"Everywhere we go, people want to know..." (1967)

[Paul Johnson]

Blackstone is a north/south street that runs through Woodlawn, which is
a neighborhood just south of the U. of Chicago.

Wilson Gray wrote:

>I'm not familiar with their use of "mighty, mighty" in their battle cry, but
>the Blackstone Rangers themselves were once (in)famous across [black?]
>America, thanks to Ebony and Jet. In their day, they were the Crips and the
>Bloods rolled into one.
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>Weren't the Rangers named after their neighborhood? The Crips were
>originally the "Cripples" and used an early version of the pimp cane as
>their coat-of-arms, so I've heard. Well, having been resident in Los Angeles
>during their rise to fame, I know that they were originally the Cripples and
>carried canes. The *rest* is hearsay.
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>Don't know much about the history of the Bloods. The name "Blood" itself is
>probably just the decades-old shortening of "blood brother," used as both a
>term of address and in the meaning, "any random black male."
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>-Wilson Gray
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>On 12/27/05, Paul Johnson <paulzjoh at mtnhome.com> wrote:
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>>first I heard of "mighty, mighty" was in Chicago about 1964 An attack
>>cry of the Blackstone Rangers, a Woodlawn street gang.
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>>Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>>It's the "mighty" that grabs my attention:
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>>>Are you ready, mighty Bulldogs?!
>>>Mighty, mighty Bulldogs!!
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>-Wilson Gray
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