found online by Raymond
From Madness and Reality:
Many people, including yours truly when he was little and didn’t know any better, believed that the War on Drugs was actually about stopping and preventing the sale and usage of illegal drugs. I thought it was a righteous effort to send people who poisoned communities to prison. I thought those who use drugs deserved what they got. Overall, I thought drugs were bad.
That is until I started doing a wee bit of research, especially reading Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow and realized that the so-called ‘War on Drugs’ was not really about drugs. It was actually more like a war on black people. And recently, someone who has played an enormous role in that war just revealed that it was so.