Now that heroin has become a “white” person’s drug, the establishment has changed its approach from harsh sentencing designed to lock them up and throw away the key, to treatment and leniency.
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Same as with White cocaine powder versus Black crack.
Funny how White privilege goes unnoticed (by some) even here.
«Funny how White privilege goes unnoticed (by some) even here.» Considering that certain posters to these threads seem to believe that the answer to Black-on-Black killing is (more) White-cop-on-Black killing, nothing at all odd about White privilege going unnoticed….
Henri
If you ever dropped your presumptions and blinders, the real world would be a bewildering place for you!
Amusing to see you write about «presumptions and blinders», «Jack Heart», as if you, alone among posters here, were free of such ! Judging from your comments on these threads, your relation to «the real world» is so tenuous that «bewildered» would hardly suffice to describe it…. 😉
Henri
White teenage girl goes missing: front page news. Black teenage girl goes missing: eh. Little white girl goes missing: Amber alert. Little black girl goes missing: eh.
White kid caught with a joint: slap on wrist. Black kid caught with a joint: jail time.
White kid playing with a toy gun: cute. Black kid playing with a toy gun: DOA.
But nobody does it better than Keef
Keef got it.
Well, the simple solution to all these misunderstood signs is to send them with a White hand.
Is this little accommodation too much to ask for? Anyone who fails to act with this little courtesy is just asking to get their ass kicked. /sarc off
Or a white glove … hmm, maybe I understand Michael Jackson better now …
Hey, being “White” is great, if it protects you … not so much with the white(trailer)-trash crowd. Nowadays? Fuckin’ them over and raping their children. That’s what cops (yeah, even the Cauc-kind) love doing.
DanD
The class thing dominates.
Even black cops support the dominant class interests, which are historically the white interests.
Yes, the white overseers are as happy to despise both white and black “trash”.
It would seem that the po’ white trash and blacks have a common cause. Too bad their historical animosity makes it difficult to work together.
“The mortality rate for white men and women ages 45-54 with less than a college education increased markedly between 1999 and 2013, most likely because of problems with legal and illegal drugs, alcohol and suicide, the researchers concluded.
“An increase in the mortality rate for any large demographic group in an advanced nation has been virtually unheard of in recent decades, with the exception of Russian men after the collapse of the Soviet Union.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-group-of-middle-aged-american-whites-is-dying-at-a-startling-rate/2015/11/02/47a63098-8172-11e5-8ba6-cec48b74b2a7_story.html
This is not to say that populations other than Blacks are not also under stress caused by capitalism’s collapse, but blaming the stressed White population’s Black co-victims rather than the aggressive 1% is an easy, fascist “non-solution solution”.