In this week’s big think Sunday Newsletter, Daniel Honan posted ‘Obama’s Pot Dilemma: Is It Time To Evolve?’, an article in which he suggested that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder would be well advised not to enforce the federal laws against marijuana in states that have legalized pot.
In his arguments against enforcing the federal prohibition of pot, Honan makes a big issue about the high incarceration rate of ‘black non-Hispanic males.’ He claims the reason there are a disproportionate number of blacks in prison is because they have been victimized by the War on Drugs. Here is what Honan wrote:
__“According to the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, ‘at yearend 2010, black non-Hispanic males had an imprisonment rate (3,074 per 100,000 U.S. black male residents) that was nearly 7 times higher than white non-Hispanic males (459 per 100,000).’ This imbalance is largely due to the fact that drug laws are disproportionately enforced against the poor and younger and darker-skinned members of society and that has been the case from the origin of the War on Drugs to the way it is carried out today.”
That is a damn lie! I know it's not politically correct to say this, but the reason that the incarceration rate for blacks is seven times higher than the rate for whites and Hispanics combined is because blacks are committing seven times as many thefts, burglaries, robberies, rapes, murders, etc., not because they are victims of the War on Drugs.
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