I wonder if anyone in this thread, has ever made friends with, or known anyone in an inner city gang?
Some of the speculation in this thread, and the statements? Are really divorced from reality. The fault, lay not with the black community, but with the STATE, and global corporatism.
While the massive immigration provides cheap labor that benefits a well-to-do portion of Americans, it depresses living conditions for the working class in ways that disproportionately harm Black citizens.
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Martin Scorsese went to special lengths in order to recreate 19th-century New York in Gangs of New York. Here's how much of the film was based on real life.
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