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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October 31st, 2009 at 18:31
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.
November 4th, 2009 at 08:18
Where would this country be without the ignorant old racist like Hoover and Parker?
January 17th, 2010 at 23:21
I wonder if this guy is in Haiti right now, helping to stack the bodies in the road to impede the rescue workers?
January 18th, 2010 at 18:24
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.
January 24th, 2010 at 01:08
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.
February 5th, 2010 at 20:24
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.
February 6th, 2010 at 05:10
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 ASS 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
March 17th, 2010 at 02:03
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.
March 21st, 2010 at 14:18
is it me, or does it end slightly abruptly???
grate docu tho, grate upload, thanks