Would Obama Be Elevated to MLK/Garvey/Tubman Status if he Ended the War On Drugs?

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Just think of the statistics of imprisoned people of color (not just blacks) in jail for non violent crimes rotting away in jail due to minor drug charges.

Blacks account for the minority of almost any given US city population, but the majority of the same city's prison population

Drug laws have ruined effectively 3 generations of colored people, 1st being those imprisoned when the drug,game kicked off, 2nd being the offspring of these men growing up without their fathers and having positive male influence, and 3rd the children of the fatherless generation growing up to be the same way without some sort of intervention.

Also millions of men women and children would be spared unnecessary slaughter and intimidation from drug cartels that plague Mexico and other Central/Southern American countries

With all of those effects of the drug war, and many more that I'm sure that I have missed, would Obama be elevated or even surpass the status of many of our black heroes? This would essentially be equivalent to ending the slave trade, not some emancipation proclamation, and would end so much needless death, terror, and unsavorily motivated police in not just america, but the world.

If there was a presidential candidate that could provide proof of a guaranteed way to end the drugs, but couldnt offer anything else in forms of lowering the deficit, fixing taxes, etc, I think that alone would trump almost anything else that could be offered on a platform.

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Never?! I'll just say the future is unpredictable.

:comeon: Ending War on Drugs is more complex than you think. It ties into the money laundering of International Banks and Multinational Corporations. Drugs have ran the U.S. economy for over 30 years. Ending that ends Capitalism. Ending that ends Prison Industrial Complex. Ending that ends half of the Military Industrial Complex.

doubt it.
 

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Yup, Drug Money laundering is a multi billion dollar business for banking and financial institutions.

shyt, drug laundering money built half the Miami skyline.
 

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:comeon: Ending War on Drugs is more complex than you think. It ties into the money laundering of International Banks and Multinational Corporations. Drugs have ran the U.S. economy for over 30 years. Ending that ends Capitalism. Ending that ends Prison Industrial Complex. Ending that ends half of the Military Industrial Complex.

doubt it.
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But its the CONCEPT!!! If some freak of nature allowed for this to happen, he'd be the GOAT black person in modern history for sure
 

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I would say it made him more along the lines of FDR, seeing as how he was the president that oversaw the end of prohibition. It would be a fitting analogy in my eyes. For the same reason, I don't share the same pessimism on the subject as my fellow brehs itt...
 

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:comeon: Ending War on Drugs is more complex than you think. It ties into the money laundering of International Banks and Multinational Corporations. Drugs have ran the U.S. economy for over 30 years. Ending that ends Capitalism. Ending that ends Prison Industrial Complex. Ending that ends half of the Military Industrial Complex.

doubt it.

True. I'm a little more optimistic about it ending but it would take at least two Presidencies of a similar mindset and a way to take those drugs in a manner that would generate great federal profits, they way they have done liquor and cigarettes.
 

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Ending the war on WEED might happen...but hard drugs...never.

No president will do that, its too much lobbying money and laundering involved.
 

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Get the fukk out of here with these ridiculous threads. Obama has literally done NOTHING to warrant being mentioned with those great heroes like Tubman, Garvery, MLK, and the rest.

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You see, I thought about this exact concern before I made this thread, so thats why I included the word IF in the thread title :aicmon:
 

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Obama not ending the war on drugs cause it makes the government to much dough. But he will make sure Ganja is decriminalized in more states before he leaves office then it was when he got in. The Marijuana War took a huge turn on election day. More states will introduce legislation. Obama about to change the game on the Drug Wars when it comes to Marijuana arrest cause they make up the most arrest for any drug in the U.S. They are already preparing to drop 1,000's of cases in Colorado and Washington once the law goes into effect. Now that Obama isn't running again, he will cool the Feds off of it. Obama also already changed the laws on Crack/Coke sentencing disparities. Also the 3 strike rule is going down in many states. All these laws affect Blacks when it comes to prison. Obama will be a Legend when this is all said and done for how progressively he moved the country in a new direction:

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