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Why Our Pain is Always Profitable

Jordan McGowan
6 min readApr 2, 2021

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This week has been the most recent example in the long history of amerikkka’s lucrative industry of Black/African pain and death. Everyone in amerikkka seems to be obsessed with profiting off of the pain and death of the people and even worse, so many do this under the guise of social justice while waving their “Black Lives Matter” flag. The contradictions become ever more present when looking at the ways in which our pain has been monetized since the first colonizer stepped foot on The Continent. Capitalism has always been at the very root of our genocide. You see, our exploitation occurs because of amerikkka’s almighty dollar and as the song says: for the love of money/People will steal from their mother/For the love of money/People will rob their own brother.

Capitalism drives amerikkka, but what is capitalism if not exploitation? Doesn’t one person need to own the means of production and exploit the workers to generate profits to enable the capitalist to become rich? Isn’t that what this industry of pain and death is? How else can we explain the amerikkkan news media coverage of this farce of a trial of that fascist pig who lynched George Floyd other than the exploitation of our collective pain and suffering. It is billed as “must-see TV”, being covered by major news stations but is ANY of this helping to heal the family who lost their loved one? How is the community being restored…

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Jordan McGowan
Jordan McGowan

Written by Jordan McGowan

Afrikan Griot — Music Lover — Former Athlete Turned Coach — Unapologetic — Political Scientist — Afrikan

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