#ghettos

Single player RPG, takes place in a medieval city

The player is a Jew trying to prevent a pogrom

In order to succeed you must either

A. Convince the ghetto inhabitants to organize and violently defend themselves

B. Change public opinion to the point that a pogrom will be unpopular

C. Ingratiate yourself with the cities elite to the point that they will spend resources on behalf of the Jewish community

D. Evacuate as many Jews as possible out of the city in an attempt to save as many lives as possible

All I need is a team of game devs, several thousand dollars, five to ten years, and an ocean of coffee

So I read a post by a popular blog, I’ll keep nameless today about the War on Drugs. They followed the logic that the word “war” is misused and that, in turn, meant there is no war on drugs. My aim is to counter that point, because I have good and fair reason to disagree. For one let’s start with the fact that the base of the argument is solely built on semantics, the “dictionary definition”. I mean its not like there aren’t tons of prejudice white people in this country and on this website that use dictionary definition to justify saying black people are more “racist” and using the dictionary definition to back their claims to excuse their own racism. Moving on, warfare is more than just armed conflict. That is an over simplification of something that causes the loss of lives of millions at times, changes the world’s geography, changes the way societies function. War, as an expert on the subject, Mao Zedong once said “Politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with bloodshed”. To say such were just about arms, is almost as if to say a battle is lost with inferior ammunition or weaponry. The Vietcong defeated the U.S. in war because they knew we were focused on them being inferior in combat, while they saw we were vulnerable in the support of our citizens. Once that weakness was exploited the “War” was over. They won a war through politics, not armed combat.

Now let’s take a second to speak about what the war on drugs is based on. The war on drugs as was offered...was war on “poor people”, really its more like a war on people of color  and is commonly said “a war on black people”. It started with the legacy Richard Nixon left and the laws set in place by Ronald Wilson  Reagan. For those who don’t know Reagan needed to fund a war back in 1979, he created loans that he dealt out to specific people, leaving out many people of color, so that they could afford to live in the new housing projects. Those that got the short straw were forced to stay in the ghettos, where crack-cocaine was being pumped into the streets by the CIA. 

During the 1980‘s when the crack epidemic started, the Black Panther Party who had been champions for black people during that era, were disbanded. In place were many street gangs full of misguided youths who could’ve followed in their footsteps to a better tomorrow for their people. When crack hit the streets the 80‘s became an era full of major competition between black people. Guns were easy to aquire. Now crime in places like South Central Los Angeles, Baltimore, New York and Chicago were getting worse. The main people paying were black men and women among other people of color.

War is not just about armed conflict, its psychological as well. People are now being led to feel hatred for their own people based on the condition the people living in those ghettos were left in. Black on black crime is constantly blamed as an excuse for police brutality. Not just that the war drugs was psychological, but many black people were being gunned down by police officers. Hell, to this very day, crime is not the same as it was in the 80's it was quite possibly worse back then but in the pursuit of war on drugs police have gunned down black men and even children in cold blood. 

Ask the parents of seven year old Aiyana Jones, who was murdered = on a drug raid, if the War on drugs isn’t armed warfare. Ask any member of any street gang or drug organization if they’re armed and have ever been “at war” with one another. When you stop arguing semantics and look at it for what it is. It’s a war, and really that is a great understatement. It’s genocide. For the ones they can’t lock up for dealing drugs they want dead, and there are plenty of laws in place to ensure police officers and those with the power of white privilege get off scot-free. Innocent people murdered because black skin looks like a weapon.