How y’all doing today. This is Faluch Bigsby, the author of God Uses Gangsters. I know normally I get on the religious kick, or I talk about politics, but today I wanted to inform you about some possible past organized crime things that I once was a part of, so you guys understand where I’m coming from, for those that are really standing members and former gang members, so you understand. My father, he was a part of the FTRA, which was the Freight Train Riders of America. When he came back from Vietnam, he transported drugs across the United States on trains. My mom was also a part of the cartel and she was a drug trafficker. And through these ties of drug trades, I got introduced to the Folk Nation in Chicago. My dad eventually joined the almighty Simon City Royals and was best friends with a guy named Bulldog.
At that time I was a child, and I was coming up watching all these these things that were going on. And I ended up leaving Chicago and going to a few other cities and states, and I was taken in by the Gangster Disciples. And at the time there was a lot of transition going on across the United States with that organization. Larry Hoover had made a directive where he wanted people to stop selling drugs, to start voting, getting jobs, joining the military. And that’s what I wanted to clear up, because if you do a Google search and if you investigate the history and all this, they try to make it seem like that they locked him down in Florence super-max based on gang activity. And that is not the truth.
The truth is this: When my family was involved in organized crime, selling drugs along with the Gangster Disciples, because my mom was living in Belize, in Jamaica, and used to mail drugs to America; when all that was going on, the police gave no interference to our network or the organized crime that we were involved in. In fact, they received a lot of money. They received payouts and they were getting paid to look the other way. And there was a lot of government officials that was involved. You know, customs agents, DEA, FBI, they were all getting their take. Everybody was getting a take, even people in the military. We’d use the military to transport drugs.
So the point is, is that Larry Hoover — he was from prison organizing his people and whenever he got to see the hardship it had on the black community he realized that he was basically destroying his own people. And he was a very educated, very sincere person that wanted to help the black community. And what he did was, he created this development where the guys that were making mistakes now were supposed to pay it forward to the future and stopped letting the kidsn be involved in criminal activity. Well, when he executed those orders and aligned himself with Farrakhan is when the government came after him. And they basically, they pulled up on me, they pulled up on all the people that were actually in the loop, and said basically that we had to stop doing what we were doing, stop involving ourselves in politics. Stop aligning ourselves with Farrakhan and other like-minded movements that were trying to uplift the communities. And they said that if we didn’t, that they would shut us down. And that’s exactly what happened. Larry Hoover has been underground in a prison with no contact with his family, his kids, for 20 years because he wanted to live a vision of change and equality that he adapted from reading books from Martin Luther King and other giants in our history.
So today, I just wanted to point that out, that everything isn’t always what it seems. Do not believe the internet, the internet, do not believe the government. Get to the meat and potatoes and find out the facts. We can’t believe hearsay or what other people say about stuff. Talk to the people that was actually involved and get more educated, learn what, what it is that we’re actually fighting, because there’s a lot bad out there, and there’s a lot of people that’s wanting to do the right thing and can’t because they put themselves in a corner. So with that, I want to say this, check out my Facebook, Faluch Bigsby, and thank you guys. God bless. Love you.
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