The Drug War - Not So Hidden Racism


by Alejandro Esquino Gomez on Sep 26, 2014 | Views: 339 | Score: 2
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Sources: drugpolicy.org
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Alejandro Esquino Gomez on Sep 26, 2014 3:15 PM said:

African Americans are disproportionately incarcerated on drug related charges. Clearly the drug war is an instrument of, at least, institutional racism and perhaps a more sinister explicit racism being acted out by some officers of the law.

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