CULTURE of DEATH:"Gang" clothes wanted off rack

The shops selling the caps, jewelry and colors that clothe gang members are about to find themselves the target of a new effort to reduce gangs by driving off those who profit from them. At least one leader of a gang intervention program wants to start videotaping the stores this month and have parents picket the stores if they don't yank some products."I don't know how they can sell what they do in good conscience," said Cisco Gallardo, executive director of the Gang Rescue and Support Project, who plans to start the videotaping.
The vendors proliferate along Federal Boulevard in Denver, in areas of Aurora and along Colfax Avenue as well as at flea markets.They sell grills for teeth - cosmetic dental coverings made of metal and inlaid with precious stones. They also specialize in skull jewelry and T-shirts with gang colors or images from the 1983 movie "Scarface."Phat Mart in Aurora specializes in "Eastside" and "Westside" caps with the colors favored by gangs in those areas of the city. The store Gen X on Federal Boulevard sells one T-shirt that features "Web$ter's Hip-Hip Dictionary," with a list of street slang phrases.The shop owners say they are not catering to gang members but, rather, supplying a fashion need."You wear blue. I wear blue. It doesn't matter. It's not for a gang," said Gina Kim, manager of the EZ Market on East Colfax Avenue in Aurora, denying that the T-shirts in the market featuring the late rapper Tupac Shakur wearing either a blue or a red bandanna around his face were for gangs....
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