Political Essay; Satire; Poetry; Gangs, Ku Klux Klan; white supremacy; inter-racial violence; capitalism; racial empowerment; Black Power; Black Capitalismhttps://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/writingbeyondtheprison/1015/thumbnail.jp

Brown, Timothy

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Stony Brook University Academic Commons Writing Beyond the Prison 2024 Are Gangs Working for the Klan? Timothy Brown Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/writingbeyondtheprison  Part of the African American Studies Commons, Africana Studies Commons, Nonfiction Commons, Poetry Commons, and the Social History Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Recommended Citation Brown, Timothy, "Are Gangs Working for the Klan?" (2024). Writing Beyond the Prison. 79. https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/writingbeyondtheprison/79 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by Academic Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Writing Beyond the Prison by an authorized administrator of Academic Commons. For more information, please contact mona.ramonetti@stonybrook.edu, hu.wang.2@stonybrook.edu. ARE GANGS WORKING FOR THE KLAN?  Let’s define a few terms before we look into this controversial subject. A Gang is an organization of individuals functioning together for an illegal purpose. The Klan -Ku Klux Klan- is an organization of individuals functioning together for the purpose of oppressing Blacks and maintaining white supremacy. Gang activity is also oppressing Blacks and helping maintain white supremacy.   According to one of the original founders of the Crips, it started out as community Revolutionary Inner Party Services and represented Black pride, Black Power, and confronted major injustices B’lack people faced from the Klan (white supremacists). Supposedly, the Bloods came about as a means to fight back against the Crips. Other gang leaders have told me similar stories. That their organizations came into existence to protect their neighborhoods from police brutality and racial oppression. Some say they were intrigued by Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party and wanted to be like them.For the record, I am not a gang member. My knowledge comes from interviewing numerous O.G.s and gang leaders.   The most important questions: How did these organizations go from Black Love/Black Power, to Black Self-Hate/Black Genocide? And more importantly, how do we get them back to Black Love/Black Power? At one point we stood together, died for each other and fought our common enemy. Now we kill each other over a word, color, hand gesture, rag, or because a white supremacist (prosecutor) told us to.During the height of the Klan’s reign, they killed about 300 Black people a year. Gang-on-Gang (bBck-on-Black) violence has averaged 3,000 deaths a year for the last fourty years. Of that 3,000, many are innocent bystanders, women and children who have nothing to do with the gangs. The Klan killed Black women and children as well. This does not include the 300,000 kidnapped by the criminal injustice system annually. So I ask: Are you working for the Klan Black-man (Spanish-man, Native-man, Asian=man)? Knowingly or not, are your actions oppressing your people, terrorizing the neighborhood and causing the death of your brothers and sisters! How many Klansmen have you killed!  Some gang members on death row say they have not received one letter, money order or any support from their gang since they have been sentenced to die by the Klan courts, for putting in work for the gang. What have you pledged your life to? What do they offer back for your life? Are you succeeding in your objectives? It’s time to do something different!I can promise you this, if the more than three million active gang members stop fighting each other, and come together as one people, we will be more powerful than almost any other organization in this country. We would be a  fortune 500 company. The laws will be changed in our favor. We will put judges on the bench, and our mayors in office. That’s real power!  Why do black men, and women, continue to fight each other when we have so much power and potential in UNITY? Because we are working for the Klan! The Klan controls our thinking and therefore our actions. The Klan is pimping Black men!Maybe I should have named this: “Are Black men being pimped by the Klan?” I’m not just talking to gang members. I seek the attention of all those committing b\Black-on-Black violence or judge-on-Black violence. Who’s going to have the courage to say enough of this foolishness! The Klan has tricked you into destroying yourself for them. We have been hoodwinked like Malcom X said.You have been taught by an elephant (republican) and a jack ass (donkey) Democrats. They also rep red and blue, and fight against each other to see who will plunder the people. They work for and are part of the Klan! Their mission: maintain white supremacy.  I plead with my brothers and sisters. It’s time to stand together, stop destroying each other, to protect our family and stop working for the Klan! And yes, I have a comprehensive plan to accomplish all that I have said. I do not write to offend anyone only to bring the benefits of UNITY. I welcome all constructive conversation and offer my assistance to all seeking Black Love, Power, Freedom and Equality!   This poem is from a former gang member. The gang myth, yea, it was just like I pictured it, with bullets constantly flying past my head,  only to look up and find an innocent baby lying dead.  Now everybody is screaming for revenge; so we end up doing the same stupid shit our rivals just did.  Because in the life it’s an eye for an eye, but not one of us could vividly tell you the reason why, because we were trapped in a mythological lie.  Taught to believe that we were each other enemy, only to find out later you are really biologically kin to me;  and when I finally did wake up from my stupidity, it was like my vocabulary did not belong to me.  I was speaking words like berious instead of serious, and when I went to apply for a job the people thought I was confused and delirious,; so I left the place feeling kind of dumb  realizing for the first time that being raised by the gang was not at all fun.  And the myth that ultimately became reality;  well it filled my life with nothing but heartaches and tragedies!  Harambee (Let’s Work Together)               YES IT’S SYSTEMIC RACISM   The reason for all the ills that affect the Black Nation is  Systemic Racism (INEQUALITY). We can’t be equal when nothing in this society is owned or controlled by us. This was the plan from Willie Lynch and his friends. “Never allow Blacks to control the means of finance and production, therefore they will always be our slaves.”  Police are controlled by whites, and they kill to intimidate us to stay in our place. The judicial system is run by whites and it lynches our freedom fighters through incarceration.Superintendents of schools, and school boards are white and limit the knowledge of our children. They brainwash them into believing they are inferior, need special programs, and that whites are their savior. Food suppliers and stores put unhealthy fast food and alcohol in our neighborhoods causing known health problems, obesity, and shorter life spans.The health care system is administered by whites and experiments on us in order to give life saving medicine to them. Housing developers and mortgage lenders are operated by whites and if they lend to blacks, they charge higher rates, foreclose more frequently, and redline us into select neighborhoods.   Major employers are owned by whites and only employ a limited amount of us to make it look fair.The banks and Federal Reserve System are owned by whites and control the entire system to maintain white fake supremacy by making sure blacks don’t control any major means of finance, production, or media. How does the federal reserve do this? With the magic of keystrokes. As controllers of all bank accounts, the federal reserve can electronically deposit any amount into  any account with the simple data entry command. Oxford Economics claims that the federal reserve will have done this to the tune of over $10 trillion by the end of 2020. How much of that did you receive? NONE!  What bBack-man has this kind of power! That is not a question. What’s the outcome of these actions?Try playing Monopoly when your competition controls the bank and can always get money to defeat your every move. It will be impossible for you to win. Ron Paul said: “What we’re working with now is fake money, a fake measuring rod…it is unbelievable.”You better believe it. The federal reserve creates money at will and uses it to oppress blacks, fund bigots, and buy or destroy any black business that looks to build  up black ownership.  Can you name any black owned business in any major industry? Stop trying, there are none. Not BET, it was purchased by Viacom back in 2009.None of the black hair care companies are owned by blacks. NIKE will not give Jordan or Lebron shares in the company, even though they make billions for NIKE. Gucci, Jacob’s Jewelry, don’t make me go there.Ford, General Motors, General Electric, Wal-Mart, Met Life, Whole Foods, Google, Facebook, Amazon, none of these companies on the stock exchanges are owned by Blacks.How can we ever be equal when everything we work to build is owned by those willing to kill us to maintain their privilege (remember the Civil War). As long as there is a privileged class (slave masters), there must be am oppressed class (slaves).  The only way to change systemic racism is for blacks to own and control major means of finance and production. This means six of the twelve federal reserve district banks, a car manufacturing company, nationwide power generation company, etc. Then we can talk about a post-racial society. Until then, the system will work against us, because it is run by those working against us!  Genre Political Essay Satire Poetry Tags: Gangs, Ku Klux Klan; white supremacy; inter-racial violence; capitalism; racial empowerment; Black Power; Black Capitalism 

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