The Rockefellers
How many times have we all heard the story of the poor, struggling drug dealer forced into a life of crime because of his hard-luck story and a system of inequality? The rags-to-riches-to-prison sob story has become so redundant that it has become somewhat of a cliche'. Well, the story that I would be interested in seeing is how (so-called) American dynasties like the Kennedys, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, et al. made their vast fortunes off of illegal activities, syndicated crime, monopolies, blood-money, chattel slavery and how they had the foresight and devilish intelligence to parlay (i.e. get the tax free money while you can and get tha f#%k out)…
Today throughout urban areas wanna-be gangster caricatures are allowed to ravage their own communities, unfettered and are able to hold the good, decent people hostages in their own communities by a feeling of powerlessness, apathy and corrupt uncaring persons who are sworn to “protect and serve” (whom?) paid by their own tax dollars. Yet, these buffoonish parasites are allowed to suck the life force out of areas that could be otherwise thriving. These so-called gangsters don’t even have the intellect to be inconspicuous or clandestine, but opt to be seen with their brief flash, standing out like a peacock and wonder why they are “profiled”. Even the most “successful” have a shelf-life of fresh fish because of their propensity for “bling”and are either murdered or shipped off as an informant, going out as a snitch castrated by the very system that they claim to have so much disdain for, condemned to spend the rest of their pathetic, unproductive lives in prison; totally stripped of the bags of cash and loot that they managed to accumulate, which apparently weighed them down as an albatross around their necks just as the gaudy gold chains that they seem gravitate towards, like a mosquito speeding towards that bluish light that will inevitably zap them.
Please answer this question, why would someone purportedly making one million dollars a day (or even weekly or monthly, for God's sake) not take that money and go legit at some point? The answer to that rhetorical question is greed and stupidity, which is a catastrophic combination.
Gangster, is taking gun powder from one continent (China)… taking people from another continent and making them work for you for hundreds of years for no pay (Africa)… coming to a new continent and then evicting the existing tenants and making them foreigners in their own land (American Indians), creating a monopoly and a license to ravish the entire world for century after century, pillaging each place of it's resources in the process and to then have the audacity centuries later to utter a syllable about someone pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, when not only your bootstraps but your entire boot itself is indeed stolen. Not only that, but with a straight face to then concoct a term called “reverse discrimination” while you have had unfathomable advantages and the very people that you held captive for so long have picked up where you left off to continue to create self-inflicted wounds in their mutilated state of confusion (à la Stockholm Syndrome).
For a person like Rockefeller who was uneducated to be able to catapult generations of his family with wealth so that are not restrained by with the daily pursuit of earning a living, free to indulge in the arts, human interest, philanthropy, or whatever they see fit and to be able to manipulate your environment via politics and political connections and influence reaching world-wide. Their palatial upstate New York estate has once been described as “the kind of place that God would have built, if only he had the money”... Now that is Gangster!
