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

[Laurence Horn]

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

Also back in the late 1960's and 1970's there was a relatively
reasonable Blackstone Hotel in that area (Hyde Park or Woodlawn, near
the U. of Chicago) that people stayed in during the Chicago
Linguistic Society meetings in April.  (People who had a bit more
money than those of us who stayed at the I[nternational]-House, that
is.)  I may be confusing its location with that of the Windermere,
which was the other option.  I think it was turned into condos or
apartments afterward, but I can't vouch for that.  Anyway, there's
probably not much connection between the hotel and the Rangers.

Larry

>
>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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."
>>
>>-Wilson Gray
>>,
>>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.
>>>
>>>Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>>>It's the "mighty" that grabs my attention:
>>>>
>>>>Are you ready, mighty Bulldogs?!
>>>>Mighty, mighty Bulldogs!!
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>>--
>>-Wilson Gray