Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
This is a perfect example of what I was talking about. When crack hit the scene in the 80's, it was devastating to urban communities in a way that powdered cocaine never was (Wall Street types could party on the weekends and make it in to work on Mondays). Politicians, including many black leaders, pushed for tougher laws on crack in response to the perceived crisis, just as meth laws have been strengthened in response to the real or imagined 'epidemic'. It is standard fare for politicians to react to ‘crises’ with tough legislation.
Don't piss on my boots and tell me it's raining. The idea that somehow the wall street types were more apt to pull themselves out of their drug stupor is a fallacy. Walls Streets neighborhoods were less patrolled, their lawyers better, and the sentences lighter. Thus poor black men go to prison longer and more often and they come out violent.

Debating the efficacy of such legislation and particularly whether harsher sentences deter drug use is a legitimate discussion. What is not legitimate is to inject race into the issue in order to imply the existence of some nefarious system built to keep the black man down. I mean, if it could be said that crack is a black drug (which it certainly is not), it could be said that meth is the drug of choice for white trash across the country. Should the war on meth be interpreted as a plot to keep Appalachia in trailer parks and out of mainstream society? The author and people who argue from that perspective twist facts and stats to fit a racially driven narrative that an objective analysis of that information would not support. It is intellectually bankrupt race baiting, and it should be called out as such.
It's not nefarious nor is it a conspiracy. There is an overwhelming amount of empirical data to back this up, we all know it is but if want me to link it I can. Certain legislation has led to racial outcomes in the judicary that can't be chalked up to chance alone. Now I certainly don't place the blame soley on the justice system, the media is just a cuppable for glorfying black culture in the most primal ways.

I agree the drug war is the root of all this, I'm just not going to discount the race factor simply becuase it's icky. Race baiting is Trayvon Martin, this is not.