SelzeroMrs Wainwright, secondary school Geography teacher used to always say "The answer is in the question".
40 years later I see things like this, and can hear Mrs Wainwright's voice clear as day.
Helgi Crookehorne@selzero the same on "Why rappers claim there thugs and then complain there's ghetto in South Central", the answer is the question.
"There will never be any good schools in the "hood".
There will never be any cops that are any good.
The hospital is a great place to go to die.
Real estate is cheap, let me tell you why.
"The man" has a sure fire system.
An economic prison."
Ice T. Escape From The Killing Fields.
Ice-T- Escape From The Killing Fields
@selzero and it's downward spiral, it's hard to tell if middle class people moved out of South Central because of rampant crime and those violent BLM riots in the 1960s, or maybe the riots started because all the bad stuff was already there, like poverty, crime and violence and cops who shoot on sight.
CIA sold cocaine into that area to finance international activity.
The system kept the "drug war" criminalized to make sure those involved were criminals.
A whole area was systematically criminalised.
Today the opioid pandemic is much the same as the 80s cocaine pandemic, but is widespread, and so treated as a mental health issue, not a criminal issue.
Criminalisation of anyone with access to drugs is a political othering and oppression.
https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9712/ch01p1.htm
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