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Originally posted by librasoul22
To add to that, what about the elderly grandmother who is keeping a child for the actual parents. Say this child is caught up in the streets and does a little something extra to support him/herself and Grandma. The cops, as always, gotta be all up in it, and whoops! Grandma is evicted! Let's play devil's advocate and go with the slight possibliity that Grandma DID know about this...in the projects, there is an EXTREMELY short list of resources with which you can survive on. If you believe in the American Dream (or rather the Horatio Alger myth), you are sadly mistaken. Sure, peope are happy to say "Look at Oprah! If she did it, so can anyone else!" Well. Oprah is how many people? In prisons are HOW many people? STILL trapped in the ghetto are HOW many people? Drug laws were designed specifically to do this, and they are clearly working. And if you are disputing whether or not our beloved government is responsible for the drugs being there in the first place, let me know. I will gladly break it down.
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While the moral implications of your dilemma are quite striking and provoking, it is still against the law. You should be evicted from wherever you live for harboring such behavior. Yes it's sad for innocent people. Drugs are not only in the "hood", attending a predominantly white university, you learn that clearly. Drugs are everywhere. Yes they do tear down "our" communities. But dont they tear down all communities. It is unfair to believe that only "we" will be effected. I do believe in the American Dream. While it is difficult to attain Oprah status, status can be attained by hard work and some serious effort.
About the government and drugs.....ok, they are putting them in our communities. But is there a shortage of people selling them? Using them? Shouldn't there be some onus on the people who are not only bringing them in the community but distributing them to people as well.