Grant Program May Incentivize More Weed Arrests Among Blacks
Posted: June 4, 2013
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By Jamilah King, Colorlines
“Back in 2010 the NAACP called the racial discrepancy in weed arrests a ‘civil rights issue.’ One year later, to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. War on Drugs, author Michelle Alexander told a crowd of 1,000 at Harlem’s Riverside Church back in 2011, ‘The enemy in this war has been racially defined. The drug war, not by accident, has been waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color.'”
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