see...you don't cure hate with hate...you cure that shit with patience, and forgiving (y'all can say it's sappy or whatever the fuck i'm just layin it out)
so to come and say FUCK ALL GANGBANGERS nahhh i don't agree with that...I've lived in some pretty fucked up places, and some pretty nice ones...I've seen kids that are 5 in the nice areas represent for the gang, cus theyre pops tells em to, and six years olds in the projects that bang cus that's what the older cats do- and they look up to em....now for that kid in the burbs, WHO DO YOU TRUST THE MOST GROWING UP? your parents...so when your dad and mom are telling you that the gang life is THE RIGHT WAY, who you gonna believe? some guy on TV saying Gangs are bad, or your parents? as for the kids in the jects/hood man it's fucked up but a lot of kids ain't growin up with a dad around, so they look to the older cats around the neighborhood for guidance/examples, if that exmaples is a turf-reppin drug dealer, what are you gonna wanna do? BE A TURF REPPIN DRUG DEALER
now in no way am i saying killing someone in cold blood is right, IT'S NOT!!! but violence is a disease...and you don't cure someones pain by beating them up, you do it by trying to alleviate that pain...well violence is a disease that we can not cure with hate and disgust, we have to cure it with patience and empathy...
I HATE THAT THIS KID DIED...I HATE WHAT HE DIED FOR...AND I WANT TO HATE THAT DUDE WHO DID IT...BUT I SHOULDN'T AND I CAN'T...because maybe if that cat who pulled the trigger got some love outside his hood/lifestyle at one point in his life, that kid might be alive right now...but not if we told him we hated him...then that kid would still be dead...