Little tidbit regarding LK bust and Genovese

[Jbravo]

Latins are from Italy...only in America do they teach you that they are non Eoropoean.

[JIGGS]

The bloods formed at rikers since at the jail latin kings were outnumbering and attacking smaller black street gangs. Eventually, several black gangs united as the united blood nation. Their formation didn’t have that much, if any, to do with race.

Yeah it does what are you crazy? They was all spooks intimidated by s%$c bangers! How is it not have anything to do with racial relations in the confines of a correctional facility?

JIGGS

[JIGGS]

Latins are from Italy...only in America do they teach you that they are non Eoropoean.

Are you out of your fucking mind? Spics aint from nowhere on the boot. Okay? What do you write for the bumpy johnson show?

JIGGS

[mafiastudent]

Latins are from Italy...only in America do they teach you that they are non Eoropoean.

Are you out of your fucking mind? Spics aint from nowhere on the boot. Okay? What do you write for the bumpy johnson show?

JIGGS

We need a "like" button on this forum.

[Pogo The Clown]

I think you guys are misreading his post. He is saying that Latins are Europeans and only in America is the term applied, incorrectly, to mestizos from south of the border.


Pogo

[johnny_scootch]

Latins are from Italy...only in America do they teach you that they are non Eoropoean.

Are you out of your fucking mind? Spics aint from nowhere on the boot. Okay? What do you write for the bumpy johnson show?

JIGGS

We need a "like" button on this forum.

The original Latins were an Italic tribe that lived near the Tiber river. The first Romans were Latins and they spoke......you guessed it Latin! Read Livy or Suetonius for the inside scoop.

[Jbravo]

Read a book...general knowledge.

[kasparoza]

Chicky aka Dave Cecchetelli who got arrested in this case is my dear friend. We recorded some audio about what it was like getting arrested here during the raids and then spending the weekend in jail.
I posted a clip on YouTube from it: https://youtu.be/Nx2T80hIztI
We’re going to record some more about, if anyone has questions regarding the arrest/case, if he can answer we will. Really as long as it doesn’t get anyone in trouble or make their cases more difficult etc. Thought some of you might find it interesting.

[PolackTony]

im not sure about the original, Chicago Latin Kings and how strict they are regarding only taking members with “latin” blood, but apparently on the East Coast things are a lot less strict with the perceived racial divides in street gangs. Bloods and LKs in NY have been known to take white members. usually it’ll stem from prison.

Old thread, but thought I'd comment. The Kings formed in the 1950s from several predecessor youth gangs among primarily PR youth on the Northwest side of Chicago and Mexican youth on the lower Westside. I used to know a member of one of the original LK sections, at the corner of Homan and Ohio in the Humboldt Park area. He was able to confirm that while most early members were PR they also had a number of Italian members in the ranks. This is unsurprising as the area had long had a strong Italian presence (a number of Outfit guys had lived in the immediate area, such as Jackie Cerone) and was beginning to undergo demographic transition and white flight in the 50s. The predominately Mexican sections on the lower Westside also had some Italian members, as both Mexican and PR families had begun to settle around the old Taylor St Little Italy and some of the youth naturally began socializing together. While the following decades from the 60s into the early 80s saw a lot of interracial warfare between white and Latino street gangs across large sections of Chicago, there were always some white members of the Latin organizations and some Latino members in the white groups (Including those who adopted an explicit "White Power" orientation). In Chicago what mattered more than anything was that you grew up on the same block together.

LKs in Chicago never had a real problem recruiting members of non Latino backgrounds. There were plenty of non-Hispanic white and black members. In Humboldt Park there was an all African American section near Hirsch and Spaulding. Lots of black members at Kedzie and Cortez. Polish and Italian etc members on the Southside. And in the highly ethnically heterogenous areas of the Northside there were and are Kings of every conceivable ethnic group. Arabs, Romanians, Balkans, Asians etc. There was an all Filipino section ("Flip City") in Albany Park that was notorious and super wild. And a whole sub-organization of "Assyrian Kings" on the far Northside. Assyrian gangbangers in Chicago are some of the most bugged out dudes you can meet. Guys who escaped religious persecution in Iraq...

[Nick Prango]

im not sure about the original, Chicago Latin Kings and how strict they are regarding only taking members with “latin” blood, but apparently on the East Coast things are a lot less strict with the perceived racial divides in street gangs. Bloods and LKs in NY have been known to take white members. usually it’ll stem from prison.

Old thread, but thought I'd comment. The Kings formed in the 1950s from several predecessor youth gangs among primarily PR youth on the Northwest side of Chicago and Mexican youth on the lower Westside. I used to know a member of one of the original LK sections, at the corner of Homan and Ohio in the Humboldt Park area. He was able to confirm that while most early members were PR they also had a number of Italian members in the ranks. This is unsurprising as the area had long had a strong Italian presence (a number of Outfit guys had lived in the immediate area, such as Jackie Cerone) and was beginning to undergo demographic transition and white flight in the 50s. The predominately Mexican sections on the lower Westside also had some Italian members, as both Mexican and PR families had begun to settle around the old Taylor St Little Italy and some of the youth naturally began socializing together. While the following decades from the 60s into the early 80s saw a lot of interracial warfare between white and Latino street gangs across large sections of Chicago, there were always some white members of the Latin organizations and some Latino members in the white groups (Including those who adopted an explicit "White Power" orientation). In Chicago what mattered more than anything was that you grew up on the same block together.

LKs in Chicago never had a real problem recruiting members of non Latino backgrounds. There were plenty of non-Hispanic white and black members. In Humboldt Park there was an all African American section near Hirsch and Spaulding. Lots of black members at Kedzie and Cortez. Polish and Italian etc members on the Southside. And in the highly ethnically heterogenous areas of the Northside there were and are Kings of every conceivable ethnic group. Arabs, Romanians, Balkans, Asians etc. There was an all Filipino section ("Flip City") in Albany Park that was notorious and super wild. And a whole sub-organization of "Assyrian Kings" on the far Northside. Assyrian gangbangers in Chicago are some of the most bugged out dudes you can meet. Guys who escaped religious persecution in Iraq...

I have read on reddit that there was the alliance known as the “White Power Organization,”in Chicago in the 60s/70s. What happened with that alliance?

[PolackTony]

If anyone is interested, here are some images of Latin King members in the Uptown neighborhood on Chicago's Northside in the 1970s. These sections were composed of Puerto Ricans along with non-Hispanic blacks and whites (primarily dirt poor Appalachian migrants). Again, whoever grew up on the block together and then were inducted as LKs.

https://www.chicagoganghistory.com/wp-c ... 99x300.jpg

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[PolackTony]

im not sure about the original, Chicago Latin Kings and how strict they are regarding only taking members with “latin” blood, but apparently on the East Coast things are a lot less strict with the perceived racial divides in street gangs. Bloods and LKs in NY have been known to take white members. usually it’ll stem from prison.

Old thread, but thought I'd comment. The Kings formed in the 1950s from several predecessor youth gangs among primarily PR youth on the Northwest side of Chicago and Mexican youth on the lower Westside. I used to know a member of one of the original LK sections, at the corner of Homan and Ohio in the Humboldt Park area. He was able to confirm that while most early members were PR they also had a number of Italian members in the ranks. This is unsurprising as the area had long had a strong Italian presence (a number of Outfit guys had lived in the immediate area, such as Jackie Cerone) and was beginning to undergo demographic transition and white flight in the 50s. The predominately Mexican sections on the lower Westside also had some Italian members, as both Mexican and PR families had begun to settle around the old Taylor St Little Italy and some of the youth naturally began socializing together. While the following decades from the 60s into the early 80s saw a lot of interracial warfare between white and Latino street gangs across large sections of Chicago, there were always some white members of the Latin organizations and some Latino members in the white groups (Including those who adopted an explicit "White Power" orientation). In Chicago what mattered more than anything was that you grew up on the same block together.

LKs in Chicago never had a real problem recruiting members of non Latino backgrounds. There were plenty of non-Hispanic white and black members. In Humboldt Park there was an all African American section near Hirsch and Spaulding. Lots of black members at Kedzie and Cortez. Polish and Italian etc members on the Southside. And in the highly ethnically heterogenous areas of the Northside there were and are Kings of every conceivable ethnic group. Arabs, Romanians, Balkans, Asians etc. There was an all Filipino section ("Flip City") in Albany Park that was notorious and super wild. And a whole sub-organization of "Assyrian Kings" on the far Northside. Assyrian gangbangers in Chicago are some of the most bugged out dudes you can meet. Guys who escaped religious persecution in Iraq...

I have read on reddit that there was the alliance known as the “White Power Organization,”in Chicago in the 60s/70s. What happened with that alliance?

The "WPO" wasn't a real alliance, more of a slogan invoked by a number of white street gangs in that era in recognition of what they saw as a common goal of halting PR and Mexican settlement in white ethnic neighborhoods. The United Fighting Organization on the other hand was pact between a number of strong white gangs on the Northwest side including the Gaylords, C-Notes (notorious Outfit "farm team") and Playboys. The UFO dissolved by the early 80s as these organizations started warring with each other. By that time demographic shifts and increasing recruitment of Latino members into many of the white gangs led to a sharp decline in the "white power" orientation. White gangs like the Royals and the Gaylords, who had been some of the largest gangs in Chicago for decades, declined tremendously from the 80s to the 90s.

[Nick Prango]

im not sure about the original, Chicago Latin Kings and how strict they are regarding only taking members with “latin” blood, but apparently on the East Coast things are a lot less strict with the perceived racial divides in street gangs. Bloods and LKs in NY have been known to take white members. usually it’ll stem from prison.

Old thread, but thought I'd comment. The Kings formed in the 1950s from several predecessor youth gangs among primarily PR youth on the Northwest side of Chicago and Mexican youth on the lower Westside. I used to know a member of one of the original LK sections, at the corner of Homan and Ohio in the Humboldt Park area. He was able to confirm that while most early members were PR they also had a number of Italian members in the ranks. This is unsurprising as the area had long had a strong Italian presence (a number of Outfit guys had lived in the immediate area, such as Jackie Cerone) and was beginning to undergo demographic transition and white flight in the 50s. The predominately Mexican sections on the lower Westside also had some Italian members, as both Mexican and PR families had begun to settle around the old Taylor St Little Italy and some of the youth naturally began socializing together. While the following decades from the 60s into the early 80s saw a lot of interracial warfare between white and Latino street gangs across large sections of Chicago, there were always some white members of the Latin organizations and some Latino members in the white groups (Including those who adopted an explicit "White Power" orientation). In Chicago what mattered more than anything was that you grew up on the same block together.

LKs in Chicago never had a real problem recruiting members of non Latino backgrounds. There were plenty of non-Hispanic white and black members. In Humboldt Park there was an all African American section near Hirsch and Spaulding. Lots of black members at Kedzie and Cortez. Polish and Italian etc members on the Southside. And in the highly ethnically heterogenous areas of the Northside there were and are Kings of every conceivable ethnic group. Arabs, Romanians, Balkans, Asians etc. There was an all Filipino section ("Flip City") in Albany Park that was notorious and super wild. And a whole sub-organization of "Assyrian Kings" on the far Northside. Assyrian gangbangers in Chicago are some of the most bugged out dudes you can meet. Guys who escaped religious persecution in Iraq...

I have read on reddit that there was the alliance known as the “White Power Organization,”in Chicago in the 60s/70s. What happened with that alliance?

The "WPO" wasn't a real alliance, more of a slogan invoked by a number of white street gangs in that era in recognition of what they saw as a common goal of halting PR and Mexican settlement in white ethnic neighborhoods. The United Fighting Organization on the other hand was pact between a number of strong white gangs on the Northwest side including the Gaylords, C-Notes (notorious Outfit "farm team") and Playboys. The UFO dissolved by the early 80s as these organizations started warring with each other. By that time demographic shifts and increasing recruitment of Latino members into many of the white gangs led to a sharp decline in the "white power" orientation. White gangs like the Royals and the Gaylords, who had been some of the largest gangs in Chicago for decades, declined tremendously from the 80s to the 90s.

Does these white gangs like the Royals and the Gaylords still exist today in Chicago?

[PolackTony]

im not sure about the original, Chicago Latin Kings and how strict they are regarding only taking members with “latin” blood, but apparently on the East Coast things are a lot less strict with the perceived racial divides in street gangs. Bloods and LKs in NY have been known to take white members. usually it’ll stem from prison.

Old thread, but thought I'd comment. The Kings formed in the 1950s from several predecessor youth gangs among primarily PR youth on the Northwest side of Chicago and Mexican youth on the lower Westside. I used to know a member of one of the original LK sections, at the corner of Homan and Ohio in the Humboldt Park area. He was able to confirm that while most early members were PR they also had a number of Italian members in the ranks. This is unsurprising as the area had long had a strong Italian presence (a number of Outfit guys had lived in the immediate area, such as Jackie Cerone) and was beginning to undergo demographic transition and white flight in the 50s. The predominately Mexican sections on the lower Westside also had some Italian members, as both Mexican and PR families had begun to settle around the old Taylor St Little Italy and some of the youth naturally began socializing together. While the following decades from the 60s into the early 80s saw a lot of interracial warfare between white and Latino street gangs across large sections of Chicago, there were always some white members of the Latin organizations and some Latino members in the white groups (Including those who adopted an explicit "White Power" orientation). In Chicago what mattered more than anything was that you grew up on the same block together.

LKs in Chicago never had a real problem recruiting members of non Latino backgrounds. There were plenty of non-Hispanic white and black members. In Humboldt Park there was an all African American section near Hirsch and Spaulding. Lots of black members at Kedzie and Cortez. Polish and Italian etc members on the Southside. And in the highly ethnically heterogenous areas of the Northside there were and are Kings of every conceivable ethnic group. Arabs, Romanians, Balkans, Asians etc. There was an all Filipino section ("Flip City") in Albany Park that was notorious and super wild. And a whole sub-organization of "Assyrian Kings" on the far Northside. Assyrian gangbangers in Chicago are some of the most bugged out dudes you can meet. Guys who escaped religious persecution in Iraq...

I have read on reddit that there was the alliance known as the “White Power Organization,”in Chicago in the 60s/70s. What happened with that alliance?

The "WPO" wasn't a real alliance, more of a slogan invoked by a number of white street gangs in that era in recognition of what they saw as a common goal of halting PR and Mexican settlement in white ethnic neighborhoods. The United Fighting Organization on the other hand was pact between a number of strong white gangs on the Northwest side including the Gaylords, C-Notes (notorious Outfit "farm team") and Playboys. The UFO dissolved by the early 80s as these organizations started warring with each other. By that time demographic shifts and increasing recruitment of Latino members into many of the white gangs led to a sharp decline in the "white power" orientation. White gangs like the Royals and the Gaylords, who had been some of the largest gangs in Chicago for decades, declined tremendously from the 80s to the 90s.

Does these white gangs like the Royals and the Gaylords still exist today in Chicago?

They do but they're now small and are not strictly or even predominately white in their membership. Just as with the C-Notes and 12th St Players. Older heads are largely Italian, most of the younger generation is Latino.

[Pmac2]

The pictures are funny