The 80's was a decade that made our youth mature quicker than they should have. By the end of the 80's many potential leaders became followers of deadly habits. Money was easily made by young kids becoming dope runners. Receiving an education was a joke because ways to make tax free money came easy and consequences for crimes were rarely considered (Hence the prison population today). Inner city gangs stretched out further than eyes could see. Many of our youth were convinced that these gangs provided a family for youth that felt abandoned. Good intentions don't always result in good actions. All inner city gangs intended to help bring in and show love to young brothers and sisters that felt lost or neglected.
The Black Panther party from the 60's to the 80's was a large positive driving force in the "Black" communtiy for guidance and leadership of our youth for quite some time (on the West Coast mainly).
The bloods and Crips (started much like the black panther party) had intentions to help inner city youth to find guidance within their community but our youth began to see gangs as a means to run their mouth and get revenge on whoever made them mad. Gangs became an outlet for protection from "outsiders" and a way for an individual to build a reputation to be FEARED.
The urge for young street soliders to kill and die for a cause was a sad "trend" that falsely lead out youth even today to kill and die just because. Karl Marx, was a well known ideologist and wrote that those who are in poverty suffer from "false consciousness" that is, the poor remain content in there ways and lifestyle because they are convinced by "superiors" that everything is fine and dandy and the poor are where God wants them to be.
A wool has been thrown over the eyes of America for quite some time, discouraging our youth to believe they are hopeless. This wool is money, crack, meth, gangs, false media, porn, political corruption, war, religion, politics and many other methods to madness you can think of.
"White America" feared that this "negative culture" called hip hop would one day be more influential than our federal government would like to see. However the creation and emergence of the hip hop has turned out to be the reason Americans are loved around the globe. I guarantee you go anywhere in the world and blast 2pac or Biggy over a loud sound system you will get attention and love by the people of that community, regardless if you speak there language or not. The Hip Hop culture has become a universal art form(s) language and entity.
How do you kill a dream? How do you kill a thought? How do you stop a thriving inner city community that has the potential to influence the masses through hip hop? It's like asking how do you stop Jesus the Christ from getting on the cross? You can't.
I feel the 80's brought forth a new age of creativity, innovation and ingenuity to the American culture as well as bringing forth a new age of apathy and arrogance.
My theorgy is that considering the spirit of the hip hop culture ( I believe) was born during the civl right's movements' and came for age in the 80's, that the children raised in these times (1970's to 1990) will be the leaders to guide America into a higher movements of light of thought and action. Meaning our young adults and teens now, will be the one's we look to in order to answer to what we once considered unanswerable questions (occult or non-occult).
This "Milleninnium generation" is not as lazy and unambitious as we appear to be. We are like a dormant volcano that people view as inactive but, we are due for an eruption any moment.
End of Chapter One
Jonathan Gray
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