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Drug War Continues Targeting African Americans
The U.S. government now denies low interest education loans to persons with drug offenses but not persons who have committed violent felonies. (NY Times Thursday, May 3, 2001, “Students Find Drug Law Has Big Price: College Aid.”)
“Others complain that the law is biased against the poor, who rely on the aid, and blacks, who make up a disproportionate percentage of those arrested on drug charges. While about 13 percent of the people taking illicit drugs are black, the same as their proportion in the general population, blacks represent 55 percent of the drug convictions. . . . There’s every reason to believe there will be some racial disparity in the way this law operates.” [Comment: Among all the other problems it is causing, the War on Drugs is also providing another way for racists to deny equal education benefits to all.]

posted by LoZo 1:07 PM