Gangs are apart of Black Culture according to her. Do you agree?

[Dwayne_Taylor]

I don't know who this person is [looks crazy] but I have the same issue with Kendrick Lamar. Every time I see him, he's borrowing imagery from gangs or prison.

Also, every racial and ethnic group has gangs, but that doesn’t make gangs part of anyone’s culture. Gangs are the result of poverty, exclusion, and lack of opportunity; not cultural heritage.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

No they didn’t

The earliest FBA gangs were formed as protection from already existing WHITE gangs. I think @Samori Toure is talking about "Organized Crime" type of gangsters, those types did have some connection/start with/from "white" organized crime.

 

[Mugenight]

Unfortunately she is correct doesn't mean it should be glorified in any fashion tho the shyt is peak cancer.

 

[Bigblackted4]

Gangs are apart of every culture

Yeah most countries have an underworld of crime. From the Crips to the Yakuza, we just are the movers of culture so our gangs get highlighted more than others

 

[Samori Toure]

The earlest FBA gangs were formed as protection from already existing WHITE gangs. I think @Samori Toure is talking about "Organized Crime" type of gangsters, those types did have some connection/start with/from "white" organized crime.

The lady in the OP is talking about street gangs. Modern Black American street gangs are clearly offshoots of organized crime imported into the USA by White immigrants, because Black street gangs weren't even formed until Black people migrated to the North.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

you always mad

shyte is hilarious

HA


italian jewish irish street culture was some hidden in plain sight shyte

the gangsters didn't differentiate themselves from the regular folk in any manner besides the illegal nature of their business

theres a difference between street gangs and organized crime. "white" street gangs definitely differentiated themselves from regular folk in ways that organized crime members didn't

more modern "white" gangs (non-organized crime) that existed in NYC in the 1950s

1955 Gang Killings​

February 16, 1955 – Encchanters from Harlem shoot and kill James Mason and wound two others.
April 28, 1955 – Navajos and Golden Guineas in the Bronx fight over gang jackets, Billy Blankenship is shot in the heart with a pistol and dies almost instantly.
June 18, 1955 – Chaplains murder Fred Warren, a member of a rival gang in Bedford-Stuyvesant called the Tiny Tims.
June 23, 1955 – Viceroys and Dragons from East Harlem. Dragons kill Viceroy, Luis Feliciano in a grocery store while he worked.
June 26, 1955 – Harlem Noble Englishman involved. Arthur Henley is shot outside an apartment building after a party.
October 3, 1955 – Demons and Viceroys in East Harlem get in fight and Pablo Pizarrow is shot and killed.
October 20, 1955 – Junior Bishops kill Boy Scout by the name of Warren Beck on Halsey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
November 28, 1955 – Sportsmen from the Lower East Side knife and kill William Patterson in the Bronx at a dance.

1955 Gang Killings | New York City Fighting Gangs

newyorkcitygangs.com

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this is before the Black and latino gangs like the "Black Spades" and "Savage Nomads" existed (the black and latino gangs were formed to protect themselves against Irish and Italian gangs that were already in existence...)

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The lady in the OP is talking about street gangs. Modern Black American street gangs are clearly offshoots of organized crime imported into the USA by White immigrants, because Black street gangs weren't even formed until Black people migrated to the North.

The early black street gangs out West like the Slausons weren't an offshoot of white criminal gangs, they were simply a band of people that protected their hood from already existing white gangs



the Black Spades though and all those other Black and Rican gangs in 1960s/1970s NYC were influenced by the Hells Angels though