Hanzo ABB member

I remember watching that baby get killed, fucking Haji's fucking killed another baby. I actually knew the family who got hit. They live in the apartment next door, they weren't one of us, but they had names, they had lives. Fuck, they had been born in america, they were from here. They were Jim and Kathy. They worked hard, stayed out of crime I mean fuck they never went to the black market for anything. We're talking about honest people, James kept trying to reach me get me out of the ABB. In the harder days I thought about listening to him, Kathy worked with the church, she cooked and fed the homeless. Point is, these were good people, and the ABB, god look we've done some really fucked up stuff.

Stuff I'm not proud of, the Farm...yeah that's fucked up, but look it's about backing your least worst options. Lung had a darkside, a large one but the Teeth... Look we had limits, you know the Teeth were fucking animals, then you had actual goddamned nazis and well, I had to make compromises, ones I'm not proud of, but I did it to protect people. Sometimes you just have a shit deal like the Haji's right? I used to live there, little Mecca, the enclave that used to be public housing that was for people who really needed it, and when they bought it up they just kicked us all out.

There wasn't any warning, they just took our stuff and threw it into the street, and I'm not trying to exaggerate here, they broke a lot of very fragile family heirlooms by doing that. I was actually homeless for awhile, me and my family as we tried to find another place. The church was good, they allowed people to sleep there and got us showers. It was tough, but we were making it and then... fuck I was inside and the 40s locked everything down. They set the church on fire and we all rushed to the basement and... I got this nasty burn all over my left arm and my face. My little sister wasn't so lucky and burned to death in front of me, my mom,grandma and grandpa also died, a lot of people died, and I remembered the laughter. They thought it was a fucking joke, us dying, us burning to death.

Behind all that money, behind all their airs of superiority, that's the true face of the Enclave, they're not poor little victims, they're a bunch of baby killing monsters who use their money buy their way out of trouble. Use their money to bribe their people into being judges, DA's into corrupting people. Look, I hate the fucking Empire but you know what? Most white people hate them too.

White owned stores will actually serve us, you can go walk through a white neighbourhood and no one's going to fuck with you, even in Empire turf there are people who will at least warn you that the bad guys are around, and the Empire. When the Empire kills one of us and gets caught and you somehow end up with an all white jury, which is rare but does happen, you know what normally happens?

Fucking jail, the Haji's don't let any of us into the Enclave, we can't shop in their stores, and whenever there's a hit and run the Haji DA says there isn't enough evidence and dismisses the case, or the Haji judge gives a wink and community service, or the Haji fucking jury says not guilty. So James' baby is now dead, killed by a fucking Haji, it's not the first time they've murdered a babe but this time someone had their camera's out and they got some pictures.

We had their face, we had their licensce plates, we had that fucking Haji dead to fucking rights. It wasn't his first offense either, the guy had killed before, been called in at least 2 other times. The guys with the photos, they went to the media first, oh sure they had to hand over the evidence to the cops afterwards, but this was all on TV now. Now they weren't going to get away with it.

Then I saw the judge and his name, and then we saw the jury... yeah. Fucking hell that asshole was guilty as sin, he killed a motherfucking baby and... and he just fucking walks. The asshole was so fucking smug during the whole thing, smile on his face, no fucking remorse at all and when they said not guilty all the hajis in the court cheered even the jury. Sicking, just goddamned sicking.

There was one set of rules for the people with money and another for the rest. I was watching TV and I was so fucking angry I turned off my TV, got on my motercycle and went to the grocery store to get some ice cream and shit. You know, so I go there and the ration card says I am allowed to get a pint for me and my family, you know? I go up there and they say their out of ice cream. It happens you know, the fucking war, it sucks but it's the war. So some Haji's walk in like they own the place order some ice cream and I watch as they bring out the back stock. Every single last one of them walked out of that store with ice cream and one of those fuckers. He just smiles as me as if to say, 'what are you going to fucking do about it?'

I was so fucking angry, I walk out of there and just start riding, no purpose and I stop at another place which is also out of ice cream and then I see this guy shaved head, swastika T-shirt and I stop my motorcycle, I'm ready for a fight. Even if I lose I figure it will make my day better so I get out, get my fists ready and the skinhead just crosses his arms.

"There's a truce."

I just stop.

"What?"

"A truce, the Teeth are expanding again, I'm not even allowed to use the C word until the fucking Butcher settles down again."

I just fucking stared at him.

"Your fucking with me."

"Go ahead, call your guys, I can wait."

So I get on my phone and call my boys and sure enough there's another fucking truce because the Butcher is being a fucking cunt again. I close my phone and I punched a wall, I was just so angry and pissed and-

"What's wrong."

The skinhead actually looked concerned.

"The court case? I knew the family, they worked at the church, they didn't have a fucking thing to do with us, and the fucking Hajis murder a baby and fucking walks. Then I went out to get some ice cream and they fucking got all the ice cream. It's all so..."

I screamed and started breathing and the guy frowns.

"I can get you some ice cream."

And I just stare at him.

"What?"

"We have some connections with the local farmers, one of the things we do to make cash is make ice cream. We don't have a lot of flavors or much in the way of special stuff, but if you want ice cream I can hook you up."

I just stared at him.

"The Empire makes black market ice cream."

He just shrugged.

"Beats making money on meth, we also have bake sales too."

I just couldn't help myself I started laughing at the weirdness of it, black market ice cream.

"Do you sell swastika cookies too?"

"With raspberry jam."

The two of us start laughing and he tells me to wait, and I do and he comes back with this big tub of vanilla ice cream. I bring out my wallet and he waves me down.

"Don't worry about it, this ones on me, you had a real shit day."

He gives me a spoon and brings out a smaller tub of ice cream and we start eating on the side walk.

"This is fucked up."

The skinhead shrugs.

"It is what it is, I don't necessarly like everything the Empire stands for but it's them or the Teeth, you know?"

I shrugged.

"I don't like everything Lung does either, but I saw what the Butcher did to her part of town, it just..."

"Sucks, I know...it's a fucked up world, man. You think I woke up one day and wanted to be a nazi? There weren't any fucking jobs, the bills needed to be paid."

"And now you're the ice cream man."

"I make the best motherfucking ice cream in town, as long as your comfortable with either chocolate or vanilla."

It was good ice cream.

"Yeah, it's pretty good."

I got up.

"I better take this stuff home before it melts."

He put out his hand.

"Hey if we end up fighting and I croak, don't let people fuck with my body, close casket funerals fucking suck."

"Same deal."

He nodded and we shook on it, as I drove home with the wind in my hair I couldn't help but think about how fucked up this city was, but maybe this shit will end. Maybe things will be less fucked, were you're not trying to kill some guy you would have ice cream with no problems. Fucking world.