Charles Shaw
This passage perfectly characterizes the situation I find myself in. By and large those sent into the prisons are disproportionately culled from the ranks of the Low. And although it is clear to at least the black segment of the Low that the drug war is a scam, it is not so clear to the whites. The whites have internalized the moral mandate of the High, by virtue of the first degree of separation imposed on the Low, known as "divide and rule," which is preferential separation by race. Whites who break the social contract established by the ruling order--who are also white--are derided and judged to have moral failings, which the poor whites then internalize. If you use drugs, you are a criminal, if you sell drugs, you're even worse. Hate yourself, for you are irredeemable, but not nearly as irredeemable as those darker than you, is the basic subtext. Read more...
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