Monday, February 25, 2019

Loose Sqaures

Along the economically impoverished streets and in the communities where regular 
employment is a rarity an undercurrent of commerce takes place in the trade of single 
cigarettes also known as loose squares. Sold singly in the city of Chicago because of 
the heavy taxation placed on tobacco products in the city of Chicago driving the price 
of a pack of cigarettes up to fifteen dollars in some area's. The cigarette black market 
has provided some with an alternative income and it is how people have 
learned to make ends meet in a city with fewer opportunities for income for people 
within the black colony than any other segment of society in the city.
The city of Chicago in true Imperialist form has made the selling of single or loose 
cigarettes a criminal offense punishable by up to six months in jail and fines. 
The constant removal of opportunities for education and employment continues to 
plague the people of the black colony and the continual assault and bombardment of 
the black colony with draconian laws to further destabilize the lives of black and
brown people.
We have witnessed the Nabisco company moving its bakery operation where they 
produce the iconic Oreo cookies from Chicago's southwest side to Mexico. 
A provider of almost 4000 people with employment at its peak in the nineteen eighties, 
this Nabisco company provided jobs and a means to an end for many black and brown 
people.  After several free trade agreements companies began slashing their labor force 
over the last few decades, now the company has moved lock stock and barrel to Mexico 
to increase the company's profits further driving the despotism and hopelessness of the black
colony by removing the remaining employment the company offers.
Free trade in it modern manifestation has moved production out side of the United Snakes 
leaving in their wake skeletons of de-funded and economically deprived communities.
The Crack wars of the 80s and 90s pushed legislation and policies that coincided with the 
flight of industrial production to outside of the United Snakes and inflated the number of 
prisoners in the United Snakes to astronomical proportion with black and brown people 
bearing the brunt of the human cost in terms of lives stolen away by crime and punishment 
scenarios all revolving around the economy provided by sales of Crack and the removal 
of industry from the United Snakes. With few economic opportunities and increasing taxation 
it is becoming extremely difficult to survive and make ends meet in the communities 
of the south and west sides of Chicago.
A few years ago the city of Chicago has taken steps to de-criminalize small amounts 
of marijuana by issuing civil citations instead of arresting an individual for possessing 
marijuana. But the memo must not have reached the Pigs that occupy the black colony 
because even though a city ordinance was put in place to for the pigs to write a civil citation 
that orders the offender to appear in court or pay a fine,Black and Brown people were still 
being arrested and charged criminally while whites were ticketed and released.
The city has targeted loose cigarette sales and wants to jail the people who sell single or 
loose cigarettes. It is not by chance that the majority of people involved in the trade are 
black and brown people. The disparities in education, employment and criminal justice 
are the systemic and structural weapons used by the fascist state to oppress and 
further exploit the people of the black colony.
Today in 2019 we are in the midst of an economic holocaust in the mass metropolis 
known as Chicago, Illinois. With 50% unemployment among people on the south and 
west sides of the city where the black colonies are located. 
Now there is created this black market for cigarettes and another avenue to
arrest and confine people who are only trying to survive. To feed the beast called 
mass incarceration and keep the pigs and the systems in which they operate in place.

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