Thinking about the early ‘80s when creators tried to depict American life based on secondhand impressions crossed with their memories of pre-suburban urban life and just got it wrong
Like, a lot of multiracial “gangs” in movies I don’t think was the creators euphemizing away black crime, it was them going “hmm, urban gangs are a thing committing crime?” and thinking back to their postwar childhoods to Jets and Sharks type shit where it was all the tough kids from one neighborhood and going “oh, but urban neighborhoods are racially integrated now!” and not getting any firsthand sense of the dynamics at play
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