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Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 25, 2024

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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Why are black people so bad at organized crime?

A common stereotype of black people is that they have violent and/or criminal tendencies. Yet there are no black equivalents of Italian Mafia, Mexican Cartels, Chinese Triads, or the Irish Mob. "Gangstas" are known more for their music and breakdancing than for their scary, ruthless ways. No black organized crime groups have ever managed to capture popular imagination. Why is this?

The crips and bloods never captured popular imagination? I'm not entirely sure black gangs are even much more dysfunctional than Italian or Mexican ones after correcting for general member criminality.

No black organized crime groups have ever managed to capture popular imagination.

Ever see Predator 2? That had some black organized crime groups, though it was like Jamaican vs Puerto Rican, or something