Crips & Bloods origin isn't rooted in political history.
Have to disagree. The timeline is glaring. Crips formed around the time the Black Panthers broke up. I've even heard accounts that Raymond Washington and other Crip founders wanted to model the Crips after the Panthers, but that the rivalries were already too intense, so warfare ruled the day.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
