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!

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Esther Phillips sings "Home is where the hatred is"

"You keep sayin' 'Kick it - Quit it, but have you ever tried?..."

Dear friends,

Gil Scott-Heron "covered" this classic by Esther Phillips. The lyrics are incredible. Please enjoy!

G. Data Bumpus
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South African Youth Getting High on HIV Drugs

Dear friends,

It has recently been brought to my attention that a former "problem"  in South Africa has now reached an almost epidemic level. It is: Young people are trading sexual favors and robbing people for HIV drugs, in order to smoke them and get some kind of alleged euphoric nightmares. The problem seems to be limited to South Africa right now. No other African nations have complained about it yet. However, it just goes to show what people will do to escape the reality of oppression, while, simultaneously, being content with said oppression.

On the link below is a BBC piece that was written about the earlier stage of the problem, several years ago. Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus

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Has the crack cocaine "epidemic" really ended? (originally posted 10/21/10)

"The crack epidemic rolled through some lives like a wildfire and burned slowly through others over years... "



Dear friends,

Just a couple of months ago, President Obama signed a bill that will, presumably,bring more fairness in sentencing people for drug-related convicions. It was not only beneficial for certain African American individuals, but for our communities as well.

Additionally, while DAs, politicians, and police agencies have claimed an end to the crack cocaine “epidemic”, at least in African American communities nationwide, the recent crack cocaine-initiated massacre in the Mattapan section of Boston, that took the lives of two young men, along with a young mother and her two-years-old son, proves that the assertions by those “prodessional” groups mentioned above are dead wrong.

To be sure, in an advanced civilization such as ours, people are always trying to run from themselves, as we, as individual beings, try to find a way to deal with what has been called the ““lonesomeness and separateness’” of this experience called human life.

One of the ways that we deal with that dilemma is by pursuing happiness. Yet, if not kept in check, a lifestyle of hedonism can develop that can, both unwittingly and uncontrollably, lead to a dependency that makes a person lose his or her “sense of self”, while, simultaneously, losing integrity. Once that happens, the affected individual can no longer keep a promise, of any kind, to not only himself or herself, but to anyone else.

Unfortunately, since humans are social, not solitary, beings, this means that, in any given community, the more individuals who lose themselves to any number of addictions, the more the whole community deteriorates.

Even worse, if we see this as an individual’s problem, as opposed to being a “community” one, then no matter how well-intentioned efforts are made to curb this situation, much less end it, a waste of our most valuable resource – human energy (whether physical, intellectual, emotional, or spiritual) will, invariably, be the result.

In any case, on the link below, the outstanding Sandy Banks of the Los Angeles Times provides us with a thoughtful analysis of how crack cocaine still affects African American communities. Is the “epidemic“ really over, or has it merely taken on a new form?
One Love,
G. Djata Bumpus
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Swimming in a sea of leaves

"Instead of forcing him from his pedestal, Phelps' recreational use of marijuana will no doubt push the pendulum further along the road to liberalization of pot laws..."

Dear friend,

In light of the decision by law enforcement authorities in South Carolina not to press charges against mega-champion Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, it seems appropriate for me to share the thoughtful piece on the link below that was written by a longtime friend of mine who writes for the Philadelphia Daily News, Jill Porter. Her work has appeared on this blog in the past.

Cheers!

G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/jill_porter/20090204_Jill_Porter__Phelps_a_toke-ing_of_pot_legalizers__affection.html
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