It's The Same Song: The American Humpty Dance

In January of 1990 a progressive R&B group calling themselves "Digital Underground" sang a song on their debut album called "Same Song". Tupac Shakur was one of the featured lyricist on that song. This publication acknowledges that it does not own any rights to that group name, song title, any mention, or reference to the "Same Song" or "Humpty Dance" phrasing. This publication is only referencing those phrases as an analogy to the premise of this article. The Justice Journal Blog™ would be remiss, and even hard pressed, not to "coin" that phrase for use in this expose`. The phrase so accurately depicts our message here that we just had to use it.

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The mere examination of history in the United States brings clarity to the repetitive patterns that exist in most of the methods used by the power structure in this country. This is especially true in the paradigm of the colonization tactics that these White Nationalist or racist entities use over and over again. This pattern recognition is also the strongest argument against the banning of White History pertaining to Black people in America.

The case in point here can be traced back to the 1970's and 80's. To a time when there was a lot of information circulating about the governments involvement in drug trafficking in the U.S. There were entire Series of News Articles and books written by publishers like the San Jose Mercury News, and Documentary Series produced by people like Gary Webb, on this alleged event. People were actually killed around the subject. Stories also emerged around people like the 1980's Los Angeles drug kingpin Ricky "Freeway" Ross, who allegedly worked directly with a CIA operative to build his crack cocaine drug empire.

This publication will neither deny or confirm any of this as true. To do the work that proves or disproves any of this would probably be dangerous at the very least. With that information being neither here nor there, TJJB can say however, that the influx of crack cocaine into poor Black Communities triggered a catastrophe for that segment of the population. A New York Times article published in 1985 by Jane Gross called the introduction of this cocaine based product; "The Wave of The Future". Now that was a very scary statement.

This is the beginning framework behind our Article title: "The Same Song". When we talk about responsibility for our citizens in the U.S. we should be talking about everyone including the government. During the 1980`s crack epidemic, then President, Ronald Reagan passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act which granted $1.7 billion dollars for law enforcement to fight the drug war. An instrumental part of this new law increased mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses. Much of this legislation was in fact very racist. For example, possession of five grams of crack cocaine, which was heavy in Black communities, pulled an automatic five-year jail sentence, while at the same time it took 500 grams of powder cocaine, which was in richer, white communities, to pull the same jail time. What the ...?

Now here's where this publication says hmm? It does not take a genius to see how planting a new powerful drug in a community of already overpoliced and underserved people could be a strategy to increase arrest rates, and an excellent way to beef up Privatized Prison populations. These increased arrests also increase the free, or almost free, labor pool for any emerging or sustainable penal business model in the United States. This way of thinking also fits the ideals of any society having previous experience with a free labor business plan. In the 70`s and 80`s these for profit prisons were indeed an Emerging Market, but today they are sustainable models that generate revenue in the billions with a (B).

This knowledge is the segue into our article topic, and the next bit of The Justice Journal Blog`s investigation. Trending in the news headlines today is a lot of debate and talk around a Presidential Pardon which appears to be pending. This pardon is making major news headlines because of the person being pardoned. This individual was the former President of Honduras, and was put into jail in America after being convicted of helping drug traffickers safely move hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S. He has only served one year of a forty-five year sentence and is now scheduled to be, or has already been, pardoned by the government of the United States. Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, a current ranking Senate member, called this decision by the current Administrative arm of our government "shocking". The Justice Journal Blog™ would like to go on the record as saying that "shocking" is a gross understatement" to say the very lease.

Here`s the logic. If it were supposed that the allegations against the U.S. government in the 70`s and 80`s are true. It would be supposed that the people who brought all of the drugs into the country were allowed to do so. It would also have to be assumed that the staunch biases in the prison terms for the Black people arrested for drug possession was also an essential part of the overall plan. Factoring in the emerging market of Privatized Prisons during that era, it would also have to be assumed that measures had to be taken to get those prisons full of prisoners. That is planned economics, and basic math. So the overall assumption would then be that America allowed or even helped flood the poorest Black communities with drugs in order to affect the necessary arrest needed to fully support that new source of revenue, Privatized Prisons.

So what does this logically based assumption say about the overall affect of what the government expects from this motion to pardon this particular individual? Of course, the main narrative that there are geographical reasons like stabilizing the trade routes around Venezuela and the Caribbean are true, but what does it say about the impact tons of drugs, once again easily flowing into the U.S. and sequentially to the poorest Black communities? Again this publication does not falter to any acceptable, or main stream narratives. This publication takes those narratives and looks at them from the Black Perspective always. If the government of the United States protects a person who is responsible for major incursions into the drug market here, then is there a plan for the people here as well?

This sounds like the doppelganger effect. This walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck. This appears to be the "Same Song" about to play again in poor Black communities around the country. The same song for millions of Black Americans who are already looking for a way out of poverty and despair. The same song for families facing police gangs on a daily basis. The same song for individuals in the Black communities whose only hope seems to be in a good high. This Justice Journal Blog™ hopes this article sparks some attention amongst Black organizations, Black Churches, and other concerned citizens because we see a new storm coming from an old playbook. It is not a new front, It is the "Same Song"