[hanamizu]

“The central arm of this “caste system” is the war on drugs and its imprisonment of vast numbers of nonviolent black drug offenders for inordinately long periods of time.”

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Hmm, I’m old enough to remember a time before ‘the war on drugs’ and blacks still tended to occupy the lower rungs of society’s ladder—even outside of the south. All of that being said, if one has black skin, the USA is pretty much the best place on earth to live—certainly better than ‘mother Africa’.

[JimRed]

...if one has black skin, the USA is pretty much the best place on earth to live—certainly better than ‘mother Africa’.

After his fight in Zaire Muhammad Ali said “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.”