so i joined a gang so i can justifiably kill all "my own people" and be a savage.
wish i was black.
i hope you aren't serious.
Yeah, that's exactly how it goes.
More like "so I joined a gang because I live in an extremely unsafe neighborhood and have no other means of protecting myself and no means of economic advancement and this group offered me both"
That's why we have gangs. It's not because black people are predisposed to crime and violence.
If you look at most situations where a minority is concentrated in a neighborhood with no economic opportunity and very little public safety, the result is almost always the development of a gang or something like it. There were Irish and Italian gangs before there were black gangs. Now that those communities have largely been assimilated into the general American population, it isn't a problem anymore.
The biggest problem right now as I see it is that ghettos filled with poor black people exist in most major American cities. That's where these problems come from. And no, I don't necessarily think white people today are the cause of that problem. It's more like our history is to blame for it. But the problem is real and undeniable. As long as ghetto projects exist, there will always be racism, racial problems, gangs, violence, etc.
It's the economic conditions of these neighborhoods which is the main cause of these problems, not the people themselves.
