American Drug War: The Last White Hope: Movie Analysis

In the movie by Booth (2007), “American Drug War: The Last White Hope” African American, Rick Ross is mentioned as one of the most famous drug offenders in the 1980’s, who was blamed for the cocaine epidemic that harmed black communities. He explained that as he grew his dream was not to be a dealer, rather a tennis player in college but under the circumstances he saw a new horizon in selling cocaine. Illiterate and living in poverty, Ross explains that the attractiveness of cocaine was the money that it provided, as well as, knowing that if he was hungry, he would be able to eat. He became one of the most wanted sellers that had many employees and cook houses all over inner city neighborhoods, which damaged the view of African Americans entirely. Today, he believes that the war on drugs was a completely failure, since there are more drugs on the street than ever before. The characteristics of Rick Ross as an offender were that of poverty, exposure to the underground job, and although the lack of education was due to his personal dislike for …show more content…
Young black males were associated to heavy drug usage, although they are less likely to use illegal drug than any other racial groups in the United States (Walker, 2011). The Perceptions that claimed that minorities were responsible for the drug epidemic established moral panic in the judicial ideology of sentencing judges, which resulted in higher incarceration and harsher punishments for minorities. (Walker, 2011). The more these negative perceptions grow, the more the system focuses on these races/ethnicities and their neighborhoods. Law enforcements are the ones who have the most contact with minorities due to the decisions of racial profiling and hot spotting inner