Is the Drug War legitimizing Racism?
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- cosmobirdie
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Obama’s mere presence in the Oval Office is offered as proof that “the land of the free” has finally made good on its promise of equality. Perhaps greater lies have been told in the past century, but racial caste is alive and well in America.
Most people don’t like it when I say this. It makes them angry. In the “era of colorblindness” there’s a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we as a nation have “moved beyond” race. Here are a few facts that run counter to that triumphant racial narrative:
• There are more African-Americans under correctional control today–in prison or jail, on probation or parole–than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.
• As of 2004, more African-American men were disenfranchised (due to felon disenfranchisement laws) than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the right to vote on the basis of race.
Read the full article at http://www.brainwaving.com/2010/03/21/1116/
Most people don’t like it when I say this. It makes them angry. In the “era of colorblindness” there’s a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we as a nation have “moved beyond” race. Here are a few facts that run counter to that triumphant racial narrative:
• There are more African-Americans under correctional control today–in prison or jail, on probation or parole–than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.
• As of 2004, more African-American men were disenfranchised (due to felon disenfranchisement laws) than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the right to vote on the basis of race.
Read the full article at http://www.brainwaving.com/2010/03/21/1116/
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Omnomynous
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It's hard to see racism as legitimate by any variance of the definition. Is racism lawful? Um no. Still the drug war has been an attempt to make it so since it's beginning.
- 2 years ago
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Omnomynous
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TTrahan
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Omnomynous:
BS, the blacks always get caught because their easy to catch.
- 2 years ago
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TTrahan
