Times they are a-changin'...at a snail's pace it seems.
You won't hear it from mainstream news, but last week the NAACP made a 180-degree turn regarding its views on the drug war.
From the Miami Herald:
Said NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous in a written statement, “These flawed drug policies that have been mostly enforced in African-American communities must be stopped and replaced with evidence-based practices that address the root causes of drug use and abuse in America.”
While this may seem like a no-brainer, the NAACP is arguably the nation's most conservative Civil Rights organization, making their paradigm-shift a pretty big deal. If you aren't convinced of the drug war/racism link, consider this: Even though blacks make up only 1/3rd of all crack users, more than 80 percent of those sentenced for crack-related crimes are black. Despite this inconvenient truth, our president, who at one point denounced the War on Drugs and was widely supported by Black voters (and happens to be Black himself), is furthering the system put in place by our one of our nation's most corrupt leaders (Richard Nixon) in 1970.
As more people wake up to the fact that the drug war is not only a massive failure but a suppressive, one-sided attack on humanity, expect the level of anti-drug propaganda to increase along with it.
To quote Obama in 2004: "The War on Drugs is a complete failure."
Takes one to know one.
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