highest use of drugs in baltimore is the increase of crime rates which involves gang violence and gun violence. For instance‚ Gangs violence in Baltimore is the killing between the BGF ( Black Guerrilla Family) and the Crips. However‚ guns violence over drugs involve : robbery‚ trespassing and murder. Secondly‚the whole issue with gun violence is that a weapon plays an important role with drugs and that is because when a gang member or individual person
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The color red is affiliated with Bloods and the color blue is affiliated with the Crips. Blood and Crips usually did not get along which form conflict between one another. The lady that is similar to the Statue of Liberty symbolize the freedom that the young African American man was fighting for‚ however‚ gangbanging and dice games could caused
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his father. His father name is furious he lives in Crenshaw; the center of gang activity and police brutality. Tre is to move with his dad and learn to be a man at the age of 10 years old. Tre
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decided to research street gangs‚ I wanted to better understand the connection between street life and home life‚ and how certain gang members became gang affiliated. For the purpose of this research project I interviewed two gang members one a bloods and the other a Crip. In the opening statement of the fist interview conducted between the two bloods who represent the sub group of failing block in northeast Portland I asked “how old were you when you joined the gang?” both members said they joined
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beach town in the Southern California. Derek‚ the leader of the neighborhood skinhead gang gets arrested and put to jail for killing two members of a Crip gang that tried to steal his car. His little fourteen year old brother has seen everything and testified for Derek‚ for only that reason he did not get life sentence‚ and just three years in a prison. In jail Derek learns the truth behind “white power” gangs and what he believed they stand for was all wrong‚ and not worth to fight for. He has undergone
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“Fuck Tha Police” was a courageous song that represented young African Americans’ hatred towards the law enforcement system. Due to the message and explicit lyrics‚ this song stood out from any other song in the album‚ as well as sparking up some controversy. The song was released in 1988 by Niggaz Wit Attitudes (N.W.A) from their second album ‘Straight Outta Compton’ under the Record Label‚ Priority Ruthless. The group N.W.A was initially formed in 1986 in Los Angeles‚ California with their genre
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shooting as he was headed to a suite Suge Knight‚ a member of Death Row Records‚ rented for the night after the Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon boxing match. The fight was held at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas‚ Nevada‚ where Knight had spotted a crips gang member. As the black BMW Shakur and Knight were riding in halted at a red light‚ an unknown white Cadillac pulled up to the right of them. One of the four men in the Cadillac fired at the passenger’s seat‚ where Shakur had been sitting. Shakur was
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Introduction The following critical interpretation of popular culture is based on the song called “Where is the Love” by the band Black Eyed Peas which was written in 2003. An interpretation of the message that the author is trying to convey in the song is the idea that there is massive discrimination and hatred amongst people in the United States. Furthermore‚ the song suggests that US citizens are ignorant of the world around them and that love‚ which can be viewed as human kindness and civility
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end up in a gang. A conflict perspective would say that I joined a gang because my mom and I were always in conflict of power
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argument by drawing comparison between the warring Zulu and Xhosa African tribes and the Compton Crips and Pirus he grew up with. It is in this commentary that Lamar argues that problem of black oppression lies not only within societal and governmental injustice‚ but also within black on black crimes. Lamar states that no matter how much pride he holds for his roots and culture‚ the hypocrisy of gang violence and things of that nature are only a symptom of the overall cancer that is black oppression
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