HomeThis is something I often think about. If you were alive during the 20s and 30s when there were gangsters and outlaws running rackets all over the country, like Bonnie and Clyde, Al Capone, Pretty Boy Floyd, John Dillinger, etc., bootleggers, bank robbers, the works, do you think you would've been one of those people on the straight and narrow making an honest living or do you think you'd be doing the same kinds of things they did? After all back then there were no forensics, no computer files on anybody, getting away with it would've been a hell of a lot easier to do back then (despite so many of them being caught at the end of it all) than it would be today.
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If you were alive in the 1930s, would you be an outlaw?
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If you were alive in the 1930s, would you be an outlaw?
by Supernova Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:50 am
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Re: If you were alive in the 1930s, would you be an outlaw?
by RedBedroom Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:35 am
I think I may have been easily talked into debauchery back in the day. I was not the most honest person back in my teens. So, given the era, I maybe would have been one of the gals at the WI Capone hideaway?
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Re: If you were alive in the 1930s, would you be an outlaw?
by Alan Smithee Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:48 am
To answer the question, I'd have to say no. I might get desperate enough to steal to keep my family from starving but going on crime sprees robbing banks? I don't think so. But Red, you just keep getting more interesting 
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Re: If you were alive in the 1930s, would you be an outlaw?
by Marc™ Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:23 am
Most likely, no. If I were alive in the 1930s, I would probably be all too aware of what the punishment for trying to be a colored outlaw could mean....
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Re: If you were alive in the 1930s, would you be an outlaw?
by Tony Marino Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:45 pm
Nah I would be a good boy.
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Re: If you were alive in the 1930s, would you be an outlaw?
by Chris Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:56 pm
I don't think it would be much of an option for me. Not many mulatto outlaws during that period, they would have been too happy to come for me.
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Re: If you were alive in the 1930s, would you be an outlaw?
by captainbryce Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:08 pm
Yes, I'd be an outlaw because I'd be considered "colored or negro" if I was alive back in the 30's and that alone would make me an "outlaw". Minorities didn't have nearly the same legal rights as whites did. Anything I did in public as a colored man was essentially outlawed so long as law enforcement deemed it to be! Living my life as I would today would make me an outlaw.
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by Forgiveness Man Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:18 pm
I'd have probably died of heat stroke if I lived in the 1930's. 
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Re: If you were alive in the 1930s, would you be an outlaw?
by Nystyle709 Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:41 pm
Marc™ wrote:Most likely, no. If I were alive in the 1930s, I would probably be all too aware of what the punishment for trying to be a colored outlaw could mean....
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