The American Gangster

Tears fall for the unjust.
I know at the moment we are exercising our rights protesting. This country was founded by protesting your oppressors. That is the beauty of the U.S.A. but there is a reason why chess is the ultimate game. Positions are everything in this country. You either got your eye on the prize or you are distracted. See while the word GANGSTER is attached to old stories of bank robbers and mobsters in the 1930s and 40s. They started to attach the word to minorities. I am not going to lie, the word often means your cool as fuck when your name is attached to it. But the real American GANGSTER is the big corporations. Corporations buying media sites. For example Jeff Bezoz bought the Washington Post and I know you’re thinking “who still reads the newspaper”? But believe it or not it is important for our people. If you think watching the local news is educational you haven’t been “woke”. The news report on what they want you to see. Don’t believe me? Watch your local news and then go online and watch the news across the country. Newscasters often repeat word for word the same stories. We were blinded but not anymore my people.
So today my focus is on The Pittsburg Post-Gazette. They were bought by Block Communications, a billion dollar “private company”. They are refusing to post about black lives matters. In fact, they barred reporters who wanted to cover the rallies. See, they are trying to control narratives. A very dangerous game when we are in the brink of a revolution. But who are we to fight back? We have to own some media to report the real shit. See that is the GANGSTER thing to do. Buy and own property. Buy rights. Buy stocks and bonds and creating generational wealth. We as a people have to keep pushing the envelope. Stick with each other even when our ideas are not matching. We stick together as long the moral compass is aligned with one another. Support one another businesses. 2020 has been full of downs but we needed this to open our eyes. To turn to the real American GANGSTERs.

Writer, Poet