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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Wilson, about twenty years ago a white student of mine who had just finished an army enlistment told me that way back then (by whippersnapper standards) "blood" had already become a familiar form of address used by and between GIs in Germany, regardless of paint job.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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I'm not familiar with their use of "mighty, mighty" in their battle cry, bu=
t
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 Angele=
s
during their rise to fame, I know that they were originally the Cripples an=
d
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
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On 12/27/05, Paul Johnson
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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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> >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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