THE CRIPS VS. THE BLOODS

The article "The Good Shepherd" that was written in The Voice Of Martyrs magazine caught my attention and stirred my compassion for the ideal and dream of cultural unity amongst my people, African people. The National Islamic Front soldiers, who belong to the government of Sudan attack villages in the southern part of Sudan. They destroy homes and kill the men of the families. They rape and torture the women. They disembowel and cut the unborn children from the wombs of the mothers. They cut off the breast of mothers so they can't breast feed their young.
I know that there is political strife and instability between the people in the north who are Moslems and the people in the south who are Animist and Christians. The government wants to control the resources totally without opposition. African people are separated by ethnic, tribal, and religious variation. Evil rules the land and tries to crush the power found in love and unity. We stand by knowing of the plight of our brothers and sisters and we do not intervine with all of our combined spiritual, political, economical, social, moral, and physical might to make a change in our local, national, or global situation.
The Tutsi and the Hutu were entangled in ethnic genocide. Millions were killed and we did not do enough to intervine. As CNN displayed the violence of brother killing brother I could not tell the difference between these two groups. It reminded me of our own home grown ethnic violence, the Crips against the Bloods. Two groups who fight for the right to help commit genocide against their own people. The only physical difference may be the color of the baseball cap that they wear or the actual part of the community that they may reside in.
Black on black crime is a phenomena that is spread throughtout the African Diaspora. What can we do about it? How can we educate our young people in a way that will deliver us from such destruction? How can we learn to share the resources that are available to us? How can we empower ourselves in a global community that has a vested interest in keeping our people oppressed and demoralized? How can we restore our humanity to the forefront of our social evolution? How can we learn to serve the best interests for our people as a whole through love and unity?