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Living Violence "gangs"

In the essay “Gangstas,” Richard Rodriguez states how much he hates the way gangs act. He testifies that he dislikes their likes in music, their dress, and jargon. He uses photographer Joseph Rodriguez’s professional photographs of Hispanic Gangs to help prove his point. That the gangs are an over confident subhuman that is stuck in a street play that is not part of our world. A subhuman glorified in a fabricated world that evil is what puts hairs on a man’s chest. An allure that attracts the animal in all of us, women are attracted to this confident and powerful entity witch automatically gives a cretin amount of a sex appeal. Because of this fact, this capitalistic American society tries to make a buck on it. The media exploits this confidence and gives us endless amounts of adrenalin rushed ads in hopes of us buying in to this false world and in consequence giving the gangsters a certain amount of justification.
One photo has a baby’s dad helping her handle a gun. ...

Posted by: Asare Mabel

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