03.19.2009 11:01 am
El-Amin gang video to be featured on History Channel tonight
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
El-Amin in"Off the Record," which he co-produced
Footage shot with State Rep. Talibdin El-Amin and his brother, Larry “Boss” Bastian, will be aired tonight on the History Channel, as the pair take the network’s “Gangland” series on a tour of St. Louis streets.
El-Amin, a St. Louis Democrat whose district includes the Penrose and Mark Twain neighborhood, co-produced a film, “Off the Record,” probing the city’s youth gangs.
The movie (trailer here)played at the Tivoli last year, and featured fellow St. Louis Democrats Rodney Hubbard, Jeff Smith and Jeffrey Boyd. Additional footage will appear tonight on “Gangland,” airing locally at 8 p.m.
Does the video offer any answers?
Gee Amazed, you may actually have to watch it for yourself.
Surviving El-Amin gang members tried to go legit.
They now work for ACORN.
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Hey dumbass, I watched the trailer provided. All I saw was a bunch of poorly speaking people complaining about the pO-lice and some blame being thrown at the racist white folks. I didn’t see crap about the solutions to the problem. I wasn’t at the Tivoli last year.
Nowhere does it say the video provides any recommendations for solutions in the post it just says the film is “probing the city’s youth gangs.” I want to know if it provides anything informative before I watch an hour on the history channel and waste my time. If it’s going to be a complaint log against the PO-lice and whitey, I don’t “cur” to watch it.
wow. you don’t think there’s any legitimacy to the claim that there are still racist white people out there — all the while you use derogatory language that mocks a stereotype of how urban blacks speak. wow.
Way to keep it classy, amazed. You’re a joke.
I watched it. I am sure this is going to bring a lot of tourists to town. Here was the message in a nutshell. Cross my street and we’ll kill you. Look at us crosseyed and we’ll kill you. Wear the wrong color and we’ll kill you. I can’t believe the History Channel can show up and get these guys to admit what they do on TV and the POlice can’t put them in jail.
wow. you don’t think there’s any legitimacy to the claim that there are still racist white people out there — all the while you use derogatory language that mocks a stereotype of how urban blacks speak. wow.
— edl
12:20 pm March 19th, 2009
It’s not a stereotype when you watch the video and that is the topic here; the people in the video trailer.
It’s hard for me to care about people that don’t care for themselves. Not one of the people in the video trailer offered anything they were trying to do to improve themselves, only blame of others.
Glad you folks could step up and defend the indefensible.
Hey Amazed, if you watched the video, and can still ask the question,”does he video offer any answers” then you and those like you are part of the problem. The look of despair on the young man’s face, when asked “where do you go from here?” says it all.
Don’t worry so mucn about the vernacular, listen to the hopelessness. Try to give a damn!
Amazed - “Hey dumbass” — eloquent as usual.