SLAVERY REPLACED BY PRISON

In 1963, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I have
a dream" speech, the United States had about 200,000 total prisoners.
Today, largely because of our war-on-drugs policies, the United States
has more than 2.2 million prisoners. It's obvious that the so-called
war on drugs is actually a war on politically selected people and
black people are the politically selected people.

Even though blacks and whites use illegal drugs at about the same
rate, blacks are 13 times more likely to go to jail or prison for a
so-called drug crime. Where is the outrage? Where is the outrage from
the black community? Where is outrage from the so-called black
leaders? Where is the outrage from America? Where is the outrage from
the rest of the world?

The whips and chains of slavery have been replaced with prison
cages.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.