Maximus wrote::roll: Dont be a plonker Erolz.
Those impoverished ghetonians can carry powder instead of rock like the other folks.
You are just wrong here because you do not understand the economics of it. There is a reason why before the rock form of cocaine was developed it was overwhelmingly used by rich white drug takers and not poor black ones. The rock form made it economically available to a whole new poor black customer base. When that happened is when the 'war on drugs' was started, which was a war on drug use by poor black and hispanic users and not on rich white users of the powered form. It was just a continuation of the disproportionate criminalisation of non white US citizens that started with the 13rd amendment that abolish slavery unless the person committed a crime and went through to the Jim Crow laws to where we are today.
Maximus wrote:incentive parents staying together. ----> This is the biggest indicator of whether someone will go off the straight and narrow and in to crime. Its prevention, not cure.
So you abolish slavery but allow it if you can make someone a criminal. So massive incentive to put black people in jail for any excuse and trumped up reason, to be able to keep your plantation running. What happens then to family when you do that, black families ? How many single parent and no parent black have you created. Then when that finally becomes impossible to do in plain sight any ore you introduce laws that allow you to lock up black people that use a tolitel that is only for whites, or sit on a bus seat only for whites and and and. How does that affect black families. So then you finally end legal separation based on colour. You think at that point the hundreds of years of legacy of broken families just disappears over night do you ? That overnight there is equality of opportunity, when you have to be escorted by troops to college as crowds shout and jeer and spit on you ? When that starts to no longer become openly doable you then launch your 'war on drugs' that allows you to lock up vast numbers of black people for the same crime that white people do not get locked up for. How does that help black families ? This is the legacy and reality that has led to there being more single and no parent black families than white. The idea that this is the case is because black people are somehow inherently or genetically less predisposed to raising their kinds in two parent families than white people IS the 400 year old narrative that has created this problem. You will not and can not solve it by repeating that narrative in a different form today. The narrative IS the problem. In this sense YOU are the problem when you just keep repeating it.
Maximus wrote:Dont be a plonker, slavery was bad and obviously, that is not loving your neighbor but this just reinforces my point that this is part of the solution.
Slavery was underpinned by a notion that black people are lesser than white. Segregation was underpinned by a notion that black people are lesser than white. The idea that there are today more single and no parent black families than white is because black people are lesser than white people in this regard is just the latest continuation of the 400 + year old problem. imo.
