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(06-11-2020, 08:04 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I would argue that it is the war on drugs that has left black communities without male role models. The data shows that they aren't there in the neighborhoods. If it was the welfare state then they would be around even if not in the household.

That being said, our shitty welfare system is in part to blame for the violence. The strongest correlation to non-state/criminal violence around the world is income inequality. Considering we, here in the US, have inequality on par more with developing nations rather than our WEIRD nation cohorts, I'd say that plays a strong role.

Good read on the "War on Drugs":

https://www.businessinsider.com/nixon-adviser-ehrlichman-anti-left-anti-black-war-on-drugs-2019-7

A couple highlights:

Quote:President Richard Nixon in 1971 declared a US "war on drugs" that, over the decades, fueled mass incarceration and the crisis at the US's southern border without preventing Americans from accessing dangerous drugs, and one of his top aides say it's because it was a racist policy implemented as a power grab. 

Criminalizing possession of drugs like heroin and marijuana was intended to "disrupt" two of the biggest anti-establishment forces that opposed Nixon, one of his top advisors later admitted.


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Dan Baum, the author of 1996's "Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure," [/url]wrote in Harper's Magazine in 2016 that while researching his book, Ehrlichman gave a reason for the war of drugs that had little to do with protecting Americans from reefer madness.



A Black Panther leader, identified only as “Shotgun," addresses a mid-day rally of Illinois Black Panthers outside the Federal Building in downtown Chicago, May 1, 1969. Associated Press/Charles Knoblock



Baum wrote that Ehrlichman, following his very public scrutiny and conviction, had "little left to protect" and came clean about a shocking truth.




"You want to know what this was really all about?" Ehrlichman asked, referring to the war on drugs.




"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news."

"Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did," he concluded, according to Baum. 



Read more: [url=http://businessinsider.com/ronald-reagan-uses-racist-language-against-africans-in-released-tape-2019-7]Ronald Reagan uses racist language against Africans on unearthed recording with Richard Nixon



Erlichman's account matches closely to the era's troubled history, when antiwar and black leaders regularly found themselves subject to investigations, scrutiny, searches, and imprisonment for drug possession. 

Six years after the Civil Rights Act and the federal government created a "war" to silence minorities.


So 50 years of a fake war created to target minorities and now some want to say that blacks are more to blame that racism? AFter hundreds of years of racism?


Yeah, that it is the older sibling punching you with your own hand and telling you to quit hitting yourself defense.