Bastards of the Party
Raised in the Athens Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Cle “Bone” Sloan was four years old when his father died, and 12 when he became a member of the Bloods. Now an inactive member of the notorious gang, Sloan looks back at the history of black gangs in his city and makes a powerful call for change in modern gang culture with his insightful documentary, Bastards of the Party.
Bastards of the Party draws its title from this passage in “City of Quartz”: “The Crips and the Bloods are the bastard offspring of the political parties of the ’60s. Most of the gangs were born out of the demise of those parties. Out of the ashes of the Black Panther Party came the Crips and the Bloods and the other gangs.”
Bastards of the Party traces the timeline from that “great migration” to the rise and demise of both the Black Panther Party and the US Organization in the mid- 1960s, to the formation of what is currently the culture of gangs in Los Angeles and around the world.
The documentary also chronicles the role of the Los Angeles Police Department and the FBI in the evolution of gang culture. During his tenure from 1950 to 1966, Chief Robert Parker bolstered the ranks of the LAPD with white recruits from the south, who brought their racist attitudes with them. Parker’s racist sympathies laid the groundwork for the volatile relationship between the black community and the LAPD that persists today.
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This is great doc. Really made me see the whole picture of gangs and how this could be changed. Once again the govt has there hands in it and keeping it flowing.
Where would this country be without the ignorant old racist like Hoover and Parker?
I wonder if this guy is in Haiti right now, helping to stack the bodies in the road to impede the rescue workers?
This documentary is another example of the “blame whitey” mentality of the negroe community. The violence of black gangs formed in their own communities with nobody to blame but themselves. They chose to assert their social status within their community by means of violence, whereas in the white community they tried to preserve and instill safe and non-threatening in values which in turn created a safe and thriving society. The only reasons blacks are treated with such racism is that negroes do in fact bring their communities violent ways into the white society, causing whites to resort to violent retaliation due to the fact that pure verbal sense and reasoning which most blacks unfortunately havent learnt, does not work.
I do not mean to exclude blacks, however i am forced to because of their unwillingness to better themselves into civil human beings, just because they feel it is their racial duty to be violent and obnoxios.
He is not saying “blame whitey” he’s just showing how the gangs started. Which were set up to protect against the white gangs. To Swabgob I hope you are not saying that white people, are some kind of angels because a lot of the worlds problems were started by “White Society”. “White Society” brought The guns, violence, wars and racism to world. The condition the black community is in right now does go back to the slavery days which were started by who “White Society”. Now with that being said black people do need to move forward and progress which we have been slowly but surely. But do not act like white people played no part of the destruction of the black community and are the most civilized non violent human beings that ever existed which is far from true.
Man, take this movie, make about 10,000 dvd’s and just hand them out all over the city and other cities and just let the true divine nature in All men manifest throughout our world. It will be a better place. Unfortunatly I don’t live in that place anymore. But this movie has truth. And it’s the truth that makes men free.
WHITE PPL LOVE TO JOKE HOW A BLACK RAN DOW THE STREET WITH THERE TV BUT THEY STOLE THIS COUNTRY RAN IT INTO THE GROUND DEPLETED THE RESOURCES GAVE ALL THE NATIVE AMERICANS AND MEXICAN AND AFRICANS THA THEY STOLE FORM THERE MOTHERLAND THERE NASTY *** DIEASES AND CALLED IT ALL MANIFEST DESTINY TALK about how bad drugs but they the main ones using it to fund there campign and sum even companies have u work for dirt nothing a steal it all away like enron wow forgot about all tha Swabgob
I was very impressed with what this man had to say. Although I am not a black youth dealing with gangs in my home, I can’t help but wonder how hard it would be to separate yourself from the world you are thrust into like he has.
I am not a “bleeding heart liberal” or “anti police” left winger – quite the contrary.
However it is a FACT that police corruption in the 60′s and earlier certainly helped escalate gang problems.
If this man can work to create peace and step away from the violence of gangs he has had a lifetime of exposure to… How come so many of us can’t be a little less angry about something so trivial as race? Yes Swabgob… I am referring to you.
is it me, or does it end slightly abruptly???
grate docu tho, grate upload, thanks :)
“whereas in the white community they tried to preserve and instill safe and non-threatening in values which in turn created a safe and thriving society.”
Yeah. Unless you were say, a woman, African, Asian, Mexican, Native American, biracial, Italian immigrants, Irish immigrants and/or a mix of any immigrant that did not include a Christian White man of English Decent.
Last I checked the Native American’s didn’t die in droves because of the violence of Black men. Nor was Mexican land annexed using violence of the Black men. Last I checked the women who where burned alive in Salem weren’t tried nor convicted by Black men. Black men didn’t legalize Government approved slavery. Black men did not cause such civil unrest as to turn American against American during the Civil war. Last I perused the history books Black men did not drop the bomb in Hiroshima or Nagasaki vaporizing hundreds of thousands instantly. Black men did not ruin the United States economy by defrauding investors. Black men did not start an illegal war in Iraq. Black men were not in trouble for torture and domestic spying programs and Black men, last I looked, weren’t giving out bonuses with taxpayer money.
Don’t pull your soft racism here. This site, sorry to say, has people who actually know their history and don’t take kindly to idiotic rhetoric that would only confuse and persuade a 10 year old, and even that’s iffy.Children usually have more sense than to believe ******** like that.
First of all bloods & crippin played out in the 90′s, so any late comers claimin sets from movies or from scary g’s on the run, needs a examination from the chin up. its hollywood programing, the emotional side of a Gangsta and gangstas with gangsta emotions aint gangsta. the 90′s promoted gangs, now they promoting homosexuality ,weak minded followers…. B-WARE!!!
Swabgab, I can clearly see you wearing long white robes with a mask hiding that part of your body which pretends to be a head!
I think this documentry should be update so that see how things are progressing today, if any of young men have open their eyes to what they are doing to each other. If they are coming around, and reconizing what they are doing to each other as a whole, as human beings, as true brothers (not bruthas)under the Son, the Son of the most HIGH. So why don’t we take this documentry to another level and stop the violenc. PEACE.
forgive and forget and the way to fix any problem is to look at yourself first and fix the fualt that you see. that how you will stop gang violence. and i hope they should made gang activities just a part of their young life(teens,early 20s) not their whole life.
i cant believe how many times they utter the word racist.. black man have already become president, legendary sports icon of almost all sports, and become one of the musics greatest icon.. you can no longer utter the word racist cause you already climb all the mountain only latin and asian can shout that word.
wow..very insightfull documentary.
this sort of documentary should be seen much more often over here in europe to help understand the gang violence in the state’s. respect to that fella!
I cant believe Kobe Bryant had so many problems in his early years. Its great he took the time out from basketball to star in this doco.
if this documentary and others like it were shown in public schools as often as “gone with the wind”, our world would become a better place pretty quickly.
Swabgob, I have no idea what you are talking about with the Blame Whitey. Are you in denial of police brutality or cointelpro operations? I thought the film was insightful- thanks to Sloan for writing this doc.
@lolberg07/14/2010
“I cant believe Kobe Bryant had so many problems in his early years. Its great he took the time out from basketball to star in this doco.”
HaHaHaHa… That was to funny….
@lolberg –
I almost got mad when I read your post originally. But now that I keep reading it over and over – you are funny to me! Thanks for the comedic relief….
Hilarious – Kobe Bryant, LOL!