Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Disciples. The Kettering Foundation gave $50,000 for legal expenses for inner-city youths. A chapter of the Vice Lords known as the Conservative Vice Lords received Sears Foundation and Y.M.C.A. support in starting several small businesses in their area. Such prominent black personalities and longtime supporters of the gangs as Chicago Disk Jockey Holmes ("Daddy-O") Daylie and the Rev. Curtis Burrell, director of the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization (K.O.C.O.), helped provide jobs for gang members. But still the killings continued...
...Blacks Only. Initially, black criticism of the gangs had stemmed mainly from the parents of dead and injured children. Recently, however, even men like Daddy-O Daylie began to blow the whistle on tolerance. He had put black capitalism into action by acquiring two filling stations and part ownership in a bowling alley, then hired young blacks to help staff them. But Stones members approached him last summer and demanded he turn over one of the stations to their gang. When he refused, youths reported to be gang members began vandalizing and harrassing customers at his bowling alley. This year...
Angered and disillusioned, Daylie approached the Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce, a local group chiefly made up of black businessmen, and asked them to take a public position against the gangs. Soon after, he began receiving threats on his life. Since then, he has been using his daily radio show and once-a-week TV program, For Blacks Only, to ask blacks to stand up and be counted. "The silent black majority has become the victim of a violent minority," he says. "Once we are honest enough to admit there is a serious gang problem...
Even more surprising was the defection of the Rev. Curtis Burrell, formerly one of the gangs' staunchest allies. Burrell ran afoul of the Stones when he decided they were not acting for the good of the community and fired several of them from the K.O.C.O. staff last month. He denounced the gang as a negative element and held a "march against fear" in the Kenwood-Oakland area to muster resident support. Shortly afterward, five bullets were fired through the front window of his home...
...recruiters allegedly went right into the schools, threatening harm to the students or their parents if they failed to align themselves with the Stones. "This gang thing has gone far enough," said one outraged father. Burrell, who is against white intervention, would like to hear similar expressions of black anger more often. "What the police have to do," he says, "is stand out of the way and let black men deal with their sons." If the revulsion against gang violence in the Chicago ghetto continues, this could well happen...