I actually grew up around real mafia families that actually hid their family's background because it was socially looked down upon to be 1) Italian and 2) affiliated with the mafia. So to see folks glamorize the lifestyle is funny.
It's like some bourgeois black families that I know today who hide the fact that their family money comes from a grandfather or a great grandfather who was a policy king.
Folks that are still affiliated with street life are fascinated by these lifestyles. But once you move beyond street life, like some of these families, it's nothing to boast about. It actually becomes a scarlet letter.
I will say, when you look at the Italian and Irish organized crime organizations, they had a bit of swag to them. Dressed in suits, wore fedoras, and handled their business. Then when you look at black gangs, these nikkas rocking blue and red bandanas and dikkie pants. No swag whatsoever.
@ this cac dikkeating
. The main difference is the mafia were (is) racist af against black people. John gotti is literally on video calling black people n1ggers. They used to purposely sell drugs to mainly black people to keep us subjugated while they thrived. There were literally mobsters who used to drive around and kill random black people they came across. Alot of black men have no sense of pride and it's truly embarrassing when you break it down
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