Spin Off: There is no New Black American Cocaine Epidemic- Most Crack Users are NOT Black

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

This is to debase the original post made by @Off the Onion , titled "White Lines, Black Epidemic: The NEW Black American Cocaine" epidemic. There are several topics to dispute in that post but the most important is that white people are using drugs more so than blacks. (Not that I care what white people do or what happens to them- let them deal with their own issues). The point to take from this is that Black people are not the primary users of drugs - cocaine or opiods.

White Lines, Black Epidemic: The NEW Black American Cocaine epidemic

I have posted several articles and facts based on sources that run counter to that narrative in that thread. I am posting this because that information and data is far from accurate, due to bias and racism. The cocaine epidemic in the Black Community is based on false information and not supported on a factual basis. The point of this is that we need to stop with the adopting of white media as primary sources of information and spreading lies, misinformation without doing our own substantive research and analyzing independent sources.

This is direct from the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation-
Who uses crack cocaine, and why?
"Media stereotypes paint crack users as inner-city crackheads and irresponsible “crack mothers” who spend all day chasing their next high. The political furor against these crack users has been fueled by racially coded language—as a result of overwhelmingly skewed media portrayals"

MOST CRACK USERS ARE WHITE, ESPECIALLY AMONG YOUNG ADULTS.

• Statistics from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health reveal that 55% of past-month crack users are white. Black Americans, who make up 12.2% of the population, account for 37% of crack users, meaning that they are 3.5 times more likely than whites to be regular crack users. But black people are 21.2 times more likely than white people to go to federal prison on a crack charge.
• The black share of the crack using population is only dropping. Today, young white people are nine times more likely to try crack cocaine than young black people, and the disparity is increasing.

“Much of the public literature simply focuses on racial minorities being at high risk for arrest and incarceration due to drug possession” said Dr. Palamar. Our research shows it is much more complex than that. Crack users are much more likely to experience arrest than powder cocaine users, and being poor is the true overwhelming correlate, not being black or a minority.”
Powder vs. Crack: NYU Study Identifies Arrest Risk Disparity for Cocaine Use

 

[Afro]

Crack, Heroin, and Race - The Atlantic

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Good luck OP

 

[Dorian Breh]

Fight the good fight queenpin

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Here's a story about a student that became a drug dealer while in law school.
I Went To Law School And Became A Drug Dealer

These are excerpts:
"I can't speak to what it's like peddling product on the street or life as a cartel kingpin. But I can tell you what my experience of being a mid level trafficker was like. My entry into trafficking came about suddenly and ended just as quickly, turning those years into blazing memories, grandiose and traumatic. It's not easy to put into words and probably best said through experience.

Towards the end of my freshman year at a California college, I found out that you could successfully ship weed. But that was only part of the puzzle. What made this all possible was a friend at a prestigious Ivy League school on the East Coast.

Coming back to the second semester, we caught two fairly large breaks in both intelligence and connections. Not only did we find a way to pass commercial shipping security tests, we secured an 'in' at the Law School mailroom where we could send literally any amount of packages - and for the next several years, we never lost product to this location."

 

[Wildhundreds]

Is the sentencing the same for blacks using powder, instead of crack, is the question..

 

[Gold]

Black Americans, who make up 12.2% of the population, account for 37% of crack users, meaning that they are 3.5 times more likely than whites to be regular crack users. But black people are 21.2 times more likely than white people to go to federal prison on a crack charge

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Crack, Heroin, and Race - The Atlantic

Chicago Tribune - We are currently unavailable in your region

Good luck OP

I'm just trying to spread information. Because I'm tired of seeing threads that promote lies and stereotypes about drugs within the black community, it's a social issue but it's not THE social issue that affects us and it takes the focus off positivity/improvements that need to be made.

I'm extracting this info. from the article that you posted.
"By contrast to those earlier drug crises, the heroin epidemic of the 21st century is largely a white person’s scourge. The Center for Disease Control says the cheap, easily accessible drug is attracting affluent suburbanites and women. Nearly 90 percent of the people who tried heroin for the first time in the past decade are white, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry in July 2014, and there is no reason to believe the trend has eased since then. Said the researchers:

Heroin use has changed from an inner-city, minority-centered problem to one that has a more widespread geographical distribution, involving primarily white men and women in their late 20s living outside of large urban areas."

 

[Wisdomkeyz]

Awwwww shoot @Nicole0416 can make threads now


She gonna be comin for nikkaz necks 10× more

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Is the sentencing the same for blacks using powder, instead of crack, is the question..

The sentencing disparities do exist; but you're proving my point. The article in the other post concentrates on usage instead of the legal and criminalization aspects of the drug problem. Instead of focusing on usage, we need to focus on the policies and laws. We're not out here using drugs like the media would have you think.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Awwwww shoot @Nicole0416 can make threads now


She gonna be comin for nikkaz necks 10× more

NOOOOOO... I just wanted to make this thread... because of what I read today in that other thread. NO necks for me.... I'm not creating any drama threads..smh.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Is the sentencing the same for blacks using powder, instead of crack, is the question..

They were reduced under The Fair Sentencing Act. and a Supreme Court Decision. But whether it's been applied or not, is the issue.
In the 20 years following passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 2006, many of the myths surrounding crack cocaine were dispelled, making it clear that there was no scientific or penological justification for the 100:1 sentencing ratio.
In Hill v. United States and Dorsey v. United States, U.S. Supreme Court decided whether people whose offenses predate the enactment of the FSA but who were sentenced afterwards should get the benefit of the new, fairer 18:1 ratio, or instead be sentenced under the old 100:1 ratio.

Result- reduced mandatory minimum sentences for "crack cocaine" under the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 does apply to defendants who committed a crime before the Act went into effect but who were sentenced after that date.

 

[Hellmont]

Never seen you post a thread in TLR

 

[Wildhundreds]

The sentencing disparities do exist; but you're proving my point. The article in the other post concentrates on usage instead of the legal and criminalization aspects of the drug problem. Instead of focusing on usage, we need to focus on the policies and laws. We're not out here using drugs like the media would have you think.

No doubt..

A safety sensitive job i use to work for did randoms 1st thing in the morning....

Them CACs was getting popped off often.. Of course they were offered rehabilitation programs. While the nikkas i worked with walked the straight and narrow, white people didn't give a fck about getting caught. They knew the manager wasn't going to fire them..

 

[NoirDynosaur]

First time seeing you being the host

It seems like Cacs favorite drug of choice is either coke, heroin or meth. The first two are very overt in White Hollywood, the latter being in the hilly billy hicks of the south aka redneck palace

If you want to dig deeper, Richard Nixon

"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

(Report: Nixon aide says war on drugs targeted blacks, hippies - CNNPolitics)

The drug war was just another political tool to harass black folks.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Powder vs. Crack: NYU Study Identifies Arrest Risk Disparity for Cocaine Use
NYU studies:

We wrote this paper to inform the public and Congress about the disparities in the sentencing laws between crack and powder cocaine which continue to have profound legal and social consequences for users,” said, Dr. Palamar who is also an assistant professor of population health at NYU’s Langone Medical Center. “The sentencing laws appear to unfairly target the poor, with blacks ultimately experiencing high incarceration rates as a result.”NYU Study Identifies Arrest Risk Disparity for Cocaine Use"

The Fair Sentencing Act (2010) reduced sentencing disparities to 18:1, but sentencing disparities remain and the law is not retroactive, thus, those arrested prior to enactment remain in prison. The Smarter Sentencing Act (2014) was recently proposed to create less costly minimum terms for nonviolent drug offenders and would allow for the 8,800 federal prisoners (87% of whom are black) imprisoned for crack offenses to be resentenced in accordance with the Fair Sentencing Act.