The initial purpose of the prison system is to “disappear” people mainly from minority, poor, immigrant communities, in order to make a business out of incarcerating them, by teaching them through schooling, that their race is a curse and that they cannot change their position in society. If you teach a child of color that no matter what they do to be successful and that they will never amount to anything, they will seek other ways to reaching that success; even if the law deems it to be illegal. Since ‘those in charge’ are aware of this, through their study of the black individual, they implemented The War on Drugs in 1971 and purposely attacked minorities, by placing cheap, deadly, addictive, drugs, in poor communities, causing the
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In 1971, President Nixon declared that drug abuse was "public enemy number one" and issued The War on Drugs. The World Drug Report 2014 states that the War on Drugs was used to reduce the illegal drug trade by issuing out policies to ‘help’ stop the production, distribution, and consumption of drugs, in order to prevent new addicts and rehabilitate those who were addicts (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime). Despite arresting over 40 million people on drug charges, since the beginning of the War on Drugs, drugs today are more accessible, and are …show more content…
Therefore, when the War on Drugs began in the seventies, based off the easy availability of drugs and profits to be made off them in poor communities, minorities took the chance to escape poverty. Since the drugs were placed specifically in black communities, high policing followed the drugs, leading to the mass incarceration of blacks; destroying their communities. In order to completely solve, this problem of the school to prison pipeline, minorities in general need to stop fighting each other and realize the real enemy is the capitalistic system, the European males have created. If they are able to stand strong with one another, then they can overrule the system and create justice for
In 1971, President Nixon declared that drug abuse was "public enemy number one" and issued The War on Drugs. The World Drug Report 2014 states that the War on Drugs was used to reduce the illegal drug trade by issuing out policies to ‘help’ stop the production, distribution, and consumption of drugs, in order to prevent new addicts and rehabilitate those who were addicts (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime). Despite arresting over 40 million people on drug charges, since the beginning of the War on Drugs, drugs today are more accessible, and are …show more content…
Therefore, when the War on Drugs began in the seventies, based off the easy availability of drugs and profits to be made off them in poor communities, minorities took the chance to escape poverty. Since the drugs were placed specifically in black communities, high policing followed the drugs, leading to the mass incarceration of blacks; destroying their communities. In order to completely solve, this problem of the school to prison pipeline, minorities in general need to stop fighting each other and realize the real enemy is the capitalistic system, the European males have created. If they are able to stand strong with one another, then they can overrule the system and create justice for