shyt should be a wake up call and a slap in the face at the same time..........devils twisted the laws in their favor when it suits their parasitic capitalist needs, but its the other way around when its dealing with the children of the sun..........
I told folk some years back, that these crackas if they can make money off of and kill and take out black men, they would legalize every degenerate thing under the sun to profit off of.these are the same devils that sold you negro, like they were selling stocks and bonds.........
Black Men Still In Prison While White Men Get Rich From Marijuana
For the last four decades, the Black community has incurred the wrath and devastation of the War on Drugs, with more Black men currently in jail than what were incarcerated at the height of South African apartheid. Even though states such as Colorado and Washington have legalized marijuana for recreational use allowing white men to rake in millions in legal revenue, thousands of Black men and boys are sitting in prison for doing the exact same thing.
A significant portion of the 210,000 people arrested for marijuana possession between 1986 and 2010 in Colorado are still behind bars, according to the Marijuana Arrest Research Project. Author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” author Michelle Alexander states, “In many ways the imagery doesn’t sit right.”
She goes on to say, “Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in big – big money, big businesses selling weed – after 40 years of impoverished Black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?”
As the War on Drugs is scaled back and some kind of truce is entered into, nothing is being done to address the damage and the lives that lay in ruin because of it. Alexander goes on to point out, “We arrest these kids at young ages, saddle them with criminal records, throw them in cages, and then release them into a parallel social universe in which the very civil and human rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights movement no longer apply to them for the rest of their lives. They can be discriminated against [when it comes to] employment, housing, access to education, public benefits. They’re locked into a permanent second-class status for life. And we’ve done this in precisely the communities that were most in need of our support.”
Many people belittle the effects of the War on Drugs and the systemic, institutionalized racism it perpetuates by claiming that the poverty and lack of education in some Black communities is the result of poor individual choices and moral shortcomings.
However, Alexander reveals, “That these communities are poor and have failing schools and have broken rules is not because of their personal failings but because we’ve declared war on them. We’ve spent billions of dollars building prisons and allowing schools to fail. We’ve decimated these communities by shuttling young people from their underfunded schools to these brand new, high tech prisons. We’ve begun targeting children in these communities at young ages.”
Pulling no punches, Alexander demands, “After waging a brutal war on poor communities of color, a drug war that has decimated families, spread despair and hopelessness through entire communities, and a war that has fanned the flames of the very violence it was supposedly intended to address and control; after pouring billions of dollars into prisons and allowing schools to fail; we’re gonna simply, say we’re done now? I think we have to be willing, as we’re talking about legalization, to also start talking about reparations for the war on drugs, how to repair the harm caused.”
Similar to the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act of 1995 that was passed at the end of South African apartheid, Alexander says that there can not be “no healing, no progress, no reconciliation without truth. You can’t just destroy a people and then say ‘it’s over, we’re stopping now.’ You have to be willing to deal with the truth, deal with the history openly and honestly.”
I told folk some years back, that these crackas if they can make money off of and kill and take out black men, they would legalize every degenerate thing under the sun to profit off of.these are the same devils that sold you negro, like they were selling stocks and bonds.........
Black Men Still In Prison While White Men Get Rich From Marijuana
For the last four decades, the Black community has incurred the wrath and devastation of the War on Drugs, with more Black men currently in jail than what were incarcerated at the height of South African apartheid. Even though states such as Colorado and Washington have legalized marijuana for recreational use allowing white men to rake in millions in legal revenue, thousands of Black men and boys are sitting in prison for doing the exact same thing.
A significant portion of the 210,000 people arrested for marijuana possession between 1986 and 2010 in Colorado are still behind bars, according to the Marijuana Arrest Research Project. Author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” author Michelle Alexander states, “In many ways the imagery doesn’t sit right.”
She goes on to say, “Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in big – big money, big businesses selling weed – after 40 years of impoverished Black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?”
As the War on Drugs is scaled back and some kind of truce is entered into, nothing is being done to address the damage and the lives that lay in ruin because of it. Alexander goes on to point out, “We arrest these kids at young ages, saddle them with criminal records, throw them in cages, and then release them into a parallel social universe in which the very civil and human rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights movement no longer apply to them for the rest of their lives. They can be discriminated against [when it comes to] employment, housing, access to education, public benefits. They’re locked into a permanent second-class status for life. And we’ve done this in precisely the communities that were most in need of our support.”
Many people belittle the effects of the War on Drugs and the systemic, institutionalized racism it perpetuates by claiming that the poverty and lack of education in some Black communities is the result of poor individual choices and moral shortcomings.
However, Alexander reveals, “That these communities are poor and have failing schools and have broken rules is not because of their personal failings but because we’ve declared war on them. We’ve spent billions of dollars building prisons and allowing schools to fail. We’ve decimated these communities by shuttling young people from their underfunded schools to these brand new, high tech prisons. We’ve begun targeting children in these communities at young ages.”
Pulling no punches, Alexander demands, “After waging a brutal war on poor communities of color, a drug war that has decimated families, spread despair and hopelessness through entire communities, and a war that has fanned the flames of the very violence it was supposedly intended to address and control; after pouring billions of dollars into prisons and allowing schools to fail; we’re gonna simply, say we’re done now? I think we have to be willing, as we’re talking about legalization, to also start talking about reparations for the war on drugs, how to repair the harm caused.”
Similar to the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act of 1995 that was passed at the end of South African apartheid, Alexander says that there can not be “no healing, no progress, no reconciliation without truth. You can’t just destroy a people and then say ‘it’s over, we’re stopping now.’ You have to be willing to deal with the truth, deal with the history openly and honestly.”
because she framed it like I'm gonna make so much money but a black person buys and or sells weed their put in jail for life...
