The Black Gangster - Folk Hero Or Black Klansman?

The key anomaly in the "Administration Of Justice WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY".

American Gangster: Monster Kody


I have to start off by saying that BET's "American Gangster" and the History Channel's "Gangland" are two of the best sources of information to anyone interested in obtaining some vital details about "how we got here" over the past 40 years on the streets of urban America. Where as I am frustrated with the lack of specificity in the common rant: "We don't own no airplanes to bring the drugs into America", these two shows provide the key missing links as to the number of murderous co-conspirators who work in the retail drug trade.


As I watch "American Gangster" and see the characters that are involved I take a "race neutral approach" to the operatives involved. This means the racist White bike gang who terrorize communities and sell drugs have equal standing with the Black Thug gang banger who also shoots up the community and sells drugs. In truth the later has a longer trail of blood as it relates to the Black community for it is our community that is the theater of battle for their drug sales and mayhem.

Then as I hear that many of these killers are also "folk heroes" within certain communities I am left to struggle to understand how this is possible among a rationale people. These thugs are the answer to the question "Who Is Making Black People Cry Today" which is the title of my documentary trail of news clippings after noticing the high frequency of Black people appearing on the news, grieving over the loss of a loved one.

Thus upon watching the brand new season of "American Gangster" I was against struck by the high regard shown to "Monster" Kody Scott.

Ironically Monster had another popular figure as his mentor and role model - "Tookie Williams". Yes that same Tookie Williams that many operatives within the Black Establishment said was framed as they fought for his life. Tookie Williams was the founder of the Crips gang. (The other co-founder found justice at the end of a gun barrel and thus the Black Establishment did not get a change to beg for mercy for Tookie Williams' partner in crime).

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE LOGIC

When see certain members of the Black community immune to the murderous antics of their folk heroes I work to try to relate to their frame of mind. Just as Americans may see their own returning military veterans as "heroes", the families of the enemy see them as "killers". Thus, I reason, one's own perspective plays the most extensive part of the sentiment that is expressed.

This, however, falls to the wayside in that these people are killing, selling drugs, intimidating people and generally causing grief within the community of the same person who is rendering favorable judgment. Thus it is not rational for such a person who suffers as a victim of the aggregate dysfunction that the thug and his accomplices have rendered upon the community.