Comments on: Sir Richard Branson, War on Drugs is a War on Black People.

By: Mack

Mack — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:26:50 +0000

@ sankofa: Agreed. And excellent video! Don’t know how I never heard of this dude before.

By: Terrance Amen

Terrance Amen — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:31:08 +0000

If we had more Black businesses in our community that paid a decent wage, and stopped spending all our money with people outside our community, there would be less of a need to sell illegal anything. Black people take drugs because they’re trying to compensate or makeup for something they don’t or didn’t have, and even drug addiction has become big business. The justice system is not just. We live in a racist system that capitalizes on the division within our community. I’ll continue to say this again, until we get it. You can’t expect people who don’t look like you to love, respect, support, and educate us, when we don’t do this ourselves.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness

By: sankofa

sankofa — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:12:45 +0000

At the end of the article you referenced the usage on College campuses, yet you still ask…” It’s hard to build strong families when so many of our black men are in prison, on their way to prison or coming home from prison.”
White Supremacy is doing precisely what it is supposed to do. I would find this committee acceptable and relevant if they would more try to promote this….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zn8MRKOskw than the current practices across the globe.

By: tax

tax — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:06:05 +0000

Beyond all this on the matter is that a full time pot smoker only smokes an oz a month or 12 oz a year, the weight of ONE CAN OF BEER in a year. One pot plant can grow over ten pounds a year, so our current illegal laws are trying to stop one person from growing one plant every ten years or so. If it was legal one person might, yes might grow three plants in their lifetime of smoking it but they could get by with one if grown under the right conditions. If legal again, we would see its real use, to power our cars, to heal the sick, to feed the poor, to cloth the world for almost free, while cleaing the air, reducing violence worldwide, restoring democracy to America, reducing deaths from hard and legal drugs, saving our trees, and reducing pollution level byproducts from using oil based plastics.

The way we talk about this issue makes it seem that a single person smokes pounds in one day, and needs a truck load just to get by, which makes the whole conversation stupidly one sided.

By: James

James — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:02:57 +0000

There has never been a war on drugs. The term was just the poster child for the hidden agenda of the prison industry. Unfortunately for black people. Who till this day lack real representation. Find themselves twisted in every aspect of the American judicial system. From the racial profiling on the ground, through the misrepresentation in the courts, to the flagrant sentencing, and the lack of opportunity once released.

To top it off, 3 strikes didn’t help matters.