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Then lightning struck, and the city went dark for real. By the time the power came back, 25 hours later, arsonists had set more than 1,000 fires and looters had ransacked 1,600 stores, per the New York Times.

Opportunistic thieves grabbed whatever they could get their hands on, from luxury cars to sink stoppers and clothespins, according to the New York Post. The sweltering streets became a battleground, where, per the Post, “even the looters were being mugged.”

The mayhem of 1977 came as a night-and-day contrast with New York’s previous citywide blackout, in 1965. The earlier outage affected far more people (25 million, spanning New York and seven other states, plus two Canadian provinces, compared to the 9 million people in New York and its northern suburbs who lost power in ’77, per TIME). Yet the effects were dramatically, devastatingly different. As TIME put it, the 1977 blackout left the city powerless in terms of electricity and also powerless to stop the people who seized the opportunity to riot. “They set hundreds of fires and looted thousands of stores,” the magazine noted, “illuminating in a perverse way twelve years of change in the character of the city, and perhaps of the country.”
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Entrapta310 said:
did you even watch the documentary? it was a blessing in disguise to spark the dj/mc movement in 77
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The implication is that hip hop - one of, if not THE most important cultural movements in the black community - was only possibly because a bunch of black people embraced their supposed inherent criminality and stole all the equipment. Like I said, racist propaganda.
 
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JohnnyTruant said:
The implication is that hip hop - one of, if not THE most important cultural movements in the black community - was only possibly because a bunch of black people embraced their supposed inherent criminality and stole all the equipment. Like I said, racist propaganda.
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before you talk some racist propaganda of your own and not even watch footage of the blakk out, why dont you go find out how the 5 boroughs were in the 70's and why anyone would have looted in them neighborhoods. and it wasnt just blakk people looting. stop being an a$$hole.
you're from australia. shut the fukk up
 
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JohnnyTruant said:
The implication is that hip hop - one of, if not THE most important cultural movements in the black community - was only possibly because a bunch of black people embraced their supposed inherent criminality and stole all the equipment. Like I said, racist propaganda.
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It's very bad
 
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Entrapta310 said:
before you talk some racist propaganda of your own and not even watch footage of the blakk out, why dont you go find out how the 5 boroughs were in the 70's and why anyone would have looted in them neighborhoods. and it wasnt just blakk people looting. stop being an a$$hole.
you're from australia. shut the fukk up
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I was going to go back and forth arguing with you but then I noticed your rep, so I'll just leave you with this: :umad:
 
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