Depends where you are and what kind of gang we're talking about I guess. Cass Pennant is notorious over here as the former leader of the ICF, the West Ham hooligan gang.
Social Economical problems that stem from gangs
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Depends where you are and what kind of gang we're talking about I guess. Cass Pennant is notorious over here as the former leader of the ICF, the West Ham hooligan gang.
The way I look at it, a white person can still live a normal life after proson if he was in the mafia. If you are part of a "latino" or "black" gang, even if you want to rise above it, society won't let you. Being and ex-mafioso is cool, being a former Blood is not.
Not true... Snoop Dog has made street cred for being a former Cript or Blood, forget which one.
yea...and the others in his group are dead now......whens it his turn?
lmao.
Agreed.
Are you kidding??? You cannot just leave the Mafia. If you try to you will most likely end up dead!
Swim wit da fishes!
what? They were low life murderers.
People join gangs because of their social and economic standing, mostly (there are a few exceptions). Most crime, gangs and violence stem from being in a poor place because when you are poor, you are more desperate to survive. People don't WANT to be poor, so no one per se "chooses" poverty in a sense. They join gangs to try to make money and gain protection.
Am I condoning or emulating their actions in any way? No way.
I am simply stating the differences in the public's way of embracing the mafia as opposed to any black/latino based gang.
Its because they were romanticized in a very turbulent time where most Americans had a very low opinion of the government as a whole. They acted like Robin hoods, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. crips and bloods would probably be seen in the same light if they were in the right time era.
And to the rest...
You're basically agreeing with my statement that they chose gangs, therefore they chose poverty.
It's like me chosing to rack up thousands of dollars on a credit card to "fit in" with my surroundings or something to that effect. I know it will put me in mass debt, but I'm here to be part of something, no matter the consequences.
again, references to "me and my" are rhetorical.
Romanticized. PERFECT term. I believe that's the basis of ALL individual's gang choices.
I just have a problem with the idea that they WANT to live in the ghetto and be impoverished for the rest of their lives. I just think its their idea of staying alive, so its not like they actively CHOOSE to want to stay poor, just that they are disillusioned that they will never become wealthy.
Kind of the stuff that people in the East End over here bleat on about the Krays.
It's all "They luvved their muvva, the streets were safer back then, they only urt people who deserved it ect ect":smiley24:
Hey, some do, because of pride. Some subscribe to the train of thought that they are dissing their 'hood's brothers and sisters, if they leave. Their fear of their peers thinking any less of them for doing something to better their lives is enough to keep them there. Sounds crazy, but it keeps them safe, number one, and two, they keep the "power" they have in the 'hood. Outside of the 'hood, they are regarding as uneducated low lifes. It's almost impossible to jump outside of this shell.
Thats easy to say, since we're all privileged whites in a society that favors whites.
You're making the mistake of thinking that all choices are equal across ethnic and class borders, and all choices are in the same number. Its often that choices are very limited.
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