A Disturbing Trend

On a recent episode of Gangland, seen on The History Channel, a Latino gang in Texas was featured. The show’s contents were pretty much expected: the violence, the backgrounds, the lack of remorse, and so on. As gang stories go these days, it was pretty formula.

What was disturbing was the gang’s logo. It was a virtually exact copy of the Houston Texans’ red-and-blue steer’s head logo.

There are others:

In Los Angeles, two street gangs sport the logos of sports teams. One is the hometown Dodgers’ LA cap logo. The other features the double horseshoe “W” of the Washington Nationals. I’ve seen tattoos of both on the heads and faces of misguided young men in the area.

I guess what this means is that on some fine day, a young Latino kid, having being given a Dodger or Washington cap as a gift, will be out playing, minding his own business, and he could get shot and killed just for wearing the cap of his favorite team.

Isn’t it bad enough that fans get beaten up at sports venues by moronic drunk home team fans for wearing an opponents’ gear? Now, innocent kids could get killed at home for wearing a damn cap?

It’s getting so you can’t be a sports fan in peace anymore.

Is the simple joy of liking sports now being taken away by idiots with the brains of 2-year olds?

At least some gangs like the Rolling 60s or the Crips have the “decency” if you will, of creating their own logos. I guess some gangs are too lazy to come up something of their own. God Forbid, they should do anything creative or original. Or constructive.