Dmac (left), a former gang member, shares his experiences with director Stacy Peralta (second from right) and his crew in the documentary "Crips and Bloods: Made in America." (Bryan Wiley / Verso Entertainment)From The San Francisco Chronicle:
"The mechanics of oppressing people is to pervert them to the extent that they become the instruments of their own oppression."
- Kumasi, a former gang member, in Stacy Peralta's "Crips and Bloods: Made in America."
The war between two of Los Angeles' most notorious gangs has been raging for four decades and has taken 15,000 lives - a continuing battle in a single American city that surpasses conflicts in Kosovo, Mogadishu and Northern Ireland.
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My Comment: 4 decades of killing. 15,000 killed. Scores wounded. Hundreds of thousands in jail. Hundreds of thousands of families devastated.
And this urban war is still going on.