RustyShackleford
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Oh! So now people should care
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Money and voting power runs politics and as long as white people control most of the money in America and have more voting power, the issues that are important to them will control the way America moves.
Either way, this is a welcomed change. We need to end the war on drugs. Crazy dumb.
Agreed with homie that said this place isn't for us. As I get older, I'm starting to really question whether I could actually start a family here. What are some other countries you all would move to if given the opportunity?
It's great and all but like you said it's unfortunate that it took this long. The reason we are scoffing and sarcastically laughing at this is because black communities have been suffering with addiction and all they did was throw us in jail for maximum sentences. Why didn't the change happen then?
We are second rate citizens in this country and this is one good example that shows that. They didn't care until addiction of heroin hit the white community. Black families have been ripped apart because of crack addiction and they never cared. Like homie said, this country is not built for us.
You can point to the whiteness and blackness of the differing approaches on the War on Drugs all you want. What's not really discussed is that the nation as a whole has a different view of addiction. This change is welcome. It's unfortunate that it didn't happen earlier, but the climate has changed a lot. Addicts aren't viewed the same as they once were. Maybe it's because more are white now, I don't know. Maybe it's because so many of the drugs abused are prescription. Maybe it's because there are reality TV shows focused on helping people get help instead of imprisoning them. I don't know, but this is a welcome change regardless of who the poster children are.
You can point to the whiteness and blackness of the differing approaches on the War on Drugs all you want. What's not really discussed is that the nation as a whole has a different view of addiction. This change is welcome. It's unfortunate that it didn't happen earlier, but the climate has changed a lot. Addicts aren't viewed the same as they once were. Maybe it's because more are white now, I don't know. Maybe it's because so many of the drugs abused are prescription. Maybe it's because there are reality TV shows focused on helping people get help instead of imprisoning them. I don't know, but this is a welcome change regardless of who the poster children are.
This is BS. When it was effecting black people it was swept under the rug. Now that its effecting the white community, change needs to come. What you´re doing is deflecting. The black community has been pleading for change for a while and we should just shut up and be content that its happening now? Give me a break, it clear as day what is going on and I have every right to be upset.
You don´t know why addicts are veiwed differently today? Maybe, just maybe its because they are white? Get real man, its because its effecting the white community. Theres nothig to speculate, its clear as day.
Basically, we should just be happy its happening now. Families have been lost and itll take decades to undo the damage that was done to our community.
Its insensitive to even play with the idea that this might not be a racial issue.
100% factual but... in America poverty has been synonomized with Blacks and people of color in general by SOME for a while,it's more accurate to say poor communities rather than just black imo
100% factual but... in America poverty has been synonomized with Blacks and people of color in general by SOME for a while,it's more accurate to say poor communities rather than just black imo
Case in point whites make up the majority of welfare participants by a mile, and of course they would they make up the majority of America it's not really that shocking, but who's the face of the welfare system, Blacks and Hispanics
Although poverty is an issue that is evident across racial lines, people in similar financial problems are perceived and treated differently by some.
I don't know how it is around yous but where I'm from people are on corners all day and night and those people standing on the corner selling it are black and Hispanic who do u think is gonna be getting locked up? And then there's the issue of what they sell killing people so I have no sympathy for anyone in jail for however long for selling drugsIt's a race issue. There are more whites that abuse drugs regardless of class. Yet more blacks are incarcerated for more low-level nonviolent drug offenses.
I don't know how it is around yous but where I'm from people are on corners all day and night and those people standing on the corner selling it are black and Hispanic who do u think is gonna be getting locked up? And then there's the issue of what they sell killing people so I have no sympathy for anyone in jail for however long for selling drugs
Like I said, I got no sympathy for anyone selling something that kills people whether they look like me or notWhere I'm from, white drug dealers outnumber black ones significantly. In fact if you're into **** other than weed your drug dealer is almost always white. But I'm from the burbs.
I don't know how it is around yous but where I'm from people are on corners all day and night and those people standing on the corner selling it are black and Hispanic who do u think is gonna be getting locked up? And then there's the issue of what they sell killing people so I have no sympathy for anyone in jail for however long for selling drugs
But people who DIE and are gone forever is ok?Yeah because locking them up an putting felonies on them have been working perfectly the last 30 or so years.
Thinking like this is exactly why the whole system is rigged.
Never said its mostly blacks and Hispanics I said around here those two groups are who stands on corners all day and night so it makes it easier for the cops to lock them up. Never said white people don't sell drugsYou look at the root of the problem and then react. Mass incarceration is the reason this is an on going circle.
And to say that it's mostly Blacks and Latinos is
How do you think the drugs get into the country in the first place. Your kidding yourself if you don't think the White man has its hands in drugs jus as much as Blacks and Latinos
No guilt here. Never looked at anyone different cause of the color of their skin