Are You Spitting Me?

[Benton]

(06-20-2019, 09:12 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I'm not sure I buy the chicken/egg for this, though. 

There are zero laws created "specifically to target the black community" that say make one parent households. Look at Samuel DuBose, the guy who was shot by UC campus police as a local example. He had 13 children with 11 different women. You're trying to tell me the war on drugs caused him to knock up 11 different women and marry none of them? 

...There is just a cultural acceptance that it's an acceptable or inevitable part of life. It shouldn't be.

And that's where our approach to some issues... particularly the war on drugs... has been damaging to low income families. The reparations argument is (partly) that since blacks were largely low income, some laws and government practices had a more significant impact on them.

The war on drugs has done more to screw up the nuclear family than most policies. Instead of treating addiction, it created a steady stream of inmates from people looking to make money. Recidivism rates for drug dealers is high because once you get out, it's difficult to get a job that pays a decent wage with a felony conviction. It's that cycle that's impacted a lot of minority communities and become acceptable. 

I don't believe in reparations. But I don't think our approach on many issues is benefiting anyone. The war on drugs has cost untold money and aided in breaking down the family unit. And, no, the loss of two parent households isn't just from the war on drugs, personally I think it's mostly cultural, but it has been one contributing factor.