[Bon mots]

There are two million more black women than black men in this country--and gangs and drugs are the reason why.

Actually, I think murder is the leading cause of death for black males under 24 years of age.

[bvw]

I argue that the drug laws of the early 1900's are the one of earliest root cause of the current high rate of murder and incarceration. The Jim Crow laws contributed for many years, but that era is behind us -- what is left of the evil vintage of that era is the racism-birthed drug laws.