I agree to an extent but I'd also argue those gangs originated due to a group of people feeling the need to protect each other and their belongings so as to survive. I deal with gang members year over year and most of them are not very smart and are indoctrinated in the lifestyle by 5th grade. It's all they know. A mean to an end. They don't believe in any other options.
Let me add to the conversation I hope you will find educational
First let me identify myself as a white retired modestly successful person who has lived their entire life in an area that is 70 per cent black and 30 per cent white
To say I understand blacks would be unfair but i understand how people can feel helpless and hopeless
In my last few years of retirement I have started and joined some advocacy and community activism programs to help the unified community
The number one problem for the entire black community where I live and generally everywhere is the failure of the family units to be nuclear and also to push educational particularly in the young formative ages
We could have a huge conversation on this
A lot of people want to use systemic racism as a means to enflame and divide
That is hate and fear mongering to grab power
Real leaders push literacy and equal opportunity and avoid equity
That in itself is an argument I can easily explain
Lots of people think I sm hard core wrong
The honest is we have to get parents when they have children to raise them
Not this drop babies to get a check
now that is another problem
so it gets long and winded
just a bit of the problems
working on my end
don’t know if it will help but trying