Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People

well what did you say.

 

You must not have been around in the 70's when a lot of white people used all sorts of drugs. The laws are the same for all colors of people, the only thing different are the excuses.

 

i wasn't, must be the hippies, the article talked about.

 

Or the 80's, 90's, 2000's, and on.

Come on MM. Hippies were far from the only white people to use drugs and you know it.

 

im not saying that. i think you misunderstood my post.

 

Black people have a legitimate beef with law enforcement, broadly speaking (not all cops are bad), but in my mind, that is way different from the so called BLM movement. The movement was born from a lie, and has, at least on the dubious value of headlines, done little more than further stir the pot, interrupt speeches, making threats and all that.

Having said that, just being a white guy doesn't mean you are pandered to by the police. I have huge issues from my last four or five interactions. The grass is not always greener!

 

Can't believe he used 'you guys'. Well at least he didn't use 'you people'.

 

It can get confusing.

Since we're talking about the 70's maybe he should've just said, "colored people." Course, the NAACP still uses it today. I think it was around the 70's when "colored people" gave way to negro. There's still a college fund that uses that one though. Negro is spanish for "black". I guess "they" didn't realize that when being called "black" was offensive. The one they find most offensive is derived from an old Latin term meaning "black" also so go figure.

Lest I get started on African-American one? I'm glad "whites" have kept it simple and just remained "whites". I sure wouldn't want to be referred to as Franco-American, etc.

 

I was taking about people on this forum. Racist jerks.

 

Before it was African-American it was Afro-American. Then they started shaving their afros and going with the bald look. I think it started with Iaasic Hayes.