JARV DEE An intimate view of just one Moor Gang soldier. See him at Chop Suey on Friday. Dyllyn Greenwood

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What is the meaning behind local use of "Moor" and "Moor Gang"? I don't understand what the implication is supposed to be:

"Moors are not a distinct or self-defined people,[3] and mainstream scholars observed in 1911 that "The term 'Moors' has no real ethnological value."[4] Medieval and early modern Europeans variously applied the name to Arabs, Berber North Africans and Muslim Europeans.[5] The term has also been used in Europe in a broader, somewhat derogatory sense to refer to Muslims in general,[6] especially those of Arab or Berber descent, whether living in Spain or North Africa.[7] During the colonial era, the Portuguese introduced the names "Ceylon Moors" and "Indian Moors" in Sri Lanka, and the Bengali Muslims were also called Moors.[8]"

Is it some new kind of Nation of Islam crap? Or just an attempt at edgy-as-possible Afrocentrism?
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@1 it's a word you can't use but they can. You know: freedom of speech and all that.

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