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from Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper Digital Edition Issue January 26, 2023

Being Frank

the mob bosses decide to traffic drugs. It was decided in this scene to traffic the drugs to the colored people. Many will say that this is a movie. Yet, when you look at the drugs that hit African American areas in the past 75 years the scene makes sense. How could a black person in the 1940’s or 50’s hop on a plane to Asia and pick up a

Fast forward to the early 1980’s. African American were shaking off the effects of the heroin and powder cocaine assault that white society forced on them. The system of oppression then hit the African American community with another potential knock-out blow. Crack cocaine hit the streets in all major areas where African Americans resided. Crack cocaine was a lethal blow that tortured an entire generation of African Americans. The shattering of families via drug use and prison terms set African Americans back 100 years. Crack selling in the inner city was glorified and created a basis for the self-genocidal music genre, Gangster Rap. There was the same question again. How did the cocaine get into the African American community? What African American person had a fleet of jet planes to swoop down to Columbia or Bolivia to pick up

Why are African Americans still living and breathing in the USA after such genocidal tactics? We didn’t even mention the self-hate enabling educational system, the blatant racism that permeated the African American psyche to the point where they destroy themselves. The medical field gets rich off African American obesity and high blood pressure. How can a race of people who have everything in the USA against them still survive? Better yet, what are these people who can survive such blatant assassination attempts? I know, but I won’t say it. The answer to these questions are ones that each individual African American must answer. Time is running out. African Americans need to find the answer fast.

The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the writer and not of the Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper or HT Group, LLC, its staff or management. "Being Frank" is a bi-weekly column exclusive to the Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper.