Crips And Blood Sparknotes

The impression that I made out from watching this film is that back in 1965 in Los Angeles the gangs Crips and Bloods was found to protect black Americans from the violence cause by white police officers and white gang members. During those periods black kids in high school and junior schools were being attacked by white students in school so black people teamed up together to fight against them in school; and that was how the black gangs became. Some gangs were sponsored by Slausons, Farmers, Bausinessmen, and Gladiators. Moving forward, bastards of the party came from a passage in city of quartz which was later made a documentary film in 2005, it was produced by Alex Demyanenko, and directed by a former blood gang member Cle Sloan. Inside this movie, it explored the creation of two of Los Angeles’s notorious gangs Crips and Bloods from the perspective of Los Angeles community.

In addition, watching this film have giving me more understanding about gangs and the reasons why it was created in the first place.

In this film, Davis refers to Crips and Bloods gangs as the bastard children of the black panther part. However, during the year 1961 to 1963 black gangs was fighting against white gangs; Crips and Bloods created the gangs on a platform to self-defense themselves and their community from violence racist Los Angeles police department, and white gangs. On the same note, black panther protected black women from being abused by their husbands. For example, women didn’t call police for their husbands, rather they threated to report their husbands to the black panther if the men try to hit them. After 1961 to 1963 that black gangs fought against white gangs, they started fighting and killing each other. The recommendations offered to end delinquency and gang violence in this film is for black to see each other’s as brothers not

enemies.
In conclusion, I had an opportunity to interview an inmate who happened to be a member of Crips gang. During the interview, he told me that the reasons why he joined the gang and the negative impart it had and till having on him. According to the inmate, he told me that his father left his life when he was only 6 years old and his mother took care of him for 20 years. He said “I joined because I wanted to belong and to be a part of something”. He disclosed to me that if his father was in his life, that he wouldn’t have ended up as a gang member. Nonetheless, he stated again “gang made me violent, showed me fast and illegal way of making money, made me not to have human feelings, and above all changed my life”. I asked the inmate if he did anything that he is regretting now, his responses were yes. He went further to tell me that sometimes him and his follow Crips goes on a drive by shooting games inside the BGF, and Bloods neighborhoods. He informed me that he did those things to impress his gang. At last, he added to his statement saying “I am locked up in here today because of gang activities, gang never thought me how to be a real man, never told me that I was going to spend most of my young age in jail”. Judging from the looks on his face and the sincerity coming out of his mouth, I can tell that if he was to go back in time to amend his mistakes that he will. This gentleman have served four years and five more to go.