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Game Discusses Baltimore Riots
By: hiphopdx.comPosted On: 05/12/2015 4:13 P
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Game likens the incidents that occurred in Baltimore to the 92 riots in Los Angeles.
Yesterday (April 29) the day after riots occurred in the streets of Baltimore Game penned an op-ed for Billboard, sharing his thoughts on the civil unrest and detailing the disenfranchisement of young African-American men across the nation.
Within the article, Game likens the incidents that occurred in Baltimore to the 92 riots in Los Angeles, which took place after four LAPD officers were acquitted in court after being videotaped beating an unarmed Rodney King.
I witnessed and was a part of the '92 riots in Los Angeles, and you know the damage that did -- not just to Los Angeles, but Watts, Compton, South Central and those areas, Game wrote. That happened when I was 11 years old. I remember looting and throwing bottles and jumping on bottles, jumping on police cars and just being angry. At the moment, it felt great. I felt like, you always hate the police for whatever reason. It all seemed cool for the moment, but now I'm 35. Looking back at what we did as a collective, a young black collective, we ruined our own neighborhood. Those stores which were in our neighborhood were no longer there and the other stores were 5 to 10 miles away, and it crippled our parents to have to venture out even further. I feel like we're seeing the same things happening in Baltimore.
Game goes on to explain that the unrest is largely rooted in "the struggle and strive of black people just to get to an equal level."
"I'm not talking about Obama being in office [because] that's amazing," he wrote. "That's great. It's another item we've accomplished; its something we can put on the walls and in the history books. But that's minute compared to the struggle we've fought just to be looked at as an equal race for hundreds of years."
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