GANG UNITY ANTI-VIOLENCE

#RBPP NATIONWIDE GANG UNITY & PEACE MOVEMENT

PUSH THE PEACE

The Revolutionary Black Panther Party has put together a nationwide gang unity and push the peace movement.

We are committed to ending violence in the community and addressing the social needs of the people.

Our efforts are to reform gangs into positive movements in the community and the assets that many of them were intended to be,

We understand that the violence in our community is a result of the conditions, poverty, structural racism and the overall generational power of that.

For decades RBPP Chief, Dr. Alli Muhammad MD, has been organizing gangs throughout the United States and internationally, in order to politically educated them and end the wars that are in the streets.

Chief, Dr. Alli Muhammad MD have prepared a special 22 Point Initiative for gangs in order to bring about peace and unity.

MEMBERS OF THE RBPP GANG UNITY COALITION ARE;

The Gangster Disciples of Chicago, Illinois

The Black Disciples of Chicago, Illinois

The Vice Lords of Chicago, Illinois

The Black P. Stones of Chicago, Illinois

The Gangster Disciples of Jackson, Mississippi

The Black Disciples of Jackson, Mississippi

90s Crips of Los Angeles, California

Crips of Los Angeles, California

Bloods of Los Angeles, California

Sex, Money, Murder Bloods of Raleigh & Greensboro, North Carolina

Crips of Raleigh & Greensboro, North Carolina

ORIGINS OF GANGS AND GANG VIOLENCE IN AMERICA

Today when we have of gangs and gang violence, the first thing comes to mind is bloods, crips, gds, bds or some Latino gang, never does the images or thoughts of whites come to your mind.

this is by design, because the origins of gangs in America, is white people, and white immigrants, who organized these criminal gangs, to carry out their criminal enterprises to get out of poverty.

however Black gangs have a more serious origins, Black gangs were started to protect Black people from racism and white supremacy.

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THE HISTORY OF VIOLENT GANGS AND CRIME IN AMERICA AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY

The origins crime, violence and street gangs in the United States of America

The origins of violent street gangs in the United States of America, started near the end of the U.S. Civil War, and from this it proliferated.

According to historians as citied by U.S. Department of Justice (2021) entitled Criminal Street Gangs, it states;

The earliest street gangs in the United States of America, begin at the end of the American Revolutionary War in the early 1780s…(U.S. Department of Justice, Thursday, April 29, 2021, entitled Criminal Street Gangs, retrieved from https://www.justice.gov/archives/criminal/criminal-vcrs/gallery/criminal-street-gangs).

According to National Gang Center Bulletin (2010) in a report entitled HISTORY OF STREET GANGS IN THE UNITED STATES, it states that;

Important differences in the history of gang emergence are apparent in the four major U.S. gang regions. In both New York and Chicago, the earliest gangs arose in concert with external migration of European origins [i.e. European immigrants]—the traditional classic ethnics of the 1783–1860 period (particularly German, French, British, Scandinavian).

Other groups of white ethnics soon arrived during the 1880–1920 period—mainly Irish, Italians, Jews, and Poles.

The latter nationalities almost exclusively populated the early serious street gangs of New York and Chicago. By the 1960s and 1970s, the predominance of European ethnic groups had dissipated, and the composition of gangs had changed dramatically in both of these cities, with a far greater proportion of black and Latino members (Miller, 1982/1992).

In both New York City and Chicago, street gangs originated among adult-dominated groups engaged in criminal activity—largely volunteer firemen, laborers, and bar room brawlers. Mobsters and shady political operators, mixed with adult criminal groups, controlled the streets in both cities.

Younger street gangs likely emerged from their influences and flourished in their shadows. Gangs also grew in these cities amidst physical and social disorder; within the cracks of governmental and social agencies And by the 1800s they begin to more serious and organized, forming in the northeast in American cities, primarily in New York…(National Gang Center Bulletin, May 2010, report entitled HISTORY OF STREET GANGS IN THE UNITED STATES, retrieved https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Content/Documents/History-of-Street-Gangs.pdf).

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(Picture on the left View of fight between two gangs, the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys, New York City, 1857)

The Origins of Early street gangs in the Northeast: 1780–1870

Three man white European immigrant groups entered the Northeast US through New York in the early 1800s, the English, Irish, and the German. On the lower East Side of New York, these immigrant groups formed into gangs in an area known as the Five Points.

One of which were the Smith’s Vly gang, the Bowery Boys, and the Broadway Boys, all three of which were primarily Irish immigrants.

Black (African) slaves living in New York formed two paramilitary groups as “gangs” not criminal, but for defense and protection, they were known as the Smith’s Fly Boys and the Long Bridge Boys.

Primary examples of slave rebellions (especially white backlash) in colonial New York including the New York Slave Revolt of 1712 and the New York Conspiracy of 1741.

After the early 1820s, white European immigrant gangs, started crime, violence and overall focus on criminal activity in America, one of which was known as the Forth Thieves, they were formed in 1825 and were the first known and oldest New York City criminal street gang.

The Thieves consisted primarily of Irish immigrants and Irish Americans who terrorized the Five Points neighborhood of 19th century Manhattan.

There were also other criminal gangs of the pre-Civil War era for example the Dead Rabbits and the Five Points Gang. The Five Points Gang in particular became influential in recruiting membership to gangs and toward establishing gang relationships with politicians.

But, early gangs reached their peak in the years immediately before the Civil War, and gang activity largely dissipated by the 1870s…(National Gang Center Bulletin, May 2010, report entitled HISTORY OF STREET GANGS IN THE UNITED STATES, retrieved https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Content/Documents/History-of-Street-Gangs.pdf).

So as we understand, the history of violent gangs, and violent gang crime, started with White European immigrants.

Later when the New York city draft riots began, they were ignited by young Irish street ganga…(Crime & Justice,1990, Vol.12, pg 172, report entitled Youth Gangs: Continuity and Change; Reading the American Past, 2009, pg. 295, entitled The New York Drafts Riots).

The historian, journalist and writer Herbert Asbury portrayed these groups in his history of Irish and American gangs in Manhattan, and later on in his work of which was later used by Martin Scorsese as the foundation for the motion picture Gangs of New York…( Herbert Asbury, 1928, The Gangs of New York : An Informal History of the Underworld. Reprinted in original format published 1989 Dorset Press; ISBN 0-88029-429-9. Republished in 2001 with a foreword by Jorge Luis Borges).

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(Picture on the left, historical Rufus Buck Gang 1895 )

Reemergence and growth: 1870–1940

During the late 1800s, gangs begin to make a comeback, as a serious criminal force in the Northeast, also emerging as a new criminal enterprises in the American West as well as the Midwest.

However, in New York after the Civil War, the most powerful gang to emerge was the Whyos, which included a plethora of reconstituted members of previous Five Points area gangs.

Another former 19th century New York gang was the Jewish Eastman Gang. Then the emergence of Italian organized crime network that became the American Mafia…(National Gang Center Bulletin, May 2010, report entitled HISTORY OF STREET GANGS IN THE UNITED STATES, retrieved https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Content/Documents/History-of-Street-Gangs.pdf).

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(Picture on the left Chicago, mafia, gang leader Al Capone )

ORIGINS OF GANGS IN CHICAGO

Gangs begin to emerge in Chicago, i.e. in the Midwest later on in the 19th century and early on in the 20th. The origins of gangs, violent gangs, and violent crime, in Chicago, started with European immigrant groups such as the Poles and the Italians these were the foundation of Chicago gangs.

These gangs of Chicago, were very violent, and in the late 19th century they were very powerful in the areas around the Chicago Stockyards, and thus engaged in robbery and other forms of crime and violent crime. It was during this early period in Chicago, that these gangs grew and connected themselves politically to local leaders. One Such gang was the Ragen's Colts, who then became heavily influential in Chicago politics.

Then by the 1920s, several of these gangs had increased to the point of becoming huge organized crime groups in Chicago (e.g., the Chicago Outfit under Al Capone), and in essence, gang wars and overall gang warfare was highly common amongst these gangs.

And thus, street gang activity continued alongside these larger criminal organizations; according to some estimates, there were 25,000 white gang members and 1,300 white gangs in Chicago during the late 1920s…(National Gang Center Bulletin, May 2010, report entitled HISTORY OF STREET GANGS IN THE UNITED STATES, retrieved https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Content/Documents/History-of-Street-Gangs.pdf).

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(Picture on the left picture of Great Migration to Chicago)

The Origins of Black Gangs In Chicago

The emergence of Black gangs in the Midwest occurred after the Great Migration between 1910s and 1920s as more than one million Black people migrated to these cities, resulting in large extremely poor populations, this was a result of the Chicago race riot of 1919 in which gangs of white youth terrorized the Black community, and in response Black youth formed groups for self-protection.

This is also the origins of drive by shootings, the first drive by ever documented, were white hate groups in Chicago drive by and shooting Black people in Chicago out of their vehicle windows.

An example, of drive by shooting culture and origins, happened on July 27 1919, whites drove by and shot up a car of Black people these are the origins of drive-by shootings. …(National Gang Center Bulletin, May 2010, report entitled HISTORY OF STREET GANGS IN THE UNITED STATES, retrieved https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Content/Documents/History-of-Street-Gangs.pdf).

So, though when you think of Chicago and gangs, many forget that the origins of violent crimes, violent gangs, drive-bys and drilling in the streets, has it’s root in white gangs, and white racist gang.

Many people in the United States of America and around the word are unaware that there was a "Death March" known as the "Great Migration" where Black people (people of African descent) were terrorized, lynched, murdered, beaten by white civilians and undercover agents of the state, that stole our land, money and destroyed our communities and forced us to leave in droves.

This happened for a period of 60 years as Black people left our homes and properties in the south and went to the midwest, northeast and out west, ending up in cities and areas such as Los Angeles, Oakland, Harlem, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Camden, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Flint, Muskegon and other key areas.

After this move, White mobs and gangs would come and commit acts of racial terror.

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THE ORIGINS OF DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS: CAME FROM WHITE GANGS SHOOTING BLACK FAMILIES

Many are unaware that Black people in the United States of America, only mimic the negative cultures and traditions they’ve been exposed to.

For example when we think of drive-by shootings what comes to most people’s minds today, are violent Crips and Bloods doing shootings on each other, of GDs and BDs (Gangsta Disciples and Black Disciples) doing shootings on each other, or DRILL culture or drill rappers.

But unbeknownst to most, the history of drive-by shootings has its origins in racist white gangs, coming into Black communities and shooting Black families.

According to journalists, documentarians and historians as reported on Tribe (2021);

The Colts and Hamburgs are said to have invented the drive-by shooting in 1919 when they drove their cars into Bronzeville, Chicago area, shooting at Black residents…(The Tribe, June 21, 2021, The Revolutionary Column | The War on Gangs stunted our growth, retrieved https://thetriibe.com/2021/06/the-revolutionary-column-the-war-on-gangs-stunted-our-growth/ ).

So, the hatred and violence aimed against Black people, has transitioned into self-hatred and internalized racism and an ignorance to the origins aspects of violent gang tactics.

The new phase of drive-by shootings was the sub-mafia gangs, drive-by shootings were systematically invented and popularized as methodology of gang shootings and assassinations tactics during the 1920s.

According to experts and historians as reported in National Crime Syndicate, it states that;

Many say that the “Drive-By Shooting” was something that Bugs Moran made popular, a form of assassination that was a major part of the mob. He started life off as a criminal and was affiliated with a number of gangs during his early years, and was arrested three times before he even turned 21.

Why The North Side and South Side Clashed

In Chicago, during the 1920’s there were two major gangs, these were the North Side Gang and the South Side Gang. The South Side Gang is better known as The Chicago Outfit, which included Johnny Torrio and the up and coming Al Capone.

During Prohibition both gangs ran alcohol rackets, or bootlegging, similar to the Yakuza and the operations they controlled and were involved in, across the water in Japan. The war between the North and South side came when Dean O’Banion decided to hijack alcohol trucks that belonged to the South side as they were encroaching on the North Side territory, and selling them right under O’Banion’s nose for a better price.

Torrio wasn’t a violent man, and tried to keep the peace between the two sides for many years, however this move by O’Banion would spark anger in Al Capone, and would eventually lead to the assassination of O’Banion…(National Crime Syndicate, Bugs Moran, retrieved from https://www.nationalcrimesyndicate.com/bugs-moran-biography/#google_vignette).