“I talked about how America’s “war on drugs” and sentencing guidelines were creating a hopelessness among poor people, especially black men, and that that hopelessness was fueling this lethal youth culture that is producing Pacman Jones and others. Again, silence.”
Do you agree with that Whitlock statement?
“Do you agree with that Whitlock statement?”
It’s plausible. I’m not sure, I’m not in the community. But if drugs is part of the culture, an accepted and encouraged part, and the penalties are stiff, it could be counter productive.
It’s been proven in the past, (China and England had an issue over this), that the only cure for a drug problem is to treat the cause. It can be debated whether stiff penalties for individual users is productive.
Not necessarily, but in a comprehensive review of his commentaries I see him as someone who believes that those who commit infractions should be held responsible as opposed to many who believe that the guilty are victims.
The problem is that police aren’t going in their homes to bust them for smoking weed in their basement. They are almost always getting in an altercation at a club or driving like maniacs. Lo and behold, shockingly they have drugs on them.
They have pratically busted the whole WWE for steroids. It’s really common today.