But this was a luxury not afforded to PoC organized crime which couldn't blend into whiteness
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexandraErin
That would make sense :/ I come from Irish/Italian (and hidden Jewish) backgrounds and they took the military route to respectability
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And really isn't the military just a gang?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @AlexandraErin
Or isn't a country just a protection racket? Yeah, the argument's been made
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexandraErin
I mean I lived with some Black roommates for a while. They weren't connected with crime at all,but the rule was NEVER CALL THE COPS
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that's because the cops are a gang, though
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Replying to @SaddestRobots @BootlegGirl and
in all your examples, there are ppl who exist on the periphery and don't much benefit from the gang; it's just that outside gangs are worse
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Absolutely. I knew a trans woman who was kicked out of a gang for being trans. She was also a bad person, but that's unrelated
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gang membership is sometimes incredibly porous, too: you can be jumped in against your will, ppl might just assume you are b/c of a sibling,
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Replying to @SaddestRobots @BootlegGirl and
and folks drop out by ghosting
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It's one of those things that eventually became accepted that "mob ties" was a fluid thing for Italian-Americans in NYC e.g.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SaddestRobots and
If you really wanted to make sure you were more than four degrees removed from "mob money" in an urban economy it wasn't possible
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SaddestRobots and
But the stigma today is still much harsher for non-white populations that contain organized drug trade
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