The internets are driving me bananas with all this talk about Crips founder, STANLEY ‘TOOKIE’ WILLIAMS. The eulogies are flying around as if we had lost one of the greatest humanitarian statesmen since PAUL ROBESON.
I don’t doubt the transformation that TOOKIE made during his incarceration and I don’t think that the state of California or Texas for that matter have ever had an equitable or justifiable record of prosecuting people of color and poor people. What has been lost in all of the hoopla of the protests by celebrity gangbangers like SNOOP DOGG has been TOOKIE’s adherence to the ‘G’ code.
With the small window of time that he remained on the planet he tried to leave a legacy that would outshine his darkest moments. I have to respect that gangsta. But by trying to compare his state-sponsored execution to that of MALCOLM or MARTIN you are missing the true essence of a leader. MALCOLM’s challenge to the status-quo mentality made him an enemy of Corporate America. There is nobody in the world badder than C.A. They are so gangsta that they can drop a bomb on you while you sit on the toilet. And in the morning papers it will read that there was a gas leak in your building.
I’m just saying that maybe if TOOKIE lived another fifty years he might get to the level of a MALCOLM or MARTIN, but as it stands he doesn’t even eclipse MUMIA.
Editor’s note: Further signs of the apocalypse… TOOKIE WILLIAMS tee shirts on eBAY listed as TOOKIE WILLIAMS ORIGINAL GANGSTER THUG PIMP. oy!
People are extremely impressionable, but I doubt he touched {no homo} as many people as people are claiming….1
I wish my people would throw their support behind someone who is out trying to lead by example the first time around and not in the rebirth stage. This does get so tiring Tookie knew 26 years ago that his bed was made and the game was a wrap…
I still dont’ undestand the hype around this guy. they blew him up like he was the second coming of Jesus Christ. Fuck outta here. U kill, you die. end of story. neeeeeeext.
I wish my people would throw their support behind someone who is out trying to lead by example the first time around and not in the rebirth stage.
I cosign that.
I don’t have a problem with dudes seeing the error of there ways & tryna make right for all of the wrong they did but comparing him to martin or malcom is just wrong.
“Let do this for big tookie them niggas in the pin
who will never see these fucking streets again”- Young Buck
I don’t know bout ya’ll but tookie name has never been brought up like this till they sentenced him to death.