^Those GIFs lol

I guess in that world if you shake hands with someone both of you get caught on fire.

https://youtu.be/glOpUt0OXwg?list=RDpkYoXSE2bO0

That is because the Italians  were a structured organisation  with leaders and rules and were labelled the Mafia, and are still around to this day. The Japanese Yakuza is probably the closest to the level of organisation that the italian mafia has. Russians on the other had are their own smaller groups with different objectives.

Black crime groups werent exactly organised organisations it was just small turf wars mainly between themselves and hispanics and jamaicans.  The closest they got to some organised structure was in Philledelphia who ironally associated themselves with islam even calling themsleves the Muslim Mafia (oh how times have changed lol). That didn't last long and soon split up into factions. 

looks great, I just want a great story like mafia 2

Now my thoughts on the game. Hell I don't even know what the plot is about so you can't just say no to black person being the main character

For all we know is the game will be him taking down the italian mob in his city cause they killed him family or whatever in an accidental drive by shooting.

It is. I even said so in the OP. lol

It depends on the storyline if it's a problem or not. Italian mobs wouldn't allow non-italians to join them. They might contract someone to do some work for 'em or something, though.

Yea, I really hope they fix that before release.

Whats with everyone hating action and explosions in games all of a sudden?

When its as unrealistic as that then yes there is a problem.