The Ghetto

I was at my ghetto recently, and I wanted some cookies [the really good chocolate covered ones, you know...] so I asked my mom if I could go down the street to buy some. My mom of course freaked and told me I can't walk down the street by myself...blah blah blah [shes a little bit over protective] [love you mom!], so she eventually walked down with me. While my mom and I were in line some drugged up O.G. walks up to us and asks us what gang we're from, Avenues or 18, personally I was insulted by the question because I don't think I look ghetto in any way at all, maybe my mom can a little but not me, anyways so my mom was trying to be nice and was like "Oh neither, hopefully those gangs don't exist anymore" then the O.G. said "NAH Avenues is still strong, they can never take us down." then he just stood there until we left.

But then and there I began to wonder what it would be like to be a "G" or a gangsters girlfriend.

how hard can it be right?

Responsibilities of a "G"[18] :

1. Get a big 18 or 666 tattooed on your body, then walk around your hood with your shirt off.

2. Stab you leg a couple times to get that gangsta limp/walk

3. Respect the main man, and do what he wants, or die. Its your choice

4. Learn their gang sign [make an 18 with your hand] and tilt your head up showing your chin when you do it

5. Wear some brown/black shorts with a white/black tee and some air force ones, or some other kind of big white shoes with high socks

6. Beat someone up or kill someone with no regrets or pity, if you want to cry tatoo a tear on your face instead

Responsibilities of a "G's" girl:

1. Don't tell anyone your boyfriends shit or you'll die

2. Make your boyfriend feel better and like a man, or he'll beat you

3. Watch out for the cops, because he's the one making the money and protecting you, if the pigs catch him your screwed.

4. When he gets caught, bail him out or else he'll beat you or kill you when he does gets out.

5. Take the beating when he needs to take out his anger or he'll beat you more, oh and accept his apologies after the beatings, no nagging about the pain! its annoying...

6. Be FAITHFUL or you die.

isn't that lovely and easy!

see it's not that bad

you just have to let the man do whatever he wants to stay alive!

[unless you have a really nice gangsta boyfriend]

If you really think about it, all it is is respect and obedience to those above you. A gang is a brotherhood, a family, they watch each others backs and actually love one another. Living a gangster life can wear you out so much, because it requires the numbing of your emotions and physical labor and punishment. Sure they kill people, but they do it for the protection of their "family." Most of the people in gangs had hard childhoods with parents that didn't care or love them. So these children took matters into their own hands and join a gang that will care for them and love them. We see them as criminals that steal our money and kill our loved ones, when in fact, they are the victims too. They didn't get the love they deserved so they do not think we deserve to have love either.


The majority of gang members come from poor families that live pay check by pay check and sometimes they don't get a pay check, then what? They're screwed. Some kids think that joining a gang is the only way they can get money for their family. Easy and quick money to support a family sounds good to the kid, but once they get into a gang they can get out. They earn more and more, and they forget what they did it for and start to think about their new family, the gang. You never see rich kids joining gangs, because they don't need it. Poor kids that see themselves with lesser values see gangs as an opportunity to getting by in life. They should be offered more choices. Sure, not all gang members have good intentions, but a lot of them do...in the beginning at least.

Living in a bad neighborhood exposes you to so many bad things when you are a kid. You see people with so much hate towards others and disrespect for one another. So when you see someone get killed for the first time, you can either freak out, get pissed, or just plain out ignore it. For those that get angry some become cops, and some become gangstas or drug dealers. If the person that was killed was a loved one, they immediately want revenge. Revenge by killing one of their loved ones or killing the killer. Another event that might cause a kid to join a gang is rape. If their girlfriend, mother, sister etc. get raped somehow [knock on wood] they have so much hate for that person that they want revenge. Revenge can put us in deadly situations that no one wants to be in. So give the youngsters some slack and help them out.


What I'm trying to say is that as Nice People (thanks to the big man up top) we should try to reach out to them not judge them for what they do. We all sin, no sin is bigger than the other in God's eyes. Now lets give them the love they deserve.



Song of the day: Remember the name- Fort Minor
Verse of the day: Philippians 3:13-14 [this requires that you open a bible] (: