The racism does not surprise me nor does the use of the War on Drugs as a method for local and state police department to receive excessive funding and military weapons. The federal government has always been able to get the states on board with new policies by either providing or withholding rewards. When the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed, states that still allowed people under 21 to purchase alcohol were denied their full federal highway apportionment. I had always been told that the United States had extremely high military spending; it makes perfect sense too when you consider the War on Drugs as a physical war and not a political concept. Despite fact after racial statistic after fact being spit out in the New Jim Crow, a few things still remain vague to me. If 95% of traffic stops yield no illegal drugs, why do “Operation Pipeline” tactics continue to be used? Don’t the police feel like their exploiting whole communities when they target small-time drug pushers rather than targeting the kingpins? In my opinion it’s a backhanded way to try to increase department profits, willingly allowing the manufacturing and selling of drugs until cops can bust the middleman, confiscate and utilize their profits. The political goals of the War on Drugs are also still vague. Did Reagan intend on stopping manufacturing, use, or just project his political “toughness?”
Still, the War on Drugs proves to be more of a war on people. The repercussion of the War on Drugs—- 80-90% of drug arrests result in the incarceration of people of color.
A couple of things I applaud Michelle Alexander for include stating that marijuana is a drug that is less dangerous than tobacco and alcohol, as well as showing how white communities were seven to eight times more likely to use harder drugs such as cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin than their African American counterparts.
The sad truth is that unconscious racial bias exists, whether or not we want it to be true. I had an extended conversation with my mother about this last night and she agreed but instead of blaming years of institutionalized concepts she just said that’s just how things are, implying that there’s not much we can do to change the stigmas. Perspectives like this one just continue to frustrate me.
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