OPINION Why do wypipo have the exclusive rights to glorifying gangsta movie without judgement?

konceptjones said:
eeeeh... I won't say that's entirely true.

The movie Goodfellas was largely based on true events. The murders in Goodfellas for the most part actually happened except in some cases some of the more gruesome details were left out.

Tommy in the movie was based on Tommy DeSimone (Two Gun Tommy on the streets). Tommy was, indeed, murdered the night he was supposed to be made just like in the movie, and he was shot in the head three times. What was left out of the movie was that Tommy murdered not one, but two made men and tried to rape the wife of another made man along with showing his face during the heist also portrayed in the film (1978’s historic $6 million heist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_heist ) before the Gambino and Lucchese family heads ordered his death. In the movie they said they gave him a closed casket burial, in reality that didn't happen because his body has never been found. Incidentally, it was John Gotti who put those three bullets into his head.

The lone Black associate in the movie, Stacks, was based on Parnell "Stacks" Edwards. This one they pretty much nailed spot on he was killed for exactly the reason laid out in the movie.

The made man Tommy killed in the movie was Billy Batts, based on real life made man William Benventa, and he was killed for the same reason in the movie; a sideways ass comment about Tommy being a shoeshine boy. The bigger reason, however, was that Benventa's loan sharking business was taken over by Jimmy Burke while he was in prison and he wanted it back.

Every character in the movie was based on a real person and everyone that died is dead and the vast majority of those deaths happened either in the way shown in the movie or worse.

Same goes for another mob flick directed by Scorsese, Casino. (https://www.casino.org/blog/real-life-story-casino-movie-is-based-on/)
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I see your point and Blow and a few others are also blended from true stories but how likely of most people having that experience. Seemed more sensationalized than it actually was for most. Then you take movies like Boyz N Da Hood and Menace 2 Society which some would say just showed another day in the life of people living in that area. Don't get me wrong I'm not tryna generalize but some hood flicks plots read like some unfortunate shit you read in the paper or in an article. It doesn't seem as far-fetched, but I can't speak from a white man's POV so i only have my own to go on.
 
They loki still scared of niggaz retaliating for slavery. they gotta watch they back with every new generation
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Fam,i dont know with some niggas if you didnt say nada there would have been Cosigns
 
To be fair, being part of the mafia is about as bad a stereotype for Italians as loving fried chicken and watermelons is for black people. So it's not like they escape the shit unscathed.
 
I think Black ppl have to stop being so concerned with what white ppl think. I know white boys that love Black gangsta personas but because we are so hellbent on respectability and trying to be model citizens thru centering the white gaze, we end up over-policing our likes, interest, narratives and images.

Black gangsterism is as human and american as apple pie. I blame mass media for making certain narratives of Black american life one size fits all, but I also blame Black people that hold their noses up at those in the hood, or actually subscribe to the idea that the hood is the dismal, crime riddled, swamp.

Black people can be critical about what they consume (I actually wish we were more critical about what we watch, read, hear) and no, we all dont live in the hood or come from poverty but so many of us do and thats just the reality.

When we try to remove ourselves from certain portrayls of Black life in an effort to assuage white fears, misconceptions and preconceived notions we end up snubbing ourselves.
 
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Race Jones said:
I think Black ppl have to stop being so concerned with what white ppl think.
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This is all that needs to be said. You have some niggas that swear they don't care about white people, but when you talk to them, everything they do, say or think is guided by something that concerns white people. Shit is weird to me. I get it. Whites are in a position where some of them can do a lot of us dirty if we're not wary. That said, it's like these people don't understand that what whites say and do doesn't have to be the focus of your world. I go through my day not putting much thought into white people at all, and I work with a bunch of them. Some of the power some us believe whites have over our lives only exists because we make it that way.
 
The Lonious Monk said:
This is all that needs to be said. You have some niggas that swear they don't care about white people, but when you talk to them, everything they do, say or think is guided by something that concerns white people. Shit is weird to me. I get it. Whites are in a position where some of them can do a lot of us dirty if we're not wary. That said, it's like these people don't understand that what whites say and do doesn't have to be the focus of your world. I go through my day not putting much thought into white people at all, and I work with a bunch of them. Some of the power some us believe whites have over our lives only exists because we make it that way.
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Because they don't perceive themselves in other white people. They don't look at another white person and think they are going to be judged by their mistakes.

Majority - minority perception is usually equated to majority equity in social perception. The larger the sample size in a society the least likely of a overwhelming stereotype. Where the minority will have a bad stereotype stick because the sample size is low.

If all I see is black people acting gangster on American TV shows. Then I visit America, what do you think my perception is? Especially seeing that I may be visiting Maine. Where there is a black person ever millionth resident.
 
konceptjones said:
Truth be told, white folks in this country don't view Italians as white.
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It's situational. They are white when it comes to bashing minorities, but not as much when it comes to divvying up the white privilege. That said, at one time they really weren't considered white at all and were treated like shit. The same is true for Irish and others. Then when blacks started fighting for equal rights, those groups were adopted into the white fold and some of them became the most racist white groups out there. Isn't it funny how that works?
 
My cousin asked me why I like to write about hood rat gangsta shit.... Why can't I write a Christian story, I go to church I know the word....

I was like



CUZ NIGGA I LIKE WRITING ABOUT HOOD RAT GANGSTA SHIT!!! FUCK UP OUT MY DOPE HOUSE!!!
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Like shit man, just let Niggaz like hard shit bruh....

I'm tired of this soft ass shit, soft ass society ... It ain't really worrying about what white people think, it's just pointing out Niggaz be geeking about the wrong shit. Nobody run down on bikers and try to shame them for their out law lifestyle... Fuck naw son' of anarchy was the shit.... So let us have our gangster shit...

That's why I stopped watching basketball.. Shit got too soft.... Football got soft.... yea I get it but concussion protocol.... But you know how hard it is to make the league?? Man just accept the fucking risks.....LT whole career is null cuz all that shit was illegal hits...

I hate this shameful association with black aggression.
 
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