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Originally posted by kitten03
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.
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Drugs certainly are pervasive in our society. But just to kinda sidetrack and give you an example of the great disparity, take crack vs. cocaine.
Crack = rocks of cocaine mixed with other substances to make it impure, thereby making it cheaper; mostly found in inner cities.
Cocaine = pure powder form; mostly found in upper class, affluent areas.
Crack? Puts user in jail for years. Cocaine? Look at Robert Downey Jr.
And this is the norm, not just one instance. Please, it is no match. Same drug, racial disparity.
It will be the same thing for this new legislation. Do you guys REALLY think that they are going to punish the $300G lawyer like they are punishing the project dwellers?! PLEASE! Be realistic!
As far as the American Dream, let's compare it to the American pasttime...yeah, there are some people hitting the ball and running the bases. There are a select few who hit out of the park home runs. And there are some who DON'T EVEN KNOW THE GAME IS BEING PLAYED. Feel me?
For some it is not a choice of whether or not to sell the rock to get the new Jordans. For some it is a choice of selling the rock or not eating that night.
The people in the ghetto would not be distributing the drugs if they had not been put there in the first place to distribute. Look deeper.
Why is there only one Oprah, one Bill Gates? Why does only a small percentage of America have the entire countries wealth? Consider it.