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by fastball
2410 days ago
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[1] Plenty of countries with homogenous populations have harsh drug laws, so it hardly seems like that was the only consideration, if at all. After all, Prohibition in the US happened a long time before 1968, and alcohol is arguably less destructive than heroin, and nobody was targeting hippies or black people with a ban on alcohol. [2] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/14/_if_to... [3] Black people getting arrested at a higher rate doesn't make the policies racist. It either makes the cops racist (possible) or it means that there are other factors beyond skin color that are affecting the stats (most likely explanation). |
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encouraged/demanded by the US economic doctrine for the last 40+ years