Several years ago I had a brief correspondance with Monster Kody Scott aka Sanyika Shakur. He had spent a great deal of time in jail writing about his theories of cohesion - essentially rediscovering something that great military leaders have known through the ages: boys need men and will do anything for them.
Every once in a while I get tossed a question for a link to Scott/Shakur, but I have no idea where he is. I heard that he has been baited a number of times since his last release - shades of 90 day detentions in SA. However one place he and Donald Bakeer might be found is over at a new site pitched my way this morning: Streetgangs.com.
Sooner or later urban policy gets to this matter. We all know the investment is in cops and that's never going to be disinvested. The question is whether we are signed on to permanent low-level warfare. Of course this begs a question of racial solidarity, what do we care that body bags goet filled with brown bodies. It's still bodies, and we needn't pollute our great country with this kind of internal chaos & drama. It's no good having cops coming home from a long day shooting Crips. Its no good having boys think they're soldiers because they taunt cops and beat up civilians.
The only kind of draft that would be fair, is an unfair draft. I think someday I may come to advocate that position, because I can't think of a good reasons to have a prison population which is bigger than any branch of the Armed Services. Just another reason to crank up the Empire.
Meanwhile, thanks to Y for the link.
Posted by mbowen at July 22, 2004 01:23 PM | TrackBack