[lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue May 22 11:41:04 PDT 2007


On May 22, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Charles Brown wrote:


> CB; A weakness in your argument here is that it may be that orders of
> magnitudes more people think of the U.S. government as an authority
> figure/
> "role model"/legitimizer than think of gangsta rappers as the same.

Right after the LA riots, which were just after the first Gulf War, Ted Koppel went into the streets and interviewed some gang members. Ted asked them, what about all those drive-bys? To which a gangbanger responded, what about that fly-by in Iraq?

Doug



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