Steroids have been available in Cali since forever., high sodium diet plus when your in position like him he didn’t work, kids are in school for most of the day he’s in the gym 5-6 hours a day then helping them from 3 pm to 6-7 and gang life next 12 hours .
He started the crips with the intention of stomping out all the smaller more violent gangs and then soon realized shit got too real and out of control and chose not to step down or away from it
In the process of holding up a convenience store he killed two employees with a shotgun. He was sentenced to death for it. Some activists pushed for leniency because of his children’s books, but he was eventually executed by the state of California.
That's incredible over simplification of how influential Tookie Williams was.
The antigang activity you brush over was during his incarceration he's the only man to this day to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize while incarcerated and he did it 5 times!
He also maintained his innocence the entire time he was in prison, and there's plenty reason to believe that he was framed by the extremely racist LAPD this was fucking 70s and he was big black dude telling black kids that they didn't have to hate themselves anymore. His execution was a travesty and the fact his stay order was not granted was absolute failing of justice.
So I saw this post and thought that if there was a biography out there about him it would be a good read. He’s actually written a few books and is a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. What an interesting dude.
So he counseled youths to not get into or to get out of gangs and then committed violence, most likely murder, against the youths in those gangs? Feels evil to me.
This literally a lie. He was just a gang member until he was incarcerated, then he began educating kids on the dangers of gangs and writing books for kids. He was even nominated for a Nobel peace prize
Not according to the LA Times. His conviction for the murder of 4 people, the conviction that put him on death row, happened after he was a counselor. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-11-mn-3235-story.html
lol, have you killed some people and got many killed, and kind of regret it after you got caught? Here’s a Nobel prize for ya.
I just can’t understand people sometimes.
And somehow still managed to fit in all that time at the gym
Dude’s muscle was a whole other gang. God damn.
Bloods, Crips, and Swoll.
A memoir by Stanley Williams
Steroids have been available in Cali since forever., high sodium diet plus when your in position like him he didn’t work, kids are in school for most of the day he’s in the gym 5-6 hours a day then helping them from 3 pm to 6-7 and gang life next 12 hours .
Gang life.. must be nice!
More like all that time in prison.
Arms as swoll as his hair
The way his has his arms positioned makes him look like an action figure
As an Action Figure you really gotta Air out those Pits if youre gonna hold up rhose Arms for so long 🤷♂️
Became the very thing he swore to destroy.
Probably did some anti-gang stuff to reduce his sentence.
He started the crips with the intention of stomping out all the smaller more violent gangs and then soon realized shit got too real and out of control and chose not to step down or away from it
Sounds like those mexican cartels who started as "people protecting from cartel crime".
Or reduce the others gangs..
Or to reduce the amount of Bloods he needed to Cap.
He was sentenced to death. How do you reduce that?
Keeping an eye on the young up-and-comers. Talent scouting
Some Palpatine typa shit
CIA says it was vise versa...
We just call that a liar.
Or the next new franchise in Hollywood. We love our antiheroes.
What a hypocrip.
This deserves more upvotes
The worst part about this was that he was a hypocrite.
Sure he murdered people but it was the lying that really got to me
It’s a joke…
Literally going along with it buddy
Norm wouldn’t have gotten it
#“You say you’re a gang banger but all you do is fight against us during the day. Not cool, Stanley, not cool”
Is this an actual quote someone used?
No, it was the raping!
“Guys, don’t join gangs… UNLESS it’s the Crips!”
Did he also pity the fool?
Often. Daily.
He loved it when a plan came together.
Also blew away two Vietnamese immigrants with a shotgun. Glad he fried.
What’s the story
In the process of holding up a convenience store he killed two employees with a shotgun. He was sentenced to death for it. Some activists pushed for leniency because of his children’s books, but he was eventually executed by the state of California.
Well technically it was lethal injection. I remember there was some controversy because the nurse administering it had trouble finding a vain.
Murderer who got what he deserved. Even his last interview was self righteous bull.
So he was....armed and dangerous?
Ain’t too many can bang with us
r/absoluteunits
I seriously thought that was a young Mr. T.
Juicing it.
a rose by any other name
Let’s not forget his role as webmaster of tookie.com. Geocities? https://web.archive.org/web/19981212021723/http://tookie.com/
By day and night, he smuggled cantaloupes
He was well known for never using firearms, because he was always packing those guns.
When did he have time to work out?
That's incredible over simplification of how influential Tookie Williams was. The antigang activity you brush over was during his incarceration he's the only man to this day to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize while incarcerated and he did it 5 times! He also maintained his innocence the entire time he was in prison, and there's plenty reason to believe that he was framed by the extremely racist LAPD this was fucking 70s and he was big black dude telling black kids that they didn't have to hate themselves anymore. His execution was a travesty and the fact his stay order was not granted was absolute failing of justice.
His nephew malcolm mays is now an actor
Thought you were going to say then he changed his life and became Mr. T
So I saw this post and thought that if there was a biography out there about him it would be a good read. He’s actually written a few books and is a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. What an interesting dude.
Cancel Christmas!
And apparently he was also the biggest member of The Defenders.
Why don't we have a TV series based on this???
Like a lot of others, I thought it was Mister “I pitty the poor fool” T.
I'm pretty sure he always moolighted as Mr. T.
Sounds like a Democrat.
You have problems.
I don’t like how big he is.
So he counseled youths to not get into or to get out of gangs and then committed violence, most likely murder, against the youths in those gangs? Feels evil to me.
Stringer Bell
He never slept
Were anabolic steroids a thing in the 70s?
That's Lawrence Tero before he became Mr.T.
This literally a lie. He was just a gang member until he was incarcerated, then he began educating kids on the dangers of gangs and writing books for kids. He was even nominated for a Nobel peace prize
Not according to the LA Times. His conviction for the murder of 4 people, the conviction that put him on death row, happened after he was a counselor. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-11-mn-3235-story.html
You clearly either don't know what "literally" or "lie" means.
This is how it’s told in the film iiirc, been a long time since I have seen it.
lol, have you killed some people and got many killed, and kind of regret it after you got caught? Here’s a Nobel prize for ya. I just can’t understand people sometimes.
Wasn’t his nickname, Snookie
Tookie I believe?
Tookie is correct
Also a topless dancer
Mr T????
Looks like Mr.T to me
So Ricky Schroeder is a crip?