To transform himself Tookie engaged in a redemption process through self-discipline struggle to redeem himself from a Crips legacy of Black-on-Black self-hatred, self-defeat, self-destruction, fratricide, and community destruction.
By some accounts some 15,000 Black males in South Central Los Angeles have were murdered over a 30-year period (1970–2000) in gang warfare between the Crips and the Bloods.
Tookie also created the ‘Internet Project for Street Peace’ to reduce gang violence; he authored nine anti-gang books instructing youth how not to follow in his footsteps. In 2001 Tookie was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times and the Nobel Prize in literature four times; he is the only man in history to be nominated while imprisoned.
It is my belief that Tookie initially was wrongfully convicted ‘racist injustice’ and then intentionally executed in prison because of his self-transformation redemption and Black consciousness that made him a threat due to his positive transforming influence on all Black gangs.
The combination of a contempt and fearful attitude toward young, Black male gang members has resulted in families, communities, churches, schools, human service agencies, and municipalities neglecting their psycho-socioeconomic issues; wrongfully blaming them for all the woes in Black communities creating an 'us against them' scenario.
This disgust and phobia leads to stereotyping, scapegoating, ignoring, neglecting, and writing-off Black male gang members as Stanley Tookie Williams stated:
As a Black community whether we like it or not Black gangs ‘street organizations’ are integral parts of our communities consisting of Black male youth and young adults of our communities. They are influential albeit destructively, they should not be isolated but embraced; dialogued with and challenged; provided guidance and effective ‘relevant’ counseling.
By some accounts some 15,000 Black males in South Central Los Angeles have were murdered over a 30-year period (1970–2000) in gang warfare between the Crips and the Bloods.
Tookie also created the ‘Internet Project for Street Peace’ to reduce gang violence; he authored nine anti-gang books instructing youth how not to follow in his footsteps. In 2001 Tookie was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times and the Nobel Prize in literature four times; he is the only man in history to be nominated while imprisoned.
It is my belief that Tookie initially was wrongfully convicted ‘racist injustice’ and then intentionally executed in prison because of his self-transformation redemption and Black consciousness that made him a threat due to his positive transforming influence on all Black gangs.
The combination of a contempt and fearful attitude toward young, Black male gang members has resulted in families, communities, churches, schools, human service agencies, and municipalities neglecting their psycho-socioeconomic issues; wrongfully blaming them for all the woes in Black communities creating an 'us against them' scenario.
This disgust and phobia leads to stereotyping, scapegoating, ignoring, neglecting, and writing-off Black male gang members as Stanley Tookie Williams stated:
“The Black community generally was blind to its defiant youth creating increasingly aggressive street gangs. Mislabeled by some as a lost generation, we were instead forgotten prodigies who disappeared, children buried alive in a sandbox. We did what was necessary to exhume ourselves. Though we must share the blame, we were products of a culture that bastardized us.”
As a Black community whether we like it or not Black gangs ‘street organizations’ are integral parts of our communities consisting of Black male youth and young adults of our communities. They are influential albeit destructively, they should not be isolated but embraced; dialogued with and challenged; provided guidance and effective ‘relevant’ counseling.
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