According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 48.7 percent of Black adults had used illegal drugs in their lifetime, compared to 58.9 percent of non-Hispanic whites.12 How is it that Black people are arrested for 26 percent of the crimes but are incarcerated in state prisons at five times the rate of whites?13 I know you don’t have the answers. I’m just asking why we are always kinda free.
