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American Apartheid: How America's Drug Policy Is Institutionalized Racism »

Posted by: pandabear999 2 years ago
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African Americans constitute about 12% of the American population, and around 13% of drug users. Additionally, 9.7% of blacks use drugs, compared to 8.1% for whites. So you'd expect that the rates of incarceration for possession drug possession to be similar. But they're not.

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  • Avg rating: (+4/-0 4)maidofthemist
    maidofthemist
    Sept. 8, 2006, 8:41 p.m.

    Oh yeah, and what else is new? racism in the USA?....naahh

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