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Originally posted by ClassyLady
If you sell drugs then you deserve to be punished for your crime. If you allow people to sell drugs out of your house, you deserve to be punished for your crime. If you allow people to use drugs in your house, then you deserve to be punished for your crime. Point blank period.
It is my opinion that the black community often acts as enablers to these "hustlers." Whenever Andre or Hakim gets arrested for selling crack, we holler about how it's the government's fault for putting here in the first place. When does it become Andre or Hakim's fault for selling it to his own people?
We need to start holding ourselves to a higher standard. When we start letting our children know that we won't accept such behavior, then it will cease to exist. I think it's about high time that we made examples out of those who commit such heinous crimes against our own people. For once, I would like to hear somebody say, "Andre is in jail because he sold crack. He was wrong for that and it's nobody's fault but his own."
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The poor will always be with us and we will always be responsible for our brothers and sisters... We are truly our brother's keeper... I may have worked my ass off for my "Father"--but "He" still killed the prize calf for "His" other wayward son... "He" said to me, that I will have everything "He" owns, but "His" son was lost, but now is found...
Who are
you to judge so harshly without compassion? He who has not sinned, may he be the first to cast the first stone...
Addiction behavior has no logic to it... It is something that we humans do. The United States unfortunately criminalized it because it was too afraid of what happened to "its" woman and "her" generation--if you know what I mean...
Moreover, the Biblical text is plenty a fraught with what would now be considered "hallucinogens", "barbituates" and are illegal--"Cover me with hyssop", "Balm in Gilead", "Frankencense and Myrrh", "Annointed me with oil and wiped my feet"... Hyssop is a hallucinogenic herb, the Balm of Gilead is sap from a tree that has highly calmitive effects. This tree was given to the King of Solomon from the Queen of Sheba... True frankenscense and myrrh are spices from trees that grow throughout the Middle East and Africa. Their chemical properties are thought to cleanse the room of foul odors... The oil that Mary Magdelene used was one only reserved for kings and royalty. It added to the effects of reflexology permited when one washed feet. The oil was priceless and extremely difficult to obtain. If sold on the black market, one could make millions of dollars--so to speak. That is why Judas Iscariot cursed Mary Magdelene out for breaking that bottle...
I feel sorry for the people that use drugs. Even drug dealers use them sometimes. I remember the Go-Go tune from the UnCalled For Band--"There's no mistake for the neighborhood life... That's why I get high... To ease my mind..."
Dayum, if you are in the privacy of your own home and you had a hard day and choose to smoke pot, 'cuz you cannot drink alcohol--then what is wrong with that? Just because our Government decided that it is illegal, doesn't make it right... Our founding father's Declaration of Independance, Constitution and Bill of Riots--I mean Rights show that if I wanted to ease my mind with a little something-something and I ain't hurting nobody--then hey, I outta be able to do what I want... It's my body...
Now, pregnant crack addicts--I dunno. Chemical Substance Abuse won't be answered in this forum...