The Movie They Didn't Want You to See

[annabanana]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacy-peralta/the-movie-they-didnt-want_b_183995.html

It seemed so obvious to me, a slam-dunk, a downright compelling true life American story. The story of how the Crips and Bloods -- two of the world's most 'iconic' gangs -- have been allowed to wage a virtual war within one of the richest cities in the world for 4 decades, a war that has taken over 15,000 lives in that time.

Yet I couldn't find any studio or production company interested in financing my documentary. I went door to door, pitching my project to all of the 'right' people in Hollywood. All of them said it was a great idea and needed to be done -- but no one would write a check.

~snip~

So I began wondering what I could say in my pitch that I wasn't saying to get people interested. I needed to say something about this subject that was more complete than what they've learned from the evening news, the local newspapers and gangsta rap. So I came up with a question to pose to potential funders: "If affluent white teenagers in Beverly Hills were forming neighborhood gangs, arming themselves with automatic assault rifles and killing other affluent white teenagers who were also living in upscale neighborhoods and were also arming themselves with AK 47s and shooting to kill, what would the response of our society be? Would society respond or would society ignore it? Would our government respond, if so, how would our government respond?"

Well I finally hit on something because it was this question that I asked a Silicon Valley businessman named Steve Luczo. He thought for a moment and then answered: "Affluent white kids would never be allowed to gang-bang as our society would do whatever means was necessary to make sure a problem of this magnitude was stopped immediately."

[msongs]

1. not really it took 8 years to get rid of bush/cheney nt

[midnight]

2. Touche!

[zeemike]

3. You have to understand that they are part of an industry

Called the DEA.
There is big money on all sides of it and like you know they are too big to fail.
Plus there are side benefits to it in that they kill a lot of people of color and the poor. And it also gives them a steady supply for the corporate run prison industry.

[lonestarnot]

4. Are you including the private prison industry in this economy?

[zeemike]

6. Yes I am ...they are all linked through money. n/t

[lonestarnot]

7. Thank you. We wouldn't want to leave them out.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Oh lord.

"They don't understand why there so few job opportunities in their community"

I suspect they understand it perfectly well. And what white affluent people don't understand is that the reason there are gangs is because there are so few job opportunities in their community.

"It's not just that most of these young men come from broken homes, it's that most are born into non-homes of unwed teenage girls who were also born to unwed teenage girls, on and on."

Oh god.

"Stopping gang violence is going to require that we understand that conditions in these communities are only perpetuating the problem"

Sounds like blaming the victim to me.

"if those same conditions were suddenly found in affluent white communities perhaps we would look at this problem differently. "

You wouldn't have this problem in white affluent because:

1. They're white.

2. They're affluent.

[lonestarnot]

8. Plain as the nose on one's face, but some don't have noses. I haven't noticed a whole society

without noses though, so I guess they must be wearing fakes. :evilgrin: