ROGER4314
Been Called "Flash" Since I Was A Kid!
I've often bashed Chicago, the town where I was born and raised, but we're missing the positive side!
That corruption exists and there's no sane person who would dispute the fact. It can, however, work FOR you. Put aside any notion that "fair" is part of the process. People who live there, trade favors like we trade cash. Who you know, who you owe and who owes you is all that's important.
Anything can be used as currency: work, cash, influence, selective vision, forgetfulness, violence, ass kicking are all currency.
The cops hold most of the cards and those who deal with them, are wealthy in Chicago. Immunity from the law is doled out like Halloween candy.
A word of caution...……… If your behavior is TOO outrageous, markers are called in and you're on your own. Black killing black doesn't even move the meter. BUT if you shoot a black CHILD, that's an oops.
An example:
For YEARS, a street in Chicago was barricaded and street racing was held on Friday and Saturday nights. Skips drive in was the center of the action and HUNDREDS of cars were parked in the lots of local businesses to watch. They killed some racers, so the cops swooped in to bust bus loads of people.
A bunch of us worked at a pizza place and when we got off work, we all went to Skips (AKA Scampy's). There was no law anywhere! That went on for years! The law was nowhere to be found. I wonder what that cost?
Did the racing stop? Hell no! It just moved.
Flash
That corruption exists and there's no sane person who would dispute the fact. It can, however, work FOR you. Put aside any notion that "fair" is part of the process. People who live there, trade favors like we trade cash. Who you know, who you owe and who owes you is all that's important.
Anything can be used as currency: work, cash, influence, selective vision, forgetfulness, violence, ass kicking are all currency.
The cops hold most of the cards and those who deal with them, are wealthy in Chicago. Immunity from the law is doled out like Halloween candy.
A word of caution...……… If your behavior is TOO outrageous, markers are called in and you're on your own. Black killing black doesn't even move the meter. BUT if you shoot a black CHILD, that's an oops.
An example:
For YEARS, a street in Chicago was barricaded and street racing was held on Friday and Saturday nights. Skips drive in was the center of the action and HUNDREDS of cars were parked in the lots of local businesses to watch. They killed some racers, so the cops swooped in to bust bus loads of people.
A bunch of us worked at a pizza place and when we got off work, we all went to Skips (AKA Scampy's). There was no law anywhere! That went on for years! The law was nowhere to be found. I wonder what that cost?
Did the racing stop? Hell no! It just moved.
Flash