What the **** is going on with Chicago? 52 people shot this past weekend. ONE WEEKEND. This has got to be seen as a dire crisis.
Something has got to change. I wonder what any Chicago-area members here think might be productive. And NO, this is not an invitation for anyone's racist bullshit. A great American city is virtually under siege, and something's gotta give.
And race has nothing to do with it...
White gangs are less covered by the media, and less punished – even though 53% of gang members in Mississippi are white
Others grew up like he did: the child of poor crack and opioid addicts, ripe to be ensnared by a world promising brotherhood, loyalty and respect.
Ivey’s future was not in a black organization, however – it was in one of the oldest and largest white gangs in the US, the Simon City Royals.
“The world should know there are whites struggling in hoods as well as any other race, and more often than not those kids become gang members or drug addicts,” he says.
Ivey was 12 when he began sniffing Scotchgard. He soon followed his adoptive parents and two uncles – all school dropouts – into addiction. His dad made $20 an hour as a carpenter, but most of it paid for their habits.
By 15, Ivey had dropped out of school and broken into probably 200 houses, robbed a crack dealer, had a cop kick his face into the pavement, and started selling meth to support his own addiction. He went in and out of juvenile detention and Mississippi’s notorious “training schools” that, before being reformed, were
near-torture chambers for mostly African American and poor white delinquents.
White gangs are less covered by the media and less punished – even though 53% of gang members in Mississippi are white
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How did Mississippi solve their white gang problems? Or have they solved their white gang problem yet?
