digitalrelic
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Good video and all too true but the point should have been made that the war on drugs is destructive to everyone's lives. Like I'm not sure if they are saying it's a bad policy because it's racist (when in actuality it's the implementation of it that's racist) or because it's too heavy handed for whoever is caught. There are about the same amount of white people in prison for drugs whose lives will also be destroyed as well as black people because of our stupid fucking policies.
The "War on Drugs" specifically targets people of color. That's why, for example, crack cocaine (which is popular among blacks) is subject to prosecution exponentially more severe than powder cocaine (which is popular among whites). The other examples of this racial bias are endless but I'll let you find that information yourself. Watch the award winning documentary "13th".
If black people & white people were facing equal & unbiased persecution from the "War on Drugs", you'd have a point. But they're not. Black people are being systematically imprisoned at a completely unreasonable ratio to Caucasians, directly because of the war on drugs. I don't care more about them because they're black, I care more about them because they're a demographic that's being specifically targeted for persecution & imprisonment. Your argument would be like saying during the Holocaust "Well yes, I'm against killing innocent Jews, but it's unfair to single that demographic out, because other innocent people get killed sometimes as well. I'm against killing ALL innocent people!" Well, duh. But ALL innocent people aren't the ones being targeted here. Just like Caucasians aren't being targeted in the war on drugs.