Truth hurts. Too bad blacks like this man are condemned as "Uncle Toms" for publically recognizing the fact that government has systematically re-enslaved blacks with the government welfare paradigm.
If the black community has been re-slaved by anything, it is the racially motivated and conducted war on drugs. Without any critical thought, government acknowledgement of guilt, or media analysis regarding how all that powder made it to the states to begin with, the crack ―epidemic served the twin theories of flawed character and racial inferiority that white middle class communities comfort themselves with while they dismiss urban poverty as the just desserts for bad acts. As quiet as it is kept (for the purpose of legitimizing the ―war on drugs‖
, while the distribution of crack and other forms of cocaine is certainly conducted in the inner cities as well as some urban trailer parks, its use is still more far-reaching than many like to believe.The sentencing guidelines became stricter for the crack form of cocaine. Meanwhile, sentencing for powdered cocaine remained what they were before Nancy ―just say no- Reagans husband made sure wed all have enough to share with the rest of the class. Fifty percent more was spent on incarceration and punishment than for treatment or prevention, and the war on the growth industry of the 1980s inner cities became a very profitable growth industry in itself.
President Ronald Reagan officially declared the current drug war in 1982, when drug crime was declining, not rising. From the outset, the war had little to do with drug crime and nearly everything to do with racial politics. The drug war was part of a grand and highly successful Republican Party strategy of using racially coded political appeals on issues of crime and welfare to attract poor and working class white voters who were resentful of, and threatened by, desegregation, busing, and affirmative action.
Alexander also wrote about how these policies re-segregated and disenfranchised black populations.
More black people are in prison or parole today than were slaves in 1850.
―Felon disenfranchisement law legally evade the Fifteenth Amendment. Coupled with the label of ―felons for life, these laws also permit discrimination in housing, employment, education, and deny participation
in the political and justice processes that make the laws, and then decide the fates of those so branded, and also the fate of their children. Because of the enormously high rate of imprisonment of black fathers, and increasingly of mothers, a black child today is less likely to live with both parents than they
would have during slavery.
Robert Parry, Salon.com How John Kerry exposed the Contra-cocaine scandal, , 24-26 See also Michelle Alexander, Mother Jones The New Jim Crow 8 March, 2010, This story first appeared on the Tom Dispatch website retrieved May 15, 2010 from
The New Jim Crow | Mother Jones Michelle Alexander, Mother Jones The New Jim Crow
Karibo, Holly NEOAMERICANIST, Constructing an Image; Pregnant Women, Crack Cocaine, and the Media in American History see also Michelle Alexander, Mother Jones The New Jim Crow
Martinez, Andrea Victoria Minorities, Mothers And Their Children The True Victims Of The War On Drugs, retrieved May 15, 2010 from
http://lawlib.wlu.edu/works/568-1.pdf 1
Baum, Dan Criminal Justice Tunnel Vision, The War on Drugs, Twelve Years Later, ABA Journal, 1993, March retrieved May 15, 2010 from
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