Racism Might Have Spared Black And Latino Communities From Opioid Epidemic

[Kat]

I didn't get the idea that black folks should be "okay" with these findings, more that it is what it is.

It's sad how the powers that be always find a way to rationalize white fuck ups.

It's not the powers that be.

White people always find ways to minimize or excuse white people for the same things they demonize and criminalize Black people for.

The jail population exploded because white people decided that Black drug addiction was a criminal matter rather than public health.

Mm..how is that not the powers that be? The powers that be could apply to the editor that greenlighted this woe is white people ass article.

 

[LordZuko]

I didn't get the idea that black folks should be "okay" with these findings, more that it is what it is.

It's sad how the powers that be always find a way to rationalize white fuck ups.

It's not the powers that be.

White people always find ways to minimize or excuse white people for the same things they demonize and criminalize Black people for.

The jail population exploded because white people decided that Black drug addiction was a criminal matter rather than public health.

Mm..how is that not the powers that be? The powers that be could apply to the editor that greenlighted this woe is white people ass article.

Your powers that be statement is nebulous. We need to be specific about what powers.

It's the difference between

"I made a mistake"

And

"Mistakes were made"

 

[So ILL]

Let it fuck up their community like crack and heroin has done ours for the past few decades. Maybe something will happen since nothing's considered serious until it happens to white people.

 

[trilladelic]

Not really. I can remember when xannies were pretty big on these streets, not so much nowadays tho..

 

[Shizlansky]

Niggas is popping pills at a alarming rate right now.

 

[marc123]

What ever happened to all of that "personal responsibility" that white folks and the gop were always talking about? Fuck them dope fiend cacs. They did it to themselves.

Cold, but true

 

[LUClEN]

Eh, this is some karmic realignment after White Americans let Harlem decompose during the 70's when Heroin from Vietnam was tearing the place apart.

 

[Koltrain]

So I guess the "war on drugs" is over.......who won?

 

[LUClEN]

So I guess the "war on drugs" is over.......who won?

drugs

 

[So ILL]

So I guess the "war on drugs" is over.......who won?

The rehab and prison industries.

 

[texas409]

Ok so what do we do if they gave us harsher penalties for the same crimes that they commit? Shouldn't someone be fighting for equality

 

[twenty2]

Oh look...another "See, racism isn't/slavery wasn't/we aren't that bad."

FOH

 

[marc123]

Never has this quote fit so perfectly

 

[The Lonious Monk]

It doesn't mean much when people are too blind to see the truth.