Drug dealing is biggest form of entrepreneurship everywhere

“Drugs are perfection. If you produce narcotics, you control the land, if you transit narcotics, you control the authorities, if you sell narcotics, you control the courts, the police and, of course, the government itself”

Dear friends,

The constant talk by politicians about “jobs” totally ignores the drive for entrepreneurship that is sweeping much of the world in the so-called “developing” countries. That is, if one looks at the ratio between the amount of people who have traditional jobs and those who are self-employed in both the “developed” and "developing"countries, the US is way down the list, regarding entrepreneurship in the overall citizenry. In other words, most people here work for somebody else. Few take either the initiative to or the risk of marketing and managing their own skills.

Notwithstanding, it is an absolute lie by these political charlatans, of both of the two major parties, to suggest that capitalism has any interest in full employment. How could it? After all, the less workers needed to produce commodities - whether goods or services, the more profits garnered.

Nevertheless, here in the US, for almost three generations, dealing illicit drugs has been the prominent form of entrepreneurship in the African American urban experience, especially. And African Americans, just as all other people, make great customers for drug consumption, due to the fact that drugs tend to relieve people, albeit only momentarily, of their feelings of depression and anxiety that life in this overall unjust society brings, along with the lonesomeness and separateness felt by each individual in all human civilizations.

In any case, the studies on drugs tend to ignore, if not evade, the US government’s role, in cahoots with wealthy traffickers, in making this happen.

Moreover, while researchers argue that entrepreneurship among African Americans is low, they ignore the fact that that assertion simply does not represent the reality of drug dealing and entrepreneurship, a multi-billions of dollars industry. Besides. Outside of food, what industry is more consistent in fulfilling its customers' dependency? And what's a better way to control populations?

It has been said by an internationally-renowned security specialist, Gordon Duff of Salem-News.com, “Drugs are perfection. If you produce narcotics, you control the land, if you transit narcotics, you control the authorities, if you sell narcotics, you control the courts, the police and, of course, the government itself…Arms and oil count, money is still worth counterfeiting, oil worth stealing but all this is so ‘yesterday.’ ” It is drugs, and has been for the past three generations – both here and abroad! And not just illegal. In the US alone, please think of all of the “legal” drugs for various ailments that the gigantic pharmaceutical companies peddle, with the help of medical doctors, and the stamp of approval from the FDA. That’s an even bigger prize. So many are in a constant state of dependency.

Still, “the government?”, you ask. If you don’t believe that, then try bringing drugs from, say, the Caribbean, by boat or airplane to this country. When the DEA and the Coast Guard get through with you, you’ll be wishing that pirates who are all over the Caribbean Sea, instead, had come to rob you!

After all, the real issue is: How do we transfer a form of what has been, conveniently, deemed by our unscrupulous government as “illegal” entrepreneurship that enriches government agencies like the DEA, Coast Guard and others, into enterprises that are legal? We can’t! The government has the threat capacity of the police and military to keep everyone in check!

Now, to be sure, servicing the government’s Crime Industry, our prisons are loaded with mostly African American and Latino males (fodder), especially, those whose major crime was, mostly, dealing drugs, trying to acquire their material means of survival - both wants and needs. Obviously, educating themselves is crucial. However, these folks,incarcerated or not, already have many of the skills required for successful entrepreneurship in the “legal” context.

Moreover, by first thinking in terms of “We”, as a people, all Americans, African, Asian, Latino, or European must embrace value judgments other than those of our enemies (corporations and their government stooges). For example, we can cooperatively set up businesses and the like that reflect a combined desire to promote good for all.

Let’s face it. In the ante-bellum South, for two generations prior to the North American Civil War, there were, literally, thousands of Black slave masters. Following the war which was allegedly won by the North, the only “reward” for African Americans and others (initially including Irish, Polish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants) was White Supremacy. Look. The latter groups just mentioned that came to the US were not even considered "white" until the Nazi era of WW2. Consequently, maintaining the current type of value judgments, by trying to copy the practices of the greedy corporations of today, in both the short and long run, will only help a few – NEVER a community, much less a whole nation.

Cheers!

G. Djata Bumpus