What is your view on "gangstas"?

all i have to say is if they are wanting to figth in a group its just lame and second who cares ignore them they not saying that all people who act gangsta suck i know some nice ones and good fighter ones too.but otherwise there alotof people who like to fight who cant so how do they learn they fight and they get there freinds to jump in then they start to lose so they dont end up beat up bad eventally these people can be a serious threat because they fight so much they learn they start to win and they dont need the freinds so much then you have a bunch of good fighters not lame ones so be careful of them no matter how far good they are at fighting if its a group wanting to fight run and hope they arent fast. (oh and some like sticks)

There have been two threads recently where this has been discussed at length. On the point of the coloured bandanas, this visual way of recognising friend or foe goes back hundreds, maybe thousands of years. Most recently, and in the context of which you speak, you have the 'Crips' and the 'Bloods' in LA, (there is even a film called 'Colours' based on gang violence in America, its title derived from the bandana concept).
Going back further, The country of Wales has the leek as one of its national symbols. Why? because prior to a battle to keep the english out of their land, the welsh warriors were camped near a field of leeks, and the commander ordered all soldiers to fix one to their clothing so they could identify the enemy more easily in the heat of battle.
Visual identity is not the stuff of playgrounds.

As for modern gangs, look at the existing modern threads.

where i live gangstas belive they are "hard" becaouse they have "hoodies" and listen to 50 cent while in a gang i find they act much harder but when alone there wimps lol

I can't speak about what people are like now however I have had to sell on the streets and was locked up in the violent crime ward for a 2nd degree assualt with a deadly weapons charge (I also hate the word gangsta, it is a west coast thing and on the east we use crews and that just means what neighborhood your from and has no initiations). Most of you must be from middle America. All you people say that now on the internet but you are the people who locked their car doors as we/I walked by. You guys just go ahead and keep dreaming. I have been through dozens life and death experiences and until you have yourself you have no right to speak ill of the people that did. This thread started by saying they did not want to offend anyone. Well that and all the other posts offends me however it is just the friggin' net and I really could give a ratz azz about any of you or what you sayin'. However thoughts like that could get you killed where I come from. Your not doing yourselves any favor by stroking your egos. Oh and by the way I now make $70k a year legally as a software engineer so we don't all end up in the same place either. It's easy to get free college when you're poor. So not only have I been through prison riots and other [censored] I make more than most of the people here. How that for stroking an ego. Just don't go around dissing people just because you think they are not around. Guess what, we are so be weary of what you say. Now I'm [censored] I wasted so much time on informing you igornorant mofos. I'm out.

Wow.

HHC, you do realized you just teed off on some pretty young members of the forum? With your life experience, one would think you would be a bit less aggressive in trying to change people's minds about "perceptions". You just reinforced a bunch of them with your tirade.

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