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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
well, the problem is, whoever started it all and why doesn't matter so much as what it's turned into. it spread like a cancer and now it's everywhere.
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actually, if crips begin to look back at their origins in truth, they can return to the ideals, and perhaps go back to some Panther shit rather than some bullshit. At least thats what I preach at the liquor store when I'm in the hood.. it should be about some Panther shit like soup kitchens and neighborhood restoration. niggaz should be on the block painting trim and picking up trash, not getting into shit all day.
floating.. the wiki story is what all those youngsters
said was their story and that has become the text book story, but the OG versions which I have
heard say that the first folks to join these Baby Avenues were mixed up as youngsters with the Panthers, and were involved with both gang and community activites, both jacking people
for the Panthers and doing community service. This is the foundation of the CRIPS, as the lil homies runnin around with the Panthers until all the Panthers were either killed, locked up or scattered. The Baby Avenues story is only part of it, whats missing from that Wiki entry is what motivated and influence all the OTHER youngsters to join up with Crips to begin with, and that was their previous activities and experiences with the Panthers. The CRIPS didn't blow up because those handful of founding youngsters were so cool, it was because it was a bunch of people related initially to the Panthers.. in a sense that first generation of Crips was an extension and continuation of the people who were organized with the LA panthers, but since there were no more LA panthers to guide them, all they had to get into was bullshit.. and we know for a fact that CIA/FBI were all over the neighborhoods in this time, so we can also know that they were involved in corrupting these youngsters away from Panther ideals towards drugs and gang violence..