by PolackTony » Wed Aug 17, 2022 4:21 pm
I’d imagine the Detroit Chaldeans have some rough dudes they can call on if necessary. In Chicago, there are some Chaldeans also, but a much larger population of Assyrians, who are a very closely related ethnic group to the Chaldeans (also northern Iraqi Christians, but they speak a slightly different dialect of Aramaic as compared to the Chaldeans and their churches had a schism in the 1700s). Assyrians have a deserved reputation in Chicago as having some truly savage gangbangers; I’ve known a few really wild, thugged-out Assyrians in my time, like a co-worker I had years back who repeatedly tried to sell me AK-47s and was fired and arrested after loudly threatening to decapitate another employee. There is a corollary organization on the Northside of Chicago to the Latin Kings, composed of Assyrians, called the Almighty Assyrian Kings (I believe they evolved from a 70s era gang called the Assyrian Eagles, who had a very violent reputation and eventually came under the influence of the Albany Park Latin Kings). At least back when I was on the street, those dudes were no joke and were not guys you’d want to run into; extremely hostile gangbangers who were quick to fight or shoot over any little thing. Assyrians and Chaldeans are clannish and insular, not just in the US but back in Iraq (as a religious and ethnic minority there), which I would assume gives a strong cultural framework for OC networks to form. I have no idea if their Detroit cousins are involved in similar levels of super grimey streetgang activity, I’m assuming the Detroit guys here would know.
And yeah, many of their chicks are absolute smokeshows, but you have to deal with their completely insane brothers, cousins, uncles, etc in addition to the father. Good luck lol.
I’d imagine the Detroit Chaldeans have some rough dudes they can call on if necessary. In Chicago, there are some Chaldeans also, but a much larger population of Assyrians, who are a very closely related ethnic group to the Chaldeans (also northern Iraqi Christians, but they speak a slightly different dialect of Aramaic as compared to the Chaldeans and their churches had a schism in the 1700s). Assyrians have a deserved reputation in Chicago as having some truly savage gangbangers; I’ve known a few really wild, thugged-out Assyrians in my time, like a co-worker I had years back who repeatedly tried to sell me AK-47s and was fired and arrested after loudly threatening to decapitate another employee. There is a corollary organization on the Northside of Chicago to the Latin Kings, composed of Assyrians, called the Almighty Assyrian Kings (I believe they evolved from a 70s era gang called the Assyrian Eagles, who had a very violent reputation and eventually came under the influence of the Albany Park Latin Kings). At least back when I was on the street, those dudes were no joke and were not guys you’d want to run into; extremely hostile gangbangers who were quick to fight or shoot over any little thing. Assyrians and Chaldeans are clannish and insular, not just in the US but back in Iraq (as a religious and ethnic minority there), which I would assume gives a strong cultural framework for OC networks to form. I have no idea if their Detroit cousins are involved in similar levels of super grimey streetgang activity, I’m assuming the Detroit guys here would know.
And yeah, many of their chicks are absolute smokeshows, but you have to deal with their completely insane brothers, cousins, uncles, etc in addition to the father. Good luck lol.