Re: Jason Whitlock, 'The Black KKK' http://sports.aol.com/whitlock/_a/time-to-...222104609990001<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Just like the White KKK of the 1940s and '50s, we fear them, keep our eyes lowered, shut our mouths and pray they don't bother us.Our fear makes them stronger. Our silence empowers them. Our lack of courage lets them define who we are. Our excuse-making for their behavior increases their influence and enables them to recruit more freely.We sing their racist songs, gleefully call ourselves the N-word, hype their celebrity and get upset when white people whisper concerns about our sanity.</div> I like reading this guys stuff. Very good article.
Re: Jason Whitlock, 'The Black KKK' This guy is great. He's strong in the one area which Dave Zirrin never had the guts to do - pointing out problems with the black community.
Re: Jason Whitlock, 'The Black KKK' Brave article, but simple solution.Kill the drug war, all this bullsh** ends. If it ain't illegal, niggas can't get paid. And we gotta let the men out of jail to handle and raise they kids. Black men are the chief casualties and prisoners, but when is somebody gone link that up, and do away with this cycle of flashy dealers, and people that make them into heroes and follow them?
Re: Jason Whitlock, 'The Black KKK' <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Kill the drug war, all this bullsh** ends. If it ain't illegal, niggas can't get paid. And we gotta let the men out of jail to handle and raise they kids. Black men are the chief casualties and prisoners, but when is somebody gone link that up, and do away with this cycle of flashy dealers, and people that make them into heroes and follow them?</div>And Al Sharpton is attacking an idiot radio host for saying a stupid comment
Re: Jason Whitlock, 'The Black KKK' <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (WELCOMEtotheJUNGLE @ Apr 13 2007, 02:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>And Al Sharpton is attacking an idiot radio host for saying a stupid comment</div>Excuse me?
Re: Jason Whitlock, 'The Black KKK' <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gentile @ Apr 13 2007, 11:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Brave article, but simple solution.Kill the drug war, all this bullsh** ends. If it ain't illegal, niggas can't get paid. And we gotta let the men out of jail to handle and raise they kids. Black men are the chief casualties and prisoners, but when is somebody gone link that up, and do away with this cycle of flashy dealers, and people that make them into heroes and follow them?</div>I'd be down with legalizing soft drugs like pot, and maybe even halucenagenics, but if you legalized meth, E, heroin, and cocaine then that would make a bigger problem than the one right now. 1/3 black men end up in jail, which is a huge problem in our country, but it pales in comparison to what would happen if there were cheap over the counter prices for drugs. The entire nation would get addicted, much like china did to opium in the 1800s, giving foreign suppliers massive amounts of power over our country as well as the obvious quintupling of overdose deaths. The country would become cripled economically as many people would rather just spend their life buying cheap drugs. Once everybody got hooked the pharmaceuticals would raise the prices to the sky and you'd have thousands of homicidal addicts jonesing.Now granted that's just a fantasy scenario, but I can't see an overall positive effect coming out of legalizing all drugs.
Re: Jason Whitlock, 'The Black KKK' <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gentile @ Apr 13 2007, 11:48 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Excuse me?</div>He said 'And Al Sharpton is attacking an idiot radio host for saying a stupid comment'Good article though. I try not to be intimidated, but whenever you stand up, they always play the race card, it's disgusting.
Re: Jason Whitlock, 'The Black KKK' <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gentile @ Apr 13 2007, 01:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Excuse me?</div> I think WTTJ means that Al Sharpton, a black leader is making a big deal out of these comments when he could be dealing with the issues that you posted instead. I think he made a good point. But Al Sharpton would rather get on TV for a juicy race story than to do something as bold as you said about drugs.
Re: Jason Whitlock, 'The Black KKK' Be honest: If Al Sharpton was tied to a tree, who wouldn't pay 5 dollars to hit him?
Re: Jason Whitlock, 'The Black KKK' <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Apr 13 2007, 03:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I'd be down with legalizing soft drugs like pot, and maybe even halucenagenics, but if you legalized meth, E, heroin, and cocaine then that would make a bigger problem than the one right now. 1/3 black men end up in jail, which is a huge problem in our country, but it pales in comparison to what would happen if there were cheap over the counter prices for drugs. The entire nation would get addicted, much like china did to opium in the 1800s, giving foreign suppliers massive amounts of power over our country as well as the obvious quintupling of overdose deaths. The country would become cripled economically as many people would rather just spend their life buying cheap drugs. Once everybody got hooked the pharmaceuticals would raise the prices to the sky and you'd have thousands of homicidal addicts jonesing.Now granted that's just a fantasy scenario, but I can't see an overall positive effect coming out of legalizing all drugs.</div>So black folks are an acceptable target because it protects the rest of America from jonesing? I don't buy it. There are no laws more selectively enforced than American drug laws and that's because if applied fairly, the laws are unenforcable. And the trickle down on black America is staggering. Poverty, AIDS, the children that go unraised that end up in jail...We shouldn't have that cycle of burden. Prison has become an industry. I prefer the alternative. Spend the money on treatment.Dope is so available. Alot of the kids that get on it, do it because it IS illegal. People don't stay off dope because it's illegal. They do it because they got sense.If you're gonna have a drug war, go after the head, not the low level dealers. But that's too expensive economically and politically. We can't stop farmers from growing record amounts of poppy and we got American soldiers all over Afghanistan.Finally, dope is only expensive BECAUSE it's illegal. Decriminalize it, nobody will bother synthesizing it because the money won't be there.
Re: Jason Whitlock, 'The Black KKK' <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Finally, dope is only expensive BECAUSE it's illegal. Decriminalize it, nobody will bother synthesizing it because the money won't be there.</div>This is where you're wrong. There is clearly a market in drugs and anything that is that desirable to that many people will be a valuable asset to Big Pharma. Prices will go down but the number of consumers will go up. The pharmaceuticals are smart enough to raise prices after enough people get hooked, causing either a reopening of back-alley the drug market or a cripled nation.
Re: Jason Whitlock, 'The Black KKK' The RISK is what makes illegal dope so expensive. And the most important thing about drugs is to excise the illegal element. The guns, the violence, the political influence that dirty money can buy. Gone.Alcohol prohibition taught us that, but not before making a nationwide Italian mob possible. Prohibition was their foundation.
