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Real People...Real Stories Greetings EFÄR supporters. I hope our columns will ignite some brain waves. So, please feel free to comment on the following by filling out the form at the bottom of this page.AMERICA'S BIGGEST PROBLEMS Lets talk about two of America's biggest problems, racism and drugs. Are these evils related? I am going to throw some facts at you with a little personal opinion mixed in, but feel free to make up your own mind. How many of us hear the term "drug dealer", then picture a black man in our programmed heads? I have done this in the past, so lets all be honest with ourselves. Now we all know that drug dealers come in all colors and sizes. In fact, out of the 1.8 million Americans who are incarcerated, 400,000 are doing time for drug offenses. Here’s the deep shit. Blacks only make up 11% of the drug users in America. However, blacks make up 37% of those arrested for drug related crimes. The FBI also reports that blacks account for 42% of the population of drug offenders in federal prisons and around 60% in state prisons. These numbers are insanely high considering blacks only make up about 18% of the entire population. If drugs are routed to inner cities where opportunity is low and poverty is high, selling drugs becomes very enticing for someone who does not have a strong family, a privileged education, or any of the other resources that so many of us take for granted. If black men are behind bars and off the streets, they are under control and accounted for. If they are killing each other over drug deals gone bad, then clean up is easy. Since Ronnie Reagan was president, our country has spent approximately $200 billion on the war against drugs. That is a hell of a lot of loot that could be used to FIGHTING POVERTY. Use that cash to create opportunity in areas like education and employment so there are other options for the less fortunate, thus reducing the temptation for quick drug money. Is the government really interested in stopping the drug problem, or is its real motive a modern day form of slavery? -- Mike Ficarra |
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