FAMOUS BLACKS:TOOKIE WILLIAMS
I am launching my new "Famous Minorities" section by highlighting the career of probably one of the most recent and emulated in Kansas City black icons in African-American history to date. Tookie Williams . I am highlighting Tookie in the aftermath of a verbal escapade aimed towards one particular current minority leader wanna-be in Kansas City who seems to get an enormous amount of free press without necessarily calling the black community to task for anything. That is the extent of Alonzo's free press on this blogsite for the moment anyway because Alonzo is not the point in this post. We are talking here about famous minorities who are being emulated in Kansas City by a large portion of the african american population. Alonzo is neither famous, nor being emulated, for that matter even being listened to by anyone anymore because he always slaps the race card down first and it's kind of like watching an old George Formean fight where it's been ran to death and we know the outcome because we've been there and done that. Anyway.Last night I was surfing through the cable channels and a "Girls Gone Wild" infomercial was airing during commercial break on BET or one of the minority stations in which they were airing a special on Stanley "Tookie" Williams. In my comment to the big "A" on local blogsite I sent an invitation to him to utilize his position in the community to inspire young blacks to abandon cultural practices continuously placing young brothers in the negative spotlight. So, I was watching this special (even though the big "A" is boycotting BET) and recognized almost instantly that Tookie seemed to be inspired to do absolutely nothing right in his life by anyone near him although this special indicated all these former Crip gang members blamed society for the way they turned out. What a crock of shiite! These guys (after coming from an impoverished background and upbringing) decided to utilize any means possible to exploit their communities, enslave or encourage young brothers to continue in a gang lifestyle, and all so he could fuel an insatiable desire to be "the man", whatever that means. He even had a brief stint at show business on the "Gong Show" dancing and flexing his muscles (kind of like the big "A" does in Kansas City) with a couple "ho's" by his side. In short, Tookie Williams was not interested in aiding the black man to become "all that you can be" and neither is the big "A" in Kansas City.
So Tookie, as everyone called him, lead a double sort of life where he fluctuated between the leader of the "Crips" and working at a disadvantaged youth home in which he inspired many young blacks to join his gang although apparently never did so while at work. These youth homes were filling up with young gangmembers who reportedly listened real well to Tookie. It's probably because he killed the ones who didn't. Not actually at work, but rather, in his spare time. Those close to him indicated he was smoking sherm and this ate up his brain as time went on. I don't know, I just report what I watched. Tookie and his followers would sometimes stomp people to the ground, intimidate them, rob them, and basically act like subhumans and nobody in the black community seemed to step forward to put a halt to this in the absence of police protection, city services, etc. in South Central L.A. during 70's and early 80's.
In my opinion, much of Kansas City's minority community has followed in the footsteps of Tookie, and much like Tookie, they lack the necessary support and leadership in the community (not to mention lack of police protection, city services, etc) to rise above this. The most these young brothers could hope for is to kill or be killed, at the hands of another young brother, and to do so in the absence of anyone who really gives a shit (Police, city, black community, etc). Lets face it, a few women marching to "Stop the Killing" and an occasional self-seeking big "A" is not working. Please minority leaders, don't just vote for Cleaver and think this is the answer because he is now in Washington and cares nothing about anything in Kansas City beyond the few pet projects he jammed through, which are mostly currently failing. If you'd like to rise above these issues a good place to start would be for someone in the black community to step forward and offer something besides "whitey does it to us". Thats an old played out song that nearly everyone is tired of hearing. Please.....do something, young brothers are already bragging they are trying to break last years homicide record to maintain "killa city" status. If Rosa Parks would have known what was in store she would have stood her ass back up. At this point, in Kansas City, young brothers are doing it to themselves and taking the entire black community with them. Somebody has to say it. The best plan the city can offer is to tear out sections of the city (driving gang activity elsewhere) while slamming projects down the throats of taxpayers meant to eradicate blight.






