that’s already established. Then they wonder why they’re not getting that.
You have to create it from the ground up. You can’t just jump into something and think that people are going to accept you when they did all the
groundwork for it. The guys that he’s referring to, did their hard work and
worked together to build t hat circle so no outsiders can come into their shit.
They started that, that their thing. So that means you have to start your own
thing. So you can do the same thing they do or you can open it up to other
people like yourself or who have common interests. Everybody was like go
to tattoo conventions; why not start your own conventions? You know when
you get there; they’re not going to support you. Things are better than they
were. Before “Color Outside the Lines” came out it was harder. Once the
film came out and a lot of people saw it. It changed the culture. So you have
more artists now getting into it. Imagine if black and Hispanic people took
their money out of the industry and started their own industry. Imagine what
that would look like. Same as the NBA; what if all the black players said
“Fuck their league, let’s start our own league.” What would happen to the
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