Site uses cookies to provide basic functionality.

OK
1 ▲ ▼
Link Quote Stars Tags Author
e08966d According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the definition of the word 'rebellion' is 'an act or a show of defiance toward an authority or established convention. Extensions of the expression include to fly in the face of danger and to fly in the face of providence, both of which carry a sense of reckless or impetuous disregard for safety.' Because we did not grow up with our fathers, we became reckless with our lives and disregarded the lives of others as well. Therefore, the problem is not the gangs, so to speak; rather, it's the conditions that create them. It is the dismantling of our homes and marriages that create the right conditions for gangs to flourish. If homes could be put back together or prevented from falling apart, then these symptoms could be, root cause eradicated. rebellion marriage family eradicate right-conditions single-parent-homes symptoms two-parent-homes strong-communities gang-prevention rebellion-raiders fatherless-homes single-mothers broken-homes root-causes disregard reckless Drexel Deal
bdbf494 When I look at it carefully, by examining the interviews and the various social scientists' studies, it becomes easy for me to see that we all were just rebelling. Regardless of the area we grew up in or the gang we were affiliated with, or which part of the Western world we found ourselves in, we all were rebelling. We were rebelling and crying out for our fathers. We were rebelling against the home conditions that existed in our communities. We needed our fathers, but above all we wanted to be loved and accepted by them. Since we couldn't find it at home and in our respective communities, we created it for ourselves. love black-community rebelling strong-communities social-ills at-risk-communities gang-intervention rebellion-raiders fatherless-homes single-mothers interviews broken-homes root-causes gangs Drexel Deal
9ae6993 The older guys in the neighborhood were our father figures. Even though they were doing foolishness we looked up to them, and they looked out for us. When we would be out playing and it was getting dark, they would tell us now don't be out here too late, because you know that freaks does come out at night. Anthony 'Ada' Allen, one of the former leaders and founders of the Rebellion Raiders bad-boys father-figures look-out rough-neighborhoods social-ills gang-leaders at-risk-communities at-risk-youth gang-intervention gang-members rebellion-raiders fatherless-homes single-mothers Drexel Deal
006cb1b The majority of us were from single parent family homes. You could have counted the fellas on your fingers that had a mummy and a daddy at home. Anthony 'Ada' Allen, one of the former leaders and founders of the Rebellion Raiders gangsters social-ills youth-outreach gang-prevention at-risk-communities at-risk-youth gang-intervention gang-members rebellion-raiders single-parents dead-beat-dads fatherless-homes single-mothers youth-programs law-enforcement Drexel Deal
4b09a45 I knew a lot of fellas who live in Lizzy and never got involved in some of the stuff that we were getting into. This was because they had a strong father figure at home, so they couldn't have gotten involved. The few of those who did end up in the gang even though their father was in the home, their father was just there as a provider, but he was not directly involved in their lives. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader fathers gang-prevention home-but-absent involved-fathers father-figure gang-members rebellion-raiders fatherless-homes fatherhood Drexel Deal
5bfdff8 90% of us came from single-parent homes who were in the gang. There was just a small 10% who had a mother and a father in the home. For a lot of us, we did not had that father or authority figure who could have intervened on our behalf. Where we could have said, 'You know, daddy, Johnny tried to rob me or Johnny just slapped me', and our father could have either taken us to the police station, or went to school with us to address the issue. So we had to defend for ourselves. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader at-risk-communities at-risk-youth authority-figure crime-prevention father-figure gang-intervention gang-members police-station rebellion-raiders single-parents fatherless-homes single-mothers self-defense Drexel Deal
51127bf Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then say the baby is not theirs? He rejected me, told my mother that I am not his child, so I never had a relationship with my father. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader relationship broken-families broken-lives dead-beat-dads disown father-hunger fatherless-homes hurting-children hurting-people single-mothers not-wanted fatherhood rejection Drexel Deal
1 ▲ ▼