Drug Dealers Don't Have Daughters

What are drug dealers reading this holiday season? 12 Years A Slave should be required reading for drug dealers, also known as street pharmacists.

What drugs do to the mind is tantamount to slavery. Money occupies premium space in drug dealers’ minds and they are everywhere: on Wall Street, Bay Street, Hollywood, Milan, college dorms, basketball courts, condos, castles, celebrity yachts, Lagos or Sandton. Drugs don’t have a race or class.

12 Years a Slave must be required reading, particularly for drug dealers that work in the race. Slavery was about the destruction of a race. It involved lynching, rape, whips and chains. A drug dealer in 2021, is a slave master turning back the clock on the blood of departed slaves.

12 Years a Slave is Solomon Northup’s story, a free man living with his family in Saratoga New York, of how slave traders duped him with a promise of work as a violinist. They kidnapped him and sold him to slavery in Louisiana where he was sold and re-sold, like real estate property.

Drug dealers invest in human beings, who pay rent every time they need that fix. Drug dealers are aware of slavery and how white owners took babies away from women as soon as they gave birth.  Drug dealers don’t understand the analogy. Dealing is just a side hustle. It’s business.

12 Years a Slave has a happy ending, because Solomon Northup returned to his family, but his mother died while he was a slave in Louisiana. Mothers of drug addicts see their children wither before their very eyes.  

They never return like Solomon Northup. What happens to young girls enslaved by the product is proof that drug dealers are wi-fi slave masters.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.