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In reply to the discussion: Where was everyone when heroine, crack, cocaine were ravaging inner cities across America? [View all]unblock
(51,973 posts)21. The media certainly isn't just blindly focused on more cops and longer sentences
That's part of it, but there's definitely far less hostility to users now that they're white.
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Where was everyone when heroine, crack, cocaine were ravaging inner cities across America? [View all]
coolsandy
Oct 2017
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We were right here ignoring it because we dont live in the inner cities, we dont have
Eliot Rosewater
Oct 2017
#2
Where I live ( despite being a red county ) the starbucks here give the homeless a free cup of
Doreen
Oct 2017
#26
We never have those problems here. I live in a small town and as far as getting clean our
Doreen
Oct 2017
#33
I can't get out of my head the 2 very young pretty blond white women on the edge of
Motley13
Oct 2017
#4
They were and probably still are the "users" who have moved up the economic ladder and have now
coolsandy
Oct 2017
#30
who is saying anything different now? right here on DU people are calling for the exact
TheFrenchRazor
Oct 2017
#19
The media certainly isn't just blindly focused on more cops and longer sentences
unblock
Oct 2017
#21
the response is just as ass-backwards; more War on Drugs. it was completely counter-
TheFrenchRazor
Oct 2017
#18