Bro...
I seen my friend and his sister get lined up in a fucking row to get slapped by they momma. They were 16 and 17. They forgot to do the dishes before she came home because they were hanging out with me.
They had to stand there and not flinch and get slapped. They told me about that shit, but then I saw it in person and I hated that woman ever sense.
My parents couldn't hit me at past 12 . I told them they hit me one more time, I'll burn the house down and I was dead ass serious. I ran and got matches and struck that shit. I ain't getting beat on by nobody and not do shit back to them, fuck you. They started sleeping with the door locked.
I come from the generation that started the Bloods, Crips, the GDs and shit. The generation that got beat til the White meat. The shit was started by children.
Why you think these kids were so mad and angry and willing to fight and kill. Willing to organize themselves like soldiers?
Everybody was getting Joe Jackson'd at home and motherfuckers thought, whipping ass at home gonna stop them becoming vagrants and criminals. Those that got their spirit crushed, didn't do shit. They take bullshit from their parents, then they grow up to take bullshit from the White man, then beat their kids into submission and continue the cycle. But those that grew angry and rebelled they took that shit out in society.
Hitting children teaches them that violence brings submission. Violence brings compliance. Violence establishes hierarchy. Since they parents because they are smaller, they'll do it to each other.
Nobody makes that connection when it comes to street gangs, they think they were rebelling against the system. Trying to protect the community and whatever.
Nah, they were rebelling against the violence they faced at home. They were rebelling against the poverty. They were rebelling against the racism.
They weren't trying to protect the community, they were trying to protect each other from being victims.