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Colonial Crip is a label designed to represent Sasha Shakur with respect to her Gangsta element. It is created by Sasha Shakur and for Sasha Shakur and is not associated or affiliated with anyone but Sasha Shakur. Colonial Crip is a cultural fashion statement expressing the religious exodus of the Rasta in America.
Colonial Crip is a Political Advocacy Group for Colored Creatives who have experienced social, economic and political exclusion or persecution due to the criminalization of Blackness in America.
Colonial Crip currently has no valid reason or credentials to be gang banging beyond cultural and political representation, religious advocacy and artistic activism. The intention behind identifying as Colonial Crip is to bring positive and constructive action to Black communities that have been systematically degraded and deteriorated into Indigenous instincts of warfare. The identification of Sasha Shakur as Colonial Crip is representative of her own journey with these indigenous instincts of war and how she has used her faith as a Rasta prophet to transform her feelings of violence into music that represents her experience of Blackness in America. A core value of Colonial Crip is to honor the Redemptive Spirit of Gangsta Rap. The ability to use your voice to represent your reality is a powerful tool that can empower social inspiration and motivate the reform that is needed in this world to find its actualization. The focus of Colonial Crip has always predominantly been the sustainability and preservation of warrior spirit within Black communities. To initiate any kind of actions of warfare on the part of Colonial Crip would be unprovoked and unnecessary, not to mention immature and irresponsible, especially if against other communities of color. That being said, we can only choose our battles so far as war is not waged upon us. Self Defensive actions and/or responses are evaluated for risk in order to prevent violent altercation and escalation if possible, however, the reality of self defense can be unavoidably violent. As one person, I am not a gang, and there is no sane reason for me to create this platform of representation to become consumed with a destructive force. For me, Sasha Shakur, being The Colonial Crip means stepping up into a leadership role in relation to people of my Black American culture. I am not from an environment with pre-existing gangs or even many people of color. I have no pre-existing issues with any communities or groups of people(s) unless they have an issue with my identity as a Trans-Androgynous Asiatic Black Woman and they decide to make that my problem. I believe that our pathways into existences of Indigenous warfare are tactically and systematically designed by the psychological, emotional, spiritual, and biological oppressions created by the rule of white power. I believe that this means that our spirit of warfare is intended by the nature of this condition to be utilized as a tool of freedom to apply towards achieving our ability to maintain sovereign and independent power structures, social orders, and economic systems of community that divest our Black communities from the settlements and civil colonies of European occupation around the world. I believe that this spirit of warfare is also systemically controlled and re-directed to have the warriors of Black communities trapped in loops and cycles of violent destruction in order to occupy the warriors within Black communities with the agenda of the slave and overseer so that the true oppressor will remain out of the reach and sight. If I were to bang, it would not look like today's form of Gangsta Blackness, but a more primitive and revolutionary identity of militant activism. If violence were a possible pathway of pursuit, I would not choose to direct it at other gangs but to unite with all legal and illegal Americans and People of Color everywhere in order to organize an active community of resistance against the global one world agenda of human enslavement and destruction. Of course, I am not doing that. Because I would be assassinated tomorrow. I am simply promoting the culture of Gangsta Blackness as a tool of educational centralization in the conversation of Black reconstruction.
No, I carry the utmost respect for Blood. However, I do recognize that Crip is the source, and I do aim to enforce that hierarchy in the streets.
No, I am not from an already Black community. My experience of being the most culturally Black identity in my area led me to identity my feelings of racial frustration and emotional violence as a Gangsta identity which I did my best to stabilize and reform for survival. I believe that I have earned the credentials to lead other Gangsta identities in reform using the same strategies of reform that I employ in my own journey of personal reconstruction. As a Black-Belt in Ken-Ryu Kenpo Karate and an experienced Life Scout, I carry a qualified background to lead and represent a community whose racial experience is parallel to my own in many places. I personally have always adored the color blue as my absolute favorite color, and the spiritual significance of this in addition to my beliefs of warrior masculinity and Black culture led me to embrace the Crip culture as my own, as well as its cultural connections to Rasta and Hindu cultures, as I was born Hindu and I am a chosen Rasta. I hope that my representation of myself as a Crip will protect other Crip identities under an umbrella of social advocacy that extends to all American Gangstas. I strive and aim to honor and re-inspire the spirit of community revolution that has been present in groups such as the Black Panther Political Party, Crips, Bloods, and any other similar identifications of Black preservation. I mean no disrespect or offense to pre-existing Crip existences and I am unaware of any Crip presence in my area other than my own.
Since I am at the beginning of my journey as a very unconventional Crip, I consider myself uniquely qualified for the position of vocal artistic political and religious leadership. I believe being pre-engaged in war would prevent myself from my fullest potential as a leader to my community of people. I intend to contribute my most powerful contributions, and I believe this would be leadership. I am a hero and a warrior and there is nothing I wouldn't do for my people. I expect that there will come the time when I become connected with other Crips and I do not believe that they would expect me to compromise the platform of advocacy I intend to build in order to contribute to efforts of war rather than efforts of reconstruction. According to my understanding, the general consensus of Gangsta America is that we need and want healing. So I will not choose to embrace the identity of Crip in pursuit of furthering hostility on behalf of Crip. As a Crip I bear a responsibility to the collective truth of my community and to reduce that experience to one of violent opposition without any kind of go-ahead from any Crip elders would be ignorant and irresponsible to say the least. I have no intention to dishonor a community which has yet to accept me as one of their own. As far as I am concerned, I inherit the spirit of revolution and resistance from my identity as a Crip and this gives me an obligation to conduct my proceedings in an intelligent and effective manner for the success of my people. I believe my position of social privilege as an Indian-immigrant should provide me with a foundation of maturity and responsibility that demands I believe in a greater depth of existence for my people than tribal warfare and that I lead my people by setting the example for us all. The struggle I experience as an Indian immigrant is the dualism of the Black American identity and it is this struggle which connects me to the collective of indigenous spirited-warriors. This is my inheritance being a person of color in America and it demands a maturity and responsibility of me to do my best to continue to survive while embracing and elevating the threat my identity and existence pose to the power of white occupational terrorism and oppression. What I inherit from Crip is my soul: the soul of the revolutionary Black Man and his journey from government slave to a sovereign God. What comes with that is not for me to decide. There is that which institutionalizes us and we can do very little to control our pathways away from this. There is then that which frees us and we can embrace it and accept a higher path. Colonial Crip is a sincere effort to restructure the institutionalized Black warrior towards artistic reform. If you have a problem with the idea of reforming violent criminals into honorable trustworthy citizens I encourage you to act on that feeling.
As far as Im concerned, the only "beef" I inherit is the government trying to suppress everything I do that has anything to do with Blackness. But what the fucc am I supposed to do about that?
So no. I dont
It's called Colonial Crip cuz im from New England and Im trying to represent a new generation of Blackness that you haven't seen since the Civil Rights Era. It is absolutely not condoning any actions of colonization, in fact, it is a decolonization movement. The word Colonial is used here to represent a regional culture to signify and identify the origins of this movement, while the latter half Crip represents the origin of gang banging as an LA culture, connecting and uniting America from Coast to Coast and using culture as a focal point for which to organize and decolonize.
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