Originally Posted By: SoCalGangs
Originally Posted By: BlackFamily
Crips & Bloods origin isn't rooted in political history. The L.A chapter of the BPP started and collapsed with large black gangs such as Hoover Groovers, Brims, Green Jackets, and Bishops.

LCN can be looked as an umbrella including Camorra, Ndrangheta , Triads, & Yakuza. All labels or brand names for individual groups sharing similar code of conduct.



To clarify. This is true.
The theory I always heard is the lack groups such as the Black Panthers being around helped lead to the rise of Crips and Bloods. Not because of them.


If people that joined the Crips did so because of the absence of the Panthers, then that by default associates the two. Politics does not have to mean the precise existence of a group, it can refer to an idea. Black youth in LA had the idea of being a part of an organization that would provide protection and a feeling of self worth. When the Panthers existed, that ideology led youth to the Panthers. When the Panthers broke up, that same idea led youth to the Crips. A political idea is part of the Crip foundation. There's no avoiding it.

Last edited by OakAsFan; 03/27/16 01:03 PM.
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