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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 971971" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>+1000</p><p></p><p>It breaks my heart when I go to my AA meetings and see young black guys with minor criminal records for petty drug offenses who are doing everything possible to try and stay clean and straighten things out for themselves...only to run headlong into the inability to get a job because of their background. The reality is that many of them are guilty of doing nothing more serious than <strong>I</strong> did when I was young and drunk and stupid...but in <em>my</em> case my drug of choice (alcohol) was <em>legal</em> and the cops that <em>I</em> came into contact with were white like me and so they cut me some slack that they would <em>not </em>have given to a person of color under similar circumstances. The so-called "war on drugs" is destroying far more people than the drugs themselves, it is blatantly racist and corrupt, and our prison and legal system will continue locking up an ever-increasing number of our young people...a disproportionate number of them black....until we as a society finally seek another way. One definition of insanity is to repeat the same action over and over while expecting the result to be different. Our system has been effectively insane for a long time now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 971971, member: 14668"] +1000 It breaks my heart when I go to my AA meetings and see young black guys with minor criminal records for petty drug offenses who are doing everything possible to try and stay clean and straighten things out for themselves...only to run headlong into the inability to get a job because of their background. The reality is that many of them are guilty of doing nothing more serious than [B]I[/B] did when I was young and drunk and stupid...but in [I]my[/I] case my drug of choice (alcohol) was [I]legal[/I] and the cops that [I]I[/I] came into contact with were white like me and so they cut me some slack that they would [I]not [/I]have given to a person of color under similar circumstances. The so-called "war on drugs" is destroying far more people than the drugs themselves, it is blatantly racist and corrupt, and our prison and legal system will continue locking up an ever-increasing number of our young people...a disproportionate number of them black....until we as a society finally seek another way. One definition of insanity is to repeat the same action over and over while expecting the result to be different. Our system has been effectively insane for a long time now. [/QUOTE]
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