In response to:

http://www.kulturekritic.com/2012/07/news/yvette-carnell-why-brazilian-crack-dealers-are-better-than-african-american-crack-dealers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KultureKritic+%28Kulture+Kritic%29

Sorry Yvette, You get an epic fail for this one!!! While it is good what the Lords of the Favela are doing, you comparing apples to oranges. There are major differences between Black American Ghettos and the Favelas of Brazil. First of all the Black American ghettos are homogeneous by design while the Favelas are multiethnic. Through the process of redlining and other white supremacist tools the ghettos were created to politically and economically tomarginalize the black people exclusively. In Brazil descendants of Africa find themselves on the lowest rungs of the totem poll but they (however disproportionate) are not there alone. The Favela consists of Africans, Indians, and Europeans, and a mixture of all of the aforementioned. And my description of the races are not even aligned to how the Brazilians self identify, it’s more of an American view on racial classification. While Brazilians have utilized white supremacy to oppress Afro Brazilians, there has not been this all consuming fixation on disrupting its citizen’s progress based on race. Not anything like the United States which has appropriated billions to stop the progression of African Americans. Again I know the Favela is struggling, but it has more elements of a class struggle than a racial one (not dismissing the racial overtones however).

Furthermore, there are many African Americans who regret selling hard drugs like heroin and crack. But here is a key difference, the drug lords run the Favelas, they don’t run the American Ghetto’s however. How can a drug dealer in America exercise the same control under the current police state. Drug dealers in the Favela routinely carrier weapons in the open, and carry out the drug enterprise with little to no attention from the cops, and it not the same way in America. I’m from the South Side of Chicago, and while it is persistent carnage and gang warfare, this activity still is done with a degree of stealth because there is much more of a police presence.

This brings me to this point. Yvette, do you know about drugs in America? In Chicago alone, Jeff Fort, the leader of the Black Stone Rangers, fought hard to keep crack from coming into areas in Chicago. He is not the only one. Larry Hoover attempted to transform the Gangster Disciples into Growth and Development with an attempt to lessen the carnage by reducing crack sells and violence. Now we can argue all day about whether his intentions where genuine, but the fact remains that when you attempt to reduce the negative effects that drugs and other ills have on the community you are met with a staunch resistance from the power structure. Those drugs are in the Ghetto for a purpose, and that is to preoccupy the inhabitants with self-destruction. This way the Oligarchy will not have any threat. Both crack and heroin were introduced to the community by government assisted conduits, and those who attempted to interfere with this activity have been discredited, locked-up, or killed.

You can’t look at the hip hop or rap community and attempt to discern what is happening in the hood. This community is heavily co-opted by those who want push self-destruction while blocking any other messages that may be self constructive. We have to remember that America is not only outwardly a superpower; it has the same industrial military tools to use on its domestic inhabitants. America is good at subjugation and imperialism (It’s the BEST regime out there for this). Under the white supremacist J Edgar Hoover, they were able to declare war on the black ghetto because it was producing a resistance that heavily threaten the oligarchy. And this isn’t some conspiracy theory shit– this is African American History. J Edgar Hoover said in his own words that the Black Panther was public enemy number 1 and that government needed to destroy the conditions that would lead to the creation of a black messiah. The resultant==The good ole American Ghetto as we know it!!!