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I'd say that the War on Drugs is not successful in fighting drug use but is instead successful in incarcerating poor people in mass numbers.
It is not a black vs white issue.
Whether it is for drugs or tax evasion, they will be imprisoned anyway if they deal drugs. That's what I don't get about the make drugs legal crowd. Will they be sold in 7-11's? Will drug dealers get a tax ID and pay their taxes from the sales? How would it work exactly? Anyway, those very same "poor" people you speak of can be just as easily put in jail for tax evasion. What would be the problem with that? I'm talking selling drugs, not just using. The vast majority of drug offenses in prison are for selling not doing.
I'd say that the War on Drugs is not successful in fighting drug use but is instead successful in incarcerating poor people in mass numbers.
It is not a black vs white issue.
How can you be so right on the first sentence and then be so wrong on the 2nd sentence? The war on drugs was absolutely about black vs white. You already see people making excuses about how supposedly blacks are on the corners but conspicuous at the same time somehow? What this means is the police go over black neighborhoods with a fine tooth comb. The essentially over police and ransack the pockets of every one in black neighborhoods. If the wanted to really find drugs on whites they would do the same in white neighborhoods or simply go dorm to dorm and bust all the college kids. And even in 2017, the current drug epidemic impacting whites isn't treated as a "war" it's treated like some kind of addiction-rehab problem. It's no coincidence that when whites start overdosing and going through their own epidemic all of a sudden more states are decriminalizing weed. The politicians and cops have to keep their own kids out of prison.
Also, if it's not about race then why is there a completely different sentence for crack vs cocaine. It's the same substance, one's just known as a white drug and the other a black drug. (don't come at me with the "what's a white drug?" cuz I know somebody will...you know what I mean).
How can you be so right on the first sentence and then be so wrong on the 2nd sentence? The war on drugs was absolutely about black vs white. You already see people making excuses about how supposedly blacks are on the corners but conspicuous at the same time somehow? What this means is the police go over black neighborhoods with a fine tooth comb. The essentially over police and ransack the pockets of every one in black neighborhoods. If the wanted to really find drugs on whites they would do the same in white neighborhoods or simply go dorm to dorm and bust all the college kids. And even in 2017, the current drug epidemic impacting whites isn't treated as a "war" it's treated like some kind of addiction-rehab problem. It's no coincidence that when whites start overdosing and going through their own epidemic all of a sudden more states are decriminalizing weed. The politicians and cops have to keep their own kids out of prison.
Also, if it's not about race then why is there a completely different sentence for crack vs cocaine. It's the same substance, one's just known as a white drug and the other a black drug. (don't come at me with the "what's a white drug?" cuz I know somebody will...you know what I mean).
You're looking at the symptom. How it is racially enforced. The war on drugs is a war on freedom. It's about the loss of our rights as individuals.
More than 90% of the people arrested for marijuana possession this year were nonwhite. Between January and June, 10 times more nonwhite New Yorkers were arrested for pot than white New Yorkers, even though white people make up almost half of the city's population.
How can you be so right on the first sentence and then be so wrong on the 2nd sentence? The war on drugs was absolutely about black vs white. You already see people making excuses about how supposedly blacks are on the corners but conspicuous at the same time somehow? What this means is the police go over black neighborhoods with a fine tooth comb.
No. What it means is that people hawking dope to strangers on street corners are almost invariably black. Those who smoke in public are disproportionately black (compared to pot smokers overall). And it means that those arrested for committing other crimes (while in possession of marijuana) are disproportionately black (compared to the population as a whole).
The article isn't even talking about people arrested for possession. It's talking about people charged with possession, which includes people arrested for selling dope and people arrested for all sorts of other crimes who are then found to be holding dope. You have to be a hardcore anti-white racist to presume some kind of racism has anything to do with the numbers found in the article.
Also, if it's not about race then why is there a completely different sentence for crack vs cocaine.
Because black people demanded it to protect their communities, which were being ravaged by crack. There goes another racist fairy tale.
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