WHO IS WORSE???
OK so granted drugs can ruin the life of a child that never had a choice very true but the choice was of the mother carrying that baby to ever put that crack pipe to her lips! very few people started doing drugs because a gun was held to their head to do so. very few people purchased drugs under the pretense that they were doing something that was right.
the people affected by Lay and his boys were completely innocent and were working to take care of their families not trying to be crooked. they lost there lively hood because of a choice made for them by someone else.
Most of those involved with drugs choose to do so on there own free accord.
the people affected by Lay and his boys were completely innocent and were working to take care of their families not trying to be crooked. they lost there lively hood because of a choice made for them by someone else.
Most of those involved with drugs choose to do so on there own free accord.
On January 2, 2009 at 10:48 AM Pacific Time, MrBaker870 wrote:
Come on now yall........Lets think about the lives that Drugs have ruined before they even started? Come on now.....
Drugs affect so many lives, its like a trickle down affect.
How can they be worse?
-Devils Advocate!
My people.
Don't even get me on my soapbox but the introduction of drugs into the ghetto was merely another form of slavery. Instead of putting people to work against their will, they hooked them on a pipe and rock--setting up another downward spiral of poverty, despair, broken homes and violence. White people and specifically the government was scared plain and simple that Black Americans were becoming too powerful--they were now getting similar education with integration, they could go anywhere (supposedly) etc...
The master plan was to addict a large portion of the population and arrest the ones trying to make a profit off the addiction.
Let me get off my soapbox before I am in jail for my conspiracy theories.
Exactly! And when a newspaper reporter confirms that CIA agents worked directly with contras from Nicauragua to deliver cocaine into South Central LA in the 1980s....regardless of race when you break it down strictly by socio-economic class ain't no broke motha' hopping in his jet, heading to Asia/South America to pick this shiot up.
Well what about the responsiblity of ones actions? I agree that maybe we were helped and put in some situations but who was the one taking the easy route? We did, we chose to smoke the dope instead of coping w/ our problems. We chose to not be responsible for our neighborhoods and families. Yes the man may have put it there for us but we made the ultimate choose in doing it.
I'm just saying.
-Devils Advocate.
I'm just saying.
-Devils Advocate.
The problem Nate is not the drugs--the problem is the original wronging of black people in America. You have to get to the root of the problem in order to provide effective resolution to the subsequent issues along the way.
You have a group of people that by force were separated from familial units, packed by the thousands into a tiny ass ship and plopped into America to become slaves. Once here they were forced to work their entire lives for someone else, beat, humiliated, and once again separated from their families. Modern day America was built on your ancestor's backs. The majority of old money white people in America can trace their money roots back to slavery.
Black Americans are the ONLY cultural group in the world that have no real culture other than that which has been created since arrival to America. All other traditions and culture were removed from them by their slave owners.
The effects of slavery are still very present today. Until we address the root of the problem which in my opinion should include reparations in the form of educational/land/healthcare opportunities (much like Native Americans are offered) we are not fully addressing nor making up for tragedy of slavery. When you have an entire group of people that lived historically with no real family unit, no educational opportunites and received no financial gain from the work they did--you have poverty, ignorance and most importantly physical and emotional hardship.
If you have nothing you are more apt to turn to addiction--whether that be infidelity, alcohol or drugs.
You have a group of people that by force were separated from familial units, packed by the thousands into a tiny ass ship and plopped into America to become slaves. Once here they were forced to work their entire lives for someone else, beat, humiliated, and once again separated from their families. Modern day America was built on your ancestor's backs. The majority of old money white people in America can trace their money roots back to slavery.
Black Americans are the ONLY cultural group in the world that have no real culture other than that which has been created since arrival to America. All other traditions and culture were removed from them by their slave owners.
The effects of slavery are still very present today. Until we address the root of the problem which in my opinion should include reparations in the form of educational/land/healthcare opportunities (much like Native Americans are offered) we are not fully addressing nor making up for tragedy of slavery. When you have an entire group of people that lived historically with no real family unit, no educational opportunites and received no financial gain from the work they did--you have poverty, ignorance and most importantly physical and emotional hardship.
If you have nothing you are more apt to turn to addiction--whether that be infidelity, alcohol or drugs.
Nate--
I'm trying to be patient but I'm gonna reach through the computer and slap the shiot out of you in a minute.
If America was really an equal place this past election wouldn't be such hot news because we had both a black man and a woman involved, racial profiling wouldn't exist, every major corporation wouldn't be a good ol' boy country club with a bunch of Kenneth Lay type mofos and I would be a size 6 with a Beyonce ass and rich.
But I'm broke, fighting for a size 10 and my ass just keeps disappearing...
I'm trying to be patient but I'm gonna reach through the computer and slap the shiot out of you in a minute.
If America was really an equal place this past election wouldn't be such hot news because we had both a black man and a woman involved, racial profiling wouldn't exist, every major corporation wouldn't be a good ol' boy country club with a bunch of Kenneth Lay type mofos and I would be a size 6 with a Beyonce ass and rich.
But I'm broke, fighting for a size 10 and my ass just keeps disappearing...
TAW,
Don't you see my sig at the end where it says Devils Advocate?
I actually agree w/ you on all your points. One thing that I would add to your point is pride.
Strip a man of his pride and he'll never come back. That is the one thing slavery done to black men that we have never got back. We have never got our pride back and when we almost got it back they introduced drugs to us.
Don't you see my sig at the end where it says Devils Advocate?
I actually agree w/ you on all your points. One thing that I would add to your point is pride.
Strip a man of his pride and he'll never come back. That is the one thing slavery done to black men that we have never got back. We have never got our pride back and when we almost got it back they introduced drugs to us.
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