[areukiddingme1]

“...polls showed that many African-Americans in New York City still considered crime a top problem facing blacks in the city, while few worried about civil rights and police brutality.”

Welllllll, that’s great and all, but you can’t get rich off that, said, Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson.

[Eagles6]

Maybe poverty doesn’t cause drug addiction and crime, maybe drug addiction and crime cause poverty?

[BitWielder1]

Maybe mixing drugs, crime, violence and gangs with civil rights is not such a good idea.
They are both pressing but different problems.
The lefts penchant for lumping disparate problems together only serves to prolong both. Which is exactly what they want.
Just look at LGBTQ mixing with Women's rights, which pretty much made women's rights movement ineffective.

[sparklite2]

No, the real roots of the drug laws go back to the 1920s and propaganda movies meant to titillate rather than inform. Influenced by the ‘decadence’ of jazz and black/hispanic use of marijuana, the national nannies accomplished through criminalization what had previously required a constitutional amendment. Nixon merely globalized the new nanny’s reaction to the Beat culture of the 1950s.

[ConservingFreedom]

That black leaders of the 1970s thought big government could solve the drug problem is perhaps understandable - but conservatives of today should know better by now.