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Jeremiah asked this question about The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness:
Serious question: If blacks (and minorities in general) are disproportionately charged for drug offenses, why don't they stop using/selling drugs?
Gerard Keown If only life were so black and white as this facile point. Read the book. Society is complex. You don't go from centuries of oppression from the state…moreIf only life were so black and white as this facile point. Read the book. Society is complex. You don't go from centuries of oppression from the state and segregation to an equal society over night. A war on drugs that disproportionately targeted a community and incarcerated them for mostly trivial offences only exacerbated the issue into an epidemic.(less)
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The New Jim Crow
by Michelle Alexander
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