The gangs filled a void in society, and the void was the absence of family life. The gang became a family. For some of those guys in the gang that was the only family they knew, because when their mothers had them they were too busy having children for other men. Some of them never knew their daddies. Their daddies never look back after they got their mothers pregnant, and those guys just grew up and they couldnt relate to nobody. When they had their problems, who could they have talked to? Nobody would listen, so they gravitated together and form a gang. George Mackey, the former representative for the historic Fox Hill community in The Bahamas.
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About This Quote
About Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father.
Themes
- Family — The ties of kinship, parenting, and unconditional love