Nope... The initial image was about the Crips and the Bloods. That is a cultural environment as is explained in the article. Now I could hunt for some images white people also in that culture, but honestly I was just trying to think of some good examples of an attitude of violence. That the people happen to be black in those images does not mean the article itself is about race, or attacking race. If you choose to view the image as that then that is your problem, not mine. I actually add images and videos to my posts AFTER I have written the text. Do I sit there and think, "Oh I better not use this, someone might think X?" Sometimes I do, but generally I don't.
So the images were added AFTER the text was written. The truth of the matter is most people don't read walls of text here. Some do, but most do not. So I add images usually for that reason. Sometimes the images end up being important to the post.
That ones only importance is that it shows the Crips and the Bloods as some people may not have a clue who they are.
One of them here.
Still, if it is about violence then there are a lot of picture without people at all.
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Did you even read the article? I assume you did. The article specifically mentions the crips and the bloods, it explains the culture. Those photos are of crips and bloods. It is relevant.
I am not trying to create a safe space post for you. I am adding photos that fit what I was talking about. Whether you choose to add additional context and fixate on them again is not my problem.
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About 1000 words after the starting picture. Hard to make a connection.
And that sentence dos not really explain them. You can only guess they are a rapper group?
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They are opposing gangs... large ones. One wears blue, and liked to use blue bandanas to identify their members. The other red.
There were cases in the 80s and 90s of people getting shot that were not in the gangs just because they happened to have a bandana of one of those colors.
Word got around the country to be careful about wearing blue and red bandanas.
They were (and I think still are) two very large gangs.
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And yes, I made an assumption people would know who the crips and bloods were. That was a mistake on my part and it kind of is required for that entire initial photo to make sense.
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Never make assumptions :P
Especially about how famous things from your country a quarter century ago are today in a different part of the world ;)
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Well it is easy to say "Never make assumptions", but we all do in some occasions.
There are probably a lot of people in the U.S. that don't even know who the Crips and the Bloods are. :) Adult age even, young adults, but still adults.
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There are peopele who were born ater the World Trade Center crash.
They have never lived in a USA that was not terror hysteric.
And for me: There are brain surgeons in people's heads that were born after the Berlin wall fell.
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I get your point. It seems to be terror hysterics all over the world at the moment. Perhaps not in China, but then I don't actually hear much news from China so it could be there too.
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So if I had explained that image was the Crips and Bloods by adding some text to it that might have made that image make a lot more sense to you in relation to the article?
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