P Now you sent me something you wrote, sounded pretty important to you so I had to see you face to face about it to let you know that you are spot on about the lack of meaningful connection to the streets, bloodshed exchange between the police and the youth and forgiveness; thats some territory.
XZ Yeah, I wat to put it in one of our zine issues, but I had to check with you to see if I was using the Lords Prayer out of context, I mean, i wrote it anyway, but I wasnt going to do nothing with it until I ran it by you, because people will call you out about misquoting scripture, especially heathens like myself (both laughing)
P No, at first, I read it and saw that it was so good, I thought you may have gotten it from somewhere else, but it's good man, and up to that point where Jesus is teaching this prayer, it's the first time He says "OUR Father", which is critical because the word "Our" makes us Family, us, yall, police and then we can get into "AS WE". Yeah, ummhumm, let 'em read it man, thats some good stuff, short, simple and very powerful, good job Son.
(pages 6&7 reserved for forgive pt.1 & Popz response note:
P So to answer the question about who's side God is on, well, according to The Lords Prayer, being recited at all these funerals, God is on the side of the forgiver.
XZ Fo sho, and to sustain reason to not engage forgiveness means that what? We all should continue to make funeral arrangements?
P Forgiveness is Godly, and everybody aint built to apply Gods word to themselves, and the exposure of surface level hatred is everywhere right now, you and lil Byron stay on it.
XZ I know you need to catch that airplane back home, thank you for coming to see about your boy, and I can't wait to stir the pot abdout the concept of forgiveness, I love you man, and aint nothing you can do about it.
Escort Officer You ready to go?
XZ Hell nawh!
(everybody sharing a group laugh, and a prayerful farewell to Popz ): )
P Man, they made me do all kind of stuff, stand over here, go over there, take everything out cho pockets, being all disrespectful, oooh my back stated cuttin up, I didnt think I was going to make that long walk over here, so outside of cheetos, know you love you some cheetos, whatelse can I get out the machines for ya? (both smiling)
And tthen, in swift tribal nature, The Hood rushed to console Popz, starting with the ESe homie Muggzy and his wife in the cage to my lft:
Muggzy's wife Yeah, that's messed up, they got new cops working outhere today, and the lady cop doesn't know what she is doing and just being rude to everybody, I waited over an hour.
XZ Popz, this is Mr. and Mrs. Muggzy (smiling)
P Yeah, I felt violated, nice to meet yall...
Then the homie J-Rock from Compton jumped up:
J.R. Excuse me, Hey Popz, my name is Jesse and this is my wife and I just wanted to respectfully acknowledge you first and foremost, but they not suppose to be treating you like that, got these rookies around here that dont know what they're doing.
P Thank you, and bless yall because I stood outhere in that line so long I almost went back home.... bout to work my last...
Now, mind you, Popz is still talking to us, while walking away from us on his way to the vending machines to cop some snacks and my cheetos, and as I'm standing there feeling happy and warm and thankful to the community for helping me console Popz with honor, I couldn't help but to look over at the homie Swoop from Long Beach staring at the door, becase after hearing how the cops treated Popz, one could only imagine how Swoops family was being treated.
SW Hell, thats probably what the hold up is, here they come now, yeah, that's fucked up Man.... Popz alright tho.
I layed that moment out for readers of this issue because on the surface, this is typical of the mistreatment that goes on that society has become numb to, so, it's, no biggie. However, on another level, Popz presence alone, by tribal nature, somehow, magically negated the fact that through the ignorant selfserving recorded eyes of the system, me, the Ese, The Pirk and The Crip are all supposed to be enemies, and are such a threat to eachother, that they built walk alone cages in the visiting room, where even our families, and most honored fom our communities are forced to visit us in seperate cages, that we all psychologically dont see, especially when law enforcement officers dont respect the loving wives., children, and the education administrator with a phd, community leader and church pastor in a space designed for intimate human engagement.
Me and Popz talked for almost 2hrs about the state of the hood, family, the good old days, you name it, it was like I was floating on His every word, until he said:
RSS
I understand you it just Hard for me write letters to you
Love, someone on your side
P.s I will see you dad K.B.S Krystal Blue Strobel
about it to let you know that you are spot on about the lack of meaningful connection to the streets,
bloodshed exchange between the police and the youth and forgiveness; thats some territory.
XZ Yeah, I wat to put it in one of our zine issues, but I had to check with you to see if I was using
the Lords Prayer out of context, I mean, i wrote it anyway, but I wasnt going to do nothing with it
until I ran it by you, because people will call you out about misquoting scripture, especially
heathens like myself (both laughing)
P No, at first, I read it and saw that it was so good, I thought you may have gotten it from somewhere
else, but it's good man, and up to that point where Jesus is teaching this prayer, it's the first
time He says "OUR Father", which is critical because the word "Our" makes us Family, us, yall, police
and then we can get into "AS WE". Yeah, ummhumm, let 'em read it man, thats some good stuff, short,
simple and very powerful, good job Son.
(pages 6&7 reserved for forgive pt.1 & Popz response note:
P So to answer the question about who's side God is on, well, according to The Lords Prayer, being recited
at all these funerals, God is on the side of the forgiver.
XZ Fo sho, and to sustain reason to not engage forgiveness means that what? We all should continue to make
funeral arrangements?
P Forgiveness is Godly, and everybody aint built to apply Gods word to themselves, and the exposure of
surface level hatred is everywhere right now, you and lil Byron stay on it.
XZ I know you need to catch that airplane back home, thank you for coming to see about your boy, and I
can't wait to stir the pot abdout the concept of forgiveness, I love you man, and aint nothing you can do about it.
Escort Officer You ready to go?
XZ Hell nawh!
(everybody sharing a group laugh, and a prayerful farewell to Popz ): )
being all disrespectful, oooh my back stated cuttin up, I didnt think I was going to make that long walk
over here, so outside of cheetos, know you love you some cheetos, whatelse can I get out the machines
for ya? (both smiling)
And tthen, in swift tribal nature, The Hood rushed to console Popz, starting with the ESe homie Muggzy
and his wife in the cage to my lft:
Muggzy's wife Yeah, that's messed up, they got new cops working outhere today, and the lady cop doesn't
know what she is doing and just being rude to everybody, I waited over an hour.
XZ Popz, this is Mr. and Mrs. Muggzy (smiling)
P Yeah, I felt violated, nice to meet yall...
Then the homie J-Rock from Compton jumped up:
J.R. Excuse me, Hey Popz, my name is Jesse and this is my wife and I just wanted to respectfully acknowledge
you first and foremost, but they not suppose to be treating you like that, got these rookies around here
that dont know what they're doing.
P Thank you, and bless yall because I stood outhere in that line so long I almost went back home....
bout to work my last...
Now, mind you, Popz is still talking to us, while walking away from us on his way to the vending machines
to cop some snacks and my cheetos, and as I'm standing there feeling happy and warm and thankful to the
community for helping me console Popz with honor, I couldn't help but to look over at the homie Swoop from
Long Beach staring at the door, becase after hearing how the cops treated Popz, one could only imagine how
Swoops family was being treated.
SW Hell, thats probably what the hold up is, here they come now, yeah, that's fucked up Man.... Popz
alright tho.
I layed that moment out for readers of this issue because on the surface, this is typical of the
mistreatment that goes on that society has become numb to, so, it's, no biggie. However, on another
level, Popz presence alone, by tribal nature, somehow, magically negated the fact that through
the ignorant selfserving recorded eyes of the system, me, the Ese, The Pirk and The Crip are all
supposed to be enemies, and are such a threat to eachother, that they built walk alone cages in the
visiting room, where even our families, and most honored fom our communities are forced to visit us in
seperate cages, that we all psychologically dont see, especially when law enforcement officers dont respect
the loving wives., children, and the education administrator with a phd, community leader and church pastor
in a space designed for intimate human engagement.
Me and Popz talked for almost 2hrs about the state of the hood, family, the good old days, you name it,
it was like I was floating on His every word, until he said: