Slavery Today

Have you ever took the time to realize how many people treat others in the world today.  Some people may not think it matters while others may think the world has changed a lot compared to how people use to treat others.  Still there are some people who really don't think the world has changed and probably won't change the way that we treat one another.  The world was once focused on racial issues, cultural issues, religious issues, and many more.  Slavery has been an issue forever though and still continue on, just maybe not getting as much attention as it once was.
In our very own city here in Chicago, I happen to believe that slavery is going on right here in some of our backyards.  Have you ever considered that maybe these street gangs can be categorized in the same category as slavery.  In many street gangs, you have one leader or "master" who is in control of what everybody does, says, and believes.  Then you have the followers, or the people that works for the leader doing all of the dirty work and not getting nearly as much out of it as the leader is.  If you don't obey the leader or if you do something wrong then you will basically get beaten or killed by the leader himself or someone ordered by the leader to do it.  So really you are being forced to do something that you don't want to do because you want to keep your life.  Also to get into the gang may require some initiation where you will have to let every "jump" you or maybe you will be forced to go out and kill a certain number of people.  Some may argue that this isn't being forced if you want to be a part of this gang, but really you don't have a choice because I doubt if you can just tell them no and walk away with nothing done to you after all of that.
I think this can possibly be considered slavery, but maybe it's just me...