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Black Americans and Liberty

simplulo Wrote: May 13, 2010 5:27 PM
Mega-dittoes, Walter, with one big exception:

"The level of crime in black communities is the result of government's failure to perform its most basic function, namely the protection of its citizens."

No, the level of crime is the result of government's active violation of its citizens' rights, namely their rights to use and trade in drugs. You sliced the homicide statistics by race, now dice them by circumstance. Murders are overwhelmingly committed by drug gangs, same as we had under Alcohol Prohibition. The solution is the same.

Hypocrisy breeds hypocrisy. Until we acknowledge that the Drug War is a violation of the Constitution and a violation of rights, respect for both will continue to erode, and the "Land of...
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