BLACK COMMUNITY WANTS DRUG PUSHERS REMOVED

Many law-abiding African Americans believe law enforcement does not
consider it a priority to clean up the proliferation of drugs in the black
community. They think drugs, and the violence attributed to them, are a
means of ridding America of the burden of African Americans on society in
general. Black-on-black crime and drug abuse are not problems worth
addressing with any urgency as long as they are contained to black
neighborhoods.

There are many God-fearing, law-abiding African Americans concerned about
drug pushers standing on street corners, in parking lots and abandoned
houses, harassing passersby and disturbing the peace. We care that we can't
get police assistance in putting drug-pushers away. It is obvious to
everyone where they are and what they are doing. We are appalled that there
is no apparent strategy to catch, convict and sentence these perpetrators
of hostile environments.

Kirth N. Roach

Indianapolis