• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 months ago

    In the sense that the white establishment bringing the Black Panther Party down allowed those gangs to be born, yes. When you work to get rid of the legal organization until there’s nothing left of it, you promote lawlessness from the people that organization helped out of poverty and crime who no longer get that help.

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      10 months ago

      I remember hearing that before it was a gang that was killing each other, it was something similar to what the black panther did. Neighborhood watch, community help, and in general it was a support group. It later turned into a bloody gang.