Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-26130256-20150806184438/@comment-26130256-20150810163928

"Oh, you didn't know?" Uriel shrugged, slowly returning Lupara to it's sheath. "Look through a book on Vacuan history some time.  Depending on who you ask, the Cardamom crime family was one of the first businesses to integrate in all of Vacuo." Sitting down on a nearby trash can, Uriel began telling the story while keeping his eyes peeled for the phantom trying to kill him again.

"Now, the kid you scrapped with is fifth generation of the family.  Number one was this man named Jasper Cardamom.  Now back in the day, he wanted to be the top dog of crime in Vacuo, and he eventually decided he didn't care who he had to work with to do it.  So he set up the family policy, which continues to this day, of hiring only on the basis of skill and loyalty."

"It's almost funny, when you look at what folks say.  Some praise ol' Jasper for speeding up civil rights, not to mention pulling more than a few Faunus out of poverty.  And other folks hate on them for either corrupting their relatives or for, you know, the whole 'organized crime' thing." He laughed a bit, reaching for a cigarrette. "Just the other day, I was reading some sociology journal where folks were arguing about the lack of Faunus executives in Vacuan businesses.  Some of the wiseguys were claiming that the root of the problem is still the stigma that any Faunus with more than two Lien to rub together must be involved in something illegal.  I doubt that's the problem, but the argument was remarkably well written.  I'd have saved you a copy if I had known we were gonna have this conversation."