More Black Americans in US Prisons than were enslaved

Mar 30, 2011 at 12:20 PM

By Matt Cockerill

I'm willing to bet that a majority -- if not most -- of these incarcerations relate to nonviolent "drug offenses" (i.e. non-crimes). If you aren't a pugnacious opponent of the breathtakingly racist War on Drugs -- no matter how politically correct you might consider yourself -- you are implicitly facilitating the most racist domestic policy of our time.

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Submitted by Phil Pleiss (not verified) on March 30, 2011.

How does accusing people of supporting a racist domestic policy get us anywhere? Informing people is fine, but but saying that if they don't agree with you they are then supporting a racist domestic policy -- even if you are correct -- is only going to push people away. You have explain to them that while most people have the right end in mind (getting less people to use drugs) the means they have chosen to do it is misguided. We get nowhere by yelling really really loud that we are right and everyone else is wrong, no matter how logical our arguments are.

Submitted by Elliot Engstrom on March 31, 2011.

How long do we have to pander to these people who use these fallacious arguments from moralityto keep people, as this article shows, litterly in slavery? How many times should I sit there and be told that I hate America, that I'm nothing but a social deviant, that I'm scum of the earth for arguing for liberty before we can speak frankly?

To me the truth with always set you free. I understand that you have to frame the issue, but is it always neccessary to think about the supposed feelings of others. Did abolitionist think, well we can't call slave owners evil because they will never listen to us then? By taking the moral sideline we put ourselves in a position in which we have to apologize for our beliefs, I for one am sick of it.

If your supporting the drug war, your supporting racist policies, its as simple as that. It doesn't matter if you think that drugs are bad, and that they should be illegal because of that.

Submitted by Shaun Bowen on March 31, 2011.

I understand your frustration, but if your rhetoric is preachy you will attract no one to your cause. Also, if your rhetoric is downright accusatory, right as you may be, you will push people away. You can say over and over again that the war on drugs is wrong, but that doesn't take us one step closer to ending it. To do that, we have to convince people to agree with us, and you don't do that by telling them that they are on the moral low ground unless they side with you. You tell them that they need to rechannel their already good intentions.

Submitted by Elliot Engstrom on March 31, 2011.

This entire site caters to people who are generally on the same page with regard to the numerous issues on which it reports. So, while I may frame this debate differently when talking with, say, my parents, I have no qualms with calling the drug war a racist social institution to plenty of other readers who probably agree. I would modify the statement to say that anybody who wades through the massive evidence supporting the claim that the drug war is racist and destructive of lives, wealth, and property, and still supports it, deserves to be called a racist.

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I'm glad we're operating under the assumption that the only people who visit this site are those who already agree with us.

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