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Gangs use sports caps to identify themselves
By MATT BARTOSIK
Updated 9:26 AM CDT, Tue, Jul 27, 2010

Is that White Sox hat the sign of a South Side fan, or the sign of something more dangerous?



The accoutrement of some baseball teams—specifically, their hats—are sometimes more popular than the actual teams themselves due to the hats' significance in gang culture, an article at Complex.com suggests.

For example, a recent Harris poll placed the Los Angeles Dodgers as the eighth most popular team in the league. However, the blue-and-white caps sell better than that because the colors are associated with several prominent gangs, the article states.

The L.A. Dodger cap tops the website's list of the ten most gang-affiliated hats in sports. The caps of the Cincinnati Reds, the Oakland Raiders, the Chicago Bulls, and the L.A. Kings round out the top five.

While gangs all over the country use sets of colors to represent themselves, a disturbing trend emerged from this "top ten" list.

Every single hat was reportedly adopted by at least one Chicago-based gang. In fact, some gangs had more than one hat, and some hats were affiliated with more than one gang.

In total, the ten hats were connected to 13 Chicago-based gangs.

Something of note: the Complex article neither lists a source nor explains how it determined the "most gang-affiliated" hats.

Still, it is disturbing to think that a sports hat might not signify loyalty to a favorite team but rather to a band of criminals.



http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Sports-Colors-Say-More-Than-You-Think-99297664.html
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THESE HATS MUST BE BANNED!  Obama - I demand you ban these hats.  These hat companies need to be regulated.  Gangs aren't the problem, it's these damn hats that drive them to become criminals.  Just more proof of evil big business profiting off of disadvantaged inner city youth.


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Maybe this is the "cap and trade" they're talking about?
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An early pic of one of the WORST gang leaders...
(GWB)


The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Bush Derangement Syndrome.


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Bush Derangement Syndrome.


We agree Cicero... Bush is Definitely Deranged!  




The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
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How does that picture make GWB deranged?


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George IS deranged... although he occasionally appears to be rational, there is no other way to explain his agenda.



The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
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We agree Cicero... Bush is Definitely Deranged!  




No, please, explain why this picture in particular would lead you to believe GWB is deranged.  You posted this particular picture with the comment for a reason.  As if it was proof of derangement.  Please - explain.


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Please - explain.

I'm sorry, but there is no EXPLAINING GWB!  I wish there were an explanation for his actions.

Try explaining an optional war in Iraq???
Try explaining the Bush Economic Meltdown???
Try to explain a tax cut for the richest Americans at the expense of the middle class???
Try to explain how anyone could vote to reelect an obviously deranged man???

See what I mean. G Worst B is unexplainable!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_bylg-Jjz8&feature=player_embedded

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I knew you didn't have the guts.   

coward.


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All this about tax cuts for the richest AT THE EXPENSE of the middle class is another LIE told by a piece of garbage LIAR. Everyone's taxes went down.


"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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