Including you. The most important thing to keep in mind is that the easiest to leave a gang is to not join one in the first place. If you are considering joining a gang, please take the time to consider the danger you are placing on your friends and family. Yes, some times people do join gangs because they lack anyone close to them, but circumstances do change and you will likely find yourself with close friends and loved ones sooner than you think.
Often, someone, especially youth, joins a gang to fulfill a sense of belonging. This is perfectly normal and an instinctual human trait. There are many other ways to receive this sense of belonging. Jobs, sports teams, art clubs, etc. A quick Google search for a group of people doing an activity you are interested in will reveal numerous results, trust me.
Gang violence is the reason much violent crime happens. In street lore, a gang banger can never leave a really brutal gang like Mara Salvatrucha In practice, a gang member like Gabriel can get out of a tough, but not suicidally murderous, gang like F13 if he has served time in prison and "done the work"—shown that he can "sling" drugs and wield a gun.
Handsome, charismatic—the nurses at Ya' Stuvo could not help flirting with him—Gabriel became a kind of poster child for leaving behind the gang life. He celebrated his achievement by sipping white wine with former first lady Laura Bush at the White House.
A few months later, he was back in jail. Gabriel joined F13 when he was 14 years old. He had a tough home life, he says, so he moved out and crashed with a gang member named Diablo since killed. When Gabriel was 16, a girl who was riding on the handlebars of his bike was shot and killed by rival gang members who were aiming for him. He learned to sling sell drugs, steal cars and use a gun—"I used to love holding it," he recalls.
When he was 21, he was sent away to prison for spraying the house of another gang member with bullets. He was released after only two years, but got two strikes for the incident; one more serious felony conviction and he would be sent to prison for life. Covered with tattoos when he emerged, he was unemployable. Fearful of winding up back in prison permanently if he rejoined his gang, he wandered into Homeboy Industries, an organization in downtown L.
A natural leader, Gabriel got a job there. He became a better husband, had another child and moved away from the old neighborhood, Florence. But he wasn't free. From time to time, he'd get "G'd up"—crease his pants, iron his shirt and go looking for his old "homeys.
In , months after his White House visit, he was back in his old neighborhood, "chilling" with friends, some of whom, he says, were smoking "primos" crack in marijuana joints.
The police arrived. They got me. No matter who you are, what you have done, or where you live—you deserve better. Begin spending your time doing other things. Instead of hanging out with your gang friends, find something else to do during that time. There are possibilities everywhere: sports, recreation centres, arts programs, drama, school activities—even spending time with your family.
Try to stop looking like a gangster. The negative thoughts and influences of any person, whether they are a gang member or not, do not come from the Heavenly Father. Those negative actions and thoughts come from the Enemy—the Devil. The Enemy's main purpose is to kill and destroy. There were other gangs or groups that were based on the goodness of helping others: the Black Panthers , and the followers of other Civil Rights Leaders, Martin Luther King Jr.
Also the ancestors of African Americans have paved the way for a better life of the generations to come. Our ancestors were beaten, whipped, raped, disrespected, kidnapped, deprived, mocked, bought and sold, and murdered. They went through all of those extreme situations to pave the way for so called gang members and everyone else to be "free.
To keep a baby elephant from escaping, a zoo keeper attached the elephant's neck rope to a stake in the ground. As the elephant got older and stronger, he still would not escape, because of the appearance of the stake in the ground attached to the rope that held him. The full-grown elephant that grew from a baby did not know his own strength and didn't attempt to break away from the slave mentality. Do you know your own strength? Are you still stuck in the slave mentality of the media and all the stereotypes of a Black American?
Try and break away from the negative traditions you are used to; find out what your positive strengths are, and then exercise them. Avoid going by the appearance of what's keeping you in your situation. You are more than your environment. Know your strengths, gain knowledge and wisdom, and break away from the slave mentality.
There is a way out of gang activities; let go of the graffiti, drugs, alcohol, womanizing, disrespects, murdering, fear, anger, branding tattoos , and other things you're letting the Devil drive you to do. A real man is not doing these negative things; a real man is the opposite of those negative things. A real man is gentle, kind, patience, compassionate, willing to learn, positive in his action, willing to teach, and most of all he serves the Heavenly Father.
Gang activity is definitely not foolproof protection. The Bloods will turn on another Blood member in many instances, especially if they snitch on them. And the Crips turn on each other to hurt other members as well.
Parents sending their child out of town might be a good ideal for helping them to get out of a gang, but make sure the ex-gang member doesn't go out of town to find the same trouble but different faces. Always believe that there is a way out of gang activity and you will rise above it all.
Gang members believe they are fighting their so-called rivals over territory, but the gangs do not own any of the houses in the neighborhoods. In fact the property value of homes goes down because of the infestation of gangs and drugs.
If gangs really "own the streets," how is it that the police can come in and do any and everything they want to do to gang members? Negative people have to choose to be a part of the solution and not the problem. New gang members think that what they are doing is new, but it's all a "rerun. There are Rappers on television that are glorifying gang affiliation. These famous Rappers show the blue or red bandannas in their back pockets: Snoop Dogg, T.
This is sending a poisonous message to young boys and girls that are watching them on TV. Although we like their music, they can stop glorifying red or blue bandannas in public on TV.
We can't afford for the cycle to keep repeating itself, there is hurting: mothers, fathers, grandmothers, sister, aunts, uncles, friends, daughters, sons, the whole family suffers from the actions of gang bangers. The drive-bys that gang members do make it easy for people that are prejudiced against Blacks, such as the Klu Klux Klan.
Black-on-Black crime is not the answer for our pain, stopping the violence is the answer, and it's the healing.
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