It's hilarious how some ppl see things only two-dimensionally,especially those ppl who think that problem of crime is not linked in some ways to the capitalist caste of our country. For those noot in the know slavery never went away, it has been through multiple metamorphoses over the course of our countries history & definitely not exclusive to AfrAms anymore...
In the first half of millineum of America, Africans were preffered stock because of their physical strength, durability & extreme tribalism that made them unable to communicate effectively enough to stage a rebellion. They greatly multiplied & became something slighlty different over time due to a cheap, effective & pleasurable method made infamous by Thomas Jefferson...
After the Civil War slavery was abolished,many in the agricultural south had become so accustomed to the slavery system they were not going to be able to rebound & hire someone to tend to the land. On the other hand AfrAms were uneducated & risked becoming footnoteless victims by venturing out in the world, so what might seem to be a mutual agreement was actually a metamorphosis of slavery. Nearly all Aframs were illiterate so if Farmland Owner Bill agrees with former slave "John Boy" to let him live on & work Farmland Owner Bill's land for 1000 lbs. of cotton per month how could "John Boy" know what to give if he couldnt read or write? Sharecropping,quite the pitfall & insane if you ask me...
Simultaneously another metamorphosis was taking place, those less inhibited Aframs were taking their chances & venturing out, only to become victims to various Jim Crow like laws such as vagrancy, loitering & just being Black in the wrong place @ the wrong time. A bailbondsman would voluntarily bail them out and alas they they became part of this mutation of slavery known as Peonage, in order to pay back the bailbondsman for getting them out, they would have to physically work off the debt...
Over the next century the wealth of America began to be hoarded by a relatively small portion of the population(Jekyll Island Anyone?) after the devaluation of the dollar from the gold standard, meanwhile controlled substances were becoming entrenched in our culture(Vietnam Anyone?) seemingly perfectly placed in impoverished communities across the nation. The general concensus is ppl who are poor & stressed out will readily partake in drug use, but I beg to differ...
Needless to say the latest incarnation & worst metamorphosis of slavery is "incarceration" as studies now show 1 of 100 Americans are in jail,prison or some sort of prison detention center. Quite the hustle the Prison Industrial Complex is, 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than $11 billion 20 years earlier. Nearly 70% are behind bars for controlled substance related non-violent offenses, imagine if that money + the war budget was spent on higher education?
Those cells would be empty in less than ten years probably, but it seems that this is what's supporting local economies (I live in NYS) in very rural areas-the preffered locales for prisons. I've even seen upstate NY towns cheering and expressing extreme joy @ their shithole towns being awarded new prisons, "human housing factories" that bring glee for the 750 hillbillies who will get jobs, but what about the misery of Human detention?
As far as the source of this explosion of incarceration(drugs) why not smart-bomb or bunker-bust the countries responsible for the most production into submission? You wouldnt catch any death-fearing Colombian a 1,000 miles within the proximity of any coca plants. I could give a fuck less about this Andean culture of usage by chewing it to numb your gums & work harder,when will the madness end?