CRACK COCAINE AND THE ENSLAVEMENT OF MINORITIES
IN AMERICA
By Ryan Truth
www.somethingmustbreak.net
December 7, 2009
After
reading Gary Webb’s book, Dark Alliance, a number of things have become very apparent to me, a conspiracy of sorts.
Webb’s book documents how the CIA was involved with the Contras transporting, as well as distributing, Cocaine throughout America. For more information on
the topic I highly recommend getting your hands on a copy of Webb’s book, because this is not the thesis of this article.
I would like to present you with an overview of what this has done to American culture and how it has affected Black Americans.
In America we are raised
in a culture that tells us that drugs are bad and that those that associate with them are generally bad people. The
public is never presented with information as to why drugs are so readily available and why they have become such an issue
in America. I believe they were meant to be a problem. What better way to enslave the poor and make them unable
to compete in our Capitalist culture than to take away their ability to do so. I do know many people hooked on drugs
who can become useful citizens in our culture. Why not make them useless by subverting their ability to do so and make
millions of dollars in the process. Artist Mos def, in his song mathematics says, “more than one quarter of the
populations in cities are black, that’s why they gave Ricky Ross all the crack.”
I couldn’t have put it better myself.
Not only are people raised in poverty in the inner cities of America
not given positive role models to follow, they are actually given very negative role models to follow. Have you listened
to rap/hip hop music spouted forth from the mainstream media? Seems to me that they rather glorify this drug dealing/
gangbanger life style. Can you really fault them though? Raised in an environment where most likely the most wealthy
person you will meet is a drug dealer, who are these inner city youths to emulate?
There was an interesting
part in Webb’s book where one of the incarcerated dealers was talking about how when Cocaine first hit the inner cities
they were not really certain what to do with it. These were the front runners in Cocaine distribution, before people
such as “Freeway” Ricky Ross had become a massive drug pushers. This man mentions the movie “scarface”,
which had just come out and all of the sudden everyone knew what a “real drug dealer was supposed to do? Are you
kidding me? This is a Hollywood movie, showing people being hacked up with chainsaws, shooting machine guns, generally
just being what has become a drug dealer in America. Is this a case of life imitating art and art imitating
life. I would have to go with the first. The release of this movie just happened to come about as the Crack Cocaine
explosion hit the inner cities of Los Angeles. Scarface couldn’t have come at a better time apparently, it was basically a blue print on how to
be a gangster. I’ve listened rap music a lot throughout my years and I must say you could name hundreds of rappers
that use scarface references and sound bites in there music. It’s not possible though is it? Could a movie such
as this been put out to be a training manual on how to be a gangster? I can only speculate of course but the timing
and what goes on in this movie sure seem to be a good precursor to what presently goes on in drug dealings and how they operate.
You add to this the fact that after the War on drugs was kick started in the 80's they made the offence of selling Crack a much longer prison sentence.
Now why would that be done? Cocaine is not only confined to black Americans. If you look at who is generally involve
in using and distributing Crack it is predominantly black America. How convenient. Not only is the government
involved in bringing in drugs to America, giving drug dealers a formula on how to be drug dealers, but they also make the
length of incarceration for being caught with a predominantly black mans drug that much longer. Sure stinks of a little
bit of B.S. to me. Don’t tell the average American that though. “Those damn black people are ruining our
country”, would probably be the mantra of the average white citizenry of our country.
To top it all off
did you know that they are now privatizing the prison systems in America? Many prisons in America now owned by
Corporate entities. Your telling me now that are prisons are operated and owned by people who have financial ties to
big business, who often times give money to elect politicians who create policies as to how America should be run? Guess
who are primarily locked up in many of these penitentiaries in America? Surprise, the majority tend to be black and
Hispanic. Black peoples incarceration rates are greatly disproportionate to the number of black people actually living
in America. Why does this not Surprise me given the things I have just presented to you. Something stinks in America.
The next time you try to scapegoat minorities in the United States, maybe you should consider
what I have just told to you. It wasn’t that long ago a black man in America was labeled a slave. They sure
have manipulated a clever way to bring him back to this state. Another interesting source for information on this topic
is a documentary online called, “American drug war”. They will take you much more in-depth concerning the
subjects I have presented to you.
