Comments about gang life

There are 100 comments about "gang life"

awake: Alot people have been living with no direction and misdirection threw out there entire lives in the ghetto's,all over the world.The criminal mentality and immoral behaviors has not been wiped out off the face of......

in response to: GANGS ON NYC by StripesA4

Anna: Now that a team has won in Philadelphia (Souls) I guess the curse is broken! But I didn't see on the news that the El was set on fire or cars and buses were......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

jsmooth: Reply to OPEN YOUR EYES... I thought that your response made complete sense and that you are right in many aspects of your comments and if my response seemed to come off racial than I apollogize.......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

Skip: I remember being an idiot while in the Navy stationed in Chicago in 1995 and driving through Cabrini at 1A.M just because my friend had an obsession with "The Hood." He flashed some fake gang......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

just me : I like many of you grew up in the HP area. No I don't live there anymore because i had my children and chose not to raise them in that enviroment. Needless to say......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Open your eyes !!: I have read mostly all of the comments on here and it makes me sad to see how ignorant some people really are. What a lot of you need to do is......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

1life2live: I from brooklyn my whole life the truth is shit can happen if your in the wrong place at the wrong time im lucky i have many friends stabbed or killed for stupidity but as......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

anon (itsc083.itsnpt.com): East Orange is only an address. It's the people who are the products of young parents who have little education and poor parenting skills that have made the places in East Orange unsafe. ......

in response to: The Projects of East Orange by Peter

HP Teach: I have been a teacher in Humboldt Park for 10 years. I have seen improvements and setbacks. I have seen how the violence hurts the community. If the gang activity was minimized, the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jsmooth: this is just another example of tax dollars gone too waste...we try to do something night for the brothas and this is the thanks that we get, a bunch of drug selling, cop killin, gangbangin......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

bubba: What I dont understand is....if so many people dont like the HA, why do you "know" so much about them. I cant count how many times I have just read that they are dope......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

E$MONEY(1920 BABY 4EVA): I lived in 1920 for most of my life apt,209.My name is eric a.k.a(egg)and i've seen many people from that area fall from chidhood to adult.Caugt up in gangs,drugs,and life hardships.I'm not saying that im......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

jimmie tye aka (big crystal bother): what's good my double h family life is good after the project's i lived at 1943 w. lake st for most of my life until now i was born in 1984 in i can remember......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

lil droopy: were all da gang tags at SUR,BREWTOWN,SAN JOSE,BARALEZ,WSL,ESL ,ESK,NHC 40Z, ETC.......505 LIVIN IN NUEVO MEXICO 4 LIFE REPRESENT...

in response to: Albuquerque Graffiti Flood by Relapsed

Montrice Weathersby A.K.A Sconey Wrong: I was born and raised in the Henry Horner Homes projects in 1975 in the building 2145 w.lake St.We loater moved to 2215 w.Lake st and all i could remember is gun fire and purse......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Skip: I remember being an idiot while in the Navy stationed in Chicago in 1995 and driving through Cabrini at 1A.M just because my friend had an obsession with "The Hood." He flashed some fake gang......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

jamal: I remember the Henry Horner projects very well. I never lived in any of them but lived one block away on Warren Blvd. near Damen. I remember as a little boy when they were......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Pettis - December 09, 2007: Your comments resonate the truth in so many ways. When you peel back the years, you'll find that many families raise their children in the Henry Horner Homes. The Mitchell family was a......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

young jersey: Whats up my jersey people. I lived in east orange all my life, and its fucked up but to most of us its home.I,m proud to be from jersey, but the gang shit needs to......

in response to: The Projects of East Orange by Peter

Momma' Becky's daughter: Well, I actually Don't think that Hutchinson Is all THAT terrible... I mean, I know it's really not a whole lotta' fun, and there isn't much to do here... but the beauty of becoming an......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

HushUp: For the person who thinks that someone should ask the side of the 'Gang Member' on why they shot and killed my son's friend - It's obvious you have no clue what it's like to......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

HushUp: Ok apparently not. So here we go (I guess because of my first post I used copy and paste so it didn't go through) Sooooo, I will type it all out, just because I......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

D.Bennet-lived in 1943 apt 606: I grew up in the Henry Horner Holmes a.k.a. the Hornets i live in 1943 4 trey i also grew up with pharoah and laffy and that movie portrayed them as innocent fun loving children......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Genuine brooklynite bushwick baby: I am so proud of where i come from.Most people say bitches in bushwick are dumb.Never that Never me ,I just see what i see and i will always be me.Growing up in the hood......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

A. Taylor: Get a life u wanna b gangsta and "cone" you sound like CHAV SCUM go rot in hell !!...

in response to: Graffiti by Duplo

RickC: I wish we would stop refering to Bushwick as the Ghetto. It is a community in transition. I was there when it was great and celebrities such as Jackie Gleason lived on Chauncey Street. Will......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

anon (static-host-66-18-45-122.epbinternet.com): Another perspective. I'm 50 years old. Born in St. Anthony's, lived on Fairfield and Richmond Streets, attended Moos School. Gangs are nothing new. Puerto Ricans began moving into the neighborhood in......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Peter: cay: firstly, i think its humorously ironic that you qualify "not scaremongering" by saying "god knows {nyc} is scary enough". thats a dated, inaccurate and stereotypical statement that i dont appreciate much, as a {new......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

iman: robert: yeah man i go to lafayette hs. by the way, if c.i. is bad already, you're right, it doesn't matter if it gets worse. just as long as it doesn't spread to some people.......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

jack: iman you sound like a smart kid, in the 50's in brooklyn there were little street gangs on every other corner. a gang then were just a group, a clan, kids from down the......

in response to: But There Is No Other Door for the over 50 Year Old Gang by jack

jack: your right, even better the government should round up every gang member and put them into a special branch of the army and send them to iraq to look for osama, i'm sure these young......

in response to: But There Is No Other Door for the over 50 Year Old Gang by jack

Anonymous - 36: Great !! If someone ever asks me the what was the best time of my life - without a doubt it was 13-16, great memories to last a lifetime. My 9 year old daughter can't......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Antoine Whitfield: Yo, I was born & raised in bushwick (Wilson ave btwn. cooper & moffat st). Growing up in bushwick btwn yr. 71'& 88' I was fortunate to see the neighborhood go through transition.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

devil doc: Live and Let live. I remeber wen i was 14- 15 years old hanging out in front of CB GB'S and talking to a few members of the HA. Down right cool people. I......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

Derek Jackson: Wow! Reading all this misspelled babble about being proud of being hispanic, about fighting the whites trying to take what's yours, and about complaining about gang violence is making me half-laugh, half-get pissed off. Homboldt Park......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

This is real!!!: I sit here sad as hell listening to all the disrespect everyone has for each other. WOW. im trying to understand how can we be so ignorant and not get our act together. I lived......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

The Chi-ster: We need to see the bigger picture here. Its almost heartbreaking to see people of a common struggle wasting time and lives with petty arguments. I am boricua, I stayed on Kedzie and......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Ringo: Susannah, christian bashing is not acceptable either, the object here is to point out that the actions of the few do not define the whole. I have a friend who is deeply christian and at......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

Osloman20plus: I just want to say.. All in all, Oslo is still 'nothing' compared to larger and more international cities. But yeah, no doubt it has become worse over the last 15-20 years. But in fact,......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

Jammy: I love these peoples they are complete legends! anyone no how to join? if anyone lives in england i would like to no... these guys are the best people i met... the nices 'Gang' i......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

WindyCity4life: I would ay Cabrini would be considered still dangerous.Last time i was their,their was a bunch of Gangster diciples walking around outside of the remaining high rises on west division street.My dad used to have......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

KING CISCO 95TH ROSLAND: IM READIN ALOT OF SHIT ABOUT HUMBOLDT MY AUNT LIVED THER FOR 4 YEARS AND I SPENT ALOT OF TIME OUT THERE. (IM MEXICAN). I GOT SOMTHIN TO SAY ABOUT THE FOOL TALKIN ABOUT EDUCATION......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

shelia/neworleans: OK THE OLD WAY OF LIVING IS OVER. IT IS; SO... HATE ME IF YOU MUST. HOW MANY YEARS HAVE THEY BEEN TALKING ABOUT TEARING DOWN THE PROJECTS AND PUTTING UP CONDOS? HOW LONG WAS......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

cutchemist: fuck yall gangs graffiti is life hoes...

in response to: Miami Art Massacre by Bob Edelson

shelia/neworleans : I am sure that if one of those buildings is still standing you will have some remnants of the life that once was. Evil spirits don’t leave gracefully. As long as there is a......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

Genaro: During the late 1940's and 50's, many of The Manhattan Elite thought it proper in calling the less popular working or the poor social White under class, WHITE TRASH! This would also include Whites who......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

!: ROFL man get a life seriously...if you think being a thug or a gangmember can get you anywhere in life...think again. And since you repping "bloodz" whos your set o.g. and why is hell red?...

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Staci: Wow. This blog is great. I'm a resident of Humboldt Park for two years now and just signed my lease for another year. I don't have a lot of time right this......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

gringa latina: Well, here I am again. I wrote my last post in Spanish I guess as a sign of respect to all of the latino residents of Humboldt Park and to write as a "white......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

908: am a white female from the suburbs south of Chicago. I am English, Swedish, German, Polish Russian, English, and Scottish. Driving through Humboldt Park .....It's beautiful. There are beautiful homes and parks, but the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

$incere : i lived in bushwick ma whole life on knickerbocker covert back in da day shit was ccrazy mad pplz dyin and crack and heroine on every corner and now i live on stanhope and......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Unknown: I am a white female from the suburbs south of Chicago. I am English, Swedish, German, Polish Russian, English, and Scottish. Driving through Humboldt Park .....It's beautiful. There are beautiful homes and parks, but......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Dj Santi: Just wanted to say I have some pics of Humbodlt Park on my web site CHICAGOLATINDJS.COM. Things have calmed done since the 70's & 80's in HP. I lost alot of friends due to gangs violence......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Payaso: I used to live near Mozart and Bloomingdale and the neighborhood used to be dangerous, but a lot has changed and now it seems people feel pretty comfortable jogging and bike-riding-- even at night. ......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Question.....: First off i would like to say i come with much love, honor, y respect.... Not real sure if this would be the place to post or if anyone has an answer to my questions..........

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

M, J (MP): Gangs shouldn't even be killing innocent lives. Everybody that lives in HP/ North side, South side, West side,& East side knows that it ain't easy to live in a huge enviornment where there's a lot......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

thuglife: i live right next to EO, shit is hard as hell there. trust me. theres always shootings and shit like that. gangs be whilen there. no joke....dont sleep on jersey...

in response to: The Projects of East Orange by Peter

dro killa: Oh, I was reffering to the people who posted above my original comment, about people finally saying something real. Life is hard as fuck, I know, that's why some of us are out there......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

dro killa: It's about time...^, Finally some real words. I used to be down for all that hard knock hustlin' mentality, I still am, it's just different now. Ya'll some true G's and that's......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

TheManTheDeveloper: The area has passed hands through many cultures in Chicago's history. The only thing constant in life is change. My good Puerto Rican neighbors who worked hard and bought their 2 flats and......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

J.J. From a Puerto Rican brother: I'm not writing this to judge or criticize anyone. Just to try to open a little conscience on la raza Latina. Mi gente, how can you speak of love when you talk everyone else down.......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

HOTTIE : A party crew is a group of members that go to alot of parties.its not a short and dangerous life in a gang. ive been in a gang since i was 12!!! The oldest person......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Thank you for clearing that up. What's a party crew? Sounds like a short and dangerous life in a gang. How old is the oldest member? ...

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Corporal Diaz U.S.M.C.: Some time has gone by since I first laid my thoughts on this forum. I can see nothing has changed sine I left Humboldt park. And to some degree it saddens me, but it does......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Open your eyes a little wider: This forum definitely is an interesting one. I just want to let people who read this forum know something though. I had written a post on the 30th of October and submitted it......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Ashamed of all!!: I just want to say that everyhting I have read here, has made me very ashamed.. I'm glad that they are imporving Humboldt Park, weather its through whites moving in or not.. Because all......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

B-Sin: this 4 all bitch made people who say all Gang Bangas r stupid and immature and that ay got grown up life shit 2 deal wit fuck ya pussy ass bitches. ya da......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

king love lady : i've read both those books my bloody life and once a king always a king.i live down here in mia and too me that that kid went thru alot of shyt from bein beating......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Whites in HP: I am white and have been living in HP for two years and I have not had one issue. I have seen others duke it out or get shot but that is because of the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Confused: Please school me. I am not wheeping about anything just not understanding. I understand the pyramid of life and managment structures, gang hierarchy etc... but I am just not sure where to go to get......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Young Father: Im straight up Latin to the bone. I dont show it through logos, clothing, chants, etc, etc. I let it show itself as a result of reading, travels, music, learning, worship, and everyday......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Young Father: Disinvestment created HP... Gangs are an old relic idea thats past its time...Puerto Ricans were nieve country people that got consumed and spit out by American city life......HP will become Lincoln Park in the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

dynasty: da more i think bout all da ppl i heard bout ppl who had died i just wished there werent gangs at all unless they HELP the community. like another example of a girl named......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

dynasty: look it dont matter who live in HP white,black.hispanic all it matter iz how they are well sept for dem PIGZ. i dont live by HP but when i hear bout these stories bout lil......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Sharina: I used to live in the Humbolt Park area for most of my life in a Disciple neighborhood. I used to think the gang life was cool, but now that I've moved and matured I......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Mr Norway..: He he he he he.. you see me laughing... ;) I can only laugh of all your remarks.. To the last individual who posted his.. or her remarks here.. When did this......

in response to: Injustice CASE... by Rune-Willem

jack: life is short. many, many gang people believe this is their time so let it be. they are wasting time. look at the world, look at the sky, look at the flowers.......

in response to: Injustice CASE... by Rune-Willem

BaByDoll: I lived in many places during my lifetime and I think by far Humbolt Park has to be one of the best...I never lived there but my best friend does and she is a raw......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

benrox: Alright - I've read a good amount of these posts. Let me start off by saying that I am white. I've been living in "the hood" my whole life. I don't live in Humboldt Park,......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

cafeconleche: I was enjoying the comments ans just pondering stuff when this gang shit comes up...What is up with the gangbangers....? Geeze I know this is a public forum but, ya'll are comin' out of......

in response to: Rain Stops Play by Jamie

Mystical Witness...: The basis of an individual's existence is governed by self-dertermination. The distinction which is made to those who fail & refuse to fall through the cracks of an industrialized society is based primarily in the......

in response to: The King Was Correct by Lili

Peter: babelfish tells me (in really fractured english): manifest/listovka/zaveshchaniye/ob"yavleniye/anketa (necessary to emphasize) Explaining everything and simultaneously questioning WHY! you this make vyaloradikal'naya anarkhoterroristicheskaya proyevreyskaya counterrevolutionary group, band, gang, party, force WHY! It calls to deny everything and to......

in response to: Oktyabrskaya by piranha erem

Seeking a Future: Hey everyone, I grew up in HP, left for several years and have returned. We are who we choose to be. The opportunities are there. I agree some of us Latin Americans......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Juanted: I always thought when i shoot someone I would be for a very good reason.I thought I'm not going to let anybody cheat me,think there better than me, steal from me.hells no! When my little brother......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Reality: To everyone that believes white people are living in Humboldt Park for the fun of it, get real. It is not by choice. Why would anyone choose to put themselves in an area of random......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

SadStateOfAffairs: Very sad but enlightening to read all of the threads. I too live in Humboldt Park and have seen the good and the bad. The first night in our new home, a girl got shot,......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

J : I know yall heard about Kevin he was trying to change hes life and the cops killed him this is prof that these cops aint no different they also plant drugs on people (Gangstas)......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

CynLaLinda: Soy Puertoriquena y Houndurena,I lived in humbolt park on and off all my life and even though things are bad i still miss it ive seen alot of shit and learned alot of shit from......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Peter: random fact: penicillin isnt completely metabolized by the body when it is taken to ward off infection. actually, a large majority of it is excreted in the piss... well, in ww1, when such antibiotics were a......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

hype: pac and bigge are dead. shit happens. all this east coast versus west coast shit is so 1990s. its a contrived beef that the record industry keeps alive to sell more records. dont believe the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

some white guy: Humboldt Park used to be a white Lutheran/Jewish neighborhood. If you don't believe me go look at Roser's bakery and the statue of Lief Ericson with the inscription "Discovered America". Only a cocky white person......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

i dont kno: yes he is right folk is a gang fuk slobs im a blood killa im folk 4 life...

in response to: Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights by anon

rational ex-folk-nation leader: both the crips and bloods need to grow up. "gangs", no matter how you want to try to justify/explain them, are for aimless teens and criminally minded society dropouts. do something more productive with your life......

in response to: Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights by anon

that folk nigga jus shot that slo6b: folks are a family, not some "gang" we are an orginazation. one that utilizes growth and development, education, politics, social development, and education just to name a few. as we stand upon our 6 point......

in response to: Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights by anon

Cheo repen dem Rollin 60 Crips: Ya'll young niggas repen CRIPS ya'll need to chill cuzz gangs ain't no fuccin game my oldest brother died for being in a gang and now i wish i was out but i ain't no......

in response to: Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights by anon

boodysnatcherxl: ignant ass motherfuckers , yall need to get your fuckin shitty lives together. many of you will be in jail soon. you aint gettin nowhere wit datgangbangin. life is beautiful. respect it and grow......

in response to: Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights by anon

Shankill.: A bit of clarification for that ignorant bastard jamie further up the list.He or She tries to glorify the PIRA,RIRA and CIRA and says the UFF/UDA and the UVF(very surprisingly) are just front names for......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

from snopes.com: Legend: Old running shoes hanging from trees and power lines are 'gang signs.' Origins: All across the United States, you'll encounter discarded shoes hanging from wires, poles, and trees. Theories as to......

in response to: Shoes by Peter

Fei: True.. Really.. its stupid. If it wasnt for those who study and keep their heads up the world, it would be like a life in the ocean. the same shit everyday lives being taken and......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jo-jo: I think all this gang shit is so stupid.That shit to me is getting to old.I can't belive the women who even get on here to talk shit or gangbang there making a fool......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti