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Originally posted by kitten03
The moral dilemma of drugs for food is compelling. However, I tend to wonder whether the people who sell drugs to buy food also go and buy themselves something nice and get a makeover. So does the argument about food justify selling drugs if the seller purchases material items having no relevance to their ability to survive. Clothes=necessary to survive, Jordan=$150+=not necessary to survive. Feel me?
Consider this....if there were no market for drugs in inner city communities, would people/the government still place them there? Laws of supply and demand can apply.
It's not that I feel like people in inner city communities should be tarred and feathered for their actions. I do believe there are wider societal problems at play. However, when do these communities begin to accept their role in their problems. By contributing to it, it's difficult to place all the blame on the government or other ethnic groups. The main point of this post is that inner city communities should take responsibility for their roles in their neighborhoods. Maybe the new drug legislation wouldnt' be in effect if they did
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Some very valid points were made here. It is one thing to say you sell to survive and another to buy Jordans, Mercedes and platinum. If you did it to "help" your family out you wouldn't be standing on the corner all day long during work hours. Also once you made about $1k in that first week and for some that first couple of days you would be okay for awhile. But that is not the case. Dealers whether they are in the inner city or somewhere else are doing it for the money, and lots of it. When you see someone you you who sells and they have a $600 diamond crusted ring or watch or chain or their body, I don't know about you but I do not think they are hungry.
And as for the whole selling drugs in the first place it seems to me that some think it is okay to sell to help put food on the table. Is it really? There
are quite a few people who have lived in the ghetto and have moved out by doing less than desireable things i.e. cleaning houses and mopping floors. The problem is some people do not want to do that selling is a whole lot easier. Fast money. You can't blame the govt for something you help perpetuate. Why are malt liquors, 40's and other things of the likeonly sold in certain neighborhoods, b/c they buy it. THe same with drugs. If a dealer goes into a neighborhood and tries to sell and he gets runned out the community he can' t sell there. It may have been astruggle some may have lost their lives, but it worked. Maybe we think of inner cities, ghettos, and projects are a filled with people who do not know the system, can't go anywhere else, and are helpless. But they are not. They can help themselves, there are resources out there to help them, but they have to go out there and find it. They way the govt works, if you do not use it you lose it, and holds true for programs aimed at these people.