Acts of Aggression, by Noam Chomsky: on Drugs


Drug war has focused on blacks and Hispanics

At home, fear of crime--particularly drugs--was stimulated by “a variety of factors that have little or nothing to do with the crime itself,” the National Criminal Justice Commission concluded. The results have been described by criminologists as “the American Gulag,” “the new American Apartheid,” with African Americans now a majority of prisoners for the first time in U.S. history, imprisoned at well over seven times the rate of whites, completely out of the range of arrest rates, which themselves target blacks far out of proportion to drug use or trafficking. Abroad, the threats were to be “international terrorism,” “Hispanic narcotraffickers,” and most serious of all, “rogue states.”
Source: Acts of Aggression, by Noam Chomsky, p. 28-29 Jul 2, 2002

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