[kj] OT: Tookie and Arnie

[Papa Lazarou]

I live in LA, and must say gangs are much more 'stylized' than the rest of the world. Fashionable even lol!
  I thought tookie was from South Central, Florence and somewhere?
  Will George get the death penalty too? 
  
Scarlet <lucyfyre at gmail.com> wrote:
    Thing is, not everyone in East LA becomes the head of a crime organization, killing people just 'cause they don't have the right colored bandana, or worse, 'cause they were running away scared. He did. So, if some people have the guts not to do these things, why couldn't he? 
   
  Blaming society for your actions is a cowards way out. The thing is, even if he was a 'bi-product' of society, he continued to endorse that bi-product, until he was in jail, funny that, so that would mean ipso facto society works - and we all know it doesn't. Tookie justified his actions through his society and tried to rectify his actions through society and ultimately died because of the rules of his society. 
   
  Personally, I believe if we are going to change society, the first thing to do is change ourselves. As opposed to Tookie whose moral was "If we are going to change society, the first thing we do is take what we want and shoot anyone who gets in our way. 
   
  Scar 
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