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I'm sorry, I'm not justifying slavery or saying that I'm glad it happened, but two points: a) The blacks in Africa already enslaved each other. So if you're going to hate white people over it, hate the tribe next to yours over it too. Chances are, they actually captured your ancestors, raped the wom...

Snowman, at least in Chicago, most skins are SHARP or Trad. There's a lot of black and hispanic skins as well. The skinhead thing hasn't died here, it's just changed. It's a lot more about fashion than true understanding of the beliefs and what they're about.

First of all, thanks Snowman. Symarip is the group that sang Skinhead Moonstomp, and it was covered by Judge Dread, the Specials, and others. I forget who but Symarip is the name used by some band that played both early rock and roll and reggae only in recording that song because of the backlash. Ia...

I posted about this in the movies section. Having watched the documentary with no previous knowledge, a viewer would think that the LK are an east-coast phenomenon, with no indication that they even EXIST, much less BEGAN, in the Midwest.

I think that the skins in American History X were based on ignorance, artistic liberty, and exploitation of a common stereotype of a subculture, not on any specific crew. Indication number 1: They don't dress like skins (aside from the shaved heads, the girl's chelsea, and the boots). Skins don't re...

Casper, I was just trying to point out the flaws in your arguments using bloodlines. I would also like to point out that most WP gangs in America are not NS, or the KKK. Not all white power kids/white supremacists are nazis, or follow Hitler. So the idea that Hitler would have killed the Mexicans is...

First off, a lot of hispanics have a lot of European blood. Also, in terms of the neo-nazi, NS types, Franco, a SPANISH ruler, was one of Hitler's closest political allies. So the whole Spanish/German conflict just doesn't exist.

SHARP started as an organized group in New York and quickly spread across the country. Soon, the chapters started to fall apart, starting, oddly enough, with the original, NYC chapter. The main disagreement: violence or not. The organization was originally started as non-violent, trying to destroy n...

True. But the main point I was trying to make is that most skinhead gangs fight over territory within their scene. That scene is punks and skins (whether trads, SHARPs, boneheads or reds). Also, they fight with each other over ideology. Their relationships (at least here) with other street gangs ten...

I don't think it was gang rape, I think it was just a big orgy with a bunch of body builders and a chick. EIther way though, what his father did, doesn't affect Arnold's qualifications for governor.

Okay, first off, NOT ALL SKINHEADS ARE RACIST, although I hear that trads (traditional skinheads, tied closely to the Jamaican rude boy movement) and SHARPS (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) are more common in the midwest than the coasts. Also, not all skins are in gangs at all, and they certainl...

Samdoobie, I didn't mean formal alliances, however i KNOW for a FACT that many WP/NS groups have told their members not to go after members of certain latino gangs, because they are their "allies" (formal or informal) in the RAHOWA. Also, yes, I KNOW, for a fact, that many WP leaders are married to ...

Word has it that there are a LOT of WP/NS (white power/national socialist) organizations that have ties with Latinos and Latino gangs. I think some pretty high-ups in both the Klan and the World Church are married to Mexican or Puerto Rican brauds. The issues are a) WP gangs are now in it more than ...

BTW-Anybody hear about what happened with the leader of HA and his daughter and the bassist from Phish? Funny stuff.

First off, to Luna72, I'm surprised nobody else has said this. bgcasper hinted at it, but that's it. I'm not in a gang, nor do I have friends in a crip/blood/people/folk type set, but I know people in smaller crews. The fact is that a lot of gangmembers (whether small crews or sets of a Nation) have...

I guess this is the place to put this thread. I was wondering if anyone else saw the special HBO had on today about the Latin Kings, focusing on King Tone. I don't know what it's called, and I only caught the end, but my biggest critique is that the entire thing (at least what I saw) was about King ...

In Chicago, they now write down on your interview sheet ever tattoo you have and what it means. The reason for this is that somehow a few years back, a guy got into a gang-heavy district who was either a GD or King. He wound up a sergeant or lieutenant or something and there was a lot of violent aga...

Well, to many Chileans I know who were in classes in school when they heard gunshots and school was closed for two days while they cleaned up blood from military shootings, Pinnochet was far from a great leader.

Just a question. Why is Pinnocet on this list? I take issue with some of the others listed because of some of their views, but I see no justification for having Pinnochet on this list.

I think it's ridiculous that this controversy exists. First of all, I think it's obvious when someone is using the word "nigger" or "nigga" offensively, regardless of color. If someone says "damn niggers, la dee the" or even "damn niggas, la dee the" that's offensive. When someone in Israel or Europ...

Really nobody is impressed when you try to act hard on a message board. There isn't a lot that we haven't seen in our lifetimes around here and we just look down on that thinking you are most likely an immature kid. Also, try taking the all caps button off on your keyboard as that protocol means yo...

I think (as a white kid from the midwest,not at all afilliated with gangs) that Eminem has some good music. I understand that it may not be traditional "gangsta rap," but sometimes you just need to look past that. The same thing has happened in how many other genres. From rock'n' roll going from gre...

The thing is, here we have a kind of general injunction. If a group of I think it's like 3 or more people are hanging out on a corner and the cops don't like it, it's "loitering." If they're wearing the same kind of clothes or if they've got a "crew" name on their jackets, even if nobody in the crew...

I don't know how it works with the state prisons. However, the problem here is that the gangs in County aren't the prison gangs, they're the street gangs. Also, the punk/skin crews appear to be making their way back into the "more criminal" level across the country, especially out west. A couple yea...

It's actually not unheard of for punk/skin crews to be founded upon a band's fanbase. Oxblood Skins in New York were the members and fans of a band by the same name. Also, in a way, every WP/NS skinhead crew is a fan club of Ian Stuart and Skrewdriver. Maybe this has changed since the '80s, but thes...

I think a lot of the difference between W. Coast and Chi-Town gangs has to do with gangs outside the range you guys are talking about. In addition to the People, the Folk, the Kings, the GDs, all that stuff, we have quite a historical and active gang city and region. We had the Mafia to start with, ...

First off- I don't think injunctions are a violation of civil liberties at all. A person, family, business, or company can get a restraining order against an individual or group of individuals. By serving an injunction, the court is essentially giving "the people of XXXX (your city here) XXXX" the r...