In Carlitos Way Rise To Power he tries to get respect from all the races because back then they were all divided basically into three ways: the blacks stayed on there side, the italians also had there own side, and the hispanics had there own side too. Carlito also was in buisness with a black person and italian person because they all had connections and they had there job in the drug business. The black guy (Earl) was the person that controlled the money. Rocco the Italian guy had the connections. Carlito Brigante was the head boss. There drug buisness is heroin and back in the 1960s that was the big thing to sell people because alot of people were using that drug.
Carlito uses his reputaion to strike fear into people so if they disrespect him or just use violence for no reason against innocent people he'd use viloence or at least scare them so they won't do it again or at least not to his people. But in this movie they all used respect for power because of there reputation like Hollywood Nikki (Sean Combs) people were scared of him because of how powerful he was, how much respect he had, and how much fear he put into people.
The violence and the power they had made them known on the street and have the respect that they earned. They used there violence to rise and become powerful and be some of the biggest bosses even if they were all diffrent races. You can pick up a moral from this movie. It's like if you don't know them and all you know is there reputation why would you try them and see how far there willing to go?
