Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Watching The Crooks

Back in the days when people believed racism was just an excuse and people were being lazy a trick communities liked to play on black start up businesses was to let people work maintenance for example and save all their wages to start their own company based on what they saw working for the white company that they worked for, being undereducated in the law and thinking there was nothing wrong with what they saw. Then the first information they would get about the legality of their business plan would be the feds kicking their door down and dragging them off to long prison terms for racketeering.
It has been a long road to get to where there is anyplace at all to send information on white business practices, but we've been getting pretty good at spotting crooked establishments and turning every possible screw on them sometimes to acquire their assets and sometimes to deprive them of the capacity to be competition and sometimes a combination of the two. The more technology advances the easier this becomes, and while its not always possible to bring criminal charges civil charges are often enough to get the job done.