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RE: Culture and Race are not the same thing: Could it be culture that is the cause for elevated police encounter fatalities rather than race? Is BLM aiming for the wrong causation?

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Culture and Race are not the same thing: Could it be culture that is the cause for elevated police encounter fatalities rather than race? Is BLM aiming for the wrong causation?

lennstar (66) in racism • 7 years ago

The article specifically mentions the crips and the bloods,

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?

it was centered around rap, but it also was centered around drugs, and the rise of the Crips and the Bloods

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dwinblood (73) · 7 years ago

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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dwinblood (73) · 7 years ago

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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lennstar (66) · 7 years ago

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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dwinblood (73) · 7 years ago

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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lennstar (66) · 7 years ago

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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dwinblood (73) · 7 years ago

They have never lived in a USA that was not terror hysteric

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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