David Simon, creator of The Wire - Drug War is a Holocaust in Slow Motion

[IrishBrother]

David Simon, creator of The Wire, says new US drug laws help only 'white, middle-class kids'

The award-winning creator of The Wire, David Simon, has emerged as a critic of the 'racial bias' in the US debate on the war on drugs*Ed Vulliamy*and*Saptarshi RayDavid Simon surged into the American mainstream with a bleak vision of the devastation wrought by drugs on his home town of Baltimore –*The Wire, hailed by many as the greatest television drama of all time. But what keeps him there is his apocalyptic and unrelenting heresy over the failed "war on drugs", the multibillion-dollar worldwide crusade launched by President Richard Nixon in 1971.When Simon brought that heresy to London last week – to take part in a debate hosted by the*Observer –*he was inevitably asked about what reformers celebrate as recent "successes" – votes in Colorado and Washington to legalise marijuana."I'm against it," Simon told his stunned audience at the Royal Institution on Thursday night. "The last thing I want to do is rationalise the easiest, the most benign end of this. The whole concept needs to be changed, the debate reframed."I want the thing to fall as one complete edifice. If they manage to let a few white middle-class people off the hook, that's very dangerous. If they can find a way for white kids in middle-class suburbia to get high without them going to jail," he continued, "and getting them to think that what they do is a million miles away from black kids taking crack, that is what politicians would do."If marijuana were exempted from the war on drugs, he insisted, "it'd be another 10 or 40 years of assigning people of colour to this dystopia."Simon joined two film directors for a discussion onstage: Eugene Jarecki, in whose movie*The House I Live In*– on the toll of America's war on drugs – he features prominently, and Rachel Seifert, whose*Cocaine Unwrapped*charts the drug's progress from blighted "producer" countries to the addicts in Europe and the US.

David Simon, creator of The Wire, says new US drug laws help only 'white, middle-class kids'

 

[MostReal]

but nikkas don't here me though


I see what the artist is drawing, do you? and no I'm not talking about David either

 

[Kid McNamara]

No replies on this. Higher Learning.

 

[Strapped]

Stay away from drugs

 

[IrishBrother]

Stay away from drugs

Do you include alcohol in that?

 

[Majestyx]

 

[El Bombi]

But people like Obama are to busy telling nikkaz they have no excuses, without addressing the racist unbalanced justice system.

 

[Strapped]

Yes ,only sip on beer once in a while

 

[Strapped]

If we brake the cycle of single parenting & stress education ,we can brek down the barriers slowly

 

[El Bombi]

If we brake the cycle of single parenting & stress education . e can brek down the barriers slowly

Edit.

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

Do you include alcohol in that?

Yes, I do

Anymore personal attacks in hopes of drawing a hypocritical stance? It's easy. Stay away from drugs. There wouldn't be a drug war if there wasn't a drug addiction.

 

[kermit da hustla]

yet, i'm clowned for calling these black men serving significantly long prison sentences for selling drugs "political prisoners." when they're denied opportunity and have but one means of surviving in ghettos (like those into which jews were herded before the holocaust) created to separate them from the privileged majority, i can't condemn them for selling drugs.

 

[USSInsiders]

Simon is def one of the goat cacs

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

Stay away from drugs

FOR SURE STAY AWAY FROM DRUGS.

 

[El Bombi]

yet, i'm clowned for calling these black men serving significantly long prison sentences for selling drugs "political prisoners." when they're denied opportunity and have but one means of surviving in ghettos (like those into which jews were herded before the holocaust) created to separate them from the privileged majority, i can't condemn them for selling drugs.

But don't condemn Cacc making billions off of cigarette.

Lock nikkaz up for selling weed.

Let Cacc make Billions for selling cigarettes.