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Post by Marks - the Earth's Sun on Jul 10, 2005 16:25:30 GMT -5
what the hell does a person think when they assume that they are gansta or thugs... maybe it is just me and the mood that I am in lately but I still find no pride in claiming the streets... Why not be proud of your land... your clan.. your heritage.... your blood? What is wrong with being proud of who we all are? Rez children...
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Post by Dine'Luvlee on Jul 10, 2005 16:49:32 GMT -5
I agree with you! It is annoying to see our young people take pride in being gangsta or thug. It also very annoying to see our people do what they see on MTV, BET and Magazines. Not only annoying but very embarrassing! I especially hate it when they type or talk like they came out of a music video, talk about looking like an IDIOT! I know what you mean. There is nothing wrong with taking pride in who we truly are as NAVAJO PEOPLE, as NATIVE PEOPLE! There is nothing wrong with standing on our two feet and being proud of our culture, our heritage, our language. I am proud that our children take pride from where they are coming from and who they are.
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Post by Dine'Luvlee on Jul 10, 2005 16:51:44 GMT -5
You know what fucking bothers me the most? Stupid Ass Natives claiming they are a gang and live in a very small community on the Navajo Reservation or anywhere on the Reservation. This community I am referring to ( as well as all communities with the same problem) only consist of a couple NHA Housings, some trailors, a chapter house, a youth center and a Vocational Center. What is so thuggish or gangsta about this Navajo Community? Nothing! What is there to claim, besides the government / tribal buildings? The desert bushes. These so called high school drop outs walk around thinking they are the shits, carrying themselves as if they are the toughest people in the whole fucking world, selling drugs to our youth, doing drugs and throwing their signs! They drive their parents' cars around, with pride, with their windows rolled down, seat pushed back and jamming to loud music (as if anyone gives a shit what they are listening to). And to make it worse, there is fake jewlery hanging from their necks, peirced into their ears and banned to their wrists. These wannabe's came from homes with steady income, near a good town, good schoools, a college and plenty of jobs all around. The funny thing is, they all live with their parents, jobless, and the majority of them are older than I am, running around with high school students. Where is the pride in that???!!!!!
Today, my family and I buried my 20 year old cousin whose life was taken by these wannabe gangsta's. The so called gang bangers left his body in the middle of the desert a month ago. The body was found about a week ago and his body was identified on Monday. The police would not let anyone from the family look at his body. He was identified through is dental records and finger prints. It is the hardest thing to go through, knowing a loved one was taken by the hands of another and left in the desert to rot. Knowing that his life was taken for fucked up reason's. Knowing that there were a few people who knew about his death and we did not. Knowing that he will never walk through those doors again, to talk with, laugh with or just sit quietly with. Knowing that he will not be there for his child's first day of school or there when his second child is born. It is so hard to let go. The pain and the anger seems it will never go away.
Where is the pride in knowing you have taken one's life? Where is the pride when you try to be something you are not?
There is no pride. It just proves that they cannot stand on their own two feet and make something of themselves. They are not capable of even trying. They cannot stand and fight alone, they need a whole gang to help them beat down one person. I would like see all the so called Navajo gangsta's rounded up and bussed to the streets of Compton. Throw them off and tell them all........
"Carry on with your stupid selves as you do back on the Rez! Act tough, throw your signs, tell everyone where you are from, beat on anybody who annoys you, steal their things!.......This is how you want to live, live here!"
I am pretty sure they are not going to act as tough as they do back home.
What is more fucked up is I see it all over on and off the rez. It is a shame that their are fucked up people who do a lot of this shit. People who will sell the drugs, bootleg alcohol to the youth, people who will degrade our people to make money, people who will degrade our people to try and be something they are not! Grow the fuck up and realize that their is life outside your community, there is an opportunity to get an education, to get jobs and be a real person to your people. Better yet, get that education and bring it back to the reservation, build more businesses on the reservation! Make your people, your ancestors and your family proud!
I think issues like these (gangs, alcoholism, drugs) should be taken more seriously when you are representing Native Pride, when you are looked up to by the youth. Native hip hop needs to be a movement in politics to better our people, to get the respect we all deserve, to bring back our cultural ways and bring the youth back to our traditions.
This goes out to EVERYONE who does not give a fuck about our people, our culture, our future!
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Post by ~*Native Hunney*~ on Oct 4, 2005 17:37:09 GMT -5
Native gansta's are so dumb, lost and need to be educated. ' Where is the pride in claiming to be street when you are Native?', 'Where is the pride when you spit nagativety about Native People or bring negativity among our people?' Rapping about the streets and drugs is going to kill our culture in the future. We all must hold on and pass on the knowledge we have about our traditions. Not push them away to fit in or to be considered 'cool'. I do not see them helping the youth or the elders with their health or the bullshit we go through with the government. They all just need to grow up and realize that the 'street' scene looks very stupid among the Native Community.
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Post by asdzashash on Feb 26, 2006 17:51:53 GMT -5
Kids today pick up the image off of whats on the tube. Native gansta's is not "native" at all. Spliting what they are into gangs, what is this? My kids lost their cousin to what he was, a native gangsta, he belong to a gang, when he's enemy was initiating a member, he was told to kill one of the members. Ryan was at the party during the Navajo Nation Fair, that boy being initiiated waited for him to fall asleep and he set his vehicle on fire with Ryan inside. When we buried him, the gangsta lined up at the end of the road, proud of what they did. While everyone buried Ryan crying and in sorrow for what are children was doing to each other, we are one tribe, why do the take the idea from some TV show and bring more problems among themselves onto our land and kill one another? It doesn't make sense, it isn't our tradition, it isn't what we were taught.
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Post by Marks - the Earth's Sun on Apr 29, 2007 12:46:16 GMT -5
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to end this? To make a change before our children all forget that they are native?
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