on 5/8/01 8:08 PM, atomly at atomly@atomly.com wrote:
quoted 38 lines [Joshua Brown <josh@undertone.com>]
> [Joshua Brown <josh@undertone.com>]
>> well, Metallica were once great and then sold out... recent evidence being
>> the whole Napster debacle... I think Aphex supporting a racist war against
>> freedom in America and worldwide in which millions of good people have
>> their lives ruined or are killed is probably even worse.
>
> Everybody blew up about the "racist" part of this, so I thought I'd
> offer up so info to support it.
>
> 1 in 3 black men is in some step of the prison/parole system as we speak
> (that's 5 times the percentage for whites)
>
> 12% of the population is black but 50% of prisons and 44% of jails are
> black.
>
> 72% of people in prison are there on drug charges.
>
> Black unemployment is double that of white.
>
> Three out of four drug users are White (non-Latino), but Blacks are much
> more likely to be arrested for drug offenses and receive longer
> sentences. As the Sentencing Project reports, Blacks constitute 13
> percent of all past-month drug users, but 35 percent of arrests for drug
> possession, 55 percent of convictions, and 74 percent of prison
> sentences. Almost 90 percent of people sentenced to state prison for
> drug possession in 1992 were Black or Latino
>
> 80 percent of cocaine users are white. (LA Times)
>
> I could go on and on, but I think you see the point.
>
> I know that the anti-PC-white-males-are-the-minority thing has become
> really popular lately, but it's a bunch of BS. Racism still exists and
> people shouldn't assume that it doesn't.
>
> An even more important point, though, is that most of this is even more
> classist than it is racist (see unemployment figures and find out how
> they coincide with drug charges).
i still don't see how this proves that the war on drugs is racist. it only
proves, just like anything else that racism is involved in everything the
government has it's hands in.
Peter "Pachinko" Ý
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