A History of Violence - Ice Cube

Blacks who ventured across the unmarked border were often attacked

By teenage members of the new gang called The Spook Hunters

One of a handful of white gangs active in this time

It was only natural for L.A.'s newest residents to respond unkind

As white attacks started to increase in the mid 1940's and late 1940's

Blacks started to organize their clubs really as a defensive mechanism

And the boss men or the business men and the Snyder boys and all these

Clubs in south L.A. really were just sorta defending themselves against

White violence that was coming from Huntington Park and Southgate

The demise of the black panthers in Los Angeles is said to be another

Blow to a generation of black teenagers that witnessed many of its role models

Assasinated throughout the 1960's

spoken

What I’m sayin in so many words, they shoulda let the panthers

Went on because there probably would never have been no crips and no bloods