History Main / WhiteGangBangers

* In ''{{Film/Collateral}}'', Max ({{Creator/Jamie Foxx}}), a Los Angeles taxi driver, is robbed by a gang of four white street criminals.

** While not explicitly formed around race, many outlaw motorcycle clubs will have at least unofficial policies that they won't "patch" (accept members) from certain racial groups, even if they will party or do business with just about anybody. It's akin to the Mafia traditionally only allowing Italians to be "made men." Of course, given that many large [=MCs=] have chapters worldwide, all of which can have different policies based on the local situation, this rule often varies even within a particular club.

** While not explicitly formed around race, many outlaw motorcycle clubs will have at least unofficial policies that they won't "patch" (accept members) from certain racial groups, even if they will party or do business with just about anybody. It's akin to the Mafia traditionally only allowing Italians to be "made men." Of course, given that many large MCs have chapters worldwide, all of which can have different policies based on the local situation, this rule often varies even within a particular club.

* The prison-based Aryan Brotherhood, Nazi Lowriders, Public Enemy Number 1, and similar prison gangs tend to be more this in real life than ideological white supremacists, at least in many states. The AB in California had a long-standing relationship with La Eme (the Mexican Mafia) to sell drugs and as allies against the blacks, and NLR accepts light-skinned Latinos as members.

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** It should also be be pointed out this is a sign of their desperation, all the gangs are suffering and they have to team up in order to focus on their new enemy: the Batman, but also to an extent, they also have enemies in the form of Harvey Dent and the Joker - Dent for putting their launderers out of business, and the Joker dislikes the mob's interests in money (he kills one of Gambol's guys with [[EyeScream a disappearing pencil]], later kills Gambol, and also burns Lau and the mob's money).

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* Creator/DaveChappelle discusses this in one of his specials, saying that the white thug is probably the worst out of all of them, since he had to do something to gain the black members' trust. He also says that the white gang bangers are there to talk to the police when something bad happens.
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* The Purple Dragons in the second ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon play the trope straight; once it becomes TheSyndicate, it upgrades to EqualOpportunityEvil.

--> '''Brian:''' Oh, no! It's a multi-racial TV gang including white guys!
--> '''Gang Member:''' Let's beat him up! But not because of his color, because that doesn't matter to us!

In reaction to the mainstream stereotype (justified or not is beside the point) that most members of "[[{{Gangbangers}} street gangs]]" are black or non-white Latino, TV shows aimed at children sometimes go to great lengths to depict gangs as consisting mostly of other ethnic groups, or at least as an evil FiveTokenBand. They may or may not be PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy.

* Of course, the runaway success of Wrestling/{{new World order}} proved once and for all that colors, robbery, vandalism and gangsterism is one of the best ways to get results in professional wrestling, or at least you'd think that way by the number of times the stable has been imitated. Since most of their spiritual successors are in Wrestling/{{WCW}}'s home country, USA, where most professional wrestling promotions have an overwhelming roster of European ancestry, this resulted in the 1990s to early 2010s having a lot of white gang bangers in wrestling (Wrestling/{{ECW}}'s {{parody}}, [[Wrestling/TheBlueMeanie blue]] [[Wrestling/{{Nova}} World]] [[Wrestling/StevieRichards order]], for example, Wrestling/{{N|ational Wrestling Alliance}}WA's [[DistaffCounterpart fWo]] for another). That said, the nWo had Vincent and an entire Japanese branch. Many of their imitators had non white members like Aisha Sunshine and the latino World order was mostly non white.

In reaction to the mainstream stereotype (justified or not is beside the point) that most members of "[[{{Gangbangers}} street gangs]]" are black or Latino, TV shows aimed at children sometimes go to great lengths to depict gangs as consisting mostly of other ethnic groups, or at least as an evil FiveTokenBand. They may or may not be PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy.

** Rival Nationalist and Unionist gangs in Northern Ireland, as well as dissident Republicans in the Republic of Ireland. Some are organised more like paramilitary groups, but many are essentially just street-level thugs. In many cases, they ''were'' paramilitary groups during UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, and have now devolved to this.

* Pretty much all of the gangs in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'', though membership in these seems to be more a factor of the part of the city one is from than ethnic heritage.
** Despite the [[{{Mook}} Mooks]] being diverse, the gangs' tended to made up of certain groups:
*** In the first game, there was Los Carnales (drug runners, mostly Hispanic), the West Side Rollerz (car nuts, mostly white) and the Vice Kings (stereotypical gang bangers, African-American).
*** In the second game, there was the Brotherhood (the "dregs", mostly white), the Ronin (Japanese), and the Sons of Samedi (drug runners, mostly Haitian). Of course, this was primarily the ethnicity of the leadership: all three gangs had a lot of white members simply because that was who they could readily recruit in Stilwater.
*** The Third Street Saints were the sole group whose diversity extended to the upper ranks: in the first game, there was Julius (African-American), Gat (Korean), Lin (Chinese), Troy (White) and Dex (Afro-Carribean). In the second game, there was Gat (again), Pierce (African-American), Carlos (Hispanic) and Shaundi (White), as well as whatever ethnicity was chosen for the player character from a choice of White, Asian, African-American, and Hispanic. [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Or zombie]]. In ''The Third'', however, most of your new recruits are white, with the exceptions of Zimos (African-American) and Angel (Hispanic). And of course the last game features Asha (British-Indian), Creator/KeithDavid (African-American), CID (an alien whose consciousness was uploaded to a robotic orb) and Zinjai (alien). Finally, Jezebel (demon) is added in ''Gat out of Hell''. Diversity, bitches.

* When a dead Hispanic girl is found in Detective Falco's apartment in ''Series/LawAndOrder'', she is found to be a member of a multi-ethnic heist group. Notably, the members include an ex-skinhead, a ex-member of a Thai street gang and a ex-member (and the son of the founder of) an exclusively black gang. The details on how the diverse group got together are left unclear, but a connection is made to the black member's father's book about rehabilitation and racial unity (which turns out to be a RedHerring).

** Rival Nationalist and Unionist gangs in Northern Ireland, as well as dissident republicans in the Republic of Ireland. Some are organised more like paramilitary groups, but many are essentially just street-level thugs.

** This trope got the 1965 film ''The Pawnbroker'' in hot water for depicting a black Mafia-like group (which is TruthInTelevision, and has been so at least since the Great Depression). Although black Americans weren't bothered by the supposed inaccuracy of the existence of black gangsters as they were by the portrayal of blacks as criminals, period.
** During those times Jews, Irish and Italian Americans were not necessarily considered "white" and, if they were, they were subsumed under the category "white ethnic" which is now unknown to all but history buffs. This is somewhat comparable to "white Latinos" (Latino being an ethnic designation divorced from skin color, a Latino can be of any race)
* White gangsters often crop up in Latino gangs such as the Mexican Mafia. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_%22Pegleg%22_Morgan Joe "Pegleg" Morgan]], the non-Mexican cofounder of La eMe, was Croatian-American, but grew up in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. White members helped Latino gangs negotiate deals with skinhead gangs who would not do deals with non-whites. Today, white and Latino gangs traditionally ally against the blacks. And technically, Latinos and whites are lumped together in racial studies anyway.

* Of course crime (even gang related activities) happen in countries with hardly any ethnic minorities as well as places where almost all ethnic minorities would be considered "white" by the US definition. Some gangs, like criminal biker gangs have hardly any connection to ethnicity whatsoever.

* Pretty much everyone in ''Film/GangsOfNewYork''.

** Nationalist and Unionist gangs in Northern Ireland, as well as dissident republicans in the Republic of Ireland.

* Various European groups, whole sole ''raison d'etre'' is mere wanton violence and getting into fights. These groups may use sports (English football hooligans), politics (Antifa) or class identity (skinheads) as their excuse for violence mongering.

* TruthInTelevision -- white gangsters (that is, white criminals who operate for profit, as opposed to the ideologically minded neo-Nazi skinheads) do exist, though they are [[http://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Survey-Analysis/Demographics#anchorregm few]]. There are also some plain multi-ethnic gangs. The ''Los Angeles Times'' ran into accusations of bias after its article on a violent crime did not describe the perpetrators' group, the Slick Fifties, as a gang due to their white, middle-class background.

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* Subverted in that two of the top drug gangs in Vancouver, B.C.-the Red Scorpions and the United Nations- were racially integrated. The name United Nations was chosen to emphasize this. They may sell drugs and kill people, but they're not racist about it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries, nearly all of the regular criminals and gangsters seen in [[CityNoir Gotham]] are white. Justified by the '50s aesthetics and general RetroUniverse nature of the setting, which would be ruined by too prominent representation by ethnic criminals. However, both of the major mob bosses (Arnold Stromwell and Rupert Thorne) have Anglo-Saxon names, which would be a little weird even in a Roaring Twenties/Great Depression-era storyline. The sequel movie ''Mask of the Phantasm'' adds mobsters with Italian and Jewish names like Sal Valestra and Chuckie Sol.

* The Jets from ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', though the Sharks are a Hispanic gang (Puerto Rican to be exact).

** The Almighty Gaylords were founded in 1953 by two veterans of TheKoreanWar named Anthony "Johnny Boy" Anarina and Bobby Shipball, and at one point they were the largest Caucasian gang in Chicago and the third-largest gang overall. Their peak of power was in TheSeventies and TheEighties but in the mid-1990's, they closed down the majority of their sets due to a mix of police crackdowns and older gang members retiring. They are the only major Caucasian gang with sets in the city proper, two small chapters in Sayre Park and Kilbourn Park with a large set in the suburb of Addison, Illinois. They also have a large presence in the rural Midwest, particularly in Des Moines, Iowa and rural Indiana, and have a few chapters in the Appalachian coalfields (most notably in Pikeville, Kentucky). They have been part of the People Nation gang alliance since 1979.