Posted on 07/19/2008 9:49:04 PM PDT by Mark
Sunday July 20 9PM PST
For gang members in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a brutal war zone, where streets and reputations are vehemently defended, often to the death. NGC goes into this violent world for four months -- a period in which more than 60 L.A. residents are killed or wounded in gang shootings. Watch an emotional funeral, see 11-year-olds brandishing their weapons, and hear the stories of those entangled in this chilling cycle of bloodshed.
In 1970s and 80s Los Angeles, loosely affiliated African American street gangs wage a 20 year turf war. Born of the revolutionary anti-racist ideology of the 60s, the 'gangstas' soon turn to crime. The emerging crack cocaine trade fuels staggering levels of bloodshed. As the death toll climbs past the thousand mark, the streets of Los Angeles resemble a war zone. In the middle of this gang war is the LAPD, notorious for racism, corruption and brutality. Interviews include: original Crip Angelo 'Barefoot Pookie' White; Bloods founder T Rodgers; Eight Tray Gangsta Kershawn 'Li'l Monster' Scott; former LAPD chief Darryl Gates; and LAPD gang unit veteran Tony Moreno, the real life 'PacMan' played by Sean Penn in the movie Colors.
If the subject of gang wars is on National Geographic, there’s a big problem.
I guess it has to do with geography. (borders ‘n all)
Get our troops out of LA now!
Since it is National Geographic, I wonder if there will be photos of topless local women...
National Geographic has good stories, but are one of the Cardinals in the Church of Global Warming.
Their science and commentary is always Leftist...more MSM masked as “unbiased”.
The era when Nat’l Geographic did actual geography or great writing on the Indian tribes of Brazil...are long ended. I sat there four years ago reading some article that they’d written on the environment....and several portions were written as “fact”...when it wasn’t “fact”. I quit my subscription to the magazine over six years ago...and wouldn’t even care to watch the channel now because the mentality of what Nat’l Geographic stood for in the 1960s and 1970s...is long gone.
There’s only a good part of South Central I like...it’s the USC campus. Believe me, you don;t want to take the bus from there after 9 pm.
What’s next? An in-depth National Geographic “study” in the costuming of high school cliques?
What do you think this is, Grand Theft Auto? < /s >
Nat’l Geographic fakes photos too (digital editing, multiplying the number of animals in a shot, or moving a pyramid of cover composition). And yet they boast of shooting ~45,000 images per story.
Good one.
How many young lads found their interest in, um, “Tribal Customs” piqued by Nat Geo?
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