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Monster (1994) (edit title/settings)

The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member

by Sanyika Shakur (Author) (edit contributors)

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After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off shotgun at a group of rival gang members, eleven-year-old Kody Scott was initiated into the L.A. gang the Crips. He quickly matured into one of the most formidable Crip combat soldiers, earning the name Monster for committing acts of brutality and... read more

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Monster is about an eleven year old boy who's one goal in life is to join a Crip gang after his graduation from elementary school and describes his life as a gang member. He becomes initiated into the gang by a friend of his. He quickly starts to prove that he has what it takes to be a ghetto... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Monster is about an eleven year old boy who's one goal in life is to join a Crip gang after his graduation from elementary school and describes his life as a gang member. He becomes initiated into the gang by a friend of his. He quickly starts to prove that he has what it takes to be a ghetto star, which is the highest ranking that a gang member can recieve. He shows no sympothy or mercy to his rival gang members and made an oath not to stop until he has completely inialated each and every last enemy that he has. Being in and out of juvi, and with friends of his dying and spliting away from his family he see's what his life has become, and now with a child he ends up in prison with a life sentance. So getting used to prison life he decides to take classes to make him somewhat of a masiah and earns the name Sanyika Shakur. Seeing the bad ways of his life he preaches how gang life is not a good choice and influences people not to join. So he writes a book to show people that the ways of a ghetto life is not the right way.

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  • “Being ignorant is, to me, the equivalent of being dead. (Nick L.)”
    Sanyika Shakur
  • “While I take full responsibility for all the wickedness I have done, I do not take pride in it. To me, now, there is no beauty in destruction for destruction's sake. (Nick L.)”
    Sanyika Shakur
  • “WIth each new generation of Crip and Blood bangers comes a more complex system, which is now reaching institutional proportions. (Nick L.)”
    Sanyika Shakur
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  • You must build the reputation of your name, i.e., you as an individual; You must build your name in association with your particular set, so that when your name is spoken your set is also spoken of in the same breath, for it is synonymous; and You must establish yourself as a promoter of Crip or Blood, depending, of course, on which side of the color bar you live.
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  • Per year, the gangs in South Central recruit more people than the four branches of the U.S. Armed Forces do. Crack dealers employ more people in South Central than AT&T, IBM, and Xerox combined. And South Central is under more aerial surveillance than Belfast, Ireland. Everyone is armed, frustrated, suppressed, and on the brink of explosion.
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  • The police told bystanders that the person responsible for this was a “monster.” The name stuck, and I took that as a moniker over my birth name.
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  • Some causes are righteous and in accord with human nature, while others are reactionary and repressive. Gang wars fall somewhere in between. I can quite easily justify the retaliation on enemies for killing one of my comrades. But simultaneously I will condemn the murdering of noncombatants.
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  • (“high roller” is Crip terminology for a ghetto-rich drug dealer; “baller” is the equivalent in Blood language).
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  • I now overstand the look. It’s not how you stare at someone, but what you’ve been through that others can see in your eyes and that tells them you’re the wrong one to fuck with. Some refer to this as the thousand-yard stare.
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  • The juvenile tank has got to be the most blatant exercise the state has ever devised for corrupting, institutionalizing, and creating recidivism in youths.
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  • (“Meeting” means a gang gathering to choose a riding party or group of shooters to invade enemy territory. “Mounting up” means starting out cn the mission.)
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  • G-down (short for “gangster down,” or dressed in gang attire) in my gear, I had on blue khaki pants, white canvas All-Stars, and a blue sweatshirt, with my hair in braids. Brownies—brown garden gloves worn by gang members for fighting and shooting—hung halfway out of my right back pocket, and a blue flag hung out my left. Crips wear their left ear pierced and their flag in the left back pocket. Bloods are on the right.
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  • Ironically, I never gave stopping an inkling of a thought. This was my career, my “calling,” as church folks say when someone does one thing real well.
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First Sentence edit see section history

June 15, 1975. I proudly strolled across the waxed hardwood stage of the auditorium at the Fifty-fourth Street elementary school under the beaming stares of my mother, aunt, and Uncle Clarence.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Preface

1. Initiation
2. Boys To Men
3. The War
4. Ambush
5. Can't Stop, Won't Stop
6. The Juvenile Tank
7. Muhammad Abdullah
8. Tamu
9. 48 Hours
10. Reconnected
11. Nation Time

Epilogue

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Sanyika Shakur (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Pan Books
Country: England
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0330331736
Page Count: 400

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