Reflections on the color of my skin

Re:Reflections on the color of my skin by Traster on Monday June 08, 2020 @04:56AM (#23454875)

Step 1. Systematically lock up african american men through unequal enforcement of laws, invention of bullshit pretexts (see "crack" vs "cocaine"[1]), and racist policing.

Step 2. Use the lack of male role models in the household as an explanation for why african americans are culturally inferior.

[1]https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

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Re:Reflections on the color of my skin by ReticentVole on Monday June 08, 2020 @06:51AM (#23455451)

On that point I will definitely agree. We need to end the drug war. Legalise and regulate marijuana, and decriminalise all other drugs. If there is single policy which marginalises and unfairly impacts the working class and particularly African-Americans, it is current drug policies.

But who, in the midst of all this, is putting the pressure on to reverse drug policy?

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Re:Reflections on the color of my skin by lookupthere on Monday June 08, 2020 @06:59AM (#23455489)

I think the point is that you are defining systemic racism wrongly if it excludes the drug war.

I always thought systemic racism means the policies that lead up to this. I never interpreted it to mean that if we look at the data for a particular institution, we will discover evidence that individuals within that institution are conspiring against black people.

Like, the drug war and mass incarceration ARE the systemic racism...

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