what world are you living in? a lot of black people are struggling, suffering through lives of abject poverty from which there is no discernible escape. most of the black men imprisoned for drug dealing are there because the government cannot have black men breaking free from the institutionalized poverty they've engineered in our community. this includes those who are selling petty weight that sees little profit; those men, too, are dealing drugs to put food in their bellies.
what alternatives do they have? look outside your window. white people are not hiring black people, unless it is in the public sector, and those jobs are dwindling. look at the private sector. go into any fortune 500 company or even a small business, and see if the representation of blacks is proportional to our population. affirmative action did wonders for white women, but blacks are discriminated against when it comes to hiring. these companies have an ANYONE BUT BLACKS hiring policy.
and it's not even subtle.
so, don't lecture me on the motivations behind drug dealing. i know damn well why they're doing it.
@ "believe" 
