE BLOCK THERE
WAS A LITTLE WEED SPOT CRACKIN' ONLY DIME BAGS WERE PUMPED UP OUT OF
THIS SPOT.
THIS WAS CR/PPLE ROB'S SPOT, HE WAS IN A WHEELCHAIR, HIPPY, GROVER,AND 0.G REGGIE,
HAD IT. THIS WAS THE FIRST MONEY MAKING SPOT ON 4TH AVE. THE SECOND
APARTMENT IN THE BACK.
THIS WAS BOMB ASS WEED TOO, NO DIRT WEED, JUST KUSH. THE BARRON'S HAD
WET(SHERM) ON 3RD, AVE,JACKIE,FREDDIE, AND
LIL'BRO' RANDY
BARRON.
YOU COULD SMELL THE PCP, AS SOON AS YOU HIT THE CORNER ON SANTA CRUZ AND 3RD.
IT WAS LOUD BACK THEN TOO. REAL WATER. NOT WATERED DOWN LIKE THE SHIT THEY
HAVE NOW.
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MY AUNTIE'S HOUSE, WAS ON 2ND AVE, THIS IS WHERE THE HONEY COMB HIDE OUT WOULD
BE LATER IN THE GAME IN HER BASEMANT.
THE BIG AUK WAS STILL A HIVE OF ACTIVITY TOO, WE HAD A URBAN LEAGUE
SPONSORED SCHOOL UP THERE NEXT TO THE R180WHERE THEY WOULD EVENTUALLY
....
HAVE THE PAL BOXING GYM IN LATER YRS.
THERE THEN FOR THE KID'S WE'D GET
lb
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CALLED INNER CITY WAS
FRREIHnIND SHIT ALL SUMMER.THE
BASEBALL
TEAM'S WERE VERY MUCH ALIVE BACK THENIWI CI II.CRUMP. MR . BULLARD, MR. BLACKWELL
.0G.HOWARD. WOULD ALL BE UP THERE COAR/
411 &BALL. ALL THE WAY TO SENIOR
ha
:it
LEAGUE BASEBALL. MY BIG HOMIE JUNIE DARDEN WAS COACHING UP THERE TOO.
SHIT WAS CRACKING, MUSIC, FOOD, SMELLING GOOD, HUSTLING, AND BUSTLING
EVERY WEEKEND IN SPRING, SUMMER, AND EARLY FALL.
POSITIVE ENERGY, BIG WEED IN THE AIR, LAC'S CHEVY'S LOW RIDERS. ALL THAT
GOOD SHIT WAS ON DISPLAY, AND A GOOD TIME WAS ENJOYED BY ALL, WE WERE
ALL RELATED SOME HOW UP IN OAK PARK. SO IT WAS A FAMILY AFFAIR.
IT WAS ALL ABOUT TO CHANGE THOUGH.THERE WAS A MENANCE COMING TO EVERY GHETTO
IN AMERIKKKA, IT WOULD AFFECT US ALL AND IS STILL AFFECTING US...
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CHAPTER 11 - - -0.P.G.
SO THERE WAS REAL LIVE HITTAS IN THE HOOD AT THIS TIME JUST LIKE
THERE IS A LOT NOW.
BACK THEN YOU HAD REAL G'S LIKE BIG BLUE FELIX, FREDDIE WASHINGTON
RAYMOND WASHINGTON, LEON MRUPHY, LEEVAIL MURPHY, CARL MURPHY, ERIC MURPHY,
DOUG WAYNE, TONY ELLIS BASE PIPE MIKE PETE BROWN, JOJO WATERS, DENNIS MILLER,
TONY ALLEN,SHAWN COLLINS, LEANDER COOK ,BOTH MENTORS OF MINE.
CHARLIE BONTON,310Mt§ ROBINSON,ICE WATER, DIRTY EARN ,AKA EARNEST JOHNSON,
0
BIG TRRE TOP,
°
RGIMMIKE, RAY DICK, DUNCAN HAWKINS.JUNK YARD.JOHN EARL
-I -yr
MY RELLY,DAVIic
IT WAS AT
, JUST TO NAME A FEW.
THW I4ZONE
EXACT WITH
18143/Y.
OF MY OLDER HOMIES WENT TO L.A. POMONA, CA. TO BE
AND TOOK THAT OAK PARK GAME OUT THERE AND SENDING
nJ
THIS CAT'S SISTE02TO GET SOME HOE MONEY. AMONG OTHER THINGS HE DID
DOWN THERE AND GOT INOT A LITTLE TROUBLE BUT NOTHING MAJOR. ONE OF
MY BIG FOLWSHAD WENT OUT THERE TO HIT BANKS, IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY
TIVSEVEM
AREA'S/EASE INEYEINE
EASY JOB'S IN THE EARLY 70'S.
AT THIS AME TIME ONE OF MY OTHER BIG HOWES HAD CAUGHT A DOUBLE HOMOCIDE
IN COMPTON, IN THE 70'S ABOUT A CRIP BOY PLAYING OUT, SHOOTING AT HIM
AND SHOUTING HIS NAME AND WHERE HE WAS FROM WHILE DOING IT. SOMETHING
WE DID NOT DO BACK AT HOME. OUR WET WORK WAS USAULLY DONE WITH OUT
FAN FARE.
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A COUPLE OF MY OLDER HOWE'S HAD WENT TO C.V.A BACK THEN FOR HOMOCIDE'S
AND WERE RECENTLY RELEASED FROM CUSTODY.
I WAS GETTING A RAW DOSE OF GAME FORM BOTH OF THEM AND WAS RUNNING
HARD WITH MY Al, FROM DAY 1 TALTON ROBINSON, WE HAD JUST WATCHED
ONE THE HOWE'S SHOT AND PARALYZE THE OTHER UP AT SPRINGER'S LIQOUR STORE.
I WAS RIGHT THERE WATCHING THE SHIT IN SLOW MOTION, DRINKING A SQUIRT SODA POP.
I WAS BY NOW USED TO GUN VIOLENCE, IT WAS SO COMMON PLACE IN MY WORLD.
I ALSO REMBER ONE OF MY HOWES BEING KILLED AS SOON AS HE HIT THE PEN
OVER SOME PUSSY, THAT WAS NOT HIS, BUT A FEMALE HE WAS JUMPING ON AND
TAKING HER CASH, ON SOME GORRILA SHIT. AND AS SOON AS HE HIT VACAVILLE
HE WAS BRUTALLY KILLED COMING OUT OF CHURCH, HIS FIRST DAY IN GOING
TO ANY WHERE IN THAT JOINT./T WOULD NOT BE THE FIRST TIME I SEEN FOOL'S
KILLEPC-OVER
fieg,n
AND DISRESPECT.SHIT THE BOY WAS NOT IN THE PEN MEEKS
AND WAS SENT MIA BOX.
THE GAME WAS
F
!eV+.
x
I WAS TOLD TH.
THIS WAS THE
JUSTICE IS A REWARD OR PENALTY FOR ONE ACTIONS
WONDER YEARS. AND WOULD EVENTUALLY SERVE A LOT OF JUSTICE.
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PUREST FORM AT THE TIME. THIS WAS A TIME WHEN
CI 13 C)
MAXI COATS HATI;JETZENT OUT OF STYLE, THAT ERA WAS OVER. ALL THINGS CHANGE.
MR. DEE'S HAD CLOSED. AND WAS RE OPENED BY ANOTHER CAT, WHO NAMED IT
BROWN'S PARADISE LOUNGE.
MARK SANDERS
47.
MR. BROWN WkS A COOK AT FOLSOM PRISON. A PRISON A PRISON / USED TO VISIT AS
A CHILD, IN THE EARLY 70'S OLD FOLSOM PRISON,THIS PRISON WOULD ONE DAY
PLAY A BIG PART IN MY EDUCATION.
SO BROWN'S PARADISE LOUNGE WAS OPENED ON STOCKTON BLVD. THEY WOULD THROW
BIG PLAYER SHIT UP THERE,PIMP'S AND HOE'S THE NIGHT LIFE WAS CRACKING.
MONEY WAS EVERY WHERE. BOOSTING AND GAMBLING, ANY THING AND EVERY TING
WAS SOLD AND BOUGHT IN OAK PARK. YOU NAME IT WE HAD IT.
THE BIG HOWE'S HAD A FLOCK OF GO GETTIN' BITCHE'S SOCKING IT TO THEIR POCKET'S
MAJOR.
MAJOR PLAYER'S LIKE DAVE TOWNER, D.W. DONNIE PITTS, TREE TOP, BIG RUDY,
THESE DUDE'S WERE CROSS COUNTRY PIMPING AND MACKING1 THEY WERE INTERNATIONAL
WITH THIS GAME, FROM THE BIG APPLE, TO THE PINEAPPLE. MAN THEM BOY'S WAS GETTING
PAID.
I WAS SOAKING UP THE GAME LIKE A SPPONGE ON EVERY DOPE SPOT, EVERY CORNER, EVERY
GAMBLING SPOT, AND AFTER HOURS IN THE HOOD I WAS THERE.
I WAS UP ON THAT HOE CORNER ON 9TH AVE, AND 33RD.ST. IT WOULD BE AT LEAST A HUNDRED
FOOL'S ON THAT CORNER BACK / IN THE DAY, OR AROUND THAT CORNER, BACK IN THE
DAY.
MIRK SANDERS
48.
33RD. STREET IS A TWO WAY VERY LONG A BUSY STREET IN OAK PARK, A MAJOR
THOROUGH-FARE, IN THE HOOD. THIS STREET WOULD BEGAT A MAJOR TEAM OF MONEY
GETTAS, AND THOROUGH PLAYER'S HI/TA'S
ALL THEM CAT'S GREW UP EITHER ON THAT STREET, OR OFF THAT STREET.
ROLAND HAWKINS FROM THE MAD PAD, STILL HAD HIS SPOT ON 33RD.ST.
IT WAS ROLLING, HE HAD JUST COPPED HIS LAC, A FEW YEARS EARLIER, IT WAS CLEAN:
TOO.
I WAS SIT IN THE CAR WITH DONNIE PITTS, IN HIS TOWN CAR AND GET LACED, ABOUT THE
IN'S AND OUT'S OF THIS GAME. ALL FACET'S OF IT. SMOKING THAT GOLD WEED AND
DRINKING BEER, WE GOT FROM TOM'S MARKET, RIGHT THERE ON 33RD.AND 9TH.
I REMEBER WHEN DONNIE BOUGHT THAT TOWN CAR, IN THE YEAR, HE GOT OUT THE
GME FROM HOE MONEY, HE STAYED IN L.A. CHECKING TRAP'S AT THIS TIME.
HE STAYED 30, 40 TOE'S DOWN ON THE TRACK BACK THEN. HE WAS A OAK PARK
NIGGA SO HIS GAME WAS OFFICIAL ON ANY MLK. BEFORE THEY HAD MLK BLVD'S.
OUR MLK WAS STILL SACRAMANTO BLVD.
MARK SANDENS
49.
THIS WOULD BE THE STREETS THAT WOULD SHAPE MY MIND AS A YOUTH AND HAVE A PROFOUND AFFECT
UPON MY PSYCHE. THEY WERE HARSH AND UNFORGIVING MUCH LIKE LIFE IS.
I WOULD LEARN FROM THESE STREETS, THAT MEN OF PREY, SHOULD ONLYA AND DO
ONLY COMPETE WITH THEMSELVES.
I WOULD BECOME A PRODUCT OF THESE COLD STREETS. A PRODUCT OF MY ENVIORNMENT.
AND IN DUE TIME LIKE FRUIT THAT GROWS UN DUE SEASON, MY ENVIORNMENT WOULD
BECOME A PRODUCT OF ME.
AS MYSELF AND MY GENERATION WOULD CHANGE THESE STREETS AND DEFINE THEM FOR THE NEXT
GENERATIONS TO COME AFTER THIS FIRST X GENERATION. MY GENERATION WOULD
CHANGE THESE STREETS, FOR GOOD IN THE NEXT DECADE...
FM THE MOMENT THOUGHT I WAS DOING DUMB SHIT, LEARNING, GETTING THIS GAME RAW,
RIGHT AND EXACT. I WAS BORN IN IT, AS OPPOSED TO THOSE WHO ARE LATE BLOOMERS.
I TOOK TO TI LIKE A DUCK, TAKES TO WATER.
THE AIR WAS ALIVE WITH ELECTRIC ENERGY, I WAS ALL IN IT. AN OUT SIDERS WOULD GET
GET ATE UP IN MY HOOD AT THIS TIME. THERE WAS NO CRACK, COCAIN, BUT THERE
WAS POWDER COKE, HOP, PILL'S , WEED, PCP, SPEED, THE WHOLE ALPHABETS SOUP
OF DRUG'S.
MARK SANDERS
50.
WE RAN THEM STREETS SUN UP, TO SUN UP AGAIN.
I WAS UP IN THEM STREETS DEEP AT THIS TIME WITH MY DOG, CONRAD USHER,
MY BIG HOMIE JOHN USHER'S SON. WHO HAD JUST MOVED BkCK FROM ST.LOIUS.MO .
TO SACRAMANTO, AND WAS LIVING ON 4TH AVE WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER, MS. USHER.
HIS BROTHER G.P. WOULD BECOME MY LIFE LONG FRIEND, A TRUE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER
MOTHER. GENARO PATTERSON. IS HIS HONORABLE NAME. TINY TIM'S BROTHER.
THEY HAD ANOTHER BROTHER NAMED CHARLES, AKA BUNKIN, WHO USED TO RUN WITH
MY BRO BIG JAMES. ME, G.P. AND CONRAD WOULD BLOW BIG WEED, LISTEN TO BLOW
FLY, ANS CHASE THE LIL I FAST TAIL FEMALES IN THE HOOD. ALL THAT GOOD YOUNG
NIGA SHIT.HAVING FUN RIDIN' G.P.'S MOPED,HE HAD JUST GOT. HE WOULD
RIDE IT OUT TO OAK PARK FROM THE HEIGHTS, BACK THEN. INSPIRING ME
TO GO OUT AND LIBERATE MY OWN MOPED, FROM SOME ONE WHO WAS LESS
DESERVING OF AT THE TIME.
THE GAME WAS LIVE AND GOOD, MY LIL JAMES TAUGHT AT THIS TIME HOW TO USE A
KNIFE IN A FIGHT. WHICH WOULD COME IN HANDY ON A FEW OCCASIONS IN MY LIFE.
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CHAPTER 11.
1 WOULD LEARN ALL
THE SKILLS REGARDING SURVIVAL IN MY ENVIORNMENT FROM
MY FAMILY AND EXTENDED FAMILY.
AT THIS TIME IN MY LIFE THE WHOLE HOOD WAS FAMILY. I WENT TO CALIFORNIA JR,
HIGH, THEN MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHEN THEY CHANGED THE NAME OF ALL SCHOOLS TO
MIDDLE, SCHOOL'S FROM THE TERM JR. HIGH.! HAD GOT KICKED OUT OF PETER
LASSEN JR. HIGH FOR FIGHTING THE YR. BEFORE. I WAS ALWAYS FIGHTING AT
THIS TIME. JUST TYPICAL GHETTO CHILD SHIT.
I WENT "CAL" AS IT WAS CALLED WITH KEVIN HOOKS, KIRK CRUMP, SHAWN POWELLS,
fregSc5i0BSON, STEPHEN GRAY, ANTHONY CANNON, FAT BOBO WALTON, HIS SISTER TONI WALTON,
> 5
WV ER FEL/C/A, MY RELATIVE KEVIN CHANEY, MIA MT/CHELL, CHRISTINE BERRY,
ilIIARAHM BROOK PITTS, KENNY P/TTS,SH/T IT WAS A BUNCH OF US. AND
M
Avtoli§ BUSSED TO CAL, OVER TO WILLIAM LAND PARK, FROM BEHIND OAK PARK
601176450N 18,TH AVE. A BUNCH OF US BACK THEN WOULD TAKE BEER OFF THE TRUCK'S
31- 0
NIMRKIMAT OAK PARK MARKET, AND DRINK BEFORE WE GOT ON THE SCHOOL BUS.
THE MARKET HAD JUST BEEN BUILT, IN A VACNT LOT THAT USED TO HOUSE A GAS
STATION THAT WAS LONG DEFUNCT.
MARK SANDERS
52.
WE WERE ALSO SMOKING WEED BEFORE SCHOOL AND TALKING BIG SHIT.
ME AND FAT KEY, WOULD SNORT POWDER COKE ON THE BUS, IN THE BACK WHERE IT WAS JUST
THE HOMIE'S. WE WERE JUST 12 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME, AND I HAD A HAMMER,(GUN)
WE WOULD WHEAR STACY ADAMS AND BAGGY STYEL PANTS TO SCHOOL, LEATHER COATS
GOLF HATS, TWEED PANTS, WITH PLEATS , WE WOULD GET ALOT OF OUR GEAR FROM
JOE'S STYLE SHOP DOWNTOWN ON J.ST. THSI THE YEAR MICHAEL JACKSON DROPPED
THE OFF THE WALL ALBUM, HIS BEST ONE TO ME, AND THE YEAR RAPPERS DELIGHT CAME
OUT.
ALOT OF GOOD MUSIC FROM THE BROTHER'S JOHNSON, WHISPER'S CAMEO,SLAVE, SUN,
BRASS CONSTRUCTION,PARLIMENT, FUNKADELIC, A BUNCH OF GOOD MUSIC WAS OUT.
THE SKATING RINK, ON FLORIN, IN THE BACK OF THE MALL IN SOUTH SAC WAS CRACKING
BACK THEN TOO, ALL NIGHT SKATE PARTY'S FROM, 7.PM TO 7.AM. 1979 HAD A LOT
OF SHIT GOING ON, GOING INTO 80, THOUGH ALOT OF SHIT WOULD CHANGE. BACK THEN
THE CAT'S IN SOUTH SAC WERE CONSIDERED SLOW AND SQUARE'S COMPARED WITH US.
THAT SHIT WAS NICE OUT THERE. NO ALLEY'S OR DOPE FIEND'S EVERY WHERE, OR
USED NEEDLES ON THE GORUND IN THE PARK'S IN THEIR COMMUNITY. THAT WAS OAK PARK
AND DEL PASO HEIGHTS.
I WAS ALSO SMOKING A LOT OFSHERM BikCK THEN(PCP) WITH MY RELATIVE HOT.
I COULD ALWAYS HANDLE SMOKING INCREDILBLE AMOUNTS OF PCP, IT WAS REALLY
NOT A PROBLEM FOR MY MENTAL TO CONTROL. I ACTED THE SAME.
53.
MARK SANDERS
I WOULD SMOKE WHOLE STICK'S OF SHERM AT THE MAD PAD, AROUND THE CORNER FROM
MY HOUSE, WITH THE FUNK LORDS , SIG Q. DUNCAN, NEW BOY, MABLE STRINFELLOW,
WAS DUNCAN'S
GIRL BACK THEN THEY HAD A SON NAMED MARCUS, BIG WAS FUCKING WITH
GOOBA,/ WAS RUNNING UP IN ANG/E CALHOUN'S LIC FAST ASS BACK THEN AT THE MAD
PAD, EVERY NIGHT I WENT OVER THERE. SMASHING HER YOUNG THICK ASS.
I WAS RUNNING HARD WITH JUG HEAD, (JOHN COOKS) AND KEVIN STRINGFELLOW,
SPHEN MILES,
ACROSS
SCOOBY, A FEW OTHER'S LIKE KENNETH, WHO STAYED ON 40TH, ST.
THE STREET FROM SCOOBY. WE WAS FUCKING WITH THAT SKATING RINK PRETTY
REGULARLY BACK THEN."FLORIN SKATE" I WAS ALWAYS FIGHTING UP IN THERE AND
CHECKING NIGGAS POCKETS IN THE BATHROOM IF THEY CAME UP IN THERE.MY REALTIVE
DETCHIE1/ 441144 BE UP THERE POSTED OUTSIDE,WALTER ANDERSON, TONY PATTERSON,
"
TO NAMLniEg BUT WE WOULD BE DEEP UP THERE, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE, THE PARK/NG
F -4
LOT WAITAII PACKED WITH PEOPLE AND CAR'S.AND AS WOULD BE THE CASE OAK ?ARK
KNIOGifOMEBODY OUT BEFORE THE THING WAS TURNED OUT. MOST CASES A FEW
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PEOPLEngWEET THAT FATE, INSIDE THE RINK AND OUTSIDE IN THE PARKING LOT.
WAS
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SOME BODY LAID ALSO GET SHOT
WAS UP
AT, ROBBED ALL THAT HOODLUM SHIT. THE HOOD
THERE DEEP AS ATLANTIS, AND WE WERE ALWAYS SHOWING UP AND SHOWING OUT.
THERE WERE NO
CRIP GANG'S IN SAC AT THIS TIME.
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MARK SANDERS
THE SOUTH SACRAMENTO, AREA WAS CALLED CABRILLO GARDENS WHEN IT WAS BUILT
BACK IN THE EARLY 70'S AND WE JUST CALLED THAT AREA THE GARDENS, THE INHABITANTS
OF THIS AREA WOULD START TO CALL IT THE GORRILA GARDENS, LATER ON DOWN THE LINE.
MOST OF THE FAMLIES THAT MOVED TO THE SOUTH AREA, WERE FROM OAK PARK FIRST TIME
HOME BUYERS, LOOKING TO LIVE /NA BETTER COMMUNITY THAN OAK PARK.
ALOT OF NEW RISDENTS ALSO CAME FROM OTHER PLACES IN THE CITY. OAK PARK
AS A WHOLE JUST NEVER GOT AOLNG WITH PEOPLE IN THIS AREA, MY HOMIE BIG SLATEROCK
WHO'S FAMLIY WAS FROM OAK PARK, WAS OUT THERE MAKING BIG NOISE AT THIS TIME IN
THE GARDENS, THEM BOYS WAS DOING HOME INVASIONS. IT WAS SO BAD THE POLICE
WOULD HAVE THE KIDS IN THE SCHOOL'S OUT THERE HAVE THE LITTLE KID'S HIDE UNDER
THEIR DESK'S BECAUSE SLATE ROCK WAS OUT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND THE ROLLERS
WERE AFTER HIM.
MEANWHiag AK PARK THE WHOLE HOOD WAS ON SOME GET MONEY SHIT, SOME HUSTLING
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ROBBERY TEAM'S, TERRY WASHINGTON, STEVE MARTINEZ, BOBO NOEL,
DItakigNOEL,
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(BO SLIM)THEY WENE KNOCKING DOWN BANK'S LEFT AND RIGHT,G.BROWN
WAS AltiV -War OF THIS CIQUE. BOBO HAD A LOW RIDER, A '61'INPALA, THEY WERE
1.!
NJ
GETTING DOWN WITH GANGSTA PETE,AKA PETE SAWYER. WHO HAD A SPOT IN SHILO ARMS.
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CHAPTER 12.
SHILO ARMS ARE APARTMENTS IN OAK PARK, SITUATED DIRECTLY IN THE EAST CORNER
IN THE BACK OF OAKRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. I USED TO HANG OUT IN SHILO ARMS
BACK THEN.THE APARTMENT'S ARE OWNED BY SHILO CHURCH ON 36TH,AND 9TH AVE.
I USED TO KICK IT AT PETE'S JOINT BACK THEN, SMOKING WEED, AND TALIKING SHIT.
ME, BOBO, P.BABY. STEVO, SHY.
I HAD SOLD MY BIKE TO KEENY BUFFER, FOR SOME WEED BACK THEN, WHO HAD A SPOT
IN SHILO ARMS. I COULD NOT GO HOME WITHOUT MY BIKE, SO I WENT AND GOT MY
RELATIVE DETCHIE AND WALTER ANDERSON, AND WALT WENT AND TOLD KENNY TO TEAR MY
BIKE OFF. THAT SHIT WAS FUNNY AS HELL, DETCHIE BACKED THE CAR UP TO THE
PARKING SPACE POPPED THE TRUNK, AND I PU MY BIKE IN THE TRUNK, CLOSED IT
AND WAS GETTING IN THE CAR WHEN KEENY SAID"BUT I BOUGHT IT FROM HIM" TO WALT
AND WALT WAS LIKE n N/GGA SHUT UP AND PRODUCE MY BROTHER'S BIKE." I HAD ALREADY
GOT THE BIKE BY THEN. WALT WAS ON SOME SMASHING SHIT, DETCHIE TOO, WHO WAS
KNOWN BACK THEN FOR SHOOTING NIGGAS, AND SHOOTING AT NIGGAS. I WAS JUST
BEING MANNISH! A Y.G. AND ON MY WAY TO BECOMING SOMETHING QUITE FRIGHTENING
SOON ENOUGH.
56.
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OAK PARK GANGSTA'S
IT WAS 80, GOING ON 81, I WAS IN MY ERA, THE 80'S I WAS IN LOVE WITH
GUN'S, AND THE GAME. THAT WAS MY FIRST LOVE. I WAS KICKING IT WITH LEON
JORDAN ATHAN PHILLIPS, JAMES HAMPTON, LIFE LONG PARTNERS OF MINE,AND ALSO
GOOD HOWE'S LIKE ERIC CONNERLV, ORSON ROBINSON,NIGEL COLLINS, PIMPINIBOB,
TALTON ROBINSON, HARDROCK TYRONE JACKSON, SHY, BOBO'S BROTHER. WALL STREET
WAS STILL POPPIN, I WAS STILL OVER AT THE MAD PAD, ON THE REGULAR.
THAT X-MAS ON WALL STREET WAS KRAZV, IT WAS SO MANY OF US OVER THERE
ON THAT STREET, THAT PAY, / HAD CAME OVER THAT MORNING ME AND G.P. TO BUY
SOME WEED, WE FELL IN THE STREET ON HIS MOPED, BUT SAVED THE OLD E, AND THAT
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Nf1flItA5 ON WALL STREET. DRINKING 12 VR OLD SCOTCH SNORTING POWDER, AND HANGING
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OUT VIDEO TAPING THE FUNCTION. OF COUSRE WITH ALL THE DRINKING
mi c, :IR
ANFS,4111G THERE WAS A SQUABLE OR TWO, WALT KNOCKED OUT MIKE, AND EDDIE SMITH
0 GO
THADAGg ON WALL STREET. THEN NEW BOY AND MICHAEL SMITH GOT DOWN TOO, IN THE
I')
STREET.IT WAS ALL OVE THOUGH, NO MALICE AFTERWARDS, JUST SOME DYSFUNCTIONAL
FAMILY SHIT.
57.
MARK SANDERS
AS I HAD SAID ME, ANDG.P. HAD COPPED TWO FAT ASS BAGS OF WEED, OFF WALL STREET
HAD FOUR QUARTS OF OLD ENGLISH, AND WAS GOING TO MY SPOT TO CELEBRATE X-MAS
I HAD BEEN KICKING WITH CONRAD USHER ALL MORNING ON 4TH AVE.
SMOKING BOMB ASS GOLD WEED THE KIND THAT HAP THE RESIN FORM WEED DRIPPING OUT
THE BACK :o F THE STICK WHEN YOU WOULD BLOW IT. NOT NO BULSSHIT RAMMER, BUT
GOOD ASS GOLD WEED THAT WOULD COME BUDDED UP, BUT STILL HAD SEEDS.
STRONG SHIT YOU WOULD CHOKE ON!!
G.P. HAD PUSHED TO MS. USHER'S ALL THE WAY FROM THE HEIGHTS TO COME FUCK WITH
US ON 4TH AVE.
HE HAD JUST SAID HE WAS COMING TO KICK WITH US ON X-MAS. WE HAD A GOOD ASS
TIME. AND THIS WOULD BE MY LAST X-MAS WITH CONRAD. HE WAS KILLED WHILE WAS
IN JUVINILE HALWtiefLY 14. SHOT IN THE HEAD ON 11TH AVE OFF MLK.
BY THIS
eN C)
CAT NAMED DENNIZ:SPAg MY MOTHER CAME TO VISIT ME THAT SUNDAY AND TOLD ME
C: -1
ABOUT IT. I WA.cliatp TO SAY THE LEAST. CONRAD WAS MY DOG, A BROTHER,AND
A FRIEND.
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ft; alfiE TIME
ME AND HARDROCK, CARL WEEB WAS IN C UN/T, AND
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WE HAD OTHER i llbMIEAr WAITING FOR THIS CAT WHEN HE CAME TO ANY UNIT'S BUT
HE CAME TO MINE AND HARDROCK'S AT THE TIME H-UNIT HOUSED ALL THE FUCK UP
AND KID MUDERERS, Y.A. BABIES AND THOSE GOING TO ADULT COURT.
MARK SANDERS
58.
SO WE WERE ALL UP WAITING FOR THEM TO BRING THIS CAT TO OUR UNIT
ME AND HARDROCK COULD SEE EACH OTHER AS WE WERE RIGHT ACROSS FROM
EACH OTHER'S ROOMS.
WE KNEW AS SOON AS THEY LET US OUT IN THE MORNING AT BREAKFAST WE WERE GOING
TO BANG BLOOD.
SO AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT WE STOMPPED HIM OUT KICKED HIS TEETH OUT, WHOOPPED
HIS ASS, TILL STAFF CAME AND PULLED US OFF OF HIM.
I WENT TO THE BOYS RANCH ME , CARL, HARDROCK MAR/0 KEOLA, TYONE JACKSON,
RIGHT AFTER THAT.
THEN I WENT TO CYA. FOR A WEED CASE 0 CAUGHT AT THE RANCH. I WOULD BE HOME
THAT NEXT YR.3219114)1KE MY BONES IN THE GAME AS A YOUNG HITTA.
0r
F=.,,c?
I WAS SENT T470/NOCALIFORNIA YOUTH AUTHORITY) A JUVINLR PRISON OF SORTS.
"Cr
THE PLACE WattqlIFORNIA SENDS ALL IT'S FUCK UPS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE.
137
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MOSTLY BLACI§DaROWN YOUTH'S AS WE HAVE IT THE WORST IN THE COURT ROOM'S
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ACROSS THI$JNX41.1 WAS ALREADY OVER 6 FT TALL AT THIS TIME. I HAD THE UNFORTUNATE
TIMING OF FAILING THE SAC BOYS RANCH PROGRAM AFTER BEING CAUGHT WITH SOME
MARIJUANA, IN MY CAST, ON't MY ANKLE I HAD INJURED PLAYING HOOP AT THE RANCH.
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BEING BLACK AND MALE IS ENOUGH TO GET YOU SENT TO DEATH ROW IN AMERIKKA
WITHOUT DOING A CRIME. AND I JUST HAD SOME WEED.
THIS IS HOW ALL YOUNG MEN AND BOYS OF COLOR ARE TREATED BY THIS NATION'S
COURT SYSTEMS. I MET YOUNG BROTHER'S FROM ALL OVER CLAIFORNIA.
I WAS TALL ABOUT 6,4. THEN SKINNY AND MANNISH AS HELL. I WAS NOT ABLE
TO BE HOUSED WITH YOUNG MEN MY OWN AGE, I WAS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THEM
SO THEY HOUSED ME WITH WARDS OLDER THEN I WAS, AND CLOSER TO MY SIZE.
I WAS VERY AGGRESSIVE, VIOLENT AND LOVED TO SQUABBLE, AND WAS ONE OF THE
FEW CAT;S MY AGE WHO HAD FEMALES COMING TO VISIT THEM MY MOTHER WOULD
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TO SEE ME.
ABOUT WHATEVER, I HAD SPENT MY CHILDHHOD IN A WILD HOOD, SO IT WAS
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I HAD NOT SEEN OR HEARD ALREADY THAT WAS SHOCKING TO MY SYSTEM.
)441AS JUST ANOTHER PLACE TO ME AND IT WAS TEMPORARY. I WAS ALRAEDY BANGING
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SHIT. SI I JUST HAD FUN TILL I WENT TO WHERE EVER THEY WERE GOING
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END'AGE.
ALL THE WHILE REPPIN' MY CITY, AND MY HOOD TO THE FULLEST. I MET FOOL'S
FROM OALND THAT WOULD BECOME A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE IN LATER YEARS.
JAMES ROLLAWAY, AKA HOLLYROCK. HE WAS A LIL' CAT BACK THEN ABOUT
5,FT2 OR SOMETHING. WE WERE AT 0.H.CLOSE IN STOCKTON, WHEN I WAS TRANSFERED
FROM NRCC. THE RECEPTION CENTER IN SAC.
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CHAPTER 13.
I MET MONSTA KODY SCOTT, FROM EIGHT TEY GANGSTAS WHEN I WENT TO YTS
DOWN BY L.A. ME AND TREETOP FROM BOUNTY HUNTERS:, MOSKO FROM BOUNTY HUNTERS.,
BIG LOAF, FROM THE HUNTAS TOO, THERE WERE ONLY A FEW DAMU'S IN O.H. AND
T .3. BACK THEN. I WENT FROM T.S. TO PRESTON AND FINALLY PAROLED.
I HAD GROWN UP WAS STILL 6,4. ABOUT A BUCK NINETY, AND HAD BEEN LOOKING LIKE A
GROWN ASS MAN BEFORE I WENT INTO CAPTIVITY. I WAS BUYING ALCOHOL AND PLAYING
WITH GUNS BEFORE GOING INTO SLAVERY.ROBING SHIT, TAKING SHIT , ALL ASPECTS
OF THIS GAME THAT IS NOT A GAME.
COMING FROM THE ENVIORNMENT I WAS REARED IN, VIOLENCE WAS LIKE AIR, IT WAS EVERY
WHEREPO
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4TH AVE, DAILY. WITH EIRC CONNERLY, NIGEL COLLINS, AKA BIG INSANE.
ORSON ROBINSON TALTON ROBINSON, PIMPIN BOB, CHARLIE B. (BONTON)
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BEACH, HENCE FORTH KNOWN AND NAMED FOR ITS ABUNDANCE OF
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WATER(PCP) ThE COKE AND WEED ALL SOLD SEPEARATE.
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THIS IS THE BIRTH PLACE OF THE OAK PARK YOUNG BLOODS, AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD
PIRUS,
ALL, 456, SO THAT WOULD EQUATE TO "456 OAP APRK YOOUNGBLOODS,AND 456, NEIGHBORHOOD PIRUS.
WHERE THE OAK PARK BLOODZ/PIRUZ WERE MADE AND SPREAD. "NEIGHBORHOOD PARK"
IS THE ORIGIANAL NAME FOR FOURTH AVENUE PARK. AS IT IS NOW CALLED BY THE CITY.
THIS WAS ALOS HOME TO THE HMOB". AT THIS SOME OF MY OLDER HOMIE I S WERE HOOKED
UP WITH THE 69 MOB. OUT OF 69TH VILLAGE OUT OF EAST OAKLAND, CA. THE FELIX
MITTCHELL FACTION. THEY WERE HOOKED UP WITH MY BIG HOMIE RUDY.AND WERE IMMPORTING
HITTAS FROM MY HOOD UNDER CONTRACT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION,AND OR DECONSTRUCTION
WORK TO BE DONE. DUE TO A WAR THAT WAS GOING ON UP THERE AT THE TIME.BETWEEN
FELIX AND MICKY MOE. THIS WAS 81.82.83.. IT WAS CRACKING. I WAS KNEE DEEP IN THE
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THEN.WE WERE THE ONLY NIGGAS BANING IN THE CITY AT THIS TIME.
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FOR SOME YEARS. WITH NO GRIPS IN THE CITY.
gliD STILL ARE THE LARGEST, AND THE ORIGINALS, OF THE BLOOD MOVEMENT
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IN fRekgro, CA.WE SET THE TREND, THOSE OF MY GENERATION. IT WAS US YOOUNG
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JNI4DAs-o3 LAVED THE FOUNDATION.PUSHING THIS DAMU STREET TRIBE IN THE CITY.
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NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW THAT THE TERM BLOOD ORGINALLY STOOD FORB.ROTHERLY L.00VE
0,VERRIDING 0.PPRESSIONIDESTRUCTION.AND PIRU. MEANT.P.OWER I.NDESTRUCTION R.EVNGE
CUNITY. JUST AS CRIP STOOD FOR COMMNUITY, REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS. AND YOUNG BLOOD
STOOD FOR THE YOUNG BROTHERS WHO WENT AND FOUGHT THIS COUNTRY'S WAR IN VIETNAM.
THE WAS BLOOD WAS ALWAYS USED IN OAK PARK AS A TERM OF ENDEARMENT. AND IT STILL
IS. BLOOD ALSO MEANT WE WERE OF THE SAME BLOOD. AS IN BLACK BLOOD.
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THE ORGINALS ON 4TH AVE WERE AT THE TIME, MVSELF,N1GEL COLLINS, TALTON ROBINSON
ORSON ROBINSON, ERIC CONNERLY,THIS WAS THE NUCLEOUS ON THAT
BLOCK. I CAN RECALL
THAT IN 82, RIGHT BEFORE BIG WALT CUAGHT HIS MURDER AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER,
HE HAD TOLD TALTON TO TUCK HIS RED FLAG, WHEN COMING OVER TO WALL STREET.
I WAS IN CAPTIVITY AT THE TIME, BUT TALTON HAD TOLD ME DURING A PHONE CALL.
SO 456, STTOD FOR THE PREFIX, FOR MOST OF OAK PARK'S PHONE NOOS AT THIS TIME.
NOT THE SAME AS 456, OUT OF POMONA,CA. WHICH MOST PEOPLE DID NOT KNOW, ALTHOUGH
WE DO HAVE A CONNECTION TO POMONA, AS MOST OF OUR SHERM WAS SHIPPED FROM THE
ISLANDS IN THE CITY OF POMONA., .THE'MOB" WAS KNOCKING SHIT DOWN, I REMEMBER
VIVIDLY THE DECIBEL OF VIOLENCE WAS TURNED TO 10,1 CAN RECALL AT LEAST TEN
HEADS BEING BUSTED THAT WINTER AND SUMMER, ALL UNDER ASSIGNMENT OF COURSE
TARGETED SMACKING.
I HAD SKIPPED HIGH SCHOOL AND WENT PRO, THAT YR. MY MENTORS WERE PUSHING A
LINE, FOOL'S WOULD NOT DARE CROSS, AND SAY THEY CROSSED IT FOR EXAMPLE.
JUSTICE WAS SWIFT, STREET JUSTICE, FOR THE VIOLATION.
THE MOB, INCLUDED, BUT WAS NOT LIMITED TO DOUG WAYNE, TONY ELLIS, SHAWN DEMON,
BASE PIPE MIKE, PETE BROWN ,BAY TONE,RANDV MOSES GOT PUT ON THE MOB, AFTER
BIG WALTER WOO, STRIPPED HIS POCKETS. THESE BOVZ IN THE HOOD WAS MOBBIN'
AMONG OTHER THINGS.
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PETE BROWN HAD JUST WRAPPED HIS TWO TONED GREEN AND MONEY GREEN DEUCE AND QUARTER
THAT HE HAD GOT WHEN HE HAD GOT OUT V.A. FOR A JUV/NILE MURDER CASE HE HAD
CAUGHT AROUND THE CORNER FROM MY HOUSE IN 76. HE COOPPED ANOTHER DEUCE AND
A QUARTER, (BUIK ELECTRA 225) A 76, WHITE ON WHITE,HALF VINYL TOP, BRAINS BLEW
ON ZENITH'S AND VOUGE'S, RANDY MOSES HAD THE MARK IV, AND A NEW SEDAN DEVILLE .
FAT DAVE WAS EATING TOO, AND AT A PARTY ON 4TH AVE ME, AND TALTON TOOK ALL
DAVE'S MUSIC OUT HIS BUIK WILDCAT. SHAWN MADE US GIVE IT BACK. I WAS CONSTANTLY
PlfiHRS;IFAT DAVE, AND WAS A GOOD 7,8, YRS.OLDDER THAN ME.
MPAEiTIUTON WOULD TERROZIE HIS BUSTA ASS. WE USED TO HAVE HIM SPOOKED ON
5ii171141IN THE ALLEY,AND HE WOULD GO TELL DOUG WAYNE OR SHWN. AND SHAWN WOULD
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SNATCHING HIS SHIRT OFF HIM AT THIS CLUB IN FAIR OAKS BACK THEN ,AND
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FUcKING WITH HIS TITTV'S. HE WAS A BITCH, AND WAS PAYING HIS WAY, BACK THEN.
PAYING THE MOB. HAD HE NOT THEY WOULD HAVE LET US GO ON HIM.
AT THIS TIME I WATCHED
THESE
NIGGAS EXTORTING A FEW V.80 VS IN THE HOOD.
AND THESE BOYS WERE STOMP DOWN KILLAS, NO JOKE. MURDERS WAS BUSNIESS PERIOD.
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WE WERE GETTING OUR PCP BY THE GALLON, FROM POMONA, HAD BEEN FOR YEARS.
BACK WHEN THE PLANE'S WERE STILL A LEGIT WAY TO MOVE PRODUCT, WE WOULD
HAVE PRESEALED 7UP BOTTLES, AND JUST WALK ON THE PLAEN WITH THE WATER, AND
30, 45, MINUTES BE BACK IN SAC, PUTTING THAT SHIT IN ONE OUNCE VANILLA EXTRACT
BOTTLES.
POWDER COKE WAS BEING SOLD ALSO, ALONG WITH MARIJUANA. BACK THEN ME AND TALTON
WERE 4TH AVE'S WRECKING CREW, LIL WILD NIGGAS YOU DID NOT WANT TO FUCK WITH.
WE WERE TERRIBLE ACTORS. EVERY WEEKEND AT THE CLUB'S ON STOCKTON BLVD. WE
WERE BEATING SOME ONE MERCILESSLY. ABULNCES WERE CALLED AND FOOL'S BAGGED
UP, ON STRETHCERS AND TAKING TO MEDICAL CENTER DOWN THE STREET.WE WERE
SpRIR FOOL'S III VERY BAD ACTOR'S. LEAVING NIGGAS NAKED IN THE
40E204 BLVD.
M>
A7 THE POINT
STREET ON
WHERE SHAWN WOULD NOT TAKE US OR ALLOW US TO GO THE CLUB'S
84#01f7VE WERE NOT PREDICTABLE NOR COULD YOU COUNT ON US TO ACT CIVILIZED
14414)0NE ACTED AS IF THEY WERE NOT AWARE OF THEIR SUROUNDINGS, THIS WAS
1.1
OUK -wvRLD IN OAK PARK, AND IF YOU WERE NOT FROM THAT WORLD YOU WERE AUTOMATICALLY
AN ENEMY OF THE OAK PARK STATE, 4TH AVENUE IN PARTICULAR.
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CHAPTER 14
THE MOB WAS PUSHING BALLON'S OF HOP(HEROIN) AT THE BIG PARK THERE WAS A MACHINE
THERE AND AT SPRINGERS LIQOUR STORE, THE MOB WAS HOOKED UP WITH FELIX MITCHELL
OF THE 69MOB, FROM EAST OKALND. AT THIS TIME. THE MACHINE WAS PUMPING BIG WORK
FROM THOSE TWO LOCATION'S. MY BROTHER FROM ANOTHER MOTHER, SHAWN COLINS, NIGEL
OWNS TOO, MOTHER HAD A LIL' TAKE OUT BARBEQUE JOINT LOCATED AT SPRINGERS
BACK THEN CALLED STEPHANIE'S TAKE OUT, WE CALLED IT THE KITCHEN.
GOOD ASS SOUL FOOD, ALTHOUGH I ATE NO PORK, AT THE TIME, I ATE THE CHICKEN
AND BEEF RIBS, HER NAME WAS MERLENE, SHE WAS LIKE A MOTHER TO ME, A GOOD WOMAN-.
HER DUAGHTER'S WOULD BE UP THERE, BACK THEN TO BECUASE THEY HAD THE HOUSE NEXT
TO 1-418I.S1EN, SO, MIMI, TANYA, AND STEPHANIE WOULD ALL COME UP THERE PERIODICALLY.
THAT-11We WOULD IN A MAJOR GUNFIGHT UP AT SPRINGERS OVER SOME BULLSHIT. AS
THIS 451$HIT IN THE HOOD IS MOSTLY OVER BULLSHIT. SOME PUSSY, OR OTHER NIGGA'S
'In
PUSSY.11HgWilS r NT CHANGED TO THIS DAY . YOU CAN ST/LL GET SHOT OVER SOME PUSSY
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OR SOMVEIROVwELSE'S PUSSY. SO I WAS OUT THERE IN THE BROAD DAY BUSTING MY HAMMER
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SHAWN
wig ON
nE PORCH NEXT DOOR BUSTING HIS , GREG MURPHY WAS SHOT IN THE BACK
RIGHT NEXT TO ME.
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THAT NIGHT I HAD WENT TO THE HOWE GARY GEOTHE, ON 4TH, ACROSS FROM TALTON'S HOUSE
NEXT DOOR THE DRAYTON'S ON OBTAINED SOME SHELL'S Rik MY HAMMER, WHICH I HAD UNOOAVEV
THAT DAY ON THE FOOL WHO WAS SHOOTING AT US. AND WENT ON WALL STREET KNOCKING MY
HAMMER BY MYSELF ON TIM AND STANLEY PRINCE.
LATER ON THAT SAME NIGHT I WAS GOING TO MY HOUSE AFTER PICKING UP MY FEMALE AT
THE TIME SHANNIE ON 1ST AVE, MY SISTER FELICIA, WAS DRIVING HER BLACK PINTO,AND
WE WERE TURNING OFF SACTO, BLVD(MLK) AND 9TH AVE, AND I SEE TIM PRINCE IN HIS YELLOW
225,AND GET TO KNOCKING AT HIM , THRU THE SUN ROOF OF MY SISTER'S P/NTO,IT HAD
BEEN TIM'S BROTHER CLINT WHO HAD BUSTED ON US AT SPRINGERS. SO I JUST GOT AT
ALL OF,TNEMCAT THE TIME.CLINT WAS IN THE CAR, WITH TIM AT THE TIME, I CAUGHT THEM
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sLIPPIfa,TAmY WHOLE CLIP OUT, THEY DRAGGED RACED UP OUTTA THERE. MY UNCLE
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PUDDIN11E
MST CUT
THAT SUN FOOR IN MY SISTER CAR, IN OUR DRIVE WAY ON 36TH.
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gRST OF MY GENERSTION TO SEE PRISON.
AND SHORTLY THERE AFTER
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67.
I HAD SAW ALOT OF THINGS RELATIVE TO MY (WRINGING, HOW MY UPBRINGING WAS RELATED
TO RACE.
I HAD KNOWLEDGE OF SELF, HAVING BEEN LACED BY THE NATION OF ISLAM, AND BEEN
TOLD IN 1974, AT SHABAll'Z FISH AND CHIP'S THAT THE BLACMAN WAS GOD.
BY A COUPLE OF BROTHER'S WHO WOULD BE TEACHER'$ OF MINE IN LATER YEAR'S
AS WELL AS THAT TIME,JOHN USHER, AND BIG WINFORD SMITH. AND A BIG BROTHER BY THE
HANDLE JABBAR. I WAS TOLD WE SHOULD GO FOR SELF, AND THAT THE BLACKMAN SHOULD
GOD OF HIMSELF. I HAD KNOWN THE SOUTH AFR/KAN PROVERB BY HEART,"FIRST THEY HAD
THE BIBLE AND WE HAD THE LAND, NOW WE HAVE THE BIBLE AND THEY HAVE THE LAND."
BUT AS A MANCHILD I HAD YET TO SHED MY NEGATIVE WAYS, I HAD BETRAYED MY SELF
AND SLIPPED INTO SAVAGERY.
RACILA OPPRESSION, WHICH IS PREDOMINATLEY EXERCISED THROUGH ECONMIC,DISCRIMINATORY
JURISPRUDENCE AND POLITICAL /NEFIENCY, OFTEN CONTRIBUTES TO THE MANIFESTATION OF
AN OBFUSCATED IDENTITY CRISIS AND IN MANY CASES LEADS TO SUBTLE SELF HATRED.
CONSEQUENTLY THINGS LIKE LAW,EDUCATION , SOCIAL RESPONSIBLITY, TAKING CARE OF
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY, OR EARNING A LIV/NG P LEGITIMATELY" ETC...
ARE SOCIETAL NORMS THAT I HAD-- BASED ON MY ATTITUDE AND ACTIONS- DUMPED ALL
INTO ONE CATEGORY OF REJECTION AND DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED.
MARK SANDERS
68.
IRONICALLY, THE ATTITUDE THAT WAS THE FORMATION AND FOUNDATION OF MY ENDEARMENT
TO DISPOSITION AS A"NIGGA" DID'NT PROTECT ME, OR EMPOWER ME IN ANY WAY, FORM
OR FASHION. POLITICAL OR OTHERWISE.
IT NOT ONLY EXPOSED ME TO AND PREPARED ME FOR A JUDICIAL APPARATUS- THAT ACCORDING
TO THE 13TH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION, THE U.S. CONSTITUTION-WOULD LITERALLY
(RE1ENSLAVE ME, BUT IT KEPT ME ME ENTRENCHED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY THAT WAS DELETERIOUS:
TO MYTFAM/LY, MY COMMUNITY, AND OTHER UNGUIDED MISDIRECTED AND FRUSTRATED BROTHAS LIKE
MYSELF.
THi1R411AND MARGINALIZED OFTEN MISTAKENLY RESPOND TO DISCRIMINATORY AND BIASED
C) 1- co
POffei0:13Y ENGAGING IN CRIME OR ASSUMING THE ROLES OF "NIGGAS" WHO ARE NOT ONLY
PO
tlilaY INEFFECTIVE BUT AS A CONSEQUENCE VOLUNTARILY SURRENDER OURSELVES
OVIECE AOSYSTEM THAT USES OUR OWN IGNORANCE TO GRIND US INTO SOCIAL FERT/LIZER
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TO 41196BIO THE SEEDS OF THE NEXT GENERATION IN ORDER TO CONTINUE PRODUCING EXPENDABLE
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BODIES TO FEED THIS POLITICAL BEAST, TO KEEP IT'S FINANCIL BELLY FULL.
I INTERPRETED BEING LOCKED UP AS A BY PRODUCT OF MY SKIN COLOR.
IT WOULD TAKE ALMST A DECADE OR MORE FROM WHEN I CAME TO PRISON FOR THE FIRST TIME
TO REALIZE THAT CHANGING THE TRAJECTORY OF MY DYSFUNCTIONAL- SELF ANNIHLATING
BEHAVIOR ON MY TERMS WITH OUT THE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF PRISONCRATS
WHICH WOULD BECOME AN AFRRONT TO CALF,DEPT OF(NNEDS)CORRECTIONS. AN OFFENSE
THAT WOULD SURREPTITIOUSLY PUT ME IN THE CROSS HAIRS OF SOME VILE INTENTIONS BY
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BOTH PRISONCRATS AND SOME RECREANT PRISONERS AS WELL.
A COGNITIVE EMERGENCE:
WHEN I ENTERED THE PRISON SYSTEM FOR THE FIRST TIME, IN THE EARLY 80'S AT THE TENDER
AGE OF 16, I WAS A MANCHILD, A . FATHER, HAD A BABY MAMA, A SIDE PIECE ,AND ANOTHER SIDE
PIECE. THE SOCIAL PANAMARIC LANDSCAPE WAS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT EXISITS TODAY.
BECAUSE OF MY EXPERIENCES WITH STREET VIOLENCE,I ENTERED THE PRISON SYTEM WITH
A WARRIOR LIKE MENTALITY.
MORE OF A "PRISONER OF POLITICS" THAN A POLITICA PRISONER. WIT RESPECT TO THOSE
WHO ARE HELP CAPTIVE TODAY FOR ACTS PREDICATED UPON POLITICALLY CONSCIOUS IDEOLGY.
I WAS THE
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FROM THE
MY PEER GROUP TO ENTER PRISON, AND I WAS THE FIRST DAMU(BLOOD)
0, CALIF. CITY TO ENTER THE PRISON SYSTEM.
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THOSE OF
ntgERATION
AND WITHIN MY SOCIAL CIPHER HAD COME TO PRISON FROM
NEIGHBORISOfiND COMMUNITIES CONDITIONS THAT WERE POISED TO MURDER US IN A MYRIAD
°
OF WAYS A) Z!
AND BULLET"WOUNDS" AND"SCARS"- NOT TATTOOS WERE OUR "CHEVRONS' TO SHOW
COMBAT SERVICE IN THE STREETS.
OUR
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CHAPTER 15
WE WERE
ALL
YOUNG KIDS AND FULL OF ANGST, BUT WE WERE ALSO SIGNIFYING AN URBAN
BLACK MESSAGE TO OTHER AND OLDER PRISONERS THAT WE WERE ALSO WARRIORS!!!
EVLOVING FROM BOYHOOD WE WERE YOUNG MEN IN A STATE OF REBELLION,LIVING ON THE COATTAILS
• OF ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. WHO HAD GRAPPLED WITH THE ABUSES AND ELEMENTS OF POVERTY
SURVIVIED VIOLENCE AND HAD A HARD TIME RESPECTING THOSE IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
WHO AftleRATED MORE CARICATURE THAN CHARECTER.
YOU
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PRI4i
HE 80'S I WAS FAMILIAR WITH QUITE A FEW CAT'S I HAD RUN INTO IN
00AD
REPUTATIONS WHILE ON THE STREETS AS NOTORIOUS STOMP DOWN
GANGIA4940PEFIENDS, AND IN SOME CASES A COMBINATION OF BOTH.
T
BUT
Saler)) MASQURADING
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AS REVOLUTIONARY ERUDITES WITH CRIMINALLY PREDATORY
MENT0b/TIEM WHOSE REVOLUTIONARY EFFORTS WERE MORE NUGATORY THAN EFFECTIVE.
MARK SANDERS
NUGATORY EFFORTS THAT I WOULD DISCOVER A DECADE AND
71.
HALF LATER THAT AMOUNTED
TO
NOTHING MORE THAN ORNAMENTAL SENTIMENTS THAT ATTRATED THE PRISON INVESTIGATIVE SECURITY
UNITS, WHO BEGAN TARGETING ESSENTIALLY AN ENTIRE GENERATION,OR SECTOR,OF
SINCERELY CONSCIOUS PRISONERS FCR REMOVAL FROM CDCR PRISON MAINLINES
RESULTING IN A DRAMATIC DETERIORATION OF SOCIAL AWARENESS AND RESPECT AMONSGT
CALIFORNIA PRISONERS AS A WHOLE.
LIKE A ALOT OF YOUNG MEN WHO COME TO PRISON, I WAS SEARCHING FOR AN IDENTITY
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*HE FIRST READING MATERIAL / ENCOUNTERED UPON ENTERING PRISON WAS
LA
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12V,IKND REVOLUTIONARY. AND PRIVIDED ME WITH A SENSE OF PRIDE, BECAUSE
ti ) 1t TED WITH THOSE WHO CONFRONTED BIGOTED"DEVILS HAND FOUGHT BACK AGAINST
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THE' FDR:ES OF RACISM.
1.)
I WAS INTRODUCED TO PHILOSOPHIES,IDEOLGIES,AND SOME OF THE
POLITICALLY
CHARGED
L/TERTURE ABOUT THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, THAT HAD BEEN IN MY HOOD AS A YOUTH.
THE BLA(BLACK LIBERATION ARMY)THE PGRNA(PROVISONAL GOVENMANT OF THE REPUBLIC
OF NEW AFRIKA)RAM(REVLUTIONARY ACTION MOVEMENT) NAPO(NEW AFRIKAN PEOPLES
ORGANIZATION)AM31ST,(AMISTAD31ST) NOT, MORISH SCIENCE TEMPLE,THE KNIGHTS
OF LIBERTY. AFR/KAN BLOOD BROTHERHOOD. TO NAME A FEW.
730TR5MOV/VIEWirUSES ,GROUPYAM ORGANIZATIONS AS GANGS OR CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES.
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AS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TRIED CAST/GATING THEM AS IN FACT WITHIN THE
SCOPE OF SOME HISTORICALLY GOVERNENT SANCTIONED
LETHAL TACTICS USED
TO SUPPRESS AND MURDER BLACK ACTIVIST'S / VIEW SOME OF THEM AS FREEDOM
FIGHTERS AND UNSUNG HEREOS AND SHEROS IN THE CANNON OF BLACK HISTORY,
OUR STORY.
BUT THE WAY I WAS INTERNALIZING THE MATERIAL I WAS READING AND LEARNING, AT
THIS TENDER AGE, THE RAGE SUBSTRATUM TO MY HOSTILITY TOWARD THE NATION STATE
COMPLICIT RACISM REINFORCED MY SENSE OF BEING ONLY A VICTIM,WHICH NOT ONLY
ALLOWED ME TO JUST/FY MY CRIMINAL- ACTIONS/ACTIVITY BUT WOULD ALSO COMPOUND
A HOST OF SOCILA PROBLEMS THAT WOULD ONLY BE IN SERVICE TO THE CONTINUED
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INCARCERATION OF SOCIETIES UNDERSIREBLES.
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MUCH AS I STRIVED TO DEVELOP MY PHYSICAL STRENGTH
STRENGTH THAT WOULD GET ME OVER THE HUMP OF
tp XEMPL DEATH. MY BIG HOMEI /CE WATER, WOULD EMPHASIZE LEARNING AND READING
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MY ANCESTORS AND THE CONDITIONS OF OUR COMMUNITIES WORLD WIDE, WAS JUST
AS POWERFUL AS LIFTING WEIGHTS AND DOING BURPEES.
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I NEVER LOST CONSCIOUS OF THE FACT THAT THE TENSELY STRAINED BOW OF OPPRESSION
ULTIMATELY TAKES A REVOLUTIONARY AIM AT THE POWER OF THE OPPRESSOR.
AS I CONTINUED MY EDUCATION AT BECOMING MORE OF A PREDATOR IN MY COMMUNITY .
WHICH I WILL DELVE INTO IN LATER CHAPTERS. "IN A STREET TO PRISON CORRELATIVE".
OVER THIRTY PLUS YEARS AGO, THOSE OF MY GENERATION WHO ENDED UP IN PRISON
CAME IN DURING THE RONALD REAGAN CRACK PANDEMIC THAT SWEPT INTO SACRAMENTO ,AND
THE BAY AREA LIKE THE FLU!
ONE OF MY BEST FRIEND'S ANTHONY CANNON WOULD BECOME FIRST MILLIONAIRE OF MY
PEER Gf9Iil.c9NE OF THE BESE TO EVER DO IT AND NOT GET A LIFE SENTENCE FOR
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OF A
DESPERATION. THEY ARE NOT DOING TO BE SEEN AND CUTE, THEY'RE
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DOING
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FEED THEIR FAMILY, AS WELL AS HELP THOSE THEY LOVE. LOVE
IS THEgdliCROWERFUL FORCE IN THIS UNIVERSE.
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WE LIVE) VI AND ARE REINVENTED BECAUSE OF LOVE.
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74.
CHAPTER 16.
SO IN THIS ERA, THE TALES OF TOO SHORT, ICE T. TODY T, ERIC B AND RAKIM.
AND °BODIN', WHO WOULD VISIT MY HOOD AS GUEST'S OF MY RELATIVE PAT SHAVER
DURUNG THE HEIGHT OF THE CRACK ERA.AND MOST OF THE MUSIC THAT WOULD COME OUT
OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, WOULD CHRONICLE WHAT IT WAS TO BE A YOUNGSTA FROM
SACRAMENTO, CA. WHO WERE NAVIGATING THROUGH THE PERILS OF POVERTY,PAIN AND
CHASING PAPER, PRISON AND STREET TRIBAL VIOLENCE.
WE DID NOT HAVE A POLITICAL AGENDA AGAINST THE SYSTEM OR A REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY
OR EVEN A COLLECTIVE CRIMINAL STRATEGY.
OUR PRIMARY GOAL WAS TO GET OUT OF PRISON, ALIVE, /NTACT.BUT UNTIL WE PAROLED
WE WERE DETERMINED TO KEEP OUR CHIN UP, CHEST OUT AND BOOTS LACED TIGHT IN
ln 0 C)
ORDEROOCSECURE OURSELVES IN CONDITIONS AND SITUATIONS WHERE PRISONERSCRATS
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NOT 0101515tED TO PROTECT US BUT TYPICALLY LEFT IT UP TO PRISONERS TO FEND
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THIFIlgEdIE HAD
FOR
AT
YET TO CRYSTALIZE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW CAPT/LISM IS
4; co
THE DRIMMG2ORCE BEHIND CLASSIM AND HOW CLASSIM IS THE PRINCILPLE
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IMPETUS OF COMPETITION, FUELING CRIME, VIOLENCE AND OTHER COMPONENTS OF
SOCILA DIVISION WE EXPERIENCED IN OUR OWN COMMUITIES. WHAT WE DID UNDERSTAND
IS THAT WE WERE BLACK,FROM SAC,WERE BLOODS/PIRUS AND BEHIND ENEMY LINES.
MARK SANDERS
75.
AND BEHIND THE WALLS OF MOST CALIFORNIA PRISONS CAT'S FROM SAC, AND THE BAY AREA
WERE HEAVILY OUT NUBERED, SO SOCILA COHESION BECAME
OUR BASIC FOCUS.
ONE MY BIG HOMIE'S AT THE TIME BAHYE, DEVELOPED THE 916 COLLECTIVE IN DVI TRACY
AKA GLADIATOR SCHOOL AS IT WAS KNOWN AT THIS TIME, AROUND 1983-84. THIS WAS
I LANDED AT THE AGE OF 16, A FATHER ALREADY. HAD ACOUPLE OF FEMALE'S ON MY
LINE
BACK THEN, A COUPLE OF WHITE GILR'S ONE WHO I HAD HAD SINCE JR,HIGH, WHO WOULD
BECOME MY FIRST WIFE. DONIELLE, THE OTHER SNADIE, I WHITE FROM RANCH CORDIVA,AND
MY KID'S MOTHER WAS VISITING BACK THEN SHANIE RAI. I WAS AT THIS CORRECTIONAL
INSTITUTION, WITH MY MOTHER'S BROTHER AND HER NEPHEW, MY UNCLE AND RELATIVE
RESPECTIVELY. I HAD JUST CAME TO VISIT THIS SAME PLACE PREVIOUSLY THAT SAME
SUMMER, BEFORE LANDING THERE, AS A CAPTIVE. MY RELSTIVE DETHIE HAD JUST LEFT,
AND SO DID MY BROTHER LIL' JAMES, WHO WENT TO SUSANVILLE, AND DETCHIE WENT TO
SOLANO, :ES -
I WAS A MANCHILD. AT 6,FT 5.200PNDS EVEN SLIM AND COCKY AS AMUTHA FUCKA.
I HAD A LOT OF HOMIE'S FROM MY HOOD THERE, THAT WERE PART OF A IMFAMOUS TRIBE
THAT WAS FOUNDED THERE. IN THE LATE 60'S. DUE TO OBSERVING THE RIVALRY IN PRISON
BETWEEN L.A. BASED STRRET TRIBES/ORGANIZATIONS,MOSTLY BLOODS AND CRIPS, WHICH
WERE AT THAT TIME PRODOMINATELY LOS ANGELES BASED TRIBES AT THAT TIME.
AND THEY WEER KNOWN TO WAR AGAINST EACH OTHER. I HAD JUST ARRIVED AT TRACY
WHEN A CRIP WAS KILLED IN THE FIELD HOSE (GYM WITH A WEIGHT. SO VIOLENCE
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76.
WAS A VERY PREVALENT AND CONSTANT ACT AT THIS TIME AS WAS WEAKER CAT'S
GETTING RAPED AND ROBBED.
SO AN ETOS SERENDIPITOUSLY EVOLED THAT RESULTED IN DISTINGUISHING A SOCIAL
ATTITUDE AGAISNT ALLOWING THOSE DIVISIVE DYNAMICS AND ENTITIES TO ENTER AND ESTABLISH
THEMSELVES, IN OUR COLLECTIVE UNITY. BUT IT WOULD NOT BE LONG BEFORE THE CRIPS
ENTERING THE SYSTEM FROM SACRAMENTO, WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO WALK CERTAIN LINES.
DUE TO OUR COMMUNITIES IN SACRAMENTO, BEING DRAWN INTO THE COLOR LINES.
THE RED AND BLUE LINES OF COLOR THAT IS. WE FELL INTO A MURDEROUS RIVALRY
WHICH CONTINUES T 0 THIS DAY.
WHEN I WAS AT TRACY I WAS EDUCATED BY MY BIG HOMIE'S, I WITNESSED SEVERAL BRUTAL
MURDERS AT TRACY, AND COUNTLESS STABBINGS.
ALL MY HOMIE'S WHO WERE FROM MY HOOD AND LODER, WERE BGF. SO WAS ALOT OF MYHOWESS
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FROM LICOLN PARK, NAMED CLE BONE, FROM THE SYNDO MOB. I HAD A
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PAT'S OF ¶NE WHO HAD JUST GOT KICKED OUT CYA, ROY GORDON, FROM CHICAGO, HE WAS
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AS A COLLLECTIVE.
AS I STATED A ALL MY MY HOMIE'S WERE BGF, AND WERE EDUCATING ALL BLOODS,AND
NON AFFILIATES AT THIS TIME IN TRACY. WE WERE SHORT IN NUBERS BUT ALL ABOUT
THAT ACTION.
TRACY WAS VERY VIOLENT AT THIS TIME THE MOST VIOLENT PRISON IN CALIFORNIA
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77.
AND TRACY HAD JUST BEEN IN TIME MAGAZINE AS ONE THE MOST DANGEROUS PRISONS IN THE
NATION.
THERE WAS CONSTANT STABBINGS, RAPES, ROBBERIES ALL THAT SHIT AT THE SAME TIME.
BUT SACRAMENTO WAS HEELA DEEP AT THE TIME, AND WE WERE UNITED.
MY HOMIE'S BORA, S HABAll„ ICE WATER, ,MY REALT/VE JOHN EARL, COOP,
BAYYE, WERE ALL STOMP DOWN KILLAS. I WOULD LEARN HOW TO MAKE WEAPONS
AT TRACY, AND USE THEM AT TRACY. THERE WERE NO GUNS IN THE HALLWAYS OR
IN THE HOUSUNG UNITS. SO 7F SHIT GOT FUNKY WHICH IT DID, DAILY, THE
POLICE WOULD JUST SHHOT TEAR GAS IN THE WINGS, AND CLOSE THE GATES
WHEN THERE WAS AN ALARM. I WOULD RUN WILD AT TRACY. WE WERE ALL IN D WING.
IN THE DAY ROOM ON THE WALL WAS A BIG 916, CARVED IN THE WALL. KING HUMPHRY
HIS BROTHER J.MACK, DEREK FRAMKIJN, HANK FORD, AMONGS OTHERS WERE ALSO IN D.WING.
THEY WOULD RUN DAY ROOM, AND WHEN THE C/O WOULD OPEN AND UNLOCK THE DOOR
A BURST OF WEED SMOKE WOULD JUST BLAST HIM IN THE FACE. BUT IT WAS DIFFERENT
THEN. THE C/O'S STAYED OUT OUR BUSINESS!
YOU COULD DO YO' THANG IN TRACY WITHOUT FEAR OF THE C/O'S FUCKING WITH YOU.
I WAS GETTING MY DICK SUCKED IN THEIR VISITING ROOM. IT WAS JUST THAT
KOOL.
I WOULD GO ON VISIT'S EVERY WEEK END. HAD NIGHT VIISIT'S TOO. SANDIE WOULD COME
AT NIGHT. RED, AND SHANIE WOULD COME WITH MY MOTHER.
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THIS ACTIVITY WOULD CONTINUE UP UNTIL I WAS TRANSFERED TO FLOSOM STATE PRISON
AT THE END OF 1984. I WAS SENT THERE FOR FUCKING UP, BEING INVLOVED IN SOME
VIOLENT SITUATIONS, PLUS MARCHING IN MILITARY FORMATION, AS A GROUP DURING
BLACK AUGUST. AKA CLLING CADENCES WHICH ARE ILLIGAL IN CDC,AND STILL IS.
AT THIS WE WOULD HAVE HUGE LINES OF AFRIKANS IN MILITARY FORMATION IN
TRACY'S YARD. AT LEAST A COUPLE OF THOUSAND DEEP TO CELEBRATE BLACK AUGUST.
AND THE CADENCES WOULD MAKE THE WHOLE YARD SHAKE. WE WERE COMMERORATING
THE LIVES LOST ON THE BATTLEFILEDS OF THE WILDERNESS OF NORTH AMARIKKA.
WE HAVE BEEN DYING SINCE WE WERE KIDNAPPED AND BROUGHT TO THESE SHORE'S.
I WOULD TURN 18, AT OLD FOLSOM IN THE SHU. I WAS THE YOUNGEST CAT THERE
UNTIL SOME YOUNG CAT'S ARRIVED. I MET LIL BILL FROM GRAPE,ST.WATTS.
LIL DAVE FROM HARLEM ROLLIN 30'S. AND ME AND A BROTHA NAMED J.STONE
FROM 6411SAWD BECOME THE BEST OF FRIENDS IN THIS ENVIORNMENT.
/ HAD
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9*
OK
SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF A WAR BETWEEN THE BLACK'S
AND MVITerAFIA. I WAS RELEASED FROM THE HOLE WHEN THE PEACE TREATY
WAS
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taALLING IT.
1985. WOULD BE THE MOST VIOLENT MURDEROUSYR.
0 -IN TM/ HIZORY OF FOLSOM PRISON, AT LEAST 380, ALMOST 400
AT LEAST 20, HOMOCIDES. IN THE DUG6001 OF A PRISON.
STABBINGS AND
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MAYBE TWO PEOPLE WERE CHARGED WITH MUDER. THEY POWERS THAT BE JUST DID P NT CARE
WHO WAS KILLED AS LONG AS IT WAS NOT RACIALLY MOTIVATED ACROSS RACIAL LINES.
OR INVOLVED STAFF.
SO THIS STABBING AND SHIT WAS COMMON PLACE. AND YOU COULD WEAR FLAGS, SO RED
AND BLUE FLAGS WERE FLYING. YOU COULD TAKE GANG RELATED PICTURE'S
ALL THE SELF ADISSION SHIT THE COPS LIKE FOR US TO DO IDENTIFY OURSELVES SO
THEY CAN DOCUMENT MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS.
WHEN THE PEACE TREATY WAS CALLED EVERY ONE OF US WAS LET OUT OF THE HOLE AT
SAME TIME. PANDAMONIUM TO SAY THE LEAST.
ATTENTION IN SACRAMENTO AT THE TIME REGARDING ALL
BECAUSE Oh eik-THE MEDIA
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THE KILLitorAlg) STABBINGS THE PRISON WAS UNDER SCRUTINY, TO STOP THE
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OTHER AVIS°,
STAFF AT FOLSOM, LET IT BE KNOWN THEY WOULD LOOK THE
AS IT WAS NOT SOME RAC/AL SHIT. WHICH IS WHY THAT YEAR
WAS SO OUTtil tallfY VIOLENT. MANY SENSELES KILLINGS, AND STABBINGS. OF COURSE
CD
ME BEING
mtal SURVIVED AS
WELL AS THRIVED IN THIS ENVIORNMENT, AT THIS TIME.
I WAS A OAK PARK NIGGA, THOROUGH A REAL P.NIGGAS ARE AND WOULD ALWAYS HAVE
AN A PLUS FOR PARTICIPATION. 1 WOULD BECOME A MAN IN THIS ENVIORNMENT.
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81
MY RELATIVE FLASHLIGHT CHANEY HAD DETAIL SHOP ON MLK BLVD BACK THEN ANTHONY CANNON
HAD JUST GOT KNOCKED BY THE FEDS, THE NIGGAS CLOSEST TO HIM GOT HIM KNOCKED.
AND I MISSED MY NIGGA.
HE WAS YOLO COUNTY JAIL. I HAD COME HOME TO MY GENERATION RUNNING THE STREETS.
THE GAURD HAD CHANGED. BLOODS RAN THE STREETS OF SACRAMENTO, EAST TO SOUTH, TO
NORTH. OAK PARK WAS THE LARGEST CADRE OF DAMUS, THE LARGEST STREET TRIBE IN GENERAL
IN OUR CITY.
SACRAMENTO IS STILL MAJORITY A BLOOD CITY. CRIPS REMAIN A MINORITY STREET TUBE.
MY COMMUNTIY, MY ENVIRONMENT HAD BECOME A PRODUCT OF ME AND MY PEER GROUP.
WHILE I WAS ENLSAVED. MY LIP HOWES, HAD MADE A WAY, AND A NAME FOR THEMSELVES
BEING THE SECOND GENERATION OF BLOODS, FROM 4TH AVENUE, LEON JORDAN, AND JAMES
HAMPTON, PEG, CARL WEBB, ALL THESE NIIGAS WERE AND ARE LEGENDS IN THE ANNALS OF
P.H/STORY. THE LIL HOWES, DRE, LADON NUNU, BIG BLACK .JJ. JERMAIN JORDAN.
KENYAR4494TER. FUNNY, TERAUCHI, BEAR, JASON BROWN,(JB) BRIS ROWE, JOHN TOWNER,
MONKA546.1CALHOUN, RONNIE BEAN, LIL RUDY, WERE HIITAS FROM THE P. YB. MARIO RUTLEDGE,
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RUTLEDE, TOO MANY TO NAME HERE, THE HOOD IS HELLA DEEP.
SO pbENAPING A FEW OF THE PIONIERS OF THE HOOD.
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MY ONICION WAS THE ONES GETTING IT AT THIS TIME, TRAPPING AND SOUL SNATCHING.
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FAT KEV, RANDY BARRON, TERR/L ROBINSON, EANEST TRIB/T, HIS BRO TRIB, BIG VIRGEL
HAD THE MOB, KNOCKING, NIGEL PIMPIM BOB, SHAWN COLLINS, ALL THSES BOYS
WAS SCRAMBLING GETTING THEIR CHIPS, AND CLUBBING, D.WOOOD(DARREN DUNCAN)
YOUNG MAYS,NUNU. THE HOOD WAS LIVE, AND NOT AT ALL BROKE.
OM MY FIRST DAY HOME NIGGAS TOOK ME SHOPPING HELLA DEEP, MYSELF, MY RELATIVE KEVIN CHANEY;
"t "\— ( E".
—
TERRILDAKTIL,HUEY, TALTON, TERAUCHI,KENYA, MARKERN, MAYS, FAT KEV, ABUNCH OF
an 0 0
UP TO FLORIN MALL TO BUY ME SOME CLOTHES AND SHIT I HAD BEEN GONE
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DID THE WHOLE SHOPPING THING, MARIO CALHOUN WAS THERE TOO.
s NTOWN, THEN
BACK THE HOOD AND ANDERSON'S LIQOUR STORE TO GRAB
YAK.
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HOME ABOUT 3.AM IN THE MORING DRUNK AND TREE HIGH, MY SYSTEM
N3
WAS SUPER CLEAN I HAD BEEN IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FOR 11 MONTHS. SO IT
WAS SHOCK TO MY SYSTEM.
SO WE WERE BACK AND LOCAL PAPER SURE NOTED THAT ALOT OF US HAD BEEN LET OUT
OF CAGES BECAUSE THEY PRINTED A STORY, IN THE SAC BEE, THAT THE RECENT RELEASE
OF SEVERAL GANG MEMBERS BACK INTO THE COMMUNITIY HAD SPARKED THIS RASH OF HOMOC IDES
IN THE CITY.
WE WERE BACK, OUT OF TOWNERS BEWARE, AND BE WARY, BUSTAS STAY IN THE HOUSE
THE BOOGY MAN, (ME) WERE HOME.
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WHILE I HAD BEEN ENSLAVED AGAINST MY WILL, IN THE 80'S SOME L.A. CAT'S HAD COME
TO SACRAMENTO, THE FIRST WERE THE VNG BLOODS, VAN NESS GANGSTAS, WE WERE KOOL
WITH THEM IT USED TO BE OP,VN,
BACK IN THE DAY.
THE BOYS FROM 54TH AND VAN NESS BLVD. WHO PUSH THAT BRIM LINE IN L.A.
SO ME AND TALTON WERE HOME AND DID'NT REALLY WANT ANY ONE NOT FROM OAK PARK
IN OAK PARK BLOODS OR NOT.
SO IF YOU WERE CAUGHT IN THE P. YOU WERE A VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE, WE GAVE NO
WARNING, THE DEMONSTRATION WOULD BE WARNING ENOUGH.
WE WERE TRIPPING ON FOOL'S NOT FROM SAC IN GENERAL. SO MADE IT SHAKE BODY
SNATCHING AND HEAD BUSTING.
IT WAS WHAT IT WAS. IS WHAT IT IS, WE GOT OUR SMASH ON ROYALY...
COLD THANG TO BE CAUGHT OUTTA POCKET OUT IN THE HOOD AND NOT BE FROM THERE.
84.
MARK SANDERS
WHILE I WAS
I HAD SEEN
KNOCKED, MY GOOD FRIEND G.P. HAD STARTED GETTING HIS CHIPS
THE BOY IN THE NEWS WHEN COLORS CAME OUT AT THE MOVIES IN 88,
HE WAS ON THE NEWS
TELLING THE REPORTER, HE DID'NT BANG, THE ONLY HE
WAS BANGING WAS GETTING
THIS WOULD BE THE
AT THIS MONEY.
YR. HE GOT KNOCKED BY THE FEDS. THIS WAS MY REAL PATNA AND
CHILDHOOD RUNNING BUDDY.HE WAS
ON
GETTING PAPER AND THE SQUARES WAS HATING
A REAL PLAYA AS THEY DO. AND CONTINUE TO DO.
BOY HAD
THEM BUNNY'S HOPPIN' ON THAT TRACK TO GET HIS SCRATCH, BACK THEN.
RIGHT BEFORE HE KNOCKED BY THE FEDS, HE HAD SEEN MY LIL BIG HEAD BITCH MARLO
AT HER JOB ON
FLORIN AND 24TH STREET, ASKED HER WHO HER MAN WAS, AND SHE SAYS
"MAR4:1 1!AnfRS" HE WAS LIKE"BITCH THAT'S MY N/GGA, YOU BE GOING UP THERE?"
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SHEIPMKto"EVERY
DAY", (BACK THEN VISITS WERE 7 DAYS A WK) AND SHE WAS UP
r .7.1
THERfilp4DAYS. WITHOUT FAIL. HE GAVE HER SOME WORK TO BRING ME,
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GET AOWN LE THAT. MY
ON SOME FLUKE SHIT,
LIKE THAT. BUT ONLY A CHOSEN FEW NIGGAS
PATNA MILK DOG PAD JUST GOT OUT AND GOT SMACKED,
IN THE HEIGHTS.
86.
MARK SANDERS
MY ATHA WOLF FROM THE HEIGHTS HAD GOT
KILLED TOO AS SOON AS HE GOT OUT IN THE
WILLOW TREES, IN DPH.THE SUMMER BEFORE THAT. HE WAS AN OR/GINAL BLOOD FROM THE
HEIGHTS, HIM LEON JOHNSON, ALONG WITH
G.P. CHESTER CHAMBERS, RAYMOND AND KeNNY
PUTS. AMONG A FEW WHO USED TO BE UP IN THE PLAZAS. ANTHONY PERRY AND HIS BROTHER
TIME BOMB WERE CRIPS BACK IN GHT THE DAY IN THE HEIGHTS. RAFORD NUNLEY TOO.
WE USED TO JUMP ON THESE BOYS IN JUVINILE JUST BECAUSE WE THOUGHT THEY WOULD
BE CRIPS. AND WE WERE RIGHT.
THE HEIGHTS WOULD ALSO HAVE
AND THERE WAS
A LIL CLICK OUT THE GARDENS CALLED THE DOG CATCHERS, DONALD MILY
OTHER CATS, I WAS COOL WITH MOST OF THEM. THEY HAD FAMILY FROM THE
AND A FEW
HOOD,
A LIL CLICK BACK IN THEM PLAZAS CALLED THE DOGGS'
AND MOST OF THE DOG CATCHERS WOULD BECOME BLOODS IN LATER YEARS ANY WAY.
JUST SOME
SACRAMENTO HISTORY FOR YOU HERE. THE FIRST CRIP SET TO EMERGE IN SAC
THE 29TH ST.CR/PS, THE 24TH ST,CRIPS CAME AFTER THAT, BEFORE THAT THEY
mob
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WERE NOTFrqgRDEN BLOCC CRIPS, THAT WOULD COME WAY LATER. DETROITBVLD BLOODS
WERE
WOULD COA$1E FIRST BLOODS IN THE GARDENS, THE VALLEY HI PIRUS, WERE THE
itcr
FIRST
BLVAlc
ER OAK PARK, TO BANG BLOOD, THEN MEADOWVIEW BLOODS/PIRUS.
03
THAT IS
H SACRAMENTO. EVEN
STILL GAA1.P1LED
AS WELL
WITH ALL THIS GANG FUSS, SACRAMENTO, IS
AS GANG RELATED.
MARK SANDERS
87.
NIGGAS STILL PIMP, HUSTLE, GRIND, GAMBLE, AND TAKE HEADS FOR A SLCIE OF BREAD.
AND THE FEMALES GET PAPER TOO. THEY ARE JUST A GAME RELATED AS THE NIGGAS.
AND AS WITH ANY SPECIES, ESPEACIALLY HUMAN BEING, THE FEMALE SPECIES IS THE
MOST VICIOUS. THEM GILRS GET PAID AND SOCK IT TO THE POCKETS OF REAL
NIGGAS. I SALUTE THEM ALL.
WE ARE CLOSE TO THE BAY AREA, SO THERE IS THAT COMMONALITY WE SHARE WITH THE
BAY. THAT SLICK TALK, AND FAST GAME. WE ARE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, AND THAT
IS HOW WE GET IT UP THIS WAY!
BUT YOU PAVE THE GANG ELEMENT HERE TOO. WHICH HAS LINES AND BOUNDARIES DRAWN.
YOU WILL GET YOUR HEAD CAVED IN PLAYING IN THEM MURDER MIDS. OR ANY HOOD IN
SAC.
I HAVE COVERED MOST OF THE THINGS I CAN WITHOUT COOING TOO DEEP SO IN THE
FOLLOWING CHAPTERS I WILL GET MY TRANSFORMANTION, TO COMING BACK FULL CIRCLE
ANS EMBRACING THE KNOWLEDGE OF MYSELF WHICH I WILL GET TO IN THESE NEXT FEW
PAGES I WILL JUST SHARE MY WISDOM, WITH THE READER AND HOPE THAT THE KNOWLEDGE
BRINGS SOME LIGHT TO OUR WORLD THAT WE SEE DAILY.
MARK SOVERS
88.
CHAPTER 17.
THIS iscrHE LAST CHAPTER IN W IZESTROSFECT/IE AND IT CONCERNS CHAAGE, REIVINTION,HAVIAG THE
FORESIGHT TO SEE TIE BIG PICTURE, TO HIM( CUT SIDE THE WX,COLOR ourszx THE LMES.
SO BEFORE I EEGIN A MIND THAT DOESN'T WAAGE IS DEAD MIA/D,AW A LIFE THAT DOES MOT CIAN3E IS
A LIFE nor cant LIVIAG. THE OW consravr IN OUR LNIVERSE IS CIAN2E,AND CHANT. SO
ALIA At TO SHARE WORDS OF WISDCM, WTTH YCU IN HOPES THAT vas WILL CHMGE, HOW you SEE
THIS GORLD.
INVESTMENT TOM LIEERATION:
AS I EEG* TO STUDY AND READ WORE FERVENTLY ABOUT THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS IN URBAN NEFIKKKA,
IT BECAME APPAR6V1 PAT THE SME ELEM5VTS OF OPRZESSION IN SOCIETY THAT PRODUCED Ile BWODS AM) CRIPS
AM) ANY OTHER STREET CRG4N/ZATI(14,G4kG/Tral3E-F1V4 N.Y. TO MU, NV ALL OTHER (MN ITCODS IN BETTIE5V-
PRODUCED US. THE ME KIM? OF WWCIDE,FRATTLCIDE AM) PATRICIDE THAT WAS HAPPENIAD IN ONE
URBAN COUNITY HAPP5V/kG IN ALL WEAN CCMIWITIES, RESULTIAG IN WHIN; SHORT OF GENOCIDE.
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A LOT OF REAL WODS AS *U.
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OF CAPTIVITY IN THE 80'S AND 90% EALY 90'S, I BEGAN NOTICING THE GROVIAG EttectS
AS HAW4E-DOIN OPPRESSION:THEY OPPRESS US, MO IN TURN, 0.E OPPRESS EACH OTHER.
AS CONSWEITara, FREY ON EACH OTHER. THAT IS R7P-PSYCHOLCGY. IN THAT. THE MEMTICIGE, IN THAT ACT.
a
-o n
AS A RikEfiketfA SNY yARDS THROUROUT CDCRISMSITIVE WEDS YARDSIO.OULD RAPIDLY GROW INTO ('HAT
ra
(tHE HAVE TODAY, ALSO, TICWR yARDS. (81-1412ED PROGRAM YARDS) VILLABOIS FASTIONS,HOUSIAG SO MANY
ALIENATED PRISONERS THAT THE PRISON FOPULAT/ON AS A (*.HOLE HIS ESSENTIALLY &COVE P)LAR/ZED INTO
OFPOSIAG FACTIONS.
04E MUSES THE orneR AS APOSTATES, SNITCHES AM.? SELL affS AND TURN COATS. MILE FRLTNCRATS
MANIPULATE THIS SOCIAL DiCHCITOMY THEY DESIGNED TO KEEP (SfLOSECURITY franc UVITS EEDS FULL.
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TARGETED FOR VALIMTION, IN 2008,09,10,11, AS A PRIX*, MG ASSOCIATE AND MEER OF A CLIME
FROM Af/ 'FOOD.17E EVIDENCE USED ACAISWIE MISTED OF A PICTURE OF GEORGE JACKSON- FROM TtE,LATE
60'S.A (PffE FRCM A WOK HE AUTHORED AM) A STA/BENT, FROM A BOTTIEEEDER OF AV /MATE 0.110 MD
DEBRIERD FROM A FROSON G4AG. LITERALLY L yric TO THE FC0ERS THAT EE, AWrIAG THAT I NI PRISON
GNG ASSOCIATE, 0.11ICH IS INSIDIOUSLY ARBITRe CCASIDERIAG THAT Droasmrs AND IMVAIES MO DEBRIEF
ARE MX REQUIRED TO VERIFY UNDER FEALTY
OF FERARY THAT THE /NFORNATICAV THEY PROVIDE IS TREACCURATE
OR COOECT.
afFERICAL EVIDENC.E AND MITRE RBAERCH DISTURBIACLY REVEAL THAT
CDCR'S GAAV MAM4EVAM5VT FM-KIES
AS TfEY EXIST IN PRACTICE ARE ABUSIVELY EXPLOITIVE AM) ARE ka- CHIEFLY ABOUT SECURITY,SAFETY,OR N E
COMMENT OF VIOLECE,ANY ACRE THAN POLUICAL DEMOGOGUERY Si3SATIONALIZ/AC CRUE IS A/CUT FUBLIC
SAFETY.M/111/1/46 TAXPAYERS TO
FULFILL A ELREAUCRATIC FINAACIAL ONAAD TO EMPLOY MO EXPAND AN SCREWY
HUGE 0GRK FORCE USED TO MANCE SO-CALIBMAAGETUS KIM 6416S 1 , HOLES AND MAXIMA( SECURITY HOUSIAC
UNITS HAD lECCAE TFE MAW INTEREST. THE SECONDARY INTEREST *TICK THREATENS THE MN
,IS TO PREVENT
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL CONSC/OUNESS AND Fia9ONERS &PLOW RIVAAE, FEACER1L STRATEGIES IN ORDER
TO LIBERATE OURSELVES FROM CORRUPTIVE AEUSES.THAT RUMS COUNTER TO FEMALOGICAL INTEZESTS.
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EVERY TO ACV/ THAT I AM ACT A GNIC /84362, Of ANY KM, FUT I AM A SERVANT OF W FEOPLE'S
LIBERATION, FRAN THE OiAINS,FHYSICAL, AND OPERWISEIPSYCHOLOGICAL) THAT TRAP CUR KINDS AND BODIES
IN rfas
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COVTINE TO FORGE AHEAD FOR ONE, I'M IMPAASIMED cant THE MUDGE THAT THE Avg HIGH MS W
BACK
AND THATSOWTHVG OF FROMM) SIGNIFICAACE CAN BERGE FRCM DOSE OF US NtiO HAVE
13EEN MON INTO SOCIETV'S WASTE EAST OF RETRIEUTIOV.I3ESIDES WIEN IT COES TO Of CN
c.atear,Aw nor 93E Imps WITH THE HELP OF lit ccoarronou. STAFF,OR IGNORANT nor, 1 AM INDISFUTED
IN W 30,PLUS YRS OF ESSIAVBEW. NOR MW I BEI'RAYED AMOTHER,IACLUDAG THOSE WHO I WO
13ETR4WD W, emoi curs DETER THAN ANY FHWICAL WIND EVER COULD.
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ARTICLES OF
INCORPORATION WITH A MISSION STATEMENT, FOR O.P.G. (OUR PROGRESSIVE GRCOAN)
FOR PIE RIRKSES OF FSTABLISTIAG A 501(C) (3) ACNPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT COUW MENTALLY
PLAY A KEY RDLE IN RECUCIAG TIE KIZER RATE ThROLOCUT TIE SACRANNO, VALLEY, Rif ALSO TIE BAY ARM
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TE441160EIVIE 5%N4TION
TO MYSELF, ERA, IF KU DON'T MAME
YOUR
EVIEW THIAG IN NATURE SEKS EATAACE IT'S
IOW'S MESE FEOPLE
WE 001/6 TO LET WE CUT MM.
CALLED TIOVESTAS7S,/ SCU3HT NIKE, ESPECIALLY AFTER W
MIAMI CHILD DORA WAS IACARERATED, FOR SOW BULLSHIT 9E 90IW HAVE JUST 131513n1 =MED
FOR.I MD TO GET HOME TO HER, MV W FAMILY.
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FCR YEARS I SHIED AMY FRCA4 MY °UN ReD5MPTIGN, I MUM- IT DEAR ACT TO BMG,WORTOIED ABOUT War
OTHERS WOULD THINK OF *MILD THEY THIMK / CAS OEAKfillAT WAS W 11CUGHTS,AAV COM% AT THE TUE.
*WY OF CUR YORE TODAY FEEL THAT SAAE ANVETY.EUT 101 I MCW JET T& A SINCERE REDEMPTIVE EFFORT
TO CHMIX YOURSELF TAKES COURAGE,AND ARDCUS SELF DISCIPLIAE TO FE REBIALSO M4KIKG POSTIVE
TR4S7TION IN YOUR LIFE IS A SIGN OF STROM !EVER OAEKINESS. OEAKVESS IS BEDE AFRAID OF THE
CHAL1EGE TO &COVE A BETTER YOU.I DEVELOTED A FOCUS AND STICK TO IT.
THE =WEST PEOPLE GN TIE EARTH ARE ACT THE POST PROTEC1ED;T4EY'AE THE OAES THAT misr STRUGGLE AGA&
ADIERSITY AND OBSTACLES-AND stvaivr ABA- TO SURVIVE. FERIOD.
I MD CHOSEN WISDCM AS MY PATH, TO BRACE W HIGHER SELF, THAT SELF CREATED IN TIE UWE MD mass
OF GOD.TO EE A STUDENT MD A TEACHER. TO STRIVE FOR IMFROVBENT, ON ALL FACETS OF THE
spa.
I K181 FROM A CHILD THAT THE DEPTH OF YOUR MO/LEDGE PROVIDES THE CIRCLEFERECIE OF VOIR ACTrIVITY.
SO I AT THIS MINT I COULD, DO THIS TIME OR LET TI W AC. I COULD SERVE THIS TWE OR MAKE
THIS ME SERVE ME. I DON'T !AVE TO TELL KU WICK Clf/CE I PI0659. I ALSO A1W/131111 THAT LIFE IS
WM. THAT GOD WROTE TIE UNIVERSE IN MATHEMATICS.
TIE UVIVERSE IS WRIT T131 IN THE LADS OF MATHEMATICS.OUR ANCESTORS KAM THIS. wog ALL
AJCIEVT MV AIXERN SCIENTISTS HAVE STATED THIS, IN ONE FORM CR MOTHER. 41D132STANDIAC THESE
LAOS ,AND LIVIAC BY TN& TUTS YOU IN HAWOW WITH THE GRAND SCHEME OF THIN3S.UNTIL Y 0 U Vt) THIS
YOU ARE GAG AGAINST THE GRAIN AND ON WM TO HIT FROBLE AFTER PROBLEM. EVERY SYSTB4 IN THE
UNIVERSEAO MATTER fICW BIG OR BALL,LS GOMM BY THESE AVE MS OR PRINCIPLES.AND GESS OW
IS AT TIE HEART OF TT ALL? YOU!
MARK SAA/DEIZS
92
vas ARE THE QUESIION AND THE ANSAER AT THE SAYE TUE.
THE ATCM> PROTONS,ABIRCHS,AND ELETRONS,ME BLACK FAMILYAAA1,00AN,AND CHILD/RE SOLOAR SYS'TEM>
Sift At oat mv STARS. LOOK UP THE 42 DECLARATIONS OF MA'AT, 04 GOOGLE, THIS ARE OUR AACESTCRS
SETTIAB THESE IMS. LOW I3EFORE THE DEVIL, TRICKED OUT OF YOUR MN). YOUR NATURAL MIND THAT IS.
I
tee
BACK TO THE 5% I NEVER REALLY LEFT I WAS isr USIAG W ACWLECGE FOR SAVAGE TEEDS,AND
DEVILISHVENT, NOT CM 0/ SQUARE AS I SHOULD, BE AND I AM A TITAN, OF THE COD CIRER DIME
CULTURE. MX A NOVICE. SO AT THIS TOINT P4 W GOD CIPHER DAME, QM* I HAVE MIKE THAT IT
IS ALL ON PE. I BLAME MYSELF FOR ANY NV ALL FALL, AS (JELL AS ASONTS IN W LIFE, MD VCO1
TO BE RIGHT AND eau IN All MY tWERTAKTAGS FRCM AgO ON, AS I HAVE PA/37CIPATED IN THE DESTRUCTION
OF MY COINUN/TY, HAVE RIVERS OF &DOD OW HANDS, AM) STEW DMADES IN /ELL. RAT W *VIAL WAS
NEVER TRAPFED, CR IIERIXNED, BECAUSE I ?EVER STQPFED STRIVING, swag LEARNIAG GRCWIAG,
CHAAGIAG.
ORCOITH, AM) !EYED:NEW ARE LIFE LOW, Si) IS LFARNIW. AND MUDGE IS THE FOWILATICN.
WE ARE TAM IN THE LESSCNS, THAT ANY ?HMG 100% 0.E4Kt WICKED IS TIE DEVIL, I ALLAYS WAS MIWRiL
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MARK =RS
93.
WISDOM IS THE WAY:
WISDCM N.
1: THE EFFECTUAL AEDIATIAG PITIACIPLE OR PERSONIFICATIOV OF GOD'S WILL IN CREATION OF ME WORLD...
2:a( 1)
INFORVATION'THILOSOPHIC OR SCIENTIFIC LEAR1IAG..(2):ACCLIMATED LORE OR INSTICTIVE
ADATTATION OF LEARNIAG:ABILITY TO DISCERV MIR QUALITIES AND ESSENTIAL REALTIONSHIPS... Sat
AN seoomee OF OILSOCM..b: A WISE AMTUDE OF CaRSE OF ACTION.. .c: A PERSON OF SUPERIOR
mrEuEcnku. AITAIWENTS...4:THE TEACHIAGS Of ANCIENT WISE lel, (AS OF 13EAYLCN,EGY1T,OR
PALES77NE) RELAIAG TO nE ART OF L/VILC AND SAVE17MES TO THILOSPHICAL PROBLEMS CLACELNIAG THE
UNIDERSE,MAN OR (CV AM) FORWIAG A CLASS OF LITERTURE REFRESIWTED IN THE HEBREW WOKS OF JOB,PROVERES
ECCLES7ASTES,ECCLES7ATICUS,AND THE KS= OF SOUN9N,
0.183STER'S 17/CT/ONW,THIRD lel EDITION(INTERMATIOAL)
Tit
30tftear
A THOUSAW MILES 8E31145 WITH A SAGE STEP.-LAO TZU.
Elitir
Lii$ OMAN. kW IS AT THE AriE OF DISCRNIelT, SIC= EE SEEICIAG THE 12 IMP c,
FoR LIFEOTICH ARE AS FOLLMIS,KNOWLECGE, WISDOM,UNVERSTANDIAG,FREWOCM,
THESE
JUSTICr
ifc1/41411,FOOD,
CIDMIAG, SHELTM,FEACE,LOVE,HAPPINFSS.
DE
saw ALL EE SEEKIAG nosE
IN GURU:14*S, IN ODER TO ACHIEVE, Tit TWIGS GE NEED AM) DANT IN LIFE.
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SEEK, REV WITRIK AM) WITHCUT. an. OUR MIND IS TIE MASTER.MAN IS THE SUM TOTAL OF IfIS/HER
maws. you ARE GMT YOU EAT, AND VOU ARE VAT YOU MM.
MARK &VIERS
94
IN THE SUPRBE MATHEMATICS, INCUHEDGE IS 1: Tlf FOIAIDATTON OF ALL THINGS.WISDOM IS 2:THE MANIFESTATION
OF OCUILED3E.IT IS INCWLEDSE IN ACTION.MANISFESTATION . MAN FESPSFEAK ACTION IS ACTION.
WISDOM IS THE SEPARATION THAT BEGINS LIFE.IT THE BIG SAAB, THAT CREATED THE UYIVERSE.IT IS THE
DIVISION OF EVERY CELL THAT MATIPLIFS TO FORM A STABLE LIFE.TT IS THE F'ARTITTON GOD REWERS
Ufa HE SATES,84FHATICALLY:"LET THERE 13E LIGHT"- SERARATIAG LIGHT MATTER FROM DAN< MATTER,
LIGHT, FROM MRK,SICI FRCM OCEAN.IT IS THE SEFIARATION OF MAN FROM HIS RIB TO CREATE COON.
WISDOM IS WOMAN. IT'S THE UM 011 MIST TRAVEL THROWN TO BECAE MENTALLY 87101.100183GE AND WISDOM
GIVE BIRTH TO INDERSTANDIAG IS AS MAN AND OMAN GIVE BIRTH TO
THE 011W.
WISDON IS THE (LORD. IT IS THE MY TO OWE KAOWLEOGE MatIN."IN PC BEGINDO WAS TIE UJORD
AND 17f O.ORD WAS WITH 030 AND THE UORD EECAAE FLESH." GOP'S AVWLECGE WAS MALE EORAHMWFEST)
THROWN WORDS TO CREATE LIFE.
WISDOM IS THE REFLECTION IN 17ME.10424LEDGE BERG sranc AHD TIMELESS. TT IS THE hoar
BEM THE BIG 84A.G,TfE EROSION BRINGS AHD WRNS UNDERSTAND-AG THROEHT THE 4TH DBENSION
WICK 'T>
Qr co
WISDOM IS
IT IS THE FLOOD THAT WOWED THE WICKED IN THE BIBLICAL ME OF k0411. if IS THE
SEA TRAOY91 THE FfiARAOH'S ARMY, DIEN LOSES USED IT TO PART THE WATSZS.7T IS
00
SOLVENT *pa& ALL THAGS DISSOLVE IN ALLAH'S GUN GOOD TUE.
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MARK ANDERS
95
I AM VERY *Li READ. I READ VORACIOULSY, KM A PASSION, I AM CCNSTAMTLY HEAD
ow READING.
I.EARVIAG,GRCURIC ,CHNCIAG. AS CELL AS CCWITIONDE WSELF AM) TRAINIAGIN ffaLF.
OW ONLY LEARNS ()EAT GE TEACH ES OfESELF.
IF YOU flAV EVER STOOD, CH THE SHORE OF LAKE TAHOE,OR sroov ON A CLIFF, O'VERLOOKIW nE GRAND
CANYON, BY THE OCEAN AND FELT A CLOSE COMECITON, A VAST INFINITE PRESENCE INSIDE YOUR BEM.
YOU FELT"IP;WHAT TIlE TOAISTS CALL ONDESS,MISLIMS CALL ALLAH,AND war CALL 000.THAT'S WHAT I
FELT IN OAK PARK GCMG EfP.A srr DIMVER. 01 IT itaS THERE, ALLAH'S TRUTH IS (Q/THIN LS ALL.
ALL TfE TUC A SEED, WATTME FOR THE LW TO RING IT TO LIFE. GILSON IS THAT LIGHT.
IN TIE BIBLE'S BOOK OF PROVERBS, KIA.G SOLOMON CHOOSES WISDCM OVER ALL THE one GIFTS THAT
GOD OFFERS TO H/M;LONG LIFE, MONEY, FAVE-EUT THROUGH WISDCM ACHIEVED THEM ALL PUS PANY
IACLUDD6 700, WIVES.IN ISLAM'S SUFRBE MATHBATICS, ftE LEARN THAT WISDCM IS THE 2,AFTER THE
maat zsintzstra-Ir
IS PROOF OF KKOLLEDGE,REFLECTION OF KNOWIECGE,ACKDGE IN ACTION.IN W
> 0 >
LIFE ALPHE40141aRSTANDIAGS OF WISDOM HAVE SWUM THEMSELVES TO BE RIGHT AND EXACT ,TRUE.
WISDOM 00,11TliOUS TILSK IN DARKENESS THE LIGHT. REVEALS THE PATH OR TIE
> in
WAY,IT
r-
WED TOLIVE . TO LOVE. TO GRCW. AND DEVELOP. nE SUTRAS OF THE ROMA
TEACH THISMIS WLSDCM THERE IS 11/40 GAIN.
MARK SANDERS
96
KIZISHNA STATED THAT YOU CAN SW ALL DAY,FRAY ALL vow,awir ALL DAY, Err you WILL GET TO HEAVEN
FASTER IF YCU HAAG WITH WISE ADJ. YOUR NETUORTH IS YOU &MORK, SO TO STEAK. THE FRIB1D OF A
FOOL IS AMMER FOOL.
THE &OK OF PROVERBS STATES TIE KIAG 95111104 Sara W/SDON
THAT'S A DAY OF STATIAG if 9213111 REBIRTH. Just-
Tif CRADLE TO ME GAVE.
As s u Atsr caE THRDLCH A WOMAN'S COB
TO ATTAIN LIFE IN THE FLESH,YCUR FINS7CAL 13IRTH. YOU MIST 4L99 COW THROU3H WISDOM TO ACHIEVE
m54rou. BIRTH.AND LIKE PC WARM OF A CHILD,V1ISDOW leg OFTEN CGMES WITH PAIN.PAIN,JOY,
FEAR-ALL HAVE MANIFESTED IN WE WISCCM,WHICH, LIKE WATER, IS AN EVER FLOWAG SWAG FRCM
A WiTOMLESS SaIRCE, A FLC0.1 OF LIFE THAT
nE SHAPE OF ANY VESSEL,THAT REVAIS ITSLEF IN ALL EDDIES
AV ALL YINSOTS.FOR WISDOM IS ThE DAY.
I WILL GET TO THE 12 JEWLELS IN A POEM- I JUST WANT TO PEN YOUR EYES TO THE INCR EDIBLE KM
YOU PASE.11?) YOUR Oft$1 BY YOURSEFL. THE ONLY LIMITS ARE DIE ONES YOU PLACE URN YCUZ SELF.
> 0 >
0 7 w
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WHAT 1:31:117351N val, PALES IN COMFARS7ON TO itH4T LIES, EEFORE Y0 U OR EEIIIND Wit.
=
IT'S SUPgGliff. GOOD ORDERLY DIRDE-CTION IS SIMPLE. LIVIAG YOUR TRUTH IS SIMPLE.
7ZI
03
SIMPLIgalatIE ESSENCE OF ALL COMPLEIXTI7ES. UWERSTAND THAT THERE ARE FORCES
-0 0
WHO
TIERIZSSY TO DESTROY THE 81ACKM4N, AM) THE BLACL FAMLIY UNIT, OUR BACKECNES
IARE OUR (I.0V6I1WTSUS) MD THEY ARE A TARGET AS ItELL. THE BABIES ARE THE GREATEST, AND MST
BE AUZTURED, ECUCTATED, AND TROTECTEP. FCR THEY ARE THE FUTURE OF THIS AMON AS CIE CNCE
MARK SANDERS
97.
THERE'S A GOOD WOK I READ YRS. Aso CALLED MAKES E 1441414 WEAR BY NATHAN Mia-CALL
IN R E TALKED MOUT THE CHESS IS LIFE EXAMPLE.
"MO BATTLE TAUGHT II E CHESS BY DYLAINIAG ITS FHILOSOFHICAL PARALIES TO LIFE."Yal CAN UNDERSTAND
THE GA* OF cuss IF KU CAN UNDERSTAND THE GAYE OF LIFE,AND VICE VERSA",ff SAID."IN LIFE,
THE PERSON/ MO PLOTS HIS COURSE AND MKS AHEAD EEFO:f HE ACTS,WINS.IT'S THE WE WITH CHESS."
OAE DAY,I MADE A WYE TO CAPTURE A PAM OF HIS AND GAVE M9 EATTLE 414 OFENIAG TO TAKE A UCLA&
PIECE. HE SMILED AND SAID." YOU CAN TELL ALOT AEOUT A PERSON BY THE (LAY HE PLAYS MESS.
FWPLE ONO MINK WALL IN LIFE TBV TO
DEvorE cur OF BeZGY TO CAPTURIW ME?* LEAST VALUABLE
PIECES 0 N THE EOARD.THEY THINK THEY'RE HEIN' TO WIN,EUT THEY'RE PVT. Bff FEOPTE
MIAK BIG
MVO TO W STRAIGHT FOR DE /MC OR QUEENXICH WINS YOU nE GC.".. .THE YOST IMFORTANT
THAT 149 BATTLE TAU3HT I.E WAS THAT CTESS WAS A GM OF COUSEQUACES.HE SAID THAT,JUST AS IN LIFE,THERE,
ARE Ca1SECUICES FOR EVRY MOVE YOU MT IN CTESS.DON'T MAKE A MOVE man- 1-114SI 14EIGHIAG THE WTETIAL
CONSEMES,"HE SAID,"BECAISE IF you DON'T Yal HAVE AV CONTROL OVER THE OUTCOlf."
I'D bEVER LOOK AT LIFE LIKE THAT.I SELDOM GEIGHED THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY NAG WM AFTER I'D
AG CRAZY AND THEN WALE MYSELF FOR THE CUTCCAC,WHATEVER 1T HAPFBED TO
DM
C) —
BE.I HAD Ige (betiL OVER DE
ourcoyE AND 149 corm OVER W GiN L/FE.OPEN / TOUT Amur Tufa
WAS A WL-I/1/ M > WAY TO I LIVE.BUT ON DE CHESSBOARD, I EVENTUALLY SALU THAT I CGULD PREGET>
AW,AVRE
CCNTROL-OLITC0iMES IF I CONSIDERED THE CONSEQUECES OF MOVES BEFORE MAKIW 1164.
THAT GAVERIJOLE WU WAY OF LOOKI14G AT THINGS.-14AT10A1 McCALL
Z
MARK SANDERS
98
IN ME 120 LESSONS CtE LEARN THAT *85%, OF PEOPLE ARE MBITALLY,DEAF,DU43, AM) BlIND,TO 0f10 ME
TRUE MO LIVIAG WO IS. AM) ARE SLAVES OF MENTAL DEATH, OE LEARN THAT ITIE 10'00424 0.N2TTE TRUE
AND LIVIAG ARE, Err KEEP THE ',OASES SLEEP AND MEDICATED,THEY ARE WE BLOOD SLCKSZS,THE FOOLS
LIKE DOMED TRWP, WE FOOLS 0 11 0 AN THIS DAR ON DRU3S, THIS WAR al ILS44, DRAT Y0 U SHOULD
I3C01 IS ME WAR ON DRUZ, AM) WE WAR ON ISLAM IS A WAR ON BUCK AND BROM PEOPLE 0.ORLD WIDE.
WE 105TERPETUATE THESE LIES,
AND OM:FAL THE TRUTH.
AND THE 910E ARE THE POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS, MO Ala MO ME TRUE AND LIVIAB WI) IS,
WHO ARE NOT SLAVES TO 11,934TAL DEATH OR FOISNCUS MEAT EATERS.* ARE TIE CIVILIZED ONF-S.
AM) IT IS
cur DUTY TO WAKE WE DEAD, ME VENALLY DEAD THAT IS TO WHAT IS REALLY GOIAG ON THIS
WORLD, vas 01A GOWLE THE 5tERS,THE MATZOH OF GOD I SAND EARTH'S AM) SEE MO IS MIAS THETER
DUTY, SEE OUR AGENDA IT HAS &or CHANGED SINCE ALLAH MANIFESTED IT IN 1964.
SO I WILL CONTIME EUILDIW STROW IN THE UMW ALLAH MANIFESTED. STIZIVIAD AM) lEIAG A RIGHTEOUS
GOD, WRAI IN HIS IMAGE, IN HIS LIKINESS. DOW THE DUTY OF A CIVLDED FERO:, AND A /1/417 A SAVAGE
IN TTE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. OE ARE A 511013 *COD PEOPLE EASLIV LED IN ME WOW DIRECTION
ANDIRM 'MEE IED IN ME RIGHT DIERECTICN. I SAY WHAT HAS BEEN SAID WIRRC01 IS WE STRAIGHT
> 0 3>
M WOE IS THE ROAD TO PIM, LOVE AM) RESPECT YORSELF, WD WAS
LYIAG WIEN HE
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sard@i-raternamsts 3:16, THAT WE TEMPL OF GOD IS IN YOU. VW ANT WT 0 G 0
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IN ME MIRRCR, THAT IMAGE Yal SEE IS A MIRACLE OF SPACE
Plibtp—RTAG AM) YOU JUST HAVE BERACE IT
TO KACW
cusr,A LIVE 3BIEL
MD ACTUALIZE YOUR TRUE SELF. DE DERE MADE
WE ma, 134BRACIAG OUR 100ER SELF, ME ONE MO MAKES A GOD our ate BASE LEISRES.
POSE LCWERS DESIRES,TO GET HIGH,RCK ANY THIAG THAT WALKS, MT ANY TN AG THAT TATES
GOOD. THOSE TH/AGS WILL TAKE YOUR LIFE NOr EXTBD Tr. STRIVE TO CONTROL YCURSELF.
TO BE CIVILIZED.
pezt-cr
MARK wars
99
Of ARE AVT UN/WNW saksrs. THE WHOLE DERLD FOLLCOETHE TRENDS (LE SET OVER HERE IN AhEIUMA.
A LES91V STATES THAT UE SENT OUR BEST TO THE WILDERNESS OF MOM ANERIMA , SO THAT fvE COUU)
RAISE OUR NATION TO ms Futicsr FOTETIAL QI4 TNE ME, THE FATNE ALLAH, TALGHT THAT 93ME OF
US VOLUVTRERED TO COME HERE. SO OJE ARE THE BEST OF THE EEST, IF THE BLACKMAN IN AXERIKKA WAS
TO STAND AND 234449 CHANGE, THE OBOLE WORLD FOLLOW CUR LEAD, SO ONE Of US HAS TO BE THE UNIVERSAL
CHANGER. THE ONE 0140 WILL CHANGE THIS REALITY WE LIVE IN AND UNDER, AS ABOVE SO BEM.
GET THE KNOWLEDGE OF YCURSELF IN THIS UNIVERSE. THE SCIENCE OF LIFE IS THE SCIENCE OF
YOU. DERE IS A INATE GREATNESS IN MAN, THE 'WNW IN GENERAL, (vE ((ERE THE FIRST AND SHALL
BE ThE LAST TO RULE THIS EARTH. BREAK THE MENTAL CHAINS, WENT/CILE IS A REAL THING, AN
EVERY REALITY FOR OUR TEOPLE, SO IS WILLIE LYNCH SYNDRONE, AND I WAN AN EVERY DAV REALITY FOR
OUR YOUNG FEOPLEJ MOTE THIS TO DOCUIENT MY RETURN TO THE ESSENCE OF MYSELF AS GOD OF MYSELF.
I WANT LIBERATEDENIMS OF MY FEOPLE, TO EXPAND YOUR SPHERE OF THOLGHT, TO OFEN TO
THE FACT OF OREM A NW REALM OF SPACE IN YOUR WEALTTY. WAG THAT ftE ARE THE MAKERS
OF OURSLVES. /TALL EEGINS AND ENDS WITH US. PASitKS OF OUR FATE, MANIFEST YOUR REALITY
DEFINE KURSELF, CULTIVATE YOURSELF OR VOU WILL CULTIVATED BY THINGS THAT DO N'T HELP YOU.
DESIGN YOUR LIFE OR YOUR LIFE WILL BE DES7GIED BY sow ow (tHO DOES nor HAVE WUR PEST INTEREST
m
AT HEART,C, 0 >
% • 7- w
oo
sacx menlans OF Isom. I WILL EXPLAIN tau THEY, ARE REALLY JEtELS, THAT HELP vat NIKE
±
hENTALLYpt
CALLS. REMEMBER THAT ENLIGHTBED MEN DO ACT FEAR. FEAR IS FOR CHILDREN.
FEAR, Las#
0
A SELF
.F.ALSE-EJ40TIONS- A.PFEARTIC -R.EAL. THAT IS WHAT FEAR IS AN =SIGN.
YjN, JUST AS DOUBT IS A FORM OF MIND POLLUTICN.
MARK SANDERS
THE 12 JEWELS OF ISLAM ARE AS FOLLOWS-KNOWLEDGE,WISDOM,UNDERSTANDING,FREEDOM ,
JUSTICE,EQUALITY,FOOD, CLOTHING,SHELTER,LOVE,PEACE,HAPP/MESS. AND
EACH JEWEL HAS ITS OWN PRFOUND MEAING OF ITSELFOAND EACH JEWEL TAKES
WORK AND MEDITATION TO ACIEVE,IN YOUR PERSONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMBMT,
BUT THEY BREAK DOWN LIKE A CHAIN REACTION /OF EVENTS.
FIRST A MAN/WOMAN GETS KNOWLEDGE,WHICH IS KNOWLEDGE OF SELF.
THES/HE GETS WISDOM,WHICH IS THE REFLECTION OF THAT KNOWLEDGE.THEN
S/HEGETS UNDERSTANDING,WHICH IS THE POWER TOACT ON WISDOM.WITH UNDERSTANDING
S/HE SEES THAT S/HE HAS FREEDOM-THAT S/HE HAS ikeed HIS/HER DOME
FROM IGONORANCE-WHICH MEANS S/HE HAS FREE WILL.BUT FREEDOM OPERATES
UNDER A LAW; THE LAW OF JUSTICE.THAT MEANS THAT I'M FREE TIE
BUST YOU IN YOUR FACE,BUT JUSTICE APPLIES TO THAT ACT-THERE WILL
BEyleRiRD OR PENALTY FOR MY ACTIONS.THEREFORE,I MUST DEAL WITH
EQ(811.91&ECAUSE ALL MEN ARE CREATED MALIN SHOWING EQUALITY TO
r -I
Ri4 R WE ARE ACTIVATING FREEDOM,JUSTICE,AND EQAULITY-THE 4TH
ONte
rn
THA-01171EWELS RESPECTIVELY.
1.03 I
NORIAltaiOSE THING BUILD A PERSON'S CHARACTER,MAN/WOMAN.AND AFTER
YOWATTAA THEM,YOU ARE ABLE TO STRIVE FOR FOOD,CLOTHING,SHELTER,
WHICH ALSO HAVE BOTH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DIFENITIONS.OBVIOUSLY,FOOD
IS THE BODY'S NOURISHMENT ,AND SHELTER IS A HOME FOR THE PHYSICAL
BODY.AND CLOTHING IS PROTECTION. BUT MENTAL FOOD IS FOOD FROM THE
TREE-
100.
MARK SANDERS
OF LIFE-WISDOM,SCIENCE,HISTORY(OURSTORY),FOOD FR YOUR MIND.MENTAL
CLOTHING IS HOW YOU PRESENT,YOURSELF, CARRY YOURSELF,THE WAY YOU
WALK,THE WAY YOU MOVE AND THE SPEAK.IF YOU HAVE CLOTHED YOUR MENTALITY
IN RIGHTEOUNESS,EVEN THE MOST RAGGED CLOTHING HAS DIGNITY.AND MENTAL
SHELTER IS THE MIND3S PROTECTION,A VEST,FROM THE BULLEST I SOF THE
EVIL ATMOSPHERE-THE LIES AND CORRUPTION OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
IF YOU HAVE ATTAINED THESE JEWELS,YOUR HOME,CELL,ROOM,LIVING SPACE
IS LIKE A KING'S EVEN IF YOU ARE LYING IN A SHACK,PRISON CELL,ETC.
MATHEMATICS FORMS MY FIRST GOVERNING PRINCIPLES,BUT THE JEWELS
HAD THE BIIGEST INFLUENCE ON ME -RIGHT WHEN EVERY THING WAS BEING
SNATCHED- AWAY FROM ME.IN MY LIFE, THEY FOUND ME REAPPEARED BACK
IN MY MIND. FORM CHILD HOOD.
WITH IDEA OF THE JEWELS, I GOT A SENSE THAT EVEN IF MY BODY WAS LOCKED
AWAY IN HELL, MY MIND WAS NOT. AND NEVER WOULD BE.MOST PEOPLE
LET THEIR BODY CONTROL THEIR MIND. WHEN A DRUG ADDICT IS ADDICTED
ITS HIS/HER BODY ADDICTED TO THE DRUG. LIKEOPIATES,HERION ETC.IS
A PHYSICAL JONES,YOU DON'T GET IT YOU GET TERRIBLY SICK.AND EVEN
THOUGH YOUR BODY IS ADDICTED YOUR MIND CHASTISES YOU EVERY TIME
YOU USE IT. WHEN YOUR MENTAL HAS ATTAINED THESE JEWELS,IT LEADS THE
BODY.S0 EVEN IF YOU ARE IN A PHYSICAL HELL,BY SEEKING THE 12 JEWELS
YOU LET YOUR MIND LEAD YOUR BODY NOT VICE VERSA. YOU ALLOW YOUR MIN
TO LEAD YOUR BODY TO HEAVEN.
101
MARK SANDERS
YOU DON'T GAIN
102
ALL 12
JEWELS AT ONCE YOU HAVE TO STRIVE FOR THEM.BUT
AFTER YOU ATTAIN THE FIRST 9,THEN YOU ARE READY TO TRANSFORM YOUR
LIFE INTO SOMETHING TRULY SATISFYING.IT'S WHEN YOU ATTAIN LOVE,
WHICH IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF UNDERSTANDING-EITHER BETWEEN 2 PEOPLE
OR
INCLUSIVE OF ALL MEMBERS
THEN YOU HAVE PEACE,AND
OF MANKINV.AND AFTER YOU ATTAIN LOVE
FINALLY YOU ARRIVE AT
HAPPINESS-WHICH IS
TOAL AND UTTERLY COMPLETE SATISFACTION WITH YOURSELF.THIS MEANS THAT
NOTHING AND NO ONE ELSE CAN MAKE YOU HAPPY.HAPPINESS IS SOMETHING
YOU ATTAIN FROM YOURSELF.IF YOU ARE COMPLETELY SATISFIED WITH YOUR
SELF,NO ONE CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU. AND THE LAST OF THESE JEWELS
APPLIES TO EVERY ONE ,ANY AND EVERYWHERE. ON THE GLOBE.
KNOWLEDGE OF SELF IS THE ONE TYPE OF KNOWLEDGE YOU CAN'T SEEK YOU
HAVE TO LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU. THROUGH MEDITATION,SITT/NG QUIET,
;:1 1 C)(1
AND8LOE>IN CONTEMPLATION. AWYA OFROM THE WISE THAT THIS WORLD THROWS
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YOUR MIND IN A WORLD DESIGNED TO STRIP YOU OF
MARK SANDERS
103.
THE HIP HOP ARTIST "NAS' (ONE OF MY FAVORITE RAPPERS) HAS A SONG
CALLED BLACK ZOMBIE, IT ENTAILS MENTICIDE,THE MENTICIDAL ACTS
OF OUR PEOPLE HERE IN THE WILDERNESS OF NORTH AMER/KKKA.
MENTICIDE IS THIS.'WHAT IS A ZOMBIE?A ZOMBIE IS A CORPSE REACTIVATED,
BY SECRET MEANS,FROM THE GRAVE,THAT CAN WALK,LIVE,AND SERVE OTHERS ,BUT
IS STILL DEAD.THE FINAL STATE OF BRAINWASHING IS MENTACIDE,THAT IS
A - DEAD MIND. A MIND IS OF NO USE TO THE OWNER BECAUSE IT IS ACTUALLY
OWNED BY THE BRAINWASHERS. A BRAINWAHSHED MIND INLY SERVES OTHERS,/T
HAS NO OLUE TO THE SELF.-KWABENA F. ASHANTI(PSYCHOTECHKNOWLOGY OF
BRAINWASHING)
MANY OF OUR PEOPLE SUFFER FROM THIS ILLNESS.THE WALKING DEAD. WE
HAVE TO WAKE UP. THIS BROTHER ALSO STATE THE FOLLOWING-AFRICAN AMERCIACNS
ARE ONLY 72% (then) OF THE POPULATION IN THE U.S. YET THEY ARE ALOST
501 OF AMERICANS ARRESTED FOR MURDER,ALMOST50% AO THE PRISON POPUALT/ON,AND
40% OF THE INMATES ON DEATH ROW.WHILE AFRICANS IN AMERICA ,USE ONLY15$
OF THtrVeritSITHEY MAKE UP 415 OF THOSE ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES.ON
g
THE
e2 )›
SA0E4WRE THE
IS ENFORCED ,THERE ARE NO AFRICANS AMONG THEU.S.
r--I—I
ATTORORil q4RD FEWR THAN5% OF THE JUDGES AND POLICE.CIRCA(1993)
Is Dr"
THIS Eig
OSINEw JIM CROW TWAT MICHELE ALEXANDER ,SPOKE OF IN HER
M
MASTEgilglipF A BOOK, BY THE SAME NAME AND A MUST READ FOR THOSE
WHO DEP NOTTCNOW, WHY SHIT IS SO FUCKED FOR US. ON ALL 2 LEVELS OF
GOVERNMENT.
MARK SANDERS
104.
NEVER BE SELF CONSCIOUS BE SELF AWARE. A MASTER SCHOLAR,ALBERT MEMMI,
IN DOMINATED MAN;NOTES TOWARD A PORTRAIT,PROPOSED THE FOLLOWING
IN EVERY DOMINATED MAN,THERE IS A CERTAIN DEGREE OF SELF REJECTION,BORN
MOSTLY OF HIS DOWNCAST CONDITION AND EXCLUSION...WHEN THE OBJECTIVE
CONDITIONS ARE SO WEIGHTY AND CORROSIVE,HOW COULD WE IMAGINE THAT
THEY WILL NOT RESULT IN SOME DESTRUCTION,THAT THEY WILL NOT WARP
THE SOUL ,THE BEHAVIOR AND EVEN THE PHYSIOGOMY OF THE OPPRESSED MAN?
THE MAN WHO HAS BEEN CONDTIONED NOT TO LIKE HIMSELF IS BOUND TO DESTROY
HIMSELF.BE AWARE OF YOUR CONDITION AND SET UP YOUR GAME PLAN WITH
THAT IN MIND. MANY OF SUFFER FROME POST TRAUMATIC SLAVEERY DISORDER.
A REAL THING BY THE WAY, LOOK IT UP. WE ALSO SUFFER FROM WILLIE
LYNCH SYNDROME, GOOGLE THE WILLY LYNCH SPEECH ALSO.. THIS HOW CHARSHEE
MCINTYRE EXPLAINED OUR MALADY. I I IPLACE THE PRACTICE OF IMPRISONING
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NATION.INSTITUTIONALIZATION BECAME THE ULTIMATE SLOUTION IN WHICH
WHITES ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF HAVING FREE BLACKS IN THIS COUNTRY."
SO IT'S NOT HAPPENSTANCE IT'S BY DESIGN. SO WE NEED TO BE AWARE,
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AT ALL TIME OF THE LAWS AND NORNS OF THIS ANTION OF OURS.
I HAVE TO CONCLUDE BY SAYING DURING MY 17 YEARS OF CAPTIVITY,
THAT IT HAS BEEN LOVE THAT HAS SUSTAINED AND STRENGTHENED ME, IN THE
STRUGGLE, THE LOVE OF MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS, MESSY, AND MARMAR.
THE LOVE OF MY SISTER'S SHARONL ,AND FELICIA, THE LOVE OF MY MOTHER
AND AUNTIE'S WHEN I WAS IN THE SHU FIGHTING A CASE IN STOCKTON
FOR ASSAULT ON A PEACE OFFICER, / LOST MY MOTHER, SHE PASSED.
IT WAS MY NIESE MILLY WHO CALLED THE PRISON, AND GOT ME A CALL HOME
THE CRACKER ,COUNSELOR, FEMALE,A COLD RACIST ASKED ME DID I WANT TO
SEE THE CHAPL/N, I TOLD THE DEVIL NO! I GOT 3, CAT'S THAT WILL HOLD
ME DOWN, ME,MYSELF AND I. I JUST HELD MY COMPOSURE LIKE A GOD SHOULD.
SHE WAS IN A BETTER PLACE, I LOST MY SISTER SHARON WHILE AT PELICAN
BAY.SOIT HAS BEEN LOVE THE STRONGEST FORCE IN THE UNIVRESE THAT HAS
HELD ME DOWN ALL THESE YEARS, BITTERNESS TAKES AFTER ITS OWN I CAN
AFFORD TO BE BITTER, I CAN AFFORD TO BE BETTER THOUGH .STRONGER SMARTER.
OAK PARK TOOK CARE OF ME FOR SO MANY YEARS, IT'S NOT FUNNY, WHEN
I HAD NO ONE I HAD LOVE IN THE P.WHEN I NEEDED TO EAT, IT WAS NIGGAS
LIKE BIG VIRGEL, NIGEL,S.P.TERRIL, L.D. NUNU, ED MALLORY, MY LICSISTAS
BLACK HICKEY, BIG BLOOD, ANGELIQUE, IT WAS CARL MURPHYM SAUL, SAL
GARICIA, CUTY CLARK, CURB' JUNtEL, IT WAS BILLY DEE, IT WAS LIL
BUFF, IT WAS THE WHOLE HOOD WHO TOOK CARE OF OAK PARK MARK
IT WAS MY NEPHEW LIP G. TOO. IT WAS BURGER B, STEVE ALSTON
MARIO DRAYTON,MAR10 CALHOUN,LORENZ0f10) WALSH, ACTUALLY TO MANY
TO LIST HERE. MY POINT IS LOVE, IS THE STRONGEST FORCE IN THIS
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UNIVERSE.
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NEXT TO LOVE THE STROGEST THING IS HATE. IT WOULD
BE THE LOVE FOR ALL OF MY KIDS, THE TWINS, THE GIRLS THE WHOLE
FAMILY. THAT WOULD SUSTAIN ME DURING MY DARKEST TIME. AND
AS TO WOMAEN WHO
RAN THE BALL ACROSS THE LINE OF SCRIMAGE I SALUTE
YOU TO FOR DOING YOUR DUTY. IT WOULD ULTIMATELY BE LOVE THAT
MY LIFE.
SAVED
THE PROFIT KHALIL GEBRAN STATES 'IT IS MY FERVENT HOPE THAT MY
WHOLE
LIFE ON THIS - EARTH WILL EVER BE TEARS AND LAUGHTER.
WISDOM IS
FLUID.IT BRINGS FLEXIBILITY AND ADAPTATION.IT FREES
YOU FROM SLAVERY TO YOUR PAST AND PASSIONS.THE WISDOM OF SUPREME
MATHEMATICS ENABLED ME TO HAVE A KIND OF BALANCE IT TAUGHT ME
TO CARRY MYSELF WHEN CHAOS IS ALL AROUND ME.
HOW
WHEN
MY MOTHER PASSED MY VISOIN WAS CUT/FADED TO BLACK.
THAT WOAN HELD ME DOWN TILE THE DAY SHE PASSED FROM THE REALM
OF LIFE. MY Alumw TO SEE AHEAD WAS GONE.
THEN
THIS WOMAN WROTE TO ME OUT OF THE BLUE, AND I WAS BARRED FROM GETTING
EM41S g THE TIME, FROM THE PRISON I WAS AT, BUT I SENT FOR THIS FEMAIL
BitA4N;OMETHING TOLD ME I HAD ONE, SO I GOT IT FIVE MOTHS LATER AFTER
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m01.14 BACK, THE NOURISHER OF MY SOUL. WE'RE TOGETHER TO THIS DAY.
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THERE'S A STORY IN THE BIBLE, AND I DO THIS ALOT BECAUSE I AM SO WELL READ.
KING SOLOMON USED WISDOM TO REVEAL LOVE.WHEN KNOWELDEMAND(2)WISDOM
COME TOGETHER, THAT'S LOVE,THE 12TH LETTER.THAT'S BASIS FOR UNDERSTANDING.
SOLOMON IS THE MEDIATOR, OVER A DISPUTE RE-A BABY ,THESE TWO WOMEN ASK
HIM TO SETTLE IT. SOLOMON TELLS THEM THAT HE'LL JUST CUT THE BABY IN HALF
,ONE HALF FOR THEM BOTH. THE ONE WHOIS NOT THE CHILD'S MOTHER SAYS'
'YEAH, "BUT THE REAL MOTHER SAYS,"NAW GIRL YOU KEEP THE BABY." SHE IS WILLING
TOGIVE UP HER CHILD IN ORDER TO SAVE THE CHILDS LIFE.
IF YOU HAVE KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM,YOU'LL UNDERSTAND WHAT LOVE IS.
ALOT OF US MEN DON'T UNDERSTAND WOMEN, VICE VERSA, AND IF YOU ARE A
RELATIONSHIP WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM,YOU'RE GONNA BE DOMINATED ONE WAY
OR ANOTHER- THERE WILL BA A LACK OF JUSTICE. THE WAY TO START UNDERSTANDING
IS TO LOOK AT YOURSELF,INTROSPECTION. MEN AND WOMEN ARE NOT TO FAR APART.
THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD TAUGHT THAT 3%0F A MAN IS MISSING AND RESIDES
IN THE WOMAN.THIS RELATES TO THE STORY IN GENTS'S WHERE GOD REMOVES THE RIB
FROM ADAM TO MAKE EVE. ADAM WHO IS INCOMPLTE WITHOUT EVE. THERE IS ONLY A
3% DIFFERENCE GENETICALLY-BUT THAT DIFFRENCE CREATES ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL
FORCES ON EARTH. AND IF YOU ARE BLESSED TO FIND THAT MISSING RIB IN REAL
LIFE, THAT SO CALLED SOUL MATE, THE STRENGTH BULT FROM THAT HARMONY IS INFINITE.
THAT IS WHAT BROUGHT ME BACK MY STRENGTH. THINGS ARE DIFFERNT NOW.
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IN A WAY I RESURRECTED MY FORMER SELF, THE PART I LOST, IN LOSING SOMEONE
SO CLOSE TO MY HEART. / L/TERLALLY HAD A BROKEN HEART AND HAD TO HAVE MY HEART
SHOCKED BACK INTO REGULAR SINUS RYTHM AFTER LOSING MY MOTHER.
IN THE HADITHA IT SAYS THE FIRST SOUL CREATED WAS THE SOUL OF MUHAMMAD,AND
FORM HIS SOUL ALLOTHER SOULS WERE CREATED/MADE."THEY SAY THAT HIS SOUL ENTERS
A BODY ANYBODY'S-WHEN IT IS NEEDED.IT'S LIKE NEO IN THE MOVIE THE MATRIXJUST BY EXISTING HE FREES ALL OF HUMNANITY.IT'S LIKE BUDDHA-THEY
SAY HIS SOUL WAITED THOUSANDS OF YEARS TO BE DORN. AND THIS LETS US KNOW
THAT THAT ENERGY IS ALWAYS THERE , WAITING TO COME INTO EXISTENCE,TO BE
ACTUALIZED.
AND PEOPLE BRING IT INTO BEING-THROUGH OUR WILL,OUR PAIN, OUR NEED.WE CALL
WHAT WE NEED INTO BEING-TO SPARK US BACK TO LIFE. SO I BROUGHT HER INTO MY
LIFE. AND IT SPARKED ME BACK TO LIFE.
TH6W6SANOTHER SAYING THE BIBLE BRINGS TO THE SQUARE FOR THOSE WHO ARE WISE
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WHEN LOVE DOES NOT
MAKE IT INTO YOUR HEART,YOU DIE!!
I AM GOING TO SHARE THE HEART SUTRA WITH YOU IN CONCLUSION IT IS THE SHORTEST
OF THE SUTRAS.
BODY IS NOTHING
THE HEART SUTRA.
MORE THAN EMPTINESS,
EMPTINESS IS NOTHING MORE THAN BODY.
THE BODY IS EXACTLY EMPTY,
AND EMPTINESS IS
THE
EXACTLY BODY.
OTHER FOUR ASPECTS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE-FEELING,THOUGHT,WILL,AND CONSCIOUSNES-
ARE LIKEWISE NOTHING MORE THAN EMPTINESS ,AN!? EMPTINESS NOTHING MORE THAN
THEY.
]ALL THINGS ARE EMPTY:
NOTHING IS BORN,NOTHING VIES ,NOTHING IS PURE, NOTHINGIS STAINED, NOTHING INCRESES
AND NOTHING DECREASES
SO, IN
EMPTINESS ,THESE IS NO BODY,NO FEELING,NO THOUGHT,NO WILL, NO CONSCIOUSNESS.
THERE ARE NO EYES,NO EARS,NO NOSE, NO TOUNGUE, NO BODY,NOMIND.
THESE IS NO SEEING,NO HEARING,NO SMELLING,NO
TASTING, NO TOUCHING,NO IMAGINING.
THERE IS NOTHING SEEN,NOR HEARD, NOR SMELLED NOR
THERE IS NO
IGNORANCE,AND NO END TO /GNORANCE.THERE IS NO OLD AGE AND DEATH,THERE
IS NO SUFFERING,NO
THERE IS NO
TASTED,NORTOUCHED, NOR IMAGINED.
CAUSE OF SUFFERING,NO END TO SUFFERING, NO PATH TO FOLLOW.
ATTAINMENT OF WISDOM, AND NO WISDOM TO ATTAIN.
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THE BOVHISATTVAS RELY ON THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM,AND SO WITH NO
DELUSIONS THEY FEEL NO FEAR, AND HAVE NIRVANA HERE AND NOW.
ALL BUDDHAS, PAST ----PRESENT AND FUTURE, RELY ON THE PERFECTION
OF WISDOM,AND LIVE IN FULL ENLIGHTENMENT. THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM
IS THE GREATEST MANTRA. IT IS THE CLEAREST MANTRA,THE HIGHEST MATRA,
THE MANTRA THAT REMOVES ALL SUFFERING. THIS IS TRUTH THAT CANNOT
BE DOUTED SAY IT SO;
GATE', GATE' PARAGATE' PARASAMAGATE' BODHI1 SVAHA1 GONE,GONE, GONE
OVER. AWAKENED] SO BE IT!
IN LOVING MEMORY OF ORA MARIE SANDERS, AND SHARON YEE.
I RWIDPEiCE TO THE GODS AND EARTHS I HERE BUILDING STRONG IN THE
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