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Philadelphia’s ‘Pudding Cartel’ wants to be the Greatest of All Time
by Diana Lu
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“We were gonna be the pudding commission,” Kahlid says, referencing the Commission, the national mafia governing body founded by Italian-born mobster Lucky Luciano. “All the mob bosses were killing each other,” the self-proclaimed gangster historian explains.
“So Lucky put together a committee of bosses. Each boss gets an equal vote for common ground. That stuck out to me. ... You gotta take care of your clan.” He applied that to how he wants to take care of his team and create jobs as a Black man in the poorest major city in America. Pudding is an outlet to save lives. “Black men, we have it tougher in life,” he says. Kahlid wants to help others realize their dreams and create their own wealth. The Pudding Cartel felt more fitting. “We’re the El Chapo of pudding,” he jokes. For Kahlid, #puddingcartel is their motivational message and serves as a peace delegate in a country rife with racial tension and violence.
“I want to change that stigma, because I’m meeting cool people everywhere!” He sees pudding as a cross-cultural ambassador. “There’s no racial profiling. ... Everybody loves pudding! I want people to know that this pudding keeps people from dying.”
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