"So to you on this thread, we've gone from being "niggers" to "gang bangers."
People select their clothing to project a message. Most usually that message is, "I'm pretty much like everybody else."
There are people of all races who select their clothing to project the message, "I am dangerous and violent. Fear me." Those people are acting wrongly. Their clothing is a psychological assault on innocent people.
When those people, having achieved their malicious objective, then turn around and cry "racism" at those who object, the hypocrisy runs deep in the gutters.
It happens here in Japan, too, and there is no racial component to it. These Japanese punks p*ss me off just as much as the loathesome hip-hop scum.
I don't really know what can be done about it though. The clothing is just the symptom; the real problem is with the worldview the clothes reflect.
As a biker, I've more or less laughed throughout this entire thread. I really sympathise with these young black men, because I experience the same kind of prejudices daily.