tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25892266.post5153279625039160756..comments2024-01-28T01:53:28.605-08:00Comments on hyperborea: Gentrification, Hip Hop, and the War on Drugs in Hilltop, Tacomautopia or busthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09330052275507966278noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25892266.post-30222294376286890322008-05-06T17:30:00.000-07:002008-05-06T17:30:00.000-07:00Gangs develop for various reasons. For Tacoma it's...Gangs develop for various reasons. For Tacoma it's not difficult at all to say that they developed because certain drugs were illegal, just like prohibition created alcohol-dealing gangs in the 1920s. The police, and the existence of other outlawed rivals makes it bloody. <BR/><BR/>And since from what I've researched the Hilltop Crips were really the first gang for a while selling crack on a large scale in Tacoma, they conflicted directly with the police and then eventually with other gangs. That's what the history looks like.<BR/><BR/>So, if you want to argue this interpretation is wrong, you should put up a better argument than that commonsense buffoonery you posted here. You not only have to argue against the history, but also living witnesses who were a part of those gangs. Steep hill for you to climb.<BR/><BR/>People do make their own choices. So do states and local governments, who make choices for everybody in their jurisdiction. If you really were an advocate of autonomy, which you aren't, you would recognize the inequalities built into the legal justice systems, the city codes, the police conduct. Sorry for you and your naive laissez faire attitude, which only goes so far.Acumenschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14502771279290190296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25892266.post-83903785561206288402008-05-06T13:53:00.000-07:002008-05-06T13:53:00.000-07:00I'm not sure that I agree with anything you wrote ...I'm not sure that I agree with anything you wrote about in this blog. Hey, guess what....PEOPLE MAKE THEIR OWN FRIGGIN CHOICES IN LIFE. And if YOU chose to slang drugs cause you feel like economic development is holding you down then that's your fault. Try going to the library instead on 11th and Tacoma and graduate high school like the rest of america. I'm tired of the gangs and there is NO excuse for them in my neighborhood. this blog makes me sad. And to think you're saying that gangs were the way the neighborhood was protecting itself from the police...are you serious? Wake up and realize that you are a product of your own destiny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25892266.post-53248725373860923502008-04-07T08:32:00.000-07:002008-04-07T08:32:00.000-07:00Good read :)Good read :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com