Why wasn't italian mafia culture glorified in the 30s like

>>2357097
It was, relative to the day. Especially in major cities. They just didn't have mass media.

It's almost as if the overwhelming majority of Italian immigrants were hard working wage slaves who were often the primary victims of the mafia and tried to distance themselves from them before they became a meme in the 80s or something...

Coincidentally work a day blacks suffer the most from the local crack dealing set but for some reason side with them because of muh institutional oppression or whatever.

>>2357097
You never seen gangster movies? You think people joined the mafia for no reason and the mafia was totally uncool?

>>2357112
They do? I'm not sure this wouldn't have been as resonating if some didn't feel this way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51vFbsZkhXU

>>2357113
Mafia movies appeared much later. I'm talking about contemporary glorification. Also the teamsters were never glorified. Why niggers though?

>>2357124
Bud, people like Capone were treated like Robin Hood by their own communities. There's an extensive and long history of outlaws being seen as heroes by the common rabble.

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>>2357124
The fuck are you talking about?

>>2357097
I'm pretty sure it was. Heck they are today, so many people watch The Godfather thinking how cool and badass Micheal Corleone is. Ignoring the entire tragedy of his character

It was.

>>2357124
>Why niggers though?
'Gangstas' popped up in the 80's and 90's, when crack cocaine was a huge thing and nibbas were killing each other for it

>>2357112
Probably has something to do with the fact that the system was literally against blacks in the 60s and 70s right before they got hit with the CIA using them to buy and sell drugs to prop up illegal revolutions in south America and the middle east. The government might not be against them anymore but just 30 years ago it was pretty obvious the state didn't give a flying fuck about them and that mentality of "the white man is keeping us down" remains because that was the life their parents knew and the conditions they lived in reflected that. It's much less prominent among middle or lower middle class blacks and the really old communities in the country but everyone feels it because it was pretty obviously targeted. The difference is that one group tried to move past it and the other doesn't or can't.

>>2357097
It was... Go watch some old keystone cop movies. Hell, some people were even advocating for the mafia to replace the government, simply because they were providing more extensive employment and social services in certain locals (even welfare in some instances), in addition to better policing.

...Can't really say that of the today's "gangsta's" though, but well, crack. Though I suppose, in some instances, in ghettos, folks do go to the local gang lord before they go to the police.

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>>2357202
Do you know nothing about 1930s pop culture?

>>2359336
This. Criminals back then were celebrities and treated like heroes, just like they always have been.

>>2359357
Fuck, that got all garbled with all the quoting. If it's not obvious, I was telling OP he was clueless about the time period he was asking about and agreeing with the other people who are pointing out how wrong he was.

>>2359208
Why weren't the teamsters glorified?