100000 200000 300000 4. How many more… before we’re willing to 1) address the density of tobacco retail stores 2) take advertising off windows and doors 3) make it so menthol ain't a flavor no more? more disparities do we need identify? priority populations stigmatize until action is directed at THE SYSTEM allowing Big Tobacco (BT) thrive? much longer sit back complicit watch steal Black brown lives? Our silence violence. May I have your attention please. Will anyone who's lost someone this Shady system please stand up? wields its political economic power embodying produce hierarchies difference in ours unnaturally determining which groups bodies become diseased or die every hour. From literal markets fields yields than leaves burn It burns families communities too. To BT Young are merely replacements Widgets they created De-identifiable faces. Just (no) Friends. Sons. Daughters. Mothers. Fathers. Nieces. Nephews. Grandparents. Uncles. Aunties. Segregated into places Easy targets neighborhoods census blocks community spaces. “Blacks geographically concentrated makes them reachable.” People say remembering roots source power. But it's hard remember when has stolen ours. For root would mean acknowledging cowards who traded futures extracting life liberty fuel white supremacy. make people like commodities. was AND labor-intensive crop with structural violence original wage theft brutal land toil child labor Newports don’t spoil Dollar dollar bills y’all 1619 The royal crop reigned. indigenous lives bore cost. Kool Pleasure all BT wants remember. After segregation denial access socio-political systems became Great White Hope Saviors feeling justified because took advantage racist created And gave some jobs others not paid poorer wages. Morally bankrupt masterfully corrupt they've funneled money politicians pockets they'd be pawns robbing ‘we people’ votes Knowing that real power found strength community forged ties National Urban League NAACP funded educational institutions orgs as if were “too thirsty” understand what going on. But Massa’s tools cannot dismantle he built donating funds organizations those they’ve killed assuage their guilt. No able peddle poison van advertising now complicit government lackeys just deny whole thing– stating there's intent. That thousands each year hands profits meant. it’s by design tactics morphed over time. Check historical documents you'll see how feel. Keep searching Mary J love isn't real. Sure moved folk on up George from field exploitation through ads and suppose comparison being butt tropes targeted bad. Victory lap That's win right? industry’s racist colonial practices relegated history. Ain't half-steppin they're side-stepping corporate accountability victim blaming trumpeting personal responsibility: Suggesting folks poor don't care about health anymore. “We smoke shxt sell it. We reserve right for young poor Black stupid.” Centuries later professed matter but continues rob these same literally breath Sitting back still profiting our death first you get $5 million “fight racial inequality doubled market share between 1963 2020. industry puts mask claiming oppressors colonizers aren't anymore pre-emption lungs tell different tale. And inequitable policies regulations show exactly whose believe sale. white-normed. If they’re young white Take up fight. It’s ok um menthol yea… We’ve got While regulatory stuck paralysis implementing findings “The Opportunity Analysis.” about… Instead calling police chokehold selling loosies outdoors You call policy change. Do sullies doors neighborhoods HQ. Limit retailer licensing zoning policies. Work tighten loose reign T bridle lies sell along 2-for-1 deals shelves corner stores predominantly poor. Finally increase federal tax per pack Rather perpetuate Tax. Target systemic racism cause tobacco-related inequities Hold accountable history targeting minoritized - Reparations maybe??? It's time find generation interested living colony called nation. want take fight so turn blind eye. Say “that’s my silo” “my tied” half year commercial tobacco: bear disproportionate burden looks somewhere inaction solidarity statements lost.