05.11.17 “...Because that’s what I knew.”

05.11.17 “...Because that’s what I knew.”


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And I looked at him and said:

"You better tell the truth - because HBO, The New Yorker, Daily Mail, Post, - all of them are full of shit. They’re lying on us. We’re under attack. We got no money. We got no food. We got no power. We just SOUND like we’re powerful." 


So [he says]:
“Okay, I’ll tell the truth.” 


And I looked at him like:
"Well, if you don’t - you know we’ll break your hands…"

...Because that’s what I knew. That’s how I knew to tell these people: "Stop hurting me. Stop hurting US.”

- Antonio “King Tone” Fernandez, May 11th, 2017


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Let’s journey back to a 2017 Conference at John Jay College. It’s where radical academic David Brotherton, and former head of the Latin Kings, Antonio “King Tone” Fernandez, discuss how they were able to mobilize gang members for social and political good, and what happens when one country “legalizes gangs.”

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