Life of a GANGSTA (part one)

This is the true story of a friend of mine, David Square founder of Saving Our Sons Ministries (Project Gang Peace)


"When I was nine years old I was drafted into what became Chicago’s bloodiest war. I am talking about young people killing each other for a piece of land not owned by them, killing each other because of a color, and/or a name. By the time I was fifteen (15) years old I had been shot nine times, stabbed several times and beaten with baseball bats. I spent 3 1⁄2 months in a coma due to a gun shot to the head, and when I came out of the coma I could not walk and could barely talk. I had to endure a year of rehabilitation and speech therapy. I prayed to my Father in Heaven for the gift of life, that I may live, but I did it for the wrong reason, I wanted to retaliate. And yes, I did retaliate against those who shot me. Afterward, I was arrested and tried as an adult and sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison. I was only 16 years old, faced with the worse time of my life – I was going to prison, what most people thought would be for life.

While in prison I have had to do things that to this day that I am ashamed of; I have had to use violence as a means to survive, in that I was not going to be someone’s punk. Because of my choices other people died, were maimed, and some couldn’t withstand the pressure and committed suicide.

At the age of 21, I decided that I wanted to be my own “Chief’, and so I secretly began to built my Nation (set), one member at a time. And that came with a price. I had become so powerful in the joint that I was considered untouchable. But my family was not untouchable. Because of my choices, two of my biological brothers were gunned down and I had to put my mother in hiding for two years in order to keep her alive. My daughter had been raped three times, and now to this day she blames me for her drug addiction and prostitution. Now mind you, the guys that I was once loyal to were now trying to eliminate my family and had done horrific things to my baby girl (my only daughter). Think about that for a minute! That’s the life of a gangster……." (to be continued)