"Gangster"

Why is it that when people these days think of a gangster, they think of a black drug dealer who grew up in "the hood"

When, in fact REAL gangsters were mainly white men living in upscale neighborhoods in the twenties?

Then, when a white person acts "gangster" he is a wanna-b. But wouldn't the blacks be the wanna-b's?

Discuss.

Gangster:



Not Gangster:

 

i agree so much real gangsters are smartly dressed men in expensive suits, not people who talk in a voice thats hard to understand and where tracksuits from markets lol.

 

what are gangsters anyway?
People who jump, and kill people
yes they are called
FAILURES IN LIFE

 

Jabba the Hutt is the original gangster.

 

i agree also with the word gehtto or ghetto how ever you spell it when its a term for a concentration camp not a blacck nieborhood

 

White people were gangsters in the twenties, Black people are considered more gangster now.

 

I do beleive the definition for gangsta is Souljah Cat

 

You don't understand what I am saying. I'm not saying they are considered more gangster, I am saying that they shouldn't be. Whites were the original gangsters, why why do blacks think they are the only ones?

 

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lulz, you never seize to amaze me.

 

Technically "ganster" was thought of white upscale men that wore business suits. Basically anyone who was in the mafia. Though throughout the years the image of "gangster" has changed to a black person from the hood.

 

Same thing happened with the term "ghetto"

 

Thats what I am trying to get across, because a lot of people thing of gangsters as that, but in realty they are not.

 

it's the times thatre changing. black people couldve picked out the name. the twenties are way over, and these gangsters live the same kind of life them mafia people live. they shoot shit too, you only have this ego because you live in a rich house

 

Just to inform you that top picture is of an Italian Mobster not white and not a gangster secondly not everyone thinks of "gangsters" as black men from the hood. Lastly all gangsters are pieces of scum that should be locked up behind bars and all people claiming to be gangsters or being supremist should get their asses kicked.

 

Umm, for one I don't live in a 'rich' house, I am far from poor, but I'm not rich.
And.. shooting shit makes you gangster? Wow, I've been a gangster since I was 8 and had a pellet gun.


And to juvenile, I agree. But it makes me mad when little wanna be gangsters around me who have never been out on their own act gangster.

I'm not saying I have, but they haven't and it makes me mad when they think they are "gangsters" because they are black.

 

I would say the white one is a mobster, even though mobster and gangster are used synonymously.

 

Modster, Gangster, eh..

Different names, same meaning.

 

Lol no no no

You have it all wrong.

The gangster you guys are talking about, that people refer to nowadays
is hip hop gangster...That's actually what it's called..

Apart from a few of them, i don't really think most of them are gangsters. It i s just the image they are trying to convey simply because that is what sells the most..this is why i chuckle everytime i hear things like this. Some artists actually have had life tough, and have infact lived in the hood or ghetto, and because of the things they have done they believe they can claim that name.

Just because they have, doesn't mean you should.
IF you hear someone talk about themselves being black or gangster, just laugh it off. it shouldn't bother you...

What amazes me most is the term being black. I myself am black, though i was not born in america, so i don't fully by into the ways that people act here..Being black is not about wearing your pants below your waist, and buying jewelry and all that...Those are just hip hop gangsters and i don't think it really has anything to do with the real definition of the term

 

Thugs do not equal gangsters. I hate to say it but most of these little black kids in my hood are thugs, not gangsters. The times have changed since the 20's. I agree shaka "butsecks" ka, when most people say "gangster" they think of a ghetto black guy. Thug does not equal GANGSTER. Thug to me = walk around with a bunch of dudes thinking they are hardcore because they sell nickel & dime bags on the corner while carring a .22. When I think gangster, I think organized crime, racketeering, making money.