Gangsters
Gangsters was by far my favorite chapter in Sag Harbor. The chapter touched on a lot of issues and themes that I found particularly interesting. The theme I found most interesting in Gangsters was the correlation drawn between the rise of gun violence and the rise of violent themes in hip hop music. “ Something happened. Something happened that changed the terms and we went from fighting ( I'll knock that grin off your face) to full blown annihilation ( I will wipe you from this earth). How we got from here to there are the key passages in the history of young black men that no one cares to write. We live it instead.” The part of the statement adult Benji ( Ben) makes between gun violence and the violence depicted in hip hop that intrigued me the most was the part where he talks about how no one really knows how or why violence had suddenly become such a defining feature of black culture. I found this interesting because I realized he was right, lots of people talk of about the ne