Al'adu
Kwamfuta Cowboys
Kamar yadda Kwamfurin Randy Savvy
Hotunan da RHYYL fam
Ni ne dan uwan wata mace mai suna Mayisha Akbar, wanda shine wanda ya kirkiro wani ranch. Ta fara ƙungiyar 1988 da ake kira compton Jr. Iya, ungiyar da ba ta riba ta amfani da hawan doki don kiyaye yara a kan dawakai da kuma kashe tituna a cikin compton. Wanda ya kirkiro shi ya kasance manomi ne. Ya kasance babba a cikin aikin gona, Don haka ya tsara wannan ɗan garin, Da ake kira Ricuna gonar, a matsayin gari wanda zai zama garin gona zuwa cikin azaba, kullum. Haka, Ko da lokacin da aka haɗa birni, wannan karamin makirci a nan.
Tana yin tuntuɓe a cikin wannan ɗan garin, kuma ta kasance kamar, "Oh nagarina, Zan iya rayuwa a nan kuma ina da doki da kuma rayuwa ta saniya, kuma ta kasance kamar, "Jahannama yeah!" Haka, Ta aikata hakan. Tana da yara uku a lokacin, Kuma mahaifina yana da yara biyu, Ni da dan'uwana. Ta sami gida a cikin unguwa, Da dawakinta ko biyu. Ita da abokin aikinta suna da dawakai biyu. Da ita, wannan rayuwa ce. Wannan zai zama rayuwa. Girma, tara yaranta a kusa da dawakai, kuma daga ƙarshe, ta zama saniya kuma ta zama rayuwar gaba daya. Wannan shine mafarkin.
Ta fara amfani da dawakai don koyar da ƙwarewar rayuwa. Ya kirkiro tsarin inda yara za su daidaita kansu don kai don neman hawa. Kuma wannan kawai ya juya ya zama abin mamaki na ban mamaki a gare su saboda an fara shi nan da nan da canza rayukan yara. Yawancin waɗannan yara sun shigo cikin mahaukaci, da minti na gaba, suna kama, "Dole ne in je makaranta, Dole ne in je aji saboda ina so in hau."
Mun kusan zama a ɗayan waɗannan finafinan, where there's only one black team that's going into this white space and trying to accomplish something. It's like that same arc. We would show up and be the only black kids at the spot, but we showed up and showed out. We won a whole bunch of events.
Man, we would be going everywhere and getting popular and winning a lot of events, and we had the cool uniforms and everything, and it was a great time. That was our childhood, was these Compton kids, but full-blown cowboy and cowgirl kids. We would go to the rodeos and do all that. Camping trips and just everything.
Sa'an nan, life starts happening. We all started getting into high school and stuff and wanting to do our own thing, play other sports, hang with girls. We dissipated a little bit, but we were always friends. Ba mu dai ba muyi wannan saniya-saniya ba da cewa muna lokacin da muke yara. Muna yin abubuwa daban-daban yanzu, Amma har yanzu muna gida.
Zuciya da ran abin da muke yi shine ƙirƙirar damar kuma ba da damar komawa ga jama'armu. Labari ne game da wannan ranch, Waɗannan dawakai, ya ceci rayuwar mu kamar yara. Kuma muna da mutanen da suka girma tare da mu wanda bai sanya shi ba, kuma mun binne hadin gwiwa, Mun rasa gidaje, da yawa daga cikin mabuɗin dangantakar galittar shine cewa muna fama da, kuma ba su kasance ba.
Mantra mu, "Tituna sun tashe mu, dawakai sun sami ceto." Wannan shine ainihin gaske. A gare mu, Ya kasance kamar, "Waɗannan dawakai sun ceci rayuwarmu. Ta yaya zamu kai shi zuwa tsara mai zuwa kuma ku ci gaba da biya shi gaba kuma yana haɓaka ƙirar da zamu iya amfani da su don yin maye gurbin da kuma yin aikin ƙasa da kuma auna shi har zuwa ikon duniya?" We're creating an environment, nothing like anybody's ever seen. Most of the time, to get to these kind of environments, you have to go to these wealthy, far-out, elitist kind of neighborhoods. And for us, we're like, "But now, based on the engine that we develop, we're able to put that right here in our hood and stay here."
I live here. I live on the ranch. This is my family property. We're still dealing with all of the street struggles in the hood and everything that goes with it, but we are here fighting to change the narrative, create a better community, create a better city, create opportunities for kids around here, and it's worth it.
The kids, they can come in here. One of my young boys that came through here, came in super rough around the edges. I couldn't believe how far gone he was at 11 years old. Kuma lokacin da na sadu da shi, Na yi masa kira a daren na hadu dashi, Saboda ina son, "Yo, Wannan shi ne abin da ke faruwa a kai na? Waɗannan yaran ne 11 da 12 da sanin yadda ake tuki da kuma yin ciniki da magunguna da ciniki da karfafawa kuma motsa kwayoyi da kuma ɗaukar bindiga. Wannan yaron, ba har ma a makarantar sakandare ba," Kun san abin da nake fada?
Lokacin da na gani cewa sannan zan iya kallon wannan yaran daidai da sha'awar dawakai, Kuma yanzu yana kan hanya don zama mahayin Bull, kuma ba ma tunanin tituna? Wannan shine ma'anar batun. Wannan shine mafi yawan ji. Wannan shine manufar abin da muke yi shine mu iya ajiyewa da canza rayukan yara.
A gare mu, Ya kasance kamar, Mun kasance matasa kuliyoyi daga toshe, amma za mu kafa kanmu kan hanyar zuwa waje kuma har yanzu suna da sabo, Kyakkyawan abu a lokaci guda. Haka, yanzu, Mun sami wannan yanayin, ina, "Yo, lafaƙa, Mu ne kwayar halitta. Mu Poppin '." Matasa baki daya, Suna so su shigo yanzu. Suna kama, "Bro, Ta yaya zan iya zama irin wannan? Ta yaya zan iya zama irin wannan? Me ke faruwa da hakan? Ina so in hau, Ina so in hau, Ina so in yi komai."
"Yana sa ni abin mamaki da tunani mai mahimmanci don kallon gidajen na da tsohon membobin ƙungiya ne, kuma suna gano kansu a matsayin kerboy, Kuma suna halartar tsarin aikin dimokiradiyya ta hanyar jefa kuri'a kuma suna tafiya cikin al'umma da tattaunawa da T o yara. Ina kamar, wancan shit haka ne ... Ba zan iya ba da labarin yadda yake ji ba, da kuma girman kai yana koyar a cikin mahaifina da kuma auhinina, wanda wannan shine burinsu don canza hood don ingantacciyar hanya ba tare da rasa asalin wanda mu. Kuma sun yi hakan. My dad can walk outside right now and see 10 of the homies out there laughing it up, talking shit, or listening to loud music and drinking whatever, but guess what? We are globally making a move and changing people's perspectives on black people, on inner-city communities, on cowboys, on all of these fronts, and it's something to be proud of.
One of our mission's core elements is to pay homage to the culture, traditions, and legacy of the black cowboy. That is very important for us. It's not just about being cool and being dope and then doing stuff in the community. It's about creating a thread to our lineage and having pride in that, and being able to show the new generation that our people have contributed to the development of the modern world, the development of civilization as we know it, in more ways and many ways and other ways than we're taught or that we would know.
And so, we take great pride in putting on these cowboy hats and walking out there with our brown skin and being like, "This is what we do," because there's a long history to that. Those contributions have not been highlighted or appreciated, both locally, nationally, and worldwide. A big part of what we're doing is to put it back on the map for the bigger picture of the people.
Mad World Issue 13