block six. at first everybody was separated, but now because of the no funds, the money not coming in, they brought all us together and thought it was going to be a good idea. but now your enemies live right next door to you. so it s forced you to get out of where you is. all these residents out here have to suffer behind that. i mean, we ain t safe right now. i m keeping it 100 with you. it might be calm, it might be peaceful. you might think it s swishy sweet. this shit ain t sweet. we got boogies protecting us because i m all about y all s security. everybody out here, we re watching each other s backs now. for those who need urban dictionary style translation, a boogy is a gun. what he s saying is there are people around me with guns. and i brought a camera crew to a possible gun fight. this is the norm. it s been kids that witness murders that happen right here, right in this block. and they were still jumping rope.
they don t run no more. they see where the shots are coming from, or they duck on the ground. they re trained. you have cha out here, the blue and whites out here, you got the helicopters out here and that shit don t stop nothing. people who come from here, they think it ain t nothing. they think you got to be a driller. everybody look up to the shooter. he can walk upon you like give me $100, give me $200. they respect that. and the other shorties coming up, they re like, damn, that s what i want to be. nobody want to play basketball no more, nobody wants to play baseball no more. they took the resources and the programs. what we have right now used to be basketball courts and stuff like that. you don t have that no more. but when you ain t got that, the first thing you put in your hand next is a gun or some drugs. you know what i m saying? so we need the resources back. and if we give up, that s the main thing. don t give up. that s what i tell the people out here, don t give up
the reality is people, like you said, are connecting dots. i think that poverty brings on all of these problems. why do you cut our kids down to the bare minimum, you know? we pay our taxes. we do what we have to do. and i feel if we don t push back, we will lose this battle. and that s why i feel this is an absolute class struggle. they re talking for the hood boys. you have art this morning. art, what s that? i was floored. you don t see any of that happening. when they do the school culture, they don t think about our children. they consolidate schools. they have to go across gang territory, things of that nature. what s going to happen here? kids are scared, they want a gun. okay, they get a gun, they kill somebody. school to prison pipeline. it s crazy. thank you very much. you don t remind me of my grandmother at all when i grew up. four grand boys.
niece, my niece got caught up in that, this particular year. yes, ma am. going to school just to register the babies. she was shot in the head while she was walking and pushing her newborn in a stroller on friday. she died a short time later at the hospital. instead of saying, ma am, you know, get out of the way, get off the block, this and that, this is fixing to go down. you just shoot? you wonder, what were you thinking? these two offenders are the prime example of the challenge we face here in chicago with repeat gun offenders that don t care who they shoot, don t care whose life they take, and clearly, clearly don t feel the consequences of their actions. you know, your son is dwyane wade, and your niece s passing was used as a political tool by some people to talk about chicago. but not in a positive, healing way but to sort of use chicago as an example of a lawless place.
take this news as business as usual. has everybody here had a gun pointed at you? yes. i can t even reach out to you straight. .45 straight through. what do you think people need know about what is going on on the south side of chicago? it s a lot going on. we just talk to about seven to eight youngsters, and it came across to me, as well as others, that we re reaching out, but the younger generation is not reaching back out to us. they re stuck into what they re doing. somewhere we failed them. we failing that one that i failed, that be the [ bleep ] that kill me because i missed out. on some level, weren t you failed by the it s a cycle, right? it s a cycle. see, a lot of older cats, they let it slide. but letting it slide so long, now it s out of hand. the people who are watching