Blacks who ventured across the unmarked border. Were often attacked. By teenage members of the new gang. Called the spook hunters. One of a handful of white gangs active in this time. It was only natural for l. a. 's newest residents. To respond unkind. As white attacks started to increase. In the mid 1940's and late 1940's. Blacks started to organize their clubs. Really as a defensive mechanism. And the boss men or the business men. And the snyder boys and all these. Clubs in south l. a. really were just sorta defending. Themselves against. White violence that was coming from huntington park. And southgate. The demise of the black panthers in los angeles. Is said to be another. Blow to a generation of black teenagers. That witnessed many of it's role models. Assasinated throughout the 1960's. What I'm sayin in so many words. They shoulda let the panthers. Went on because there probably. Would never have been no crips and no bloods