The father, the father figure, so critical, the young black, latino, or white thug, no matter whom, once looking for a father & he is gone & mom is a crack whore, dad is a pimp dealer slanging coke

head dead beat, & all junior wants is a father to guide, to instill some fear, some rules, boundaries & father is AWOL, so junior makes the street his home, the jailer his mother, the judge his father

Young men, males, some in antifa violent gangs, street gangs, some males I mentored in half way places out of juve etc., tell me that when they take bats and bash in stores windows and cars, the window is their father and they are so angry that he left that they are trying to hurt him, hit him for abandoning them and they do this to want the police to arrest them to punish them even, for once, they need guidance and punishment and to be held to account, they crave it like how we crave salt, and want to stand in front of the judge who in their mind is the father, so he can jail them, punish them for they want it…they crave it…

you may not like what I write but I am raw and honest and say it as it is…