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In article <3B252010.2AF08EC3@ix.netcom.com>, poboxdc@ix.netcom.com says...
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>Geoff Miller wrote:
>> 
>> NO_SPAM_TO_dpharris@gci.net (Dennis P. Harris) writes:
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>> > too many young men who could be fathers to their children
>> > are wasting away in jails, most of them black.  that's the
>> > REAL crime.
>> 
>> Maybe the REAL crime is that so many young black men cause
>> problems for themselves and their families by using drugs
>> in the first place.  It seems to me that the overwhelming
>> numbers of incarcerated blacks points not to institutional
>> racism or even to a misguided war on drugs (misguided though
>> it may be), but to some pretty serious social pathologies in
>> American black culture.
>> 
>> Geoff
>
>Can you name a few of these pathologies? Do you also
>believe in the Bell Curve?
>
>(ken)

My response to this posting is that there are many other factors in where Black people find themselves, which leads to them 
taking drugs and going to prisons.
Many of these are young, black people who are associated with gangs. the fact is that these gangs are an outcome of 
alienation in where they don't belong in the 'White' american world or that of their own because they have no real, 
substantial identity to who they really are. Those that do get in touch with their African roots, you will find usually 
succed or if they do go to prison, it is usually for something like protesting.
In response to Black men using drugs, I have to ask the question of who are the ring leaders that supply the drugs? they are 
not the Black people because how many do you know of that actually own aeroplanes?
Maybe people should look deeper into the problems and ask why so many young black americans using drugs and going to prison 
then only will we be able to find an answer. It is not only their problem but everyone in the society.

Tema