An American Gangster Inaccuracy: Wu-Tang Clan Did Not Exist in the 1970s

One last American Gangster post, I promise. There is a glaring historical inaccuracy that I failed to address in my eariler blog posts about the movie, I would be doing a disservice to you the reader if I neglected to mention this. The movie is set in the late 1960s and into the early 1970s yet Detective Moses Jones is sporting a Wu-Tang Clan logo tattoo on his arm. Are we supposed to believe that aside from being one of the few honest cops of his day that Detective Jones was also capable of seeing 20 plus years into the future? Ok so maybe he had a feeling that the hip hop culture would take off, I'll give you that - he's a cop he spent a lot of time in the streets around the kids. But how would he have known that hip hop would turn to Kung-Fu movies as an influence on the culture and that would lead nine kids from Staten Island to call themselves the Wu-Tang Clan and give themselves names like Ghostface Killah, Raekwon the Chef and Insepkta Deck.