I Write Because I Can

I Write Because I Can 

 

In the United States a lowly and brutal trade took place in which men and women were kidnapped from the great land mass we know today as Afrika. After the import of humans from Afrika was discontinued a domestic breeding program took place and people were bred as chattel to perform work in various industry throughout the United States. In order to maintain a position of dominance many key abilities that enable human development were not allowed to be pursued by the victims of the United States in its quest for great wealth by ensuring its free labor through the oppression of the people who were being bought and sold like cattle or poultry. Even in the period of so called emancipation the powers that be installed the Black Codes and Jim Crow in order to keep a foothold up on the class of people who they did not want to gain the ability to raise himself to a higher station above that of which he found himself cast into at the bottom of the society.
Reading and writing were forbidden to the diaspora for hundreds of years in the United States and if it was discovered that a Black man or woman could read or write they were beaten, raped and lynched for this crime.
A website titled "Fight Municipal Court Abuse (court.rchp.com) includes the following in its list of significant anti-black literacy laws:

• 1819, Missouri: Prohibited assembling or teaching slaves to read or write
• 1829, Georgia: Prohibited teaching blacks to read, punished by fine and imprisonment
• 1832, Alabama and Virginia: Prohibited whites from teaching blacks to read or write, punished by fines and floggings
• 1833, Georgia: Prohibited blacks from working in reading or writing jobs (via an employment law), and prohibited teaching blacks, punished by fines and whippings (via an anti-literacy law)
• 1847, Missouri: Prohibited teaching blacks to read or write
  

Restrictions on the education of black students were not limited to the South. While teaching blacks in the North was not illegal, many Northern states, counties, and cities barred black students from public schools. What did the ability to read and write present to the master class that they went to such lengths to deprive Black people from being able to read and write ? Some how the saying “if yo want to hide something from a Black person put it in a book” comes to mind when I examine the prohibition placed on Black people barring them from the pursuit of becoming literate.
Black people were victims of a mass robbery, taken from Blacks was their religion, their culture, their language and the knowledge of self. Look at how the dynasties of ancient Egypt are depicted by western media and scholastic sources. The film adaptation of the Exodus with Moses played by Charlton Heston and Pharaoh played by Yul Brynner and every main character is a white person the only Black people in the movie are the slaves. This is just one example of how the United States rewrites history and uses the false narrative to install a white supremacist world view.

Today we are advancing in leaps and bounds into the high tech era. Many in the Black community are experiencing what is being termed as a digital divide. This is of little consequence when there is a literacy divide where many Black people are uneducated or under educated. How can people who can not read navigate a digital landscape ? I am a self educated man and I use the skills I learned to express my thoughts about the social interactions that exist within the United States. I write because I CAN and I take myself very seriously as a writer because I feel as though I have something of value to share with the world. As a man who has overcome very perilous situations and survived battles with members of my own community and assaults by members of other communities to evolve into a sagacious personality. I want to contribute to the well being of my brothers and sisters and writing is the medium I have chosen to do it with. In this day and age that has been falsely identified as post racism we see Black people being murdered before our very own eyes thanks to the Internet and people are taking to the streets in protests that have recently turned into full scale riots. There has to be voices that speak in measured tones and bring rational thought to bear in order to direct a balanced approach to the fight for social change. Writing is the weapon I choose to fight the system with. No nation state or group of individuals will beat the United States in a gunfight. The United States licks its chops and invites armed confrontation. The nation with the biggest budget for defense, the nation with the most military arms contractors and the nation who will kill its own President if the need arises. I choose to use words as weapons to plant the seeds of thought into the minds of those who will listen and heed my advice. The first steps we need to take as a people is to make an effort to educate one another. Liberation through education. The knowledge of self is the foundation of any nationalist movement. To define the Black men and women in the United States a vast amount to information has the be researched and the lies and inaccuracies made void and the truth brought to the surface. Their has to be a consensus among the people and by which a course is plotted to the goal we wish to reach. We cannot be divided by culture, religious beliefs or geography. The most divisive of these being religion because when people come to believe they are chosen by a deity and others are of little to no worth to their deity what is written in the book or books they prescribe to can be sharpened into a weapon that severs the bonds of friendship, family and community. We must become bound by our common interest in the struggle for liberation and nationhood. The descendants of the Trans-Atlantic Slave holocaust are a nation unto themselves and need to adopt a national identity that is free from the poisons that separate us.
I write because I can. I write as a tool to form nationalist points of view in the minds of Black people. The answer to white supremacy is not integration, it is Black supremacy. I do not want to harm white people, I want to protect Black people. In order to protect ourselves we must know who our enemy is.
The enemy to the masses of Black people is ignorance. We will be destroyed due to a lack of knowledge. I write because I can. I write in order to bring knowledge to Black people as a deterrent to triple stage darkness and to set those who will listen on a path towards liberated minds and unconfined thinking. To think outside of the box is to shed the box the slavers sat Black peoples minds in during the period of captivity and afterwards. Black Power to the Black People !

Covid 19 Aftermath of the Riots

At the beginning of June, we entered a period of turbulence across the United States, many cities in the United States were gripped by violent outbursts that rained destruction upon businesses large and small alike. The reasons for the rampage seem to be a culmination of anger directed at the establishment, opportunistic greed, a sagging economy due to the COVID 19 pandemic, and cabin fever from the shelter in place order.  Stores where totally ransacked and pillaged, some went as far as too burn them the ground. I was oblivious to the carnage because I was sitting with my elderly mother watching netflicks. When I went out the day after the initial destructive whirlwind to get some food and water I was shocked by the utter decimation I was seeing. All of the stores I visited were busted up and I could not get anything I needed that day. I was reminded of the response to the murder of Dr Martin Luther King when people took to the streets in many cities and busted, broke into and looted businesses. I recalled that Jeff Fort the leader of the Blackstone Rangers ordered the Blackstone Rangers to issue a stand-down order to the city residents on the south side of Chicago. Jeff Fort stated, " Do not destroy the resources you yourself will need ".  I was confronted once more of how the riots deprived people of necessary resources when I went out a week later to get medical supplies for my paraplegic son. Walgreens stores all over the south side were closed because they had been ravaged. The Family Dollar stores were gone as well. I was dismayed and about to give up and go home. While I was standing at the bus stop I spotted a mom and pop Black-owned Pharmacy and medical supply store. It was like manna from heaven. In the wake of the riots community residents are left desolate and in despair. Mothers can not obtain diapers and formula, elders can not fill prescriptions families can not get food for the table. The store owners in many cases have insurance and I am sure many of the business owners cashed some pretty large checks from their insurance providers. Agitators from outside of the community who traveled hundreds of miles to provoke violence and looting should be lined up and shot. Their actions did nothing to further the push for social justice. They did nothing to honor or in anyway avenge the victims of modern-day lynching by the police. No ideological foundation subscribes to self-destruction as a means in which to affect change. Why didn't these angry people destroy a police station? If the police are the hands of white supremacy should they not be the object of the people's ire? There are still services yet to return to the Black community and its been almost a month since the riots. We the people have to find a better way to communicate our anger and speak truth to power. We must also not allow our struggle to be hijacked and turned into a weapon against us. People who are not Black, have never been targeted by the police because of the color of their skin using the Black Lives Matter movement to further causes that have nothing to do with empowering Black men and women. They seize upon an opportunity to carry out their own insane motives and agendas. Others are swept up by the mob mentality and lose the ability to make a decision for themselves. For all of these reasons, Black men and women must become and remain vigilant in protecting the means and methods used to pursue black liberation. The power is in the people and the politics they address and the manner in which they are addressed will determine the outcome and whether or not the efforts put forth are productive or destructive. It is said that irrational times bring forth irrational behavior. Let us not be swept away by the tide of unjust and oppressive scenes displayed on social media or else we will form a weapon against ourselves. We must Analyze, adapt, and overcome or else we will lose everything including our very own lives.

This woman captures the reality of how misguided rage and anger or opportunistic looting impacts the residents of a community  https://youtu.be/MYbXlUx97NI

Covid19 - Economic Impact Checks, when they be sent out ?

At the time of this writing, the first wave of the checks outlined and made into law as the CARES act have been sent to the American people. These checks are intended for all American citizens who live under a certain income level. How much money you may be wondering? It goes; $1200.00usd to single adult citizen, each child is $500usd per and $2400usd for couples. People have been coming up short on their means of survival. Companies closed down for a while, some operating on a skeleton crew. Many of the stores and retail outlets will be found to be obsolete in one instance and do not go back to the old way that included human involvement instead it opts for tolls of automation take charge. This will take place in just about every company that wants to survive the chaos of the present time by cutting staff and reducing payroll. There will be a tremendous Job loss across the nation. The White House knows that is will be a world-class balancing act, on one hand getting rid of some of our best people and that are being replaced by a million-dollar machine that you do not have to pay in order to speak with people on behalf of your company and finding employment strategies for the look and functionality of business relationship in order to keep them in good working order. At the time of this writing, the IRS has sent out 80 million checks to Americans with another 80 million set to be distributed the week of April 20th. The IRS has launched an effort to help people track their payment through Get My Payment at https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/get-my-payment. 
People who have an active bank account and choose to have the money direct deposited into their account will get their payment sooner than those who will be getting a paper check. Another misnomer is that the economic impact relief checks are for people that filed taxes in 2018 or 2019, to be clear the eligibility requirements are 1. Have a social security number 2. Be a U.S. citizen living in the United States.  These monies are for all Americans that make under a set limit to prevent people that don't need any money to receive a check. The people who qualify have to sit tight and wait, the check is in the mail.

Covid19 is Trump to Blame ?

At this point it's clear: The Trump Administration has failed. The United States has so far incurred 26,000 deaths, 79 per million; South Korea, in contrast, has incurred 225 deaths, just 4 per million. Taiwan's death toll stands at just 6 deaths (0.3 per million) and Singapore's death toll stands at 10 (2 per million). ( https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/opinions/trump-admin-coronavirus-investigation-opinion-sachs/index.html ) 

On the basis of the reports from China, on December 31 Taiwan immediately began to screen flight arrivals from Wuhan, where the coronavirus emerged, without waiting for WHO guidance or any other advice. South Korea began to screen flights from January 3rd. The US screening that began on January 17 was haphazard at best, nonexistent in many places at worst. Why didn't the US government follow the lead of Taiwan, South Korea and others on flight screenings? It becomes disturbingly clear that President Donald Trump was unable to process the information he had access to early in the pandemic in order to develop an effective plan of action in order to protect the American general public. December 31st is the date given as to when it was being reported by official channels that potential for the Covid19 virus spreading unchecked into other nations was very high. 
From December 31st until January 17th nothing was being done to monitor entry points into the United States to at least record who was coming into the country that may be at risk of having had come in contact with Covid19.
On January 23, the WHO Emergency Committee declined to declare Covid19 a global health emergency, an action that it took a week later, on January 30. The Centers for Disease Control sent out faulty test kits around the United States in early February. Red tape prevented the issue from being resolved as quickly as possible. Other nations developed test kits and went into large-scale testing weeks before the United States. Early on in the outbreak, Trump repeatedly asserted that the pandemic was not a great threat in the United States. On January 22nd Trump told the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland " We have it totally under control" and with those words tried to build a false sense of confidence in people in the United States and in the world. In February, Trump asserted that with the warm weather of April, the virus "miraculously goes away," again misaligning the truth and the reality of the situation. There happen to be a number of such inaccuracies spouted out by President Trump. The federal government and many states have been in a nonstop battle over scarce and urgently needed supplies including personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators, test kits and other medical basics. Trump long-delayed invoking the authority of the Defense Production Act, causing governors and mayors to scramble desperately until now for these missing supplies. What was the purpose of the delay at such a critical time?  
There is no national strategy to reopen the economy with many Governors in open conflict about the best plan of action to reboot the economic life of the world's leading economy. The president has stated that the Coronavirus has passed its peak with the 632,000 confirmed cases in the United States, “The battle continues, but the data suggests that nationwide we have passed the peak on new cases” Trump stated Wednesday.  
Donald Trump has suspended funding of the World Health Organization. The U.S. is the biggest donor to the WHO giving 400m a year to the organization. “It’s a bizarre decision that would be profoundly detrimental to global public health,” said Gavin Yamey, the director of Duke University’s center for policy impact in global health. “He’s trying to distract from his own errors that have led to the worst government response to Covid19 on Earth.” It looks like Trump wants to play the blame game instead of cooperating and making decisions based on professional research and data from the WHO. Trump and his supporters have focused on a 14 January WHO tweet reporting the findings of preliminary Chinese studies suggesting “no clear evidence” of human-to-human transmission. On 23 January the WHO updated its account of the coronavirus threat, confirming human-to-human transmission and warning that the global risk was high. One week later it formally declared a global emergency. It is unfair for the president to point to one tweet to asses the reliability of the information coming from the WHO. The whole point of science is that we have initial hypotheses and initial ideas, and we update those ideas as more and more data emerges.
Announcing the cut in funding on Tuesday, Trump accused the WHO of failing to send its experts to the source of the outbreak to gather samples. That failure decisively set back the effect to contain the pandemic, he claimed. In fact, Beijing blocked a WHO delegation from visiting Wuhan in the first weeks of the outbreak. In many ways, it is China that is responsible for the delayed response and slow reactions of countries like the United States. Trump attempted to praise the hard work of the Chinese in containing the outbreak on Jan 24th only 5 days before the director-general of the WHO was compelled to fly to Beijing to meet with Xi Jinping to negotiate entry and information sharing between China and the WHO.
While virtually no testing was underway in the US throughout February, Trump assumed the consequently low number of confirmed US cases meant that his country had somehow escaped. “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA,” he boasted on 24 February, nearly a month after the WHO declaration of emergency.  Trump’s turn against the WHO only gathered pace over the past week, as more and more reports emerged of the administration’s own lethargic and dysfunctional response. Former President Jimmy Carter had this to say "I am distressed by the decision to withhold critically needed U.S. funding for the World Health Organization, especially during an international pandemic," Mr. Carter said, according to a statement from The Carter Center. "WHO is the only organization capable of leading the effort to control this virus."
Tidal waves of negative propaganda, social media misinformation and fake news tweets will offer no help to this nation as we are within a whirlwind of social change and uncertainty. The next year will define a generation and write the history of how the modern world deals with a pandemic with all of our technological mastery and devices of instant gratification. It is very frustrating to see the president of the United States unable to work cohesively with entities that have the resources and personnel to navigate a pandemic. This administration has been an interesting example of poorly qualified people holding positions they have no idea of how to administer justice or deliver an honest statement about the state of anything.

Covid 19 when will it end ?

The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Although there is no universal consensus regarding where the virus originated, it spread worldwide from 1918-1919.  In the United States, it was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. ( https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html )
I recall this sliver of information to draw attention to the last time a global pandemic struck. To contrast and compare; at the time of this writing Covid19 cases worldwide topped 1.8 million on Sunday and the global death toll rose above 110,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. U.S. deaths passed 22,000. So as we hunker down and shelter in place it becomes a recurring question in many of our minds as to when will this all be over? So things can return to whatever normal for you is. Well, the answer to that may not be so easy to determine but we can look at the past to create conjecture about the future.
In the 1918–1919 pandemic, a first or spring wave began in March 1918 and spread unevenly through the United States, Europe, and possibly Asia over the next 6 months. Illness rates were high, but death rates in most locales were not appreciably above normal. From September to November 1918, a second more deadly wave spread globally killing many more than the first wave. A third wave occurred in early 1919. Scientists cannot explain the 3 pandemic waves of 1918–1919, which occurred in the spring-summer, summer-fall, and winter (of the Northern Hemisphere), respectively. The first 2 waves occurred at a time of year normally unfavorable to the flu virus being spread. The second wave caused simultaneous outbreaks in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres from September to November. Are we now facing such an event? The world was in the midst of a war in Europe in 1918 that helped to promote infection in the early stages of the flu virus but there are many questions about how and why there were successive waves. I am not a scientist nor do I hold any doctorates, I am a regular American with the ability to read and write to whatever degree. With that being said as I examine the past and listen to the people with doctorates and scientists I fear we are in for a rather long period of the pandemic that will most likely ebb and flow until it burns itself out. Life will be forever marred and it will be looked upon as life before Covid19 and after Covid19.
We will witness the restructuring of many industries and a revolution of technological support systems to help cope with the crisis. Of the 17 million jobs lost and more to come, there is no way to predict how many of the people who become job displaced during the pandemic will return to work when we recover from the critical measures being taken by the government and industry. This is a time of certain uncertainty and from day to day we see more and more of what we have never seen before. It will certainly not be a rose-colored outcome, there will be long-lasting change and much of it for the worst. The original and focus of the essay is "How long will it (the contagious period of the Covid19 virus) last and when will things return to normalcy? Odds are, at least a year and in that year how many things will change so drastically and affects the livelihood change causes challenges so drastic that all of those involved begin to incite and instigate unrest in the peer group they circulate within and the same dynamic is repeated layer upon layer? Something about all of what is happening feels calculated. Probably spit out of one of those quantum computers with advanced AI. And its long-range goal is to drive the society quickly into the coup de ta of corporations to usurp the power of the workers by replacing them with robots and Kiosks. undoubtedly a new form of economic lifestyles of Americans will by force be changed willingly and how resources are exchanged because the present money system and way of doing business will create the largest gap between the rich and the poor witnessed since serfdom was in practice. Until my next editorial, I ask that you stay at least six feet from anyone in public and wash your hands, please. The dragon has drawn and exhaled that hot fiya !!! I write because I can. [Christar4]

Covid 19 Strikes the Windy City

In January 2020 the television news reported that at least one individual has tested positive for the Coronavirus in the western suburbs. The Individual traveled from the region that at the time was a hotspot for the virus. Wuhan China is the location the traveler came from. Pictures being shown on the evening news showed us images of the barren streets of the far away Wuhan, China. In the next few weeks, the news began to report more and more about the Coronavirus until one day a few months after the initial report I was riding with my Father to the store and he says to me" You know they closed all of the schools in Michigan." I was not aware of the dramatic measures taken by that state at the time but when I turned on the television later it seemed the infection had made significant progress in the eyes of the lawmakers and things were changing in real-time. Day to day life would be affected in short order after I received the information about the schools in Michigan. The next gigantic indicator of how serious things where getting is that the president and Congress created a stimulus package to distribute money to ALL Americans.

Whoa !! This was unprecedented, the Government passing out money to everyone who is a citizen of the U.S. in order to create commerce during a time when commercial business was being asked to shut down. In a city like Chicago with its 50% unemployment for its Black population. To ask people who are accustomed to making ends meet by hook or by crook, now have to navigate a landscape in which people are ordered to stay at home. How do you hustle when you cannot move? It is now April and Chicago has had the steepest spike in new infections in the country. Cook County Jail one of the largest single-site correctional facilities with aprox. 3000-5000 inmates on any given day, has been invaded by the contagion. The implications are alarming for people being held in the tightly packed spaces for hours on end now have a virus being spread among them. A killer who is unafraid of the courts who takes the old and infirm without consequence. Efforts are being made to release those people charged with low-level offenses and find locations for home monitoring for others. Courts are now having hearings for people who have committed serious crimes that want to be released due to the virus sweeping through the jails. Robert Kelly aka R Kelly who is being held in federal custody asked the courts to release him due to the Coronavirus and he was quickly denied. Bill Cosby is another celebrity who has asked for consideration for release recently and has also been denied. Many people in custody on all levels will have to face this head-on, let us pray for them.
 I have heard several different accounts of how people speculate this so-called novel-virus came to be. Everything from it being created in China a weapon to some type of secret military games that included a contest of germ warfare agents where one of the contestants broke confinement and spread quickly throughout Wuhan, China. Whatever it's beginning it is now present in the lives of the American general public. We are in the early stages of the pandemic and our lives have all been shifted in a direction none of us expected. A sector of society where black Americans are traditionally underserved is education and now that schools are closed many school districts have started remote classes when that is possible. In a demographic where Black Americans find themselves at the bottom of the equation not enough of the students who are served by Chicago Public Schools has access to Wi-Fi and /or a computer, so remote instruction is a challenge. The effort is being made by CPS to accommodate students with devices to connect to the internet in order to take part in remote learning programs. In the midst of a global pandemic, administrators are scrambling to come up with solutions. I think it is a noble gesture to give students devices to connect to the internet in hopes that they will take part in some model of remote class instruction so let us hope students will benefit from the generosity and quick thinking on behalf of CPS. An educator who instructs at the highest level for major universities in California confided in me that she believes we are seeing the face of education change and that it will never be the same after the smoke settles. Institutions will adapt to change by force now and during the smoothing, out process will most likely see that brick and mortar schools are a costly burden that they will want to shed in order to take advantage of the efficiency and elegance of computer-aided remote instruction. This will be another way that technology will remove people from the workforce in the information age or the age of automation.
Its been suggested that the move towards widespread automation will push the divide between the haves and have nots towards and unbearable margin and spur public unrest that will provide a motive for the people to dissolve by force the fascist capitalist government we have overseeing our lives today. 

Technology has made leaps and bounds in the last decade in moving towards artificial intelligence and we are at the cusp of automation replacing an estimated 47% of the American workforce. This number was derived by Oxford University in the study they did to evaluate how automation will impact the American workforce. Women and especially women of color will be replaced en masse due to the type of work they do. Cashiers, telemarketers, customer service reps, and banking all have heavy representation by women and have been slowly seeing automation push people out of the workforce will now move in double time into the automated models that have been trickling into the superstructure of the American infrastructure. How will people survive this type of unemployment? The 6.6 million claims filed last week set a record going back to 1967, when the Labor Department’s data series began.“ This is a catastrophe,” said Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), vice chairman of the congressional Joint Economic Committee, in a statement. “Nearly 17 million Americans have lost their jobs and they likely won’t find another one until the contagion is under control — and that may be a long way off.” On CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Chicago’s economy can’t reopen until there’s more widespread testing and decried the disproportionate number of African American deaths from coronavirus, saying the disease is "devastating our community.” Nearly 70% of the city’s COVID-19 deaths have been African Americans, who make up only about 30% of Chicago’s total population. The fact that the Black community in Chicago is being hit harder than others is not anything new it was said back in the 60's or 70's that if America gets a cold the Black American gets the flu. So here we stand, a city of nearly 3 million people asked to stay in the house, businesses shut down, schools closed and people dealing with life as it comes. In a city that has one of the highest death tolls from violent crime struck by a virus that is complicating an already challenging place to live. You have to strong and courageous to live on the south or west side of Chicago. Danger is footsteps away and around every corner, in many communities, we live in here in Chicago. We will see this attack by an unseen enemy burn its way through the city, state and country and endure whatever constraints placed upon us but let us do this with vigilance and when its necessary aid one another in the spirit of community as we have done since being delivered here as chattel in the 15th century. As the diaspora has survived all of the atrocity and inhumane behavior presented to us and again we shall prove to be resilient and strong. We shall overcome, One love beloved. 

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.