The Italians (and the Russians) used blacks and latins for dummy missions and big hits that they didn't want to have traced back to them because of racist shyt, believe it or not. It's not because they respect them or their position, it's because they see them as expendable af, worthless...and for plausible deniability purposes, outsourcing. It doesn't matter to them if the blacks and puerto ricans get killed in the process of doing their bidding. Even the big black drug kingpins see gangbangers and the like as little dirty knuckleheads, they may use them as toy soldiers here and there too and give them a couple dollars to do something highly risky.And the mafia been using black gangs for hits since at least the 70s.