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'Independent Lens', CRIPS and BLOODS


The narrators state that this film is about “WAR“ in America. I saw and heard A LOT OF HATRED for anyone that's not African-American. I’m of English, Irish, Scotch, Dutch and German ancestry. It seems to me that the film… or so-called, ”documentary” is attempting to JUSTIFY the drugs and violence and the fight-for-turf associated with ALL gangs. Race or geography is never an excuse. Gang members need to QUIT calling their THUG LIFE a “War”. They need to quit blaming skin color for their inability to be decent human beings. The narrators were over-the-top with hatred and loathing. It came through loud and clear. It was in their words, their facial expressions, their threats …their demeanor. I could not stomach this pathetic attempt to justify or “explain” this evil ROT that inhabits ANY society …especially in America, the greatest country in the world.

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You obviously didn't pay any attention to this movie, and simply use it as a platform for your racist rhetoric.

Please get over yourself, and accept the fact that this movie is telling the truth, about the culpability of white America in the creation of these gangs. You're just spewing the same tired old racist windbag b.s. that ignorant white people have been spewing for years. You need to understand that people don't all have to share your simple-minded ignorance.

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Nothing he said is racist. You just see things, selectively, that are not there.

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