tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569200156065234506.post2789524570654449320..comments2023-06-02T01:26:26.500-07:00Comments on The Note: Jim CrowedAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04217263100811863552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569200156065234506.post-14535997705206951982010-03-15T06:24:59.053-07:002010-03-15T06:24:59.053-07:00Hey Sister, I hear your perspective, but I want ma...Hey Sister, I hear your perspective, but I want maybe take it in a slightly different direction. It's money first and race second. Race is a means to an end. Prescription = profit. Prescription = legitimacy. Drug companies can sell drugs with side effect that include "death", but because the FDA got paid for putting the drug through their process, the drug company can sell death legally. Drug companies can sell crack, even if it's legal, because it hurts their legitimacy. And if someone else sells it, then it changes the definition of what a "drug" is, so the drug companies would be subject to all the new regulations... would would affect profit.<br /><br />So why Black folks as a target? America has always profited from free or reduced cost labor. After Jim Crow ended, we invested in South Africa. When apartheid ended, some of the companies that divested from S.A. invested in prisons. The thirteenth amendment stated that you couldn't be a slave just because you were Black, but you could if you were convicted of a crime. So by sending Blacks to jail for drug crimes, you destroy the outside community by supplying it with drugs, and then keep resupplying the free labor prison market when you arrest the dealers.<br /><br />I don't think we should legalize all drugs. We should make some street drugs legal, and some FDA drugs illegal. We just took my aunt off of Warfarin/Coumadin this past weekend because it was killing her. And her doctor is mad because it was the only reason he was able to keep her as a patient. Exploiting Blacks = Profit.<br /><br />I soooo thank you for giving a voice to this issue.Dwane T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16218649785614098860noreply@blogger.com