Niggas in Denial: Pimping the System and The System of Pimping by E. Michael Jones

Author:E. Michael Jones
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Fidelity Press
Published: 2012-08-29T07:00:00+00:00

1977

Nineteen Seventy-Seven is the year in which Caroline Peoples was born. When I mention the effect that the Superfly movies and Deep Throat had on Gloria's husband, Gloria, who has been dozing off and on during my conversation, wakes up and begins talking about the effect that pimp/Blaxploitation culture had on her life. "The movies and the music definitely influenced his behavior," she said. "He went out and got oral sex whenever he wanted."

Caroline concurs, claiming that listening to rap music made her want to go out and shoot members of rival gangs. When I tell Caroline that she reminds me of someone who got dropped into a fast and dangerous river, she says that her daughter Mohagany told my lawyer that I was a product of my environment. "I didn't struggle against the river. I went with the flow. I didn't mind. I wasn't scared of nothing."

Gloria talks about her sex life and the promiscuity which came about as a result of the divorce.

After the divorce I didn't date for two years. The first guy I dated gave me an ectopic pregnancy. I was full of anger but deep down I was just an abused little girl, and then I was abused as a women. I wasn't going to keep repeating that cycle. I chose to stop dating period. I decided to get an education. As a child I had no control over anything. It took me going through alcoholism. I needed to get control. The victim of abuse wants to get it over with. It was something I didn't want to think about. I also wondered whether I was gay or not. I realized I was a heterosexual because the first guy I had sex with was nice to me. I didn't know if I was gay or not. I knew I needed help.

Gloria compensated for the divorce in other ways as well—by eating and drinking to excess and, when that didn't ease the pain sufficiently, by attempting suicide. That life has taken a toll on Gloria's health. She is overweight and suffering from all of the usual ghetto maladies—hypertension, diabetes, sleep apnea—that flow from that lifestyle. When the suicide attempt failed as well, Gloria realized that "helping people is what I wanted to do." That meant being a social worker, which meant adopting Ivori and Isaac. It also meant meeting Caroline in Cook County Jail.

Caroline's high life with the Gangster Disciples came to an abrupt end in 1994, when the leadership of the gang was all arrested. At this point, Caroline found herself unemployed and pregnant with Chi-Chi's baby. She had no place to go but back to her mother, who was still living with the verbally abusive Robert Williams. Caroline's family was not happy with her, and it was made clear to her that now that she was pregnant she was on her own, and so after four months of living with her mother and her boyfriend, Caroline got on public aid and moved out on her own.

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